Careers: Letters  & Interviews Learning Outcomes Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling. - Vincent Van Gogh

After successfully completing the this lesson, students will demonstrate the following skills:

1. Recognize the skills and qualities valued by employers.
2. Familiarity and awareness of collegiate qualities sought from transfer students.
3. Understand and appreciate the contemporary trends of letter writing.
4. Develop an ability to creatively compose letters for professional and academic candidacy.
5. Understand and recognize the difference between good letters and stellar letters of recommendation.
6. Familiarity and awareness for types faculty can develop for them and mold their behavior accordingly (prompt, professional, leader in class discussion, respectful, homework completed to perfection and on time, excellent attendance record, outstanding oral communication skills, technological competence, critical thinking skills...).
7. Develop confidence in their writing skills.
8. Familiarity with commonly asked questions at interviews
9. An understanding of what interviewers are looking for  in job interviews
10. A repertoire of answers for interviewers
11. Increased confidence in the interviewing process.

Note: Student-written letters of recommendation  provide excellent discussion material at conferences - in particular these provide instructors and students with an opportunity to evaluate current student attributes, as well as attributes which should be developed - plus develop a plan to achieve said skills.