Step Two: Preparation

Developing the lifelong writing and thinking skills necessary to represent oneself effectively on paper is a vital component of the career preparation process. Christina Bell-Cornelius, Director of the Writing Center, and Ebonie Rayford, Director of Career Services, can assist you in learning how to organize your experiences into meaningful categories and how to communicate the skills gained from those experiences ina  way that reaches your audience. Special attention is paid to developing your ability to represent your unique international, multicultural and multilingual Franklin experience.

Writing Resumes/CVs and Cover Letters

The Writing Center provides basic resources, including electronic documents entitled How to Write a Resume and The Skills List, to help you as you begin to format and write your resume or CV. The center can also provide you with basic information about writing business letters and maintaining proper etiquette in your professional correspondence.

Viewing Examples of Resumes, CVs, Graduate School Essays and Personal Statements

Graduate School Applications

The Writing Center and Career Center provides basic information on developing graduate school personal statements and graduate school essays. Conferences are also available if you want assistance brainstorming, editing or proofreading as you prepare your application packages.

Career Development Course 299

How does one integrate an international educational experience with the career development process? How does one prepare for graduate and professional experience? this seminar aims to introduce and familiarize students with the career development process with an emphasis on identifying and communicating the skills, traits, and values gained trough international, cross-cultural, and disciplinary learning experiences. This interdisciplinary course will require readings primarily from the fields of Psychology, Rhetoric and intercultural Communications and will require students to use critical thinking, writing, speaking, and research skills through individual assignments and exercises. (Pre-requisites include 24 credit hours earned and successful completion of a First Year Seminar.)