Thursday's lecture was awesome! The communication skills that we've learned so far in the course have taught us how to be a successful communicator, after landing our dream job and/or career. What we learned this week will help us to get that dream job we're after.
Obviously landing that dream job requires first professional school, internships, or more "lowly" jobs. However, these give positions give us the opportunities to eventually do what we love. One thing is for sure; interviewing skills will be used time and time again leading up to that moment.
The quality of our resumes, cover letters, and interview skills are what give us the opportunities to further develop and utilize our communication skills. Arguably, I think good interview skills is the single most important skill for us students to have.
Our grades, academic success, and professional school exam scores allows us to get a foot into the door. However, once inside, the only thing helping us out to actually be offered the job position, internship, or into professional school acceptance is our communication skills. As a previous medical school applicant, I can attest that I knew people with 4.0's and very high MCAT scores get plenty of interviews at medical schools, but were unable to matriculate anywhere. Why? Poor interview skills, or simply poor interpersonal and communication skills.
Sure, public speaking, presentations, writing an effective letter, learning to use power point, and all the things we've learned leading up to now in the semester are very important. I just have the opinion that what we talked about on Thursday is more important to us now as it allows us to further utilize these skills to a maximum after landing our dream job because of our kick-@ss interview skills.
Cheers!
I also thought Thursday's lecture was super awesome. It was packed full of so much information. I hope I took good notes because like you're blog post talks about it's going to help me so much in the future.
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