COM229 Module 8 Activity - In addition to growing your communication

Module Eight Activity 

COM 229 Module Eight Activity Guidelines and Rubric

Overview

In addition to growing your communication-focused knowledge and skills, it’s important to keep the end goal of your degree program in mind: a career! In this activity, you will find a visual communication and design-focused job posting and create application materials for the selected role. Remember to showcase your newfound design skills, communication expertise, and individual strengths in a professional format.

Prompt

Showcase your newfound visual design skills, communication expertise, and individual strengths by creating a résumé and cover letter for a job posting within the field of visual communication and design. You may use the provided templates in the “Supporting Materials” section below to get you started, or you may create your application materials from scratch. To complete this assignment, address the following rubric criteria:

• Find a job posting within the field of visual communication and design that interests you.
  • Example jobs: Visual communication specialist, graphic designer, visual communication teacher, or desktop publisher
• Create a professional résumé that highlights the key communication, technical, and executive functioning skills you possess as they relate to your selected job posting. Your résumé must include the following sections:
  • Education
  • Professional Experience
  • Key Skills
  • Contact information
• Write a cover letter that briefly describes your relative professional experience and interest in the job. As you write your cover letter, consider the following guiding questions:
  • Which required or preferred skills listed in the posting do you already possess?
  • How have your academic or professional experiences helped you learn the knowledge and skills needed to be successful in this role?
  • Why would you be fantastic for this job?
  • What interests you about this job?
• Use similar design elements (color, typography, elements and principles of design, graphics, etc.) to create cohesion between your cover letter and résumé.

What to Submit

To complete this project, you must submit the following:

Résumé Submit your résumé as a one-page PDF or Microsoft Word document.

Cover Letter Submit your cover letter as a one-page PDF or Microsoft Word document.

Supporting Materials

The following resource(s) may help support your work on the project:

Website: SNHU Career

• You may use the optional Optimal Résumé tool, which is available on the SNHU Career site, to help develop your résumé. Navigate to the "Job Search Help: Resumes" page.
• You may use the resources available through SNHU Career to help you develop your cover letter. Navigate to the "Job Search Help: Cover Letters" page.

Website: Canva Résumé Templates You may use Canva’s résumé templates to help you develop a résumé. Please note that you will need to create a free account on the Canva website in order to use their tools.