Professional Development - Reflect on what you have learned about effective

Professional Development

Reflect on what you have learned about effective communications. As you have learned, the interview provides you an opportunity to demonstrate your ability to communicate verbally. As you are learning in this unit, the Thank You letter you send after your interview is a written communication designed to close the sale and get you a job offer.

With this in mind, discuss the following:

• Verbal communication skills
  • What are 2 barriers you experience when you are trying to engage in effective verbal communication?
  • How can you overcome each of the barriers you identified? (For each barrier describe two (2) approaches you could use to overcome them)
• Written communication skills
  • What are 2 barriers you experience when you are trying to engage in effective written communication?
  • How can you overcome each of the barriers you identified? (For each barrier describe two (2) approaches you could use to overcome them)
• Discuss how you can use these approaches in your:
  • Interviews
  • Cover and thank you letters

Please be sure to validate your opinions and ideas with citations and references in APA format.

The post and responses are valued at 40 points. Please review post and response expectations. Please review the rubric to ensure that your response meets criteria.