...Guide to Writing MBA-Level Resumes Table of Contents I. Introduction Purpose of this Guide Purpose of a Resume II. Before You Begin Writing Self-Assessment Accomplishment Statements PAR Formula Tips for Writing Powerful Accomplishment Statements III. The BU Resume Format Technical Specifications Content Guidelines Contact Information Education Guidelines for including GMAT and GPA Experience Additional Resume Sections Information NOT to Include on Your Resume Editing Your Resume Other Resume Formats IV. Common Resume Concerns and How to Address Them Dual Degrees Joint Degrees Multiple Undergraduate Institutions Study Abroad Company Name Change Gaps in Employment Small Company Experience Entrepreneurial Experience Multiple Temporary Jobs Short Term Work Experience Self-Employment V. Electronic Resumes Keywords Submitting Your Resume Electronically Suggested Naming Conventions Appendix A: Self-Assessment Appendix B: BU Resume Template and Sample Resumes Appendix C: Grammar Rules and Resume Action Verbs Rules for Capitalization, Dates, and Numbers Resume Verbs 2 2 3 3-4 4-5 6-7 8-9 9 10 10-11 12 12-15 15 15 15 17 17 17 17 18 18 18 19 19 20 20 21 21 21 23-25 26-31 33 34 I. Introduction Purpose of this Guide The purpose of this guide is to help you develop the best possible resume to market yourself with honest confidence. The Feld Career Center requires 1st year MBA students to prepare your resume in the BU Graduate School of Management resume format in...
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...MKT421 WEEK 1 Individual - Defining Marketing Paper Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper in which you define marketing. • Include your personal definition of marketing and definitions from two different sources. • Explain the importance of marketing in organizational success, based on these definitions. • Provide at least three examples from the business world to support your explanation. Properly cite sources used in the paper. Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. Defining Marketing Paper University of Phoenix Marketing Defining Marketing When individuals are asked to define marketing, chances are that, most of their responses, will be different. Creativity can be liable for the broad spectrum of answers one would get. This paper will cover various aspects of marketing including a personal definition of marketing and definitions from two different sources, an explanation of the importance of marketing in organizational success, and three examples from the business world to support such explanation. Definitions My interpretation of marketing is the way a business decides to promote their brand, the strategy that they use to reach out to their customers and intended end users. Although creativity plays a large role in marketing, research is also a key factor; if a company does not know its market, then its marketing will be unsuccessful. According to Kotler and Keller marketing is defined as “the activity, set of institutions...
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...Ethical Reflection Ethics and social responsibility are key factors when planning one’s personal life or planning for the success of a business. When companies develop strategic plans, they must consider what role ethics will play and how social responsibility will affect the plan keeping stakeholders need at the forefront. If businesses and individuals are making a conscious effort to display ethical behavior, ethical perspectives and beliefs should evolve over time. Ethics and Social Responsibility According to Pearce and Robinson (2011) “ethics refers to the moral principles that reflect society’s beliefs about the actions of an individual or a group that are right and wrong” (p. 74). To ensure employees understand the rules and make good ethical decisions, a company’s plan should encompass the beliefs and values that the business and their employees view most important. Before developing a strategic plan for a company, managers must take into consideration the company’s mission. This mission statement can be used by the company as a way to show employees and customer what the company hopes to accomplish. According to Pearce and Robinson (2011) “The mission statement is a message designed to be inclusive of the expectations of all stakeholders for the company’s performance over the long run” (p. 21). The mission and vision statements can be the baseline for goal-setting and strategic planning while keeping ethics at the core of all decisions. Pearce and Robinson...
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...Row # | Definition | Citation | 1 | Critical thinking applies concepts of logic and reasoning to problem-solving activities to produce more accurate and defensible investigation findings. | Philley, J. (2005). Critical thinking concepts. Professional Safety, 50(3), 26-32. Retrieved fromhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/200379557?accountid=35812 | 2 | The conception of critical thinking, wherein it fundamentally consists in acquiring, developing, and exercising the ability to grasp inferential connections holding between statements. | Mulnix, J. W. (2012). Thinking critically about critical thinking. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44(5), 464-479. | 3 | "The ideal critical thinker is habitually inquisitive, well-informed, trustful of reason, open-minded, flexible, fair minded in evaluation, honest in facing personal biases, prudent in making judgments, willing to reconsider, clear about issues, orderly in complex matters, diligent in seeking relevant information, reasonable in the selection of criteria, focused in inquiry, and persistent in seeking results which are as precise as the subject and the circumstances of inquiry permit." Bloom's taxonomy (1956) of levels of thinking has been revised by Anderson and Krathwohl (2001). The revised taxonomy still has six levels but has made "create" the highest level and they have renamed and combined other levels to give the following: (i) Knowledge - Remember; (ii) Understand - Describe, Explain; (iii) Apply; (iv) Analyse;...
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... |BCOM/230 Version 3 | | |Business Communication for Accountants | Copyright © 2012, 2010 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This course introduces students to the foundations of communication in a business accounting setting. Students are exposed to various topics related to interpersonal and group communications within the context of applications to the accounting field. Students will develop skills in the forms of written communication, including memos, e-mails, business letters, and reports. Other topics include communication ethics, collaboration, information utilization, critical thinking, and professional competence and values. Policies Faculty and students will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course...
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...and Professional Success Copyright © 2011, 2008 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description This general education course is designed to introduce the intentional learner to communication, collaboration, information utilization, critical thinking, problem solving, and professional competence and values. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach for the learner to develop personal academi c strategies in order to reach desired goals and achieve academic success . Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read the policies governing your current class modality. Course Materials Ellis, D. (2011). Becoming a master student (13th ed.). Boston, MA: Wadsworth, Cengage Learning. All electronic materials are available on the student website. 1 Course Design Guide GEN/200 Version 2 Week One TOPICS AND OBJECTIVES Academic Success Identify university resources required for student success. Develop educational...
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...Nicholas Carr is the author of books concerning technology and culture. One of his most recent bestsellers regarding the topic is his work titled What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. In the summer of 2008, Carr’s piece, Is Google Making Us Stupid?, was published in The Atlantic Monthly. In this essay, Carr declares that the Internet is altering the way people think (500). Carr writes that the Internet lowers the ability for concentration and consideration (501). He believes the ability to read and understand a lengthy piece of writing has also been practically entirely lost (Carr 501). Carr additionally states that the Internet has severed our capability to interpret text (502). Nicholas Carr backs up his claims with personal experience, personal opinions, quoting authorities, and referring to research that has been done on the topic. With his presentation of evidence, along with his unbiased language, I believe Carr is effective in supporting his claim. Even though Carr is writing about the negative effects of the Internet on our brains, he is not against technology or the Internet. He demonstrates this by saying “the Web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes” (Carr 501). Carr also acknowledges that “the advantages of having immediate access to such an incredibly rich store of information are many” (501). With these mentions, he does not seem to be biased and completely...
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...Personal Responsibility GEN/200 Personal Responsibility Personal responsibility is having the disposition to accept the consequences to my actions. It is a choice that can extremely affect my life. I chose to be responsible and accept the consequences to my actions, learn from my experiences, maintain a positive attitude and be willing to change and work hard in order to significantly improve my life. Accordingly, allowing me to have career success. Relationship In reality, becoming a successful student in college involves more than just studying. It is imperative to take charge of my life and the decisions I make since they go hand in hand with career success. A career is one piece of many pieces that are part of life. In order to have a successful career, my life too has to be a success. To ensure my success in my life I took the initiative to take personal responsibility. Accepting Consequences Even though it is not easy to accept being wrong or accepting the consequences to bad choices it is necessary to learn from mistakes. This is considered a learning experience and it helps get me one step closer to achieving my goals. My main career interest is to become a successful Human Resource Manager. In order to fulfill this goal I need to be truthful to myself and work hard to develop the necessary skills to become a better qualified candidate in my future profession. Maintaining a positive attitude will also assist in this life and career journey. While completing...
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...Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant Problem Statement: Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant was considerable successful for approximately 50 years then after redesigning production lines with new technology they had long production delays that hurt their business. Ron Bent was hired as plant manager to attempt a turnaround in production and bring profitability back up. Bent needs to ensure workers are receptive to new technology. Hypothesis 1: Plant manager before Bent could not adapt to use of new technology. Ron Bent believed in incentive programs; he implemented the Scanlon Plan. The Scanlon Plan worked over a seven year period with sales quadrupling due to the increase in productivity and employee morale. Then a downturn in the industry made it necessary to lay off 46 employees and Scanlon bonus was placed on hold for seven months while Bent decided to change or replace it. Hypothesis 2: It may be that Bent did not consider the reactions of the workers if Scanlon Plan fails and he did not prepare an alternative plan. Bent should work closer with other managers to re-design Scanlon Plan or alternate plan. Including changing the ratio target to 44% as suggested by the Scanlon consultant back in December 1999. Similar to Beverly Stevens of Quick-Cook Ovens, Bent did not consider workers performance or lack of performance and corrective actions until productivity regressed. (Stewart, 1985, pg. 2). Now he is concerned with losing his best client Martinez whom designated Engstrom...
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...Marketing Research Assignment – Wendy´s Case Martin Meister – Boston University THE WENDY´S CASE A DEMOSTRATION HOW MARKETING RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS CAN HELP RESOLVING A MANAGEMENT DECISION PROBLEM Martin Meister – martinmeisterg@yahoo.com Boston University - MET AD 856 fall 2012 – Professor Vladimir Zlatev February 27, 2012 1 Marketing Research Assignment – Wendy´s Case Martin Meister – Boston University Table of Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................... 3 1. - Problem Definition ....................................................................................................................................... 3 a. - Background to the problem...................................................................................................................... 3 b. - Statement to the problem........................................................................................................................ 4 2. - Approach to the Problem ............................................................................................................................. 5 3. - Research Design ........................................................................................................................................... 8 a. - Information needs ........................................................................................
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...Business Law Assignment Unit 9 Gregory Vogel Kaplan University Dale Emerson served as the CFO for the Reliant Electric Company, which distributes power to portions of Montana and North Dakota. Reliant was in the final stages of a takeover of Dakota Gasworks. Dale went on a fishing trip with his Uncle Ernest and mentioned the takeover of Dakota Gasworks. His Uncle Ernest then met with a broker and purchased $20,000 of Reliant stock. Over the weeks, Reliant stock rose and Dale’s Uncle made a huge gross profit by selling off the Reliant stock. Registration statements must be filed by all companies, domestic and foreign with the Securities Exchange Commission. This registration information includes: a full description of what a company owns as far as property and business, information on the securities for sale, management of the company and certified financial statements, i.e., prospectus. There are exemptions for registration: Private offerings of persons or institutions, those of a limited size, multi state offerings, and government securities ((U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 2011). The Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 realized major changes to the regulation of accounting and financial practices within corporations. These changes have continued to be achecks and balance within corporations (Addison-Hewitt Associates, 2003). PUBLIC LAW 107–204—JULY 30, 2002 116 STAT. 747 (7) ISSUER.—The term ‘‘issuer’’ means an issuer (as defined in section...
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...Kotler, Keller, Brady, Goodman and Hansen (2009: 105) suggest that ‘a strategy is a game plan for a business to achieve its objectives; a statement of long-range intent and direction than short-term actions.’ However, all organisations exist in dynamic markets therefore its strategy focus on its market, its customers and its value proposition, may have to be operationalised as short term activity, in response to external, industry, market, competitor and customer analysis; using tools such as portfolio analysis namely the Boston Matrix, Porter’s five forces, Grant’s key success factors, the Ansoff Matrix, a micro and macro-environment analysis, industry and segmentation analysis, market positioning analysis, innovation and new product development and the marketing mix. Presumably, every organisation would be responsible to its stakeholders and shareholders and formulate its strategy being informed by such business investigation/intelligence. In the absence of such information in the Capitec Bank: Low-Cost Banking for Joe Average case study (Townsend and Mosala: 2006), such is going to be assumed. The facts and figures from 2002 to 2006, point to the success in profit and volume growth of the Capitec strategy of ‘providing low-cost basic banking services to the lower to middle-income market, and to create a bank that offered everything to everybody.’ From public source information, the Fin24 and BusinessLive (2011) the focus on banking the unbanked remains a key national issue...
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... | | | | . All rights reserved. Course Description This general education course is designed to introduce the intentional learner to communication, collaboration, information utilization, critical thinking, problem solving, and professional competence and values. The course uses an interdisciplinary approach for the learner to develop personal academic strategies in order to reach desired goals and achieve academic success. Policies Faculty and students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities, read...
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... |US/101 Version 5 | | |Introduction to University Studies | Copyright © 2011, 2010, 2009 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. Course Description The essential information, skills, tools, and techniques necessary for academic success and personal effectiveness at University of Phoenix are introduced in this course. The course develops and applies practical knowledge and skills immediately relevant to first-year university students. Course topics include goal setting and working with personal motivation, understanding and using university resources, developing efficient study habits, making the most of personal learning styles, and how best to manage time and reduce personal stress levels. Policies Students/learners will be held responsible for understanding and adhering to all policies contained within the following two documents: • University policies: You must be logged into the student website to view this document. • Instructor policies: This document is posted in the Course Materials forum. University policies are subject to change. Be sure to read the policies at the beginning of each class. Policies may be slightly different depending on the modality in which you attend class. If you have recently changed modalities...
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...Maxwell Husband St. Joseph’s University Moral Foundations T/TR 8:30-9:45 “Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice” Abortion is and forever will be a very controversial topic of discussion. It has been debated for years whether it is morally right or wrong. Abortion is a unique subject in that it involves not only morality but also a large amount of theology, emotion, and law. It is also unique because it forces people to choose one side or the other, there is a very small gray area when it comes to this debate, and the side that I will fall on in this essay is the pro-choice side. In this essay I will attempt prove that abortion is not murdering an innocent fetus and that the arguments for pro-choice are stronger than the ones for pro-life. The main point of disagreement between the two sides is what constitutes life, when does human life actually begin? I believe to construct a sound argument this issue must be examined first. I will then go on to cover other various pro-choice points such as a women’s right to choose, the quality of life for the potential child, and the extreme circumstances that will disprove the notion that abortion is morally wrong. As stated in my opening paragraph, the key issue in the case of abortion is determining the status of the fetus in the sense of its humanity. It is my belief that a fetus does not qualify as a human. I agree with Warren when she states that “human being” is a term that is not often distinguished, she suggests that there are two...
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