Assignment Reflection Description

Assignment Reflection Description

Summarize your process of researching the job, noting any surprises or difficulties you encountered;
Summarize and reflect on this assignment's genres and how you constructed them to persuasively appeal to the targeted communication situation;
Describe which of the course goals (see "Home" page on course website) you feel you encountered in completing this assignment.

When I first stated to research for this job I had some obstacles that made difficult my search for the perfect job.
First of all, the fact that I am a foreign student narrowed my search a great deal. As an international student here in the U.S. we are only allow to work under specific conditions; we can only work at the school that provides the I-20. We are allow to work outside the school only with special permits and stuff like that.
The second obstacle was that because of the lack of job opportunity for foreign students I lack of experience and a lot of employers are looking for those sorts of things in an employee.
A third difficulty was that most of the jobs that the university offers are difficult to get because the employers at the university prefer to give the jobs to people with financial aid, which means that the university only pay part of the salary of the student and the government pay the other part which is very convenient for the school. So the only way for us to get a job is in an area of expertise or a job that nobody else wants.

With this assignment we learn how to give a good impression in many situations which quite frankly is the most that we can do with a cover letter or with a
resume, but it has to be impressive and appealing to the employer so that they can decide to take the interview to the next step.
I thing that with this activities we learn how to focus on the context of the situation and to make the documents in a special manner that appeal to the people that are going to be reading it.