Assignment 2: Professional Portfolio—Personal Statement/Cover Letter

For this assignment, you will submit the second document to be included in your Professional Portfolio: Your personal statement or a cover letter. As you near completion of your undergraduate education, you have probably been reflecting on your personal and professional development and goals. Summarizing so much personal information on paper is not easy, but it’s important. Many employers complain that in interviews and job applications, students do not seem to know how to articulate the skills and strengths that they bring to the job.

In preparation for writing the personal statement/cover letter, review Dr. Margaret A. Lloyd’s Web site at:http://www.psywww.com/careers/index.htm. Learn what you can do with your bachelor’s degree in Psychology. Determine if you will pursue graduate school or employment upon graduation. Note choices that seem to apply to you and why. If more than one, rank these choices. Describe any concerns you might have regarding your interests. What level of education will you need to pursue? Have you taken any previous courses or trained in this area? These links in particular should be helpful:

• Exploring your abilities, interest, skills, & values www.psywww.com/careers/explore.htm#top
• Graduate School Options: www.psywww.com/careers/options.htm
• Entry-Level Positions www.psywww.com/careers/entry.htm

For this assignment, find a graduate program (if you are preparing your Professional Portfolio with the Graduate School focus) or a job opening that you would like to apply to (if you are preparing your Professional Portfolio with the Employment focus). Look up the details for the application requirements, and tailor your personal statement/cover letter to these specific graduate school/job requirements.

Personal Statement (for those with the Graduate School focus)

This essay may be the single most influential component of a graduate school application. The statement you write for this portfolio gives you a forum for presenting yourself to the admissions committee, scholarship committee, and others who want to know something about you.

In preparation for writing the statement, read the document “Preparing Personal Statements” at: http://www.creighton.edu/soar/preparingapps/statements/. Here are a few of their suggestions:

• find and use your voice
• use concrete examples of what you’ve done
• avoid generalizations, such as “I’m good with people”
• proofread and edit (and ask others to proofread and make suggestions about) your statement to be sure it is free of grammatical and typographical errors, and informal language, “I’m okay with sciences but weak in math”

Cover Letter (for those with the Employment focus)

A cover letter is a way to introduce yourself to a potential employer. This letter should include details about yourself and why you feel you are qualified for the position. Summarize your undergraduate experiences, your strengths and weaknesses, the reasons you are applying and how they will help you meet your professional goals.

Write a cover letter to a prospective employer. The letter, which should accompany your resume, should summarize why you are interested in the job and what qualifications and skills make you an ideal candidate or match for the position. Limit your letter to one page.

Follow this link for advice on writing a cover letter: http://www.uwec.edu/ORSP/IRB/about/submit/Cover-Letter.htm.

Submit your Personal Statement or Cover Letter to the Submissions Areaby the due date assigned.

Lesson 08: Secession, the Civil War, and Reconstruction

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  Lesson Overview

  Description

  This lesson addresses the reasons for why Texas seceded from the Union, how it participated in the Civil War, and how Texas coped in the aftermath of the war.

  Learning Outcomes

  The student will:

  • evaluate the motivating factors behind Texas joining the Confederacy during the Civil War, explain the extent of Texas’ involvement in the War, and describe the results for Texas.
  • understand the political, economic, and social consequences of the Reconstruction era on the state.

  Check List

  1. Access Key Terms
  2. Read online lesson
  3. Finish reading Chapter Six
  4. Read Chapter Seven
  5. Read Chapter Eight
  6. Take Exam Two
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  Key Terms – Lesson 8.pdf

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  Online Lesson

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  Exam Two

Assignment Prompt

Students will locate a sample FNP employment contract and will review and analyze the contract according to the outline criteria:

• Scope of services to be performed and population (pediatrics, geriatrics, family, etc.)
• Compensation
  • Travel compensation
  • Gas/mileage
  • Cancellations
  • On call time
  • Bonuses
• Duration of employment
• How the agreement can be altered or updated
• Responsibility for maintaining and paying for credentials
• Benefits
  • Time off and expenses for continuing education
  • Vacation time
  • Paid conferences or CME
• Restriction on competition
• Reasons for termination
• Extent of support service to be offered to the NP
• Expectations regarding the number of patients seen per day
• Expectations regarding non-clinical work to be done by NP
• Release to the NP of the NPs quality performance as measured by health plan auditors

This should be an APA formatted paper, and the above items should be listed as section headings where the student or group will give a brief critique under each section of the contract, using the weekly readings as guidance for the critique. As with any scholarly paper, there should be an introduction and conclusion. There should be evidence of analysis (not simply reporting the facts about the contract) by means of comparing some items (i.e. salary) to national or regional norms. Some of the sections may be combined. If the contract is missing a section, note this in the critique. Include the sample contract in the Appendix, and please remove all identifiers if using a real contract from a colleague or preceptor.***

Most, if not all conflicts are caused by powerful psychological and/or emotional triggers. To best address these triggers, positive psychology and emotional intelligence provide valuable methodologies that are the foundation of many modern approaches to conflict management. These powerful approaches provide options to allow conflict to be understood and addressed constructively and empathetically.

Using the resources presented as well as scholarly sources of your own, create a PowerPoint presentation of 10-12 slides which clearly summarizes the role of positive psychology and emotional intelligence in conflict management. What are the main points that a manager should know on these two important areas? Include speaker’s notes to further explain your points to your audience.

1. Conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to support your presentation.
2. Provide 10-12 quality PowerPoint slides of information content, not including title page and reference slides.
3. Support your presentation with peer-reviewed articles and reliable sources. Use at least three references, and a minimum of two of these from peer-reviewed sources. For additional information on how to recognize peer-reviewed journals, see http://www.angelo.edu/services/library/handouts/peerrev.php and for evaluating internet sources:
   https://www.library.georgetown.edu/tutorials/research-guides/evaluating-internet-content
4. You may use the following source to assist in your formatting your references and in-text citations: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/. Paraphrase all source information into your own words carefully, and use in-text citations.

In today’s society, as a community we serve to a diverse group of people. With society being diverse, today law enforcement face many challenges in the community and handling situaiton’s because of diverse issues that have occured throughout the years. The multicultural differences and diverse system, has led to being more aware or even understanding one’s culture and how even to handle a case knowing how they would react or take the crime itself personally. In America our country serves all diversity, with hopes of the same action to be served equally thoughout society. Understanding multiculturalism from the text, “contemporary multiculturalism and social diversity draws attention to variety along racial, ethinic, subcultural, generational, faith, economic, and gender lines” (Schmalleger, 2017, p. 26). As a society in America in 2017, there’s individuals who look down upon diversity, but majority of the community embraces different lifestyles, and respects there choice in life, and behavior.

Overall with the diverse society, this has a great impact on the justice system. According to the text, “Whether it is the confusion that arises from a police officer’s commands to a non-English-speaking suspect the need for interpreters int he courtroom, a deep-seated distrust of the police in some minority communities, a lack of willingness among some immigrants to report crime” (Schmalleger, 2017, p. 26). All these issues play apart with the criminal justice system and how it will affect the system either negatively or in a positive manner. As the world has changed to individuals being more vocal about their opinions and culture, the heart of police officers or anyone who works in the criminal justice system is to make sure that citizens comply with the law ” (Murphy, 2012). The criminal justice system respects the citizens no matter what their culture is, but the diverse community also respects what the criminal justice system is asking from them. The overall goal for those serving in the criminal justice system is to protect all citizens from harms way, but in some cases some individuals like to provide their voice and opinion which can correlate with their culture or diverse situation.

Judeo-Christianity plays a role in our society because they stick to the truth, what is right not necessarily what is equal. The impact Judeo-Christianity have on society goes against our world that has become a world of everyone deserves equality, and the right to have this which is not how they function. Society has come to a place where “as soon as free will becomes the foundation of moral action and virtue is lacated not in natural, “unequal gifts,” but in the use to which they are put, they it goes without saying that all men are equal merit” (Hill, 2017, p. 51). The implemention on the criminal justice system from Judeo-Christianity is they go based on the laws, and they go with what is right and respect what God has asked from His truth. Our society has been built up on “One Nation under God” which has impacted in the decisions made with law enforcement and by court of law. As a reminder God has reminded us in the Psalms that celebrate the justice of God (Coulton, 2012). The foundation of the criminal justice has been greatly impacted by Judea Christianity.