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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.
Module Eight Activity Rubric
| Criteria |
Proficient (100%) |
Needs Improvement (75%) |
Not Evident (0%) |
Value |
| Job Selection |
Selects a job posting that clearly leverages skills learned in the course |
Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include needing to select a job posting that is more relevant to skills learned in the course |
Does not attempt criterion |
20 |
| Résumé |
Creates a professional résumé that includes essential résumé components, including education, professional experience, key skills, and contact information |
Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include needing to add a missing component or removing irrelevant information |
Does not attempt criterion |
20 |
| Cover Letter |
Creates a professional cover letter that includes essential content such as professional or academic background, key skills, and interest in the job |
Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include needing to be more clear, concise, or professional in describing essential content |
Does not attempt criterion |
20 |
| Cohesion |
Uses similar design elements in the résumé and cover letter to convey a cohesive professional identity |
Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include needing to reformat materials to be more visually similar or revising materials to have similar content (e.g., education or experience) |
Does not attempt criterion |
20 |
| Articulation of Response |
Clearly conveys meaning with correct grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, demonstrating an understanding of audience and purpose |
Shows progress toward proficiency, but with errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, negatively impacting readability |
Submission has critical errors in grammar, sentence structure, and spelling, preventing understanding of ideas |
20 |
| Total: |
100% |
