Ready to Roar: Communication
July 08, 2024
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discipline. The combination of professional experiences, academic pursuits, and involvement
opportunities on and off campus produce graduates that are: Ready to Roar.
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Communication
What is communication?
The ability to effectively convey information, concepts, opinions, and thoughts in a professional or educational setting.
What communication looks like:
- Asking appropriate questions for specific information from faculty, supervisors, and others.
- Translating content to multiple audiences.
- Employing active listening, persuasion, and influencing skills.
- Framing communication with respect to diversity of learning styles, varied individual communication abilities, and cultural differences.
- Presenting prepared, purposeful presentations designed to increase knowledge, to foster understanding, or to promote change.
Where to build communication skills as a student:
- Class projects
- Student employment
- Communication Across the Curriculum (CxC)
- Resident Assistant roles
- Student research
- Student organizations
- Professional internships
How employers may ask about communication:
- Can you describe a situation in which you were able to win over a difficult customer?
- How do you adapt your communication style to different audiences?
- How do you build rapport with others?
- Can you give an example of a time when you used your written communication skills to achieve a positive outcome?
- How do you ensure that your verbal communication is clear, concise, and engaging?
- Tell me about a time you went out of your way to understand another person's perspective.
How to put communication skills on your resume:
- Designed and presented final capstone project findings to class of 30 colleagues as a culmination of 10-week research experiment.
- Welcomed students into the Career Center, answered questions if possible or directed students to appropriate resource.
- Communicated with cross-functional teams to create and share clear and concise social media messaging that aligned with the company's brand voice.
- Responded to parent and student questions via phone and email on behalf of the Office of Residential Life.
- Authored report on equipment test results to inform Boston Scientific staff on state of equipment.
- Tailored communication and explanations to students based on current level of understanding.
- Emphasized product features to customers based on analysis of needs and knowledge of product.
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