Part 2: Developing Your Professional Persona

Part 2: Developing Your Professional Persona contains materials related to Project 2: Career Documents. The section opens with a brief description of both the project and the concept of the professional persona, which will be important to thinking about any technical writing task you complete. Subsequent chapters discuss the process of applying for jobs, creating job application materials, and tailoring those materials to suit your specific situation.

Part 2 contains the following:

• Project 2: Career Documents Assignment Sheet: This section defines and describes the concept of the professional persona, which you will use for Project 2. It also includes the full assignment sheet for the Career Documents project.
• Chapter 5: Applying to Jobs: This chapter describes the process of applying for jobs. Then, you will learn about the two documents you are required to create for the project: the résumé and cover letter. Finally, you’ll read a few tips for interviewing.
• Chapter 6: Tailoring Job Materials: Chapter 6 helps you to think through the process of tailoring your job materials, or making them more persuasive and appropriate for your specific rhetorical situation. You will learn about tailoring as audience analysis, then a tailoring process you can practice on your own documents. The chapter also discusses basic document design principles, and how you can use document design to create a personal  brand.