From Letters to Leaders: Leveraging Your Fraternity or Sorority Experience to Land Your Dream Job

De: Michael Ayalon

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

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The third book in the wildly popular From Letters to Leaders, provides yet another overview of ways to highlight and promote your sorority and fraternity leadership competencies to employers!

It begins with an opening chapter by Dr. Jason Meriwether who offers how decision-making skills can be tied directly to my role as a chapter leader by sharing his personal experiences as examples.

The next chapter by Cole McNamara, Isabel Thornton, and Dr. Shyam Sriram discusses transferable skills that should be included in your resume. They collectively offer resume advice as well as red flags. The great and powerful Michael Ayalon makes connections between social media and networking skills into sales competencies.

Chris Hood offers a complete overview of mock interviews which are an important simulation to develop stronger interviewing skills!

He also offers additional tips and strategies for interviewing.

Chris has a second chapter later in text focused on storytelling during interviews which is complementary to his first.

Jeff Harry explores the ways in which someone should temper those expectations as they enter the professional or corporate world. He focuses on new employees and career advancement.

Dr. Jana Mathews continues this text by including suggestions for self-disclosure and career storytelling.

Dr. Kim Bullington explores how to locate alumni for business connections and informational interviews.

Dr. Bullington suggests using social media and sorority/fraternity alumni organizations beyond your campus career center.

Grace Cunningham, Caroline Corker, and Dr. Shyam Sriram explore how to work in team settings to manage conflict in diverse workplace settings.

They collectively unpack issues of gender and race. Tish Norman places the importance of public speaking as a professional competency.

Trevon Bryant focuses on the role of character in demonstrating responsibility, care, respect, recognizing the realities that fairness is unequal, trust, citizenship.

He suggests that these character values can lead to increased success.

John H. Hatfield promotes the notion that chapters can utilize experiential learning to direct their members toward postgraduate success.

Dr. James Wilkerson explores issues of sexual misconduct and the “Good Guy Defense.”

Dr. Wilkerson suggests that male leadership is implicit to advancing sexual misconduct prevention because the “good guy” concept is used to perpetuate rape myths.

Joseph Thompson offers strategies for fraternity and sorority members to learn from their own national conventions and conferences. Jarred Pernier and Edson O’Neale offer strategies to make connections for leadership experiences.

In the remaining chapters, Erica Music addresses time management skills, and Michael Ayalon explores budgeting and financial management skills.

The book concludes with a chapter from Dr. Louis Profeta. In his chapter, “My Commencement Address for You,” he recreates his nationally recognized graduation speech to students. He concludes that, “You alone are in control of your own destiny.”

These chapters collectively offer to facilitate a moment of pause for reflection in all undergraduates who turn its pages.

Think considerably about the social, experiential, and career connections you can gain from your sorority and fraternity members.

In order for your career ship to navigate the waters of the next phase of your journey, it is up to you to allow your fraternity/sorority community to benefit you in unforeseen ways related to your career!