Monthly Archives: November 2025

Creating Powerful Résumé Statements

[ Instructors: Download a PDF of the exercise and the revised statements below. We’ve also created an instructor tip sheet to use prior to giving students the exercise.]

Successful résumés contain vivid statements tailored to the advertised position. Experts advise repeating nouns from the job description and using strong action verbs to create effective bullet points that are both parallel and omit the first-person “I.”

Improve the examples below by (a) choosing varied, vivid action verbs to begin each statement and (b) enhancing each statement by providing specifics to illustrate how and/or why the action was important.

EXAMPLE

Weak: Designed engaging materials to support key initiatives

Improved: Designed and produced print and digital materials for three campus campaigns, increasing event participation by 40%

 

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AI Delusions Are Getting Loopier

Robot on a laptop screen

ChatGPT has taken a turn for the weird—beyond even inaccuracies, the so-called hallucinations. Verified online conversations with the bot confirm that the AI told one user it communicated with aliens. To another it predicted a financial apocalypse on a specific date. ChatGPT even assured one naïve soul he could bend time. These responses are just a partial list of the nonsense ChatGPT has spewed to its users. The problem is that some people, particularly from vulnerable populations, believe the false statements.

The incidents often take place during long conversations with the bot and have physicians and victims’ advocates worried enough to label the phenomenon AI psychosis or AI delusion. This is a condition that when, due to conversations with AI, users believe they have superpowers such as having discovered a new mathematical concept or scientific advance or that they are supernatural beings.

Chatbots are engineered to compliment and agree with users. However, when vulnerable individuals are involved, such conversations can affirm their delusions in a back-and-forth feedback loop that draws them deeper into their delusional beliefs.

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Changing Business World Requires These Skills from Business Grads

Employers remain on the lookout for qualified new-hires despite doom-and-gloom of jobs reports. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) recently released its State of Business Education Report, which identified the most sought-after skills employers demand from new graduates in the rapidly evolving job market.

Topping the list now and in the immediate future are durable skills—competencies that enable lifelong adaptability and job growth—such as communication, critical thinking, and creativity. Sometimes called human skills, such abilities are transferrable across industries and specific jobs. And with the advent of AI, these interpersonal skills are more important than ever. Today’s workers need to be able to not just analyze data and recognize patterns; they must have the ability to weed out unreliable information, communicate concisely and persuasively, and tailor messages to specific audiences—all of which is taught in the business communication classroom.

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