Category Archives: 4. Classroom Exercises

Writing a Letter to the Next BizCom Students*

Compose a letter of 250-300-words addressed to a new student about to take the course you have just finished. Include advice and insights about how to succeed in the class. Print your response so your instructor can share these anonymous letters with the next group of students taking the class. Have fun writing to your peers!

Some topics you may choose to address are:

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Getting Around the Hiring Logjam With AI

Even under the most favorable circumstances, job hunting is stressful. Is it any wonder, then, when job seekers resort to help from generative artificial intelligence (gen AI)? After all, employers have been using AI-driven applicant tracking systems (ATS) for a couple of decades, gaining what many consider an unfair advantage.

Isn’t it understandable if job hunters want to turn the tables, level the playing field, with AI-enhanced job applications? No question. However, this AI-made application “arms race” is not helpful to anyone.

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Focusing on Authenticity in Internship Cover Letters

An internship is one of the best ways for students to build their résumés before joining the workforce. However, hiring managers complain that too many applications are composed in a robotic, inauthentic voice that screams the materials were produced by AI. Those materials, hiring managers say, end up in the reject pile.

In this exercise, you will be asked to complete several tasks.

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