Jeffery J. Selingo There Is Life After College Analysis

Communicating while in a Workplace
Have you ever wondered how many college students can write correctly? Jeffery J. Selingo is the author of “There Is Life After College”, and he believes that writing and communication skills are an important set of skills to have and that most college students do not have this skill. Selingo says that most college students have taken five or less than five college classes that required them to write (Selingo). In the last five years, more employers have started to require that their employees have excellent writing and communication skills, but most of the future generation who will one day have to apply for a job and lacking either one or both of the skills. Selingo wanted to suggest ways that he could help …show more content…
Most of the time salary plays a huge role in whether they take the job but a majority of the reason someone picks the job is based on the fact that they like the occupation. For example, if someone was interested in being a Nurse there are many stages they would have to go through in order to become one. There are three paths that can be taken. One, get a diploma from an approved nursing program which most likely will still require someone to go to school after they get the job. Path number two would require that they get an associate’s degree in nursing from any school of their choice or option number three would be to get a Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing. There are many parts to being a nurse, but communication, reading, and grammar play a huge role. A nurse has to be able to communicate with not only the patients and their family members but other nurses and healthcare professionals. They will need to listen in order to understand and communicate a patient’s symptoms, needs, wants, and explain step by step details on how to do something. Along with this, they will need to be able to work with others and talk about the patients so they can come up with a solution to their problem, and at times they will have to read another doctor’s or nurse’s notes on a patient during shift changes in order to stay up to date with a patient information. Part of communication is not always talking to people face to face, but sometimes it can be in writing or using software to record important information. Most hospitals use charts to record patients' information, so they will need to write legibly and not use abbreviations unless everyone would understand them. After charting is finishing they will most likely have to enter it into an online program. Some of those programs could include Microsoft Excel, medical software, and the hospital's electronic mail