General
The exchange of information between senders and receivers.
What is communication?
The process undertaken with the intent to gain employment.
What is a job search?
Commonplace, short messages conveying information as part of everyday work practices.
What is routine?
These channels are best for routine, straight-forward messages.
What are leaner channels?
These are natural features of an individual's body.
What are physical characteristics?
A formal workplace activity designed to share information.
What is a business presentation?
An assembly of people, especially the members of an organization or committee.
What is a meeting?
Someone who transmits information with the communication process.
Who is the sender?
A conversation tool used by a candidate and organization to determine if a professional relationship makes sense.
What is a job or employment interview?
These messages attempt to influence receivers, hoping to spur change in beliefs and behaviors.
What is Persuasive?
These are best for complex or complicated messages.
What are richer channels?
These occur when a speaker points toward a destination, uses hands to show size of an object.
What are supportive gestures?
An informal report usually submitted by email to document a training experience.
What is a professional development report?
A document that includes the items to be discussed at a formal meeting.
What is an agenda?
Someone who receives information within the communication process.
Who is the receiver?
An individual identified by a job seeker, capable of speaking about the job seeker's characteristics.
What is a reference?
What is business writing?
What is visual media?
These can stem from a speaker's anxiety, excitement, or other emotion and can manifest in repetitive mannerisms that are distracting.
What are non-supportive gestures?
A concise written statement intended for distribution to news media sources, often used to make a newsworthy announcement.
What is a press release?
A written record of what happened during a meeting, including a summary of the topics discussed, decisions made, and action items assigned.
What are meeting minutes?
Internal or external interference that causes communication breakdown.
What is noise?
The capability to inspire others to trust you or believe you.
What is credibility?
This is a message's intended recipients.
What is primary audience?
This can offer significant opportunities to incorporate non-verbal communication, making it ideal for persuasion and conveying emotion.
What is verbal media?
The ability to use your voice to convey feeling or meaning.
What is expressiveness?
What is a business status report?
The board or team role of the person typically responsible for taking meeting minutes.
Who is the Secretary?
Interference in message interpretation caused by unclear or ambiguous language.
What is semantic noise?
The R in the STAR method of answering behavioral interview questions.
What is Result? (Situation, Task, Action, Result)
This is a strategy of positioning a message's main idea somewhere other than the beginning of the message.
What is indirect placement?
What is written media?
A branch of nonverbal communication that refers to the ways in which people interact via the sense of touch.
What is haptics?
A communication strategy that can be used to structure a presentation in order to encourage the audience to think or act differently.
What is the Magic Formula?
A widely recognized set of parliamentary procedures used to guide meetings, discussions, and decision-making in organizations and groups.
What are Robert's Rules of Order?