Week 8 Professional Summary Assignment
This assignment involves writing your professional summary.
A professional summary consists of several statements and phrases. The statements and phrases
are always written with action verbs; for example, “skilled in,” “achieved,” or “served as leader of.”
It is specific, brief, and focused. The summary makes a deliberate impression on your reader. A
professional summary reveals in the statements and phrases your values and mental outlook. It
reveals components of your personality that are your greatest assets. It highlights
accomplishments and the results you have produced in the various roles you have held (e.g.,
team member, employee, community volunteer, trainer, presenter, etc.). As a collection of
statements and phrases, it reveals what you bring to whatever pursuits you direct your attention.
Instructions: Much of the content that you will include in your professional summary already
exists in the assignments you have completed in this class and the various contributions you have
made to the discussion forums. Refer back to your completed assignments and the previous
discussion forums to survey the things you revealed and shared about yourself. What skills did
you identify? What are your values, and what is your mental outlook? What qualities of your
personality can you highlight in a professional summary? What are your accomplishments, and
how do these accomplishments reveal your particular interests within your specific field of study?
Then, take those insights and consider how you can structure the best insights into statements
and phrases that reveal your skills, values, mental outlook, accomplishments, personality, and
interests. Here, you will need to exercise your creativity. Next, use action verbs to begin each
statement and phrase. Lastly, write it professionally, that is, make an effort to be specific, brief,
and focused. Keep in mind that you are writing this summary to make a deliberate and intended
impression on the reader, so write each statement and phrase purposefully. Submit your
assignment to the Dropbox by the assignment deadline as a Microsoft Word document (one
paragraph with approximately 5–10 sentences or phrases).
Suggestion: Review Sukiennik and Raufman (2016) to learn more about how to use action verbs
in your professional summary (see p. 199).
Suggestion: See examples below that reflect ways to start your professional summary.
Suggestion: Use the grading rubric below as a checklist of what you must reveal about yourself
in your professional summary.
Suggestion: Exercise your creativity in crafting your professional summary. Taking what you
shared and learned about yourself from the assignments in this course and putting them together
into a professional summary will demand your creativity. That said, consider creative ways to
structure the statements and phrases you include in your professional summary. Still, write it so
that you can use it in professional contexts (i.e., your resume or LinkedIn profile). Example 1 highlights the skills, values, and accomplishments of an individual who has no
professional experience but who has worked in classes on small team projects and
volunteered at a local soup kitchen.
Skilled in leading teams in short-term projects. Passion for community outreach and
developing relationships. Increased volunteer pool for improved staffing at community soup
kitchen.
Example 2 highlights accomplishments and the personality strengths, namely thinking and
judging, of an individual with professional experience.
Directed market strategies that accelerated market voice by 3% year over year. Expert in
planning and facilitating organizational change. Performed rigorous analyses and quarterly
evaluations focused on improving operational efficiency. Grading Rubric
Graded Item Description Good/Fair/Poor/Incomplet
e Summary includes one to two statements
or phrases that highlight skills. 20/15/10/0 Summary includes one to two statements
or phrases that reflect personal values that
you regard as important. 20/15/10/0 Highlight
Personality
Strengths Summary includes one to two statements
or phrases that highlight personality
strengths. 20/15/10/0 Reveal Personal
Interests Summary includes one to two statements
or phrases that reflect a particular interest
within your field of study or career. 20/15/10/0 Include
Accomplishments
and Results Summary includes one to two statements
or phrases that refer to accomplishments
and results you have produced. 20/15/10/0 Writing and
Formatting Writing is clear and is grammatically and
mechanically correct. 0/-5/-10 Highlight Skills Reveal Personal
Values Total Points Earned
Total Points
Possible 100

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