For your final Project One, you will create your own resume and an autobiography that is tailored to a specific non-profit organization. You get to choose whichever non-profit you want, but it should be one that you can treat as your imaginary "client" for the rest of the semester. What I mean by that is that you will make the rest of your major projects for the course with this non-profit as your intended audience. This means that it should be a non-profit that you can make some educational materials for in Project Two, as well as survey people about and make a recommendation project for in Project Three.
Although the choice is ultimately yours, one way to make the materials for this course more useful to you in the future is to choose a non-profit related to your degree field or your intended career. Some students who have chosen this option have reported that they took their portfolio to job interviews to showcase their written communication skills with success! So that's something to keep in mind.
Here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. is a good list of non-profits you can search for ideas. You can also consider major professional organizations here (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site., as well as organizations at HCC or other universities.
For this assignment, your job is to create a profile of the organization you would like to use as your audience for your resume and autobiography. This means that you will tailor your resume and autobiography to this audience by including information about yourself that this audience will find relevant.
For the profile, research your organization and find answers to the questions listed below. For your posting, use an FAQ format (What is the full name of this organization?
• What is this organization's main mission or goal?
• Is it a national organization? If so, how many chapters are there? Which chapter will be your client? If the organization is not a national one, what community or location does it serve?
• How many members does it have? How does a person join the organization?
• Who are the decision-makers? If you were to offer your services as a technical writer, who would interview you and hire you?
• What are some of the organization's major projects, events, or services? Look closely at projects that are of particular interest to you.
• Any other information about the organization you find interesting or relevant
• Where can you find out about this organization? List the sources you used to get this information, such as websites, pamphlets, etc.