Seeking a Job on Social Media

This resource is titled Job Seeking on Social Media: Using LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to Find Your Dream Job by Noe Spies. This book looks into all of the ways that should set up your social media page allow interviewers and jobs  to see the best version of you. This could come in the form of how you post, how you set up your page’s structure, and so on. This coaching allows for people to be able to feel confident in what they post, and not fear of how their presence on social media looks to potential jobs. I think that this is very important for English majors because it allows them to know the dos and don’ts of social media when you are using it for a job or career position. With social media being such a large part of the world today, especially in terms of how you get a job, this serves as a vital tool to all English majors. For example, one sections of this article, titled “Be Visible, Active, and Involved,” seeks to inform people of how to keep their accounts active and appropriate for potential bosses. (Spies, p.1) This art of the book is very important, because it allows readers to understand how you should post on your social media that is appropriate for the work place. This book leads to help introduce people into the different aspects that they must look at when applying for a job, and how their social media should reflect the best parts of themselves. This book’s main takeaway is the very invaluable information that it offers an English major. It allows for them to grasp the different ways that their social media can influence the people that they will be sending their applications too. It offers other tips, such as the one about networking. In the book, it states, “Once you have crated your small network, you have to maintain it! Talk to people and offer your opinion where relevant.” (Spies, p. 2) This part of the book teaches you how to manage your circle of friends, and ensure that you know how to spread the amount of people that you know. In closing, this book allows for many different types of tips and information, tips that will be very important to students who are up and coming on graduation.

Works Cited

50minutes.com. Job Seeking on Social Media: Using LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to Find      Your Dream Job. 50 Minutes, 2015. Web.

What Can You Do with a Major in English?

The book titled What Can You Do with a Major in English? Real People, Real Jobs, Real Rewards by Shelley O’Hara works as a guide for English majors that helps them pursue a career once they graduate. It gives helpful information such as how to conduct a job search, and how to find the different salary levels that people must look. This article would be beneficial to English majors because it helps them with those big questions of “What am I going to do once I am done?” and “How am I ever going to find a job?” This book purpose helps ease student’s minds by showing them that they are going to be able to find work, no matter how hard it is going to be. It can also serve as a guide for resources that they might not be able to find on their own. 

Overall, this resource can benefit English majors in terms of what they need to do to find the job that they really strive for, and how they will be able to acquire that job. This resource is valuable to English majors because it touches on the important aspects that one will face when finding a job in this career. For example, the book discusses topics such as: “Breaking into the Job Market with an English Degree,” and “Career Possibilities for an English Major.” (O’Hara) These chapters both discuss the different things that an English major can do, while all of the previous chapters discuss how one chooses where to go to school, what makes them pick English, etc. Throughout these chapters, there are also many specific things that someone going into this career field can use. In one chapter, O’Hara writes, “You can find a wealth of job-related sites on the internet.” (O’Hara, p.57) With this part of the chapter, she is describing the different methods and websites that you can use on the internet to look for and apply to jobs. This can be very valuable, because most English majors may have not ever looked into the complexities of the job market before.

Works Cited

O’Hara, Shelley. What Can You Do with a Major in English? Cliffs Notes, 2005. Web.

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The Southern Quarterly

The Southern Quarterly was originally published in 2000 by the University of Southern Mississippi. It has different subjects throughout its various different issues, including subjects such as: aspects of the Southern United States, United States history, and American Literature. In the description of the article itself, it analyzes Southern culture through literature, folklore, anthropology, and history (ebsco host). For example, one of the earlier articles that this journal publishes was titled “Negotiating boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers that Be” (Petry). This journal is still publishing its collection of articles to this day, with it publishes by season. So, it has Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter issues. This journal is located at the University of Southern Mississippi still, and has recently published its Winter 2019 journal. This journal can be very useful for English majors because it shows insight into how Southern culture works and how it has developed over time. It can also show a large degree of how Southern writers produce their material, and how the way that they write can vary from other writers in different parts of the United States. For example, one article that is published is titled “Culture and Ideology: The Gothic Revival in the Backlot of Antebellum Charleston” (Ellis et al.,). This just shows how this article not only reflects the culture in the South, but also the different methods in which it is written with.

With this journal, there are specific criteria that one must follow in order to be able to have their work published in this article. You must have an article that is based on solid documentation, that is seated in literary or critical theory, and that make and original and important contribution to the study of the American South. Articles are not allowed to exceed twenty to twenty-five double-spaced pages in length, along with all of the sources and documentation (The Southern Quarterly). These are the basic guidelines, and as the articles are submitted, they must go through the editorial board. It also states that if you are submitting something and it does not get published, then it becomes the property of The Southern Quarterly. The editorial board consists of many people, with the main editor being Kate Cochran. This journal’s main focus is to shine a light on what Southern culture is, was, and what is projected to happen in the South in the future. This journal is currently calling for people to submit their own original articles for the Spring/Summer of 2020, the Fall of 2020, and the Winter of 2021. These articles must go along with the pre-selected theme of each seasonal publication, and must make sense to the topic that is shown.

While this journal looks into the different issues and topics in the South, its articles range widely from publication to publication. In the Fall of 2015, for example, the articles focused mainly on death. There was one article in this particular publication titled “Pleading with Death: Folk Visions of Death (and Life) in the New South” (Hayes). This article explores the new looks into the various ways that the South perceives myths about death, and how they cope with it in today’s world and society. In another article stemming from the same published issue, titled as “Lay It All on the Table: Death in the American South,” this article touches on how older traditions around death flow into the new age (Smith). This article focused on touching on how old traditions correlate still with newer traditions in the South, and can still be seen in morphed ways. In another issue that was published in 2003, however, the articles were centered on a person rather than an idea. This particular issue focused on Richard Marius. They ranged from an analysis of the man himself, to a glimpse and discussion about how he lived his life. One of the works written about him, titled “Re-visioning the overland trail: Richard Marius’s bound for the promised land,” covers the analysis of Marius’s specific works and looks into how they can be interpreted (Carroll). But the attitudes of these articles do change, with each one being unique on its own outlook of Marius and his life and works. In another article, “Neither Saint nor Sinner: An Analysis of Richard Marius as a Biographer of Thomas Moore,” this article goes into the ways at which Marius wrote about the life of another writer (Bowman). Whereas one article was an analysis and break down of Marius’s works, this article was more of a critique.

Overall, The Southern Quarterly looks to delve into the many different aspects of the South, in many different terms. This journal can be very beneficial to English majors who are looking for information, writings, or specific analyses over the different parts of the South, and how they contribute to literature today. This journal solely looks at the different types of Southern literature and history, and tries to bring it to a more modern groups of people. This journal can be accessed by many databases and libraries, and can also be obtained with a subscription, which costs a fee. Overall, this journal is beneficial because it gives readers a newfound look into Southern culture and shines a light that might melt away all of the stigmas that the South faces today.

Works Cited

Bowman, Glen. “Neither Saint nor Sinner: An Analysis of Richard Marius as Biographer of                     Thomas More.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 2003, pp. 78-91. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222245383?accountid=28833.

Carroll, Viera. “Re-Visioning the Overland Trail: Richard Marius’s Bound for the Promised         Land.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 4, 2003, pp. 52-67. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222260514?accountid=28833

“Details for The Southern Quarterly,” EBSCOhost, EBSCO Industries, 2019.             http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/ehost/command/detail?vid=0&sid=08a3b4c8-c571-4c24-993b-          1657436eff03%40sessionmgr4006&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#jid=4LD&db=hft

Ellis, Clifton; Haney, Gina. “Visual Culture and Ideology: The Gothic Revival in the Backlot of Antebellum Charleston.” ProQuest, Vol. 44, Iss. 4, (Summer 2007), https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222264458/95B6382524E74A63PQ/4?accountid=28833

Hayes, John. “Pleading with Death: Folk Visions of Death (and Life) in the New   South.” Southern Quarterly, vol. 53, no. 1, 2015, pp. 105-120,262. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/1759326149?accountid=28833.

O’Hara, Shelley. What Can You Do with a Major in English? Cliffs Notes, 2005. Web.                

Petry, Alice Hall. “Negotiating Boundaries of Southern Womanhood: Dealing with the Powers    that Be.” ProQuest, Vol. 41, Iss. 1, (Fall 2002),  https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/222268517/EB22E707FED450DPQ/13?accountid=28833

Smith, Abigail L. “Lay it all on the Table: Death in the American South.” Southern Quarterly,     vol. 53, no. 1, 2015, pp. 72-86,263. ProQuest, https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.tntech.edu/docview/1759326056?accountid=28833.

“The Southern Quarterly.” The Southern Quarterly | The University of Southern Mississippi,        University of Southern Mississippi , https://aquila.usm.edu/soq/

University of Southern Mississippi. College of Arts Letters. The Southern Quarterly. (1962).        Web.

50minutes.com. Job Seeking on Social Media: Using LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to Find                  Your Dream Job. 50 Minutes, 2015. Web.