You will write a personal statement that focuses on your career goals (specifically after you graduate from Lehman College), what you are studying, and how your work experience, education, and anything else you think will help you realize your aims. The minimum required length for your text is 750 words. The author provides readers enough details, numbers, examples and explanations about his or her current or past employment for an outside reader to understand completely. Please review the readings on Blackboard for ideas. Those include how many hours a week, what some of the most important tasks were and how frequently they were performed, what the department or division the writer worked for did and its size or scope, how much money the writer took in or made in revenues and how many clients or people the writer served on average. The author provides readers sufficient detail on his or her college education at Lehman. See the guidance posted on Blackboard for ideas. The author presents readers with a career goal at the start of the text and future steps to realize it in the concluding paragraph. The composition starts with a thesis paragraph that tells readers the author’s career goal and summarizes how the writer’s college education (at Lehman in particular) and work experience are helping him or her realize this dream. Paragraphs are focused on topics or themes and not chronology. Paragraphs center on one topic at a time – the writer’s education at Lehman, one job the author held in the past, a volunteer activity or a hobby. Paragraphs begin with a topic sentence that that summarizes the focus and links it back to the central topic of the personal statement. The personal statement closes with a paragraph that summarizes what the author has done to move closer to a career goal and what future steps he or she will need to take after completing Lehman College.
