Let me tell a quick story about this: when I was an NYU undergraduate, I was looking for a part-time job on campus that I could use for extra money. I stumbled upon a job opening working for the Dean of the Law School at NYU. It was a basic, part-time office assistant job, sorting and sending mail and answering the phone. My boss (the Dean's direct, full-time assistant) told me, when she offered me the job, that it was usually a job to which she hired NYU graduate students. I reminded her that I was an undergraduate. She knew, but said that my resume had impressed her. She pointed to the bottom of my resume, where I had my "special skills" section, and in which I had written: "Spanish Language: Written, Oral, Aural, and Reading." She was impressed that I had used the word "aural," intentionally, to describe the variety of my language skills. I only stayed in the job a few months until the funding was re-allocated, but the lesson stuck with me.
Let me tell a quick story about this: when I was an NYU undergraduate, I was looking for a part-time job on campus that I could use for extra money. I stumbled upon a job opening working for the Dean of the Law School at NYU. It was a basic, part-time office assistant job, sorting and sending mail and answering the phone. My boss (the Dean's direct, full-time assistant) told me, when she offered me the job, that it was usually a job to which she hired NYU graduate students. I reminded her that I was an undergraduate. She knew, but said that my resume had impressed her. She pointed to the bottom of my resume, where I had my "special skills" section, and in which I had written: "Spanish Language: Written, Oral, Aural, and Reading." She was impressed that I had used the word "aural," intentionally, to describe the variety of my language skills. I only stayed in the job a few months until the funding was re-allocated, but the lesson stuck with me.