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Developing Embryonic

Employability Skills: FOHS

Employability Support

Annabel Smoker, Employability Lead

als@soton.ac.uk

10/11/15

How can we help you?

• Early advice on careers and signposting from now until you graduate

and beyond……………….

• Integrated support (FOHS, Careers Services and employers)

• eAOPP Employability section (CV builder; reflections)

– Placements 1 – 6/ 1 – 8 (DFs)

• Careers Fair 2015

– researching opportunities (unqualified/ qualified/ voluntary); 75 stands

• Question: What makes you stand out from the crowd?

– OPUS/ Volunteering/ Excel – more on this later…………

• Employability Week (Final Year 2017) 2

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Tuesday 17 November201510.30 – 14.30Garden Court, Students Union

Building 40, Highfield Campus

Take the next step.Health Sciences

Careers Fair 2015

Exhibitors this November

Include*

Boots Hearing Care

www.bootshearingcare.com

British Academy of Audiology

www.baaudiology.org

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS

Trust www.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk

Bupa Care Services

www.bupa.co.uk/careers

Camps International

www.campsinternational.com

Care UK

www.careuk.com

Career Destinations

www.southampton.ac.uk/careers

Contact Singapore

www.contactsingapore.sg

Dorset County Hospital

www.dchft.nhs.uk

Dorset Healthcare

www.dorsethealthcare.nhs.uk

Evelina London Childrens

Hospital www.gstt.nhs.uk

Global Vision International

www.gvi.co.uk

Great Western Hospital Swindon

www.gwh.nhs.uk

Guernsey Health & Social

Services www.gov.gg/jobs

Hampshire County Council

www.hampshirejobs.org.uk

Hampshire Hospitals NHS

Foundation Trust

www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk

Hands Around the World

www.hatw.org.uk

Leonard Cheshire Disability

www.LeonardCheshireDisability.or

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Mercy Ships

www.mercyships.org/volunteer/

general

Milton Keynes Hospital NHS

Foundation Trust

www.mkhospital.nhs.uk

NHS Professionals

www.nhsprofessionals.nhs.uk

Physio World

www.physioworld.netPoole

Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

poole.hospital.nhs.uk

Projects Abroad www.projects-

abroad.co.uk

Pulse Jobs

www.pulsejobs.com

Queen Alexandra Hospital

Portsmouth

www.porthosp.nhs.uk

Royal Air Force

www.raf.mod.uk/careers

Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospital NHS

Foundation Trust

www.rbch.nhs.uk

Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS

Foundation Trust www.rbht.nhs.uk

Royal Navy

www.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust

www.salisbury.nhs.uk/Pages/home

. aspxScio

Healthcare Ltd

www.sciohealthcare.co.uk

Solent NHS Trust

www.solent.nhs.uk

Spec Savers www.Specsavers.co.uk

The Army Medical Services

www.army.mod.uk/

rolefinder/?cpg=med

The Care Division

www.thecaredivision.co.uk

The Nuffield Health Wessex

Hospital

www.nuffieldhealth.com

The OT Practice

www.theotpractice.co.uk

University Hospital Southampton

NHS Foundation Trust

www.uhs.nhs.uk

University Of Southampton FoHS

PGT/PGR/CPD

www.southampton.ac.uk/

healthsciences/postgr

University of Southampton, Specialist Community Public

Health Nurse Education

www.southampton.ac.uk/alps/scp

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Vitalise

www.vitalise.org.uk

*Exhibitors may change, list correct at time of

printing

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2014

What people say about the Careers Fair

• Students said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b9GZSqvzlE&feature=youtu

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• Employers said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESfmMxtHvpM&feature=you

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An Introduction to the

Careers Service

Careers and Employability Service

www.southampton.ac.uk/careers

careers@southampton.ac.uk

UoSCareersandEmployability

UoS_Careers

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Careers & Employability Service

Building 37, HighfieldCampus

Opening times:Monday to Friday 9.00am – 6.00pm

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• What do employers want

• Skills audit

• Benefits of volunteering

• How to volunteer

• Careers Service support

To cover today!

How you might be feeling….

How you want to be feeling…

Career Planning Cycle

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• Understanding what an organisation is searching

for will go a long way in helping you to secure a

job

• To be successful in a graduate health

professional role you will need to exhibit a mix

of skills…‘employability skills’

• ‘Soft skills’ that can be transferred between roles

may be just as important as the clinical skills

associated with the job

• Employability skills are those skills necessary for

getting, keeping and being successful in a job

What do employers want:

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Top 10 skills & qualities sought by healthcare employers

• Communication

• Teamwork skills

• Enthusiasm, drive & motivation

• Planning, organisation & time-management

• Good organisational skills

• Flexibility & adaptability

• Patience

• Initiative

• Empathy & compassion

• A sense of humour

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Ultimately the better you know yourself the easier it will be to choose your

specialism and the environment you would like to work in.

Engaging in this area effectively will also directly support you in:

Knowing your strengths and areas for development

Creating effective applications & being successful at interviews:

It is therefore worth creating a skills audit

Understand who you are

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Skills Auditing

• When you start applying for jobs you will need to record, reflect

& provide evidence to prove you can do the job

• Important to have a job description & person specification for a

particular job to refer to

• Add part time job version where you look at tasks first and then skills afterwards – add a slide which shows how to put it on a CV

On your CV

June 2012 – Present Customer Service Adviser

Food Giant PLC

• Used effective customer service skills to resolve

customer concerns, queries and complaints;

• Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability by

successfully undertaking a variety of roles within

various departments at short notice;

• Accurately handled customer transactions;

• Worked quickly and efficiently within a fast paced

environment scoring 100% on customer satisfaction

surveys.

Embarking on your 1st

year

placements!

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Remember to record and reflect as you gain experience

– Which aspects have you enjoyed the most and why?

• Was it the team?

• Was it the patient group?

• The environment?

• The variety of skills required for the job?

– Also, consider how your strengths match your preferred

options.

• Reflect on the things you have least enjoyed and why – was it the

specialty itself or other factors such as staff shortages?

Volunteering

How to get started

Careers and Employability Service

www.southampton.ac.uk/careers

careers@southampton.ac.uk

UoSCareersandEmployability

UoS_Careers

Why Volunteer?

Giving back

Making a difference to others Helping the Environment

Helping those less fortunate Helping the ‘voiceless’

Develop Skills

Gaining knowledge/experience Enhancing your CV

Improving employability Pro Bono work

Social benefits

Meeting new people

Developing confidence/people skills

A chance to socialise

Image courtesy of jscreationzs at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Things to consider…

• What am I passionate about?

– Does the mission and values of the organisation fit in with my beliefs?

• What are my personal reasons for volunteering?

– What do I want to get out of volunteering?

– What is my motivation?

• What am I good at? What do I want to develop?

– What can I offer to them?

– what skills can I gain from this?

• How long do I want to volunteer for?

• How much time do I have?

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Volunteering Bank• Opportunities for you to volunteer alongside your

studies.

• Develop work-based skills within a charity or third sector

organisation to augment your CV and enhance your

employability.

• Choose a role which goes hand in hand with your degree or pick something different which shows employers you have a passion to help people and your community.

www.southampton.ac.uk/volunteering

Join a Society That Focuses on

Volunteering . . . . .

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Southampton Voluntary Services

http://www.southamptonvs.org.uk/

Other Sources:

• Southampton Hub

• Southampton Voluntary Services

• Do-it!

• Volunteer England

• Worldwide Volunteering Database

• Responsible Volunteering

International Volunteering:

Employability skills

Adapted from an image by David Castillo Dominici at FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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Support!

http://opus.soton.ac.uk/

Learn what to expect throughout the recruitment process and get prepared through workshops on:

• CVs, Applications, Cover letters• Career Planning• Interviews• Facilitated sessions - tutorials

Planning for your success.Careers ServiceEvents Calendar

Log on to: https://mycareer.soton.ac.uk

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https://uk.pinterest.com/uoscareers/

Building 37, Highfield Campus

UoSCareersandEmployability

UoS_Careers

www.southampton.ac.uk/careers

UoS_Careers

careers@southampton.ac.uk

+44 (0)23 8059 3501

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