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NTU Careers and Placements
Future Focus
Photography Students
Careers and Skills Workshop
Rish Baruah – Careers Consultant
Paul Foreman - e-Information Adviser
NTU Careers and Placements
Future Focus
- Introduce Careers and Placements
-What employers want
- Preferences activity
-Skills, skills, skills
- SWOT it!
- Networking
Introducing Careers and Placements...
Our Careers Consultants and
staff help with…
•Career ideas, getting started
•CVs and applications
•Vacancies and job hunting
•Events and meeting employers
•Careers consultant guidance appointments
Find us in Newton – at ‘The Point’
•Open 9 am - 5 pm (4.30 pm Friday)
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Online advice and support Careers ideas, vacancies, events, applications, interviews, news…
•On our web site…
-Vacancies and events
-Where to start! Career ideas
-My Career Explorer
NEW! For CVs, applications, interviews, career ideas, career skills!
-Social media: NTU Careers Facebook and Twitter (NEW!)
• www.ntu.ac.uk/careers
NTU Careers and Placements Online…
My Career Explorer – some highlights…
Video & audio guides, learning tutorials, text guides,
checklists, templates and tools, including:
-CV Builder: My CV
-My Career: Career Planner, Career Pathways and
Career News
-Skills: presentation, negotiation, meetings, project
management, more...
Log in using your NTU log-in from the
‘Students and Careers’ page
NTU Careers Social Media
Vacancy alerts, events, news,
career ideas, job hunting tips…
• facebook.com/NTUCareers
Vacancy alerts, application
deadlines, events, news…
• @NTUCareers
NTU Careers A & D social media Art & Design twitter @NTUCareersAD
NTU Careers A & D social media Art & Design blog NTUCareersAD Blog
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What employers want
Carl Gilleard, Association of Graduate
Recruiters:
"Twenty-first century graduates need to
demonstrate to employers that they can 'hit
the ground running'. In addition to working
hard to gain a good degree, students should
engage in extra-curricular activities and
obtain work experience in order to develop
skills that will make them better prepared for
the world of work"
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What employers want
Creative Skillset:
“Having a passion for what you do is essential to work in
the Creative Industries and always remember that people
who work at something they actively enjoy generally do
much better at their job than people who don’t.
Identifying what you are good at and choosing a course
that reflects your abilities and plays to your strengths is
essential. If you find it difficult to recognise your
strengths and weaknesses ask your tutors, peers or
colleagues.”
So what are your strengths and weaknesses?
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Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory
•Not an official MBTI assessment!
•No right or wrong answers; these are simply
personal choices
•You will end up with four letters describing your
preferences; make a note of them and we will
discuss afterwards
MBTI “pop-quiz” assessment What do my results mean for me?
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Skills, skills, skills
What are your key skills?
Do you know how to use these to talk
about your key strengths, and account
for your weaknesses?
A guide to auditing your skills
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SWOT it! Activity...
Strengths Weaknesses
Opportunities Threats
1. Use the SWOT tips to think about some of
your ‘job hunting’ SWOTs.
2. Write down some of your SWOTs for these scenarios:
- Fashion Shoot for Draper’s magazine
- NTU Prospectus Promotional Images Commission
- Natural World Calendars and Greetings Cards
3. Share some of your thoughts and discuss
the ‘Personal SWOT Analysis’ examples
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Taking your preferences, skills, strengths and
weaknesses and...
Thinking about opportunities and threats to your
employability...
Practical things you can do to
improve your chances...
Why Social Media, what’s the problem?
• 70% of jobs* are never even advertised
(but do use the usual job vacancy sources regularly!)
–*More in the creative industries, 90% in the media
• Advertised vacancies attract high numbers of applications
• Some employers don’t need to advertise and almost regard
effective self-promotion as a criterion for selection
(notably Advertising, PR)
• 90% of Employers use ‘Social Recruiting’ and...
More than 7 out of 10 successfully hired a candidate through
social media
-89% hired from LinkedIn, 25% Facebook, 15% Twitter
Source: Jobvite Social Recruiting Survey (2012)
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Why Social Media, what’s the problem?
•Many occupational areas are based on contacts,
people often get taken on through personal
recommendation or their profile
•Getting to know and engaging with employers
through Twitter, Linked_in, and online
interaction can get you known, in the spotlight
and, most importantly…
…Job and opportunity offers!
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‘Creative Job Search’
• Make contact & network with employers direct
- better than just waiting for vacancies to be advertised
- find that majority of jobs that aren’t advertised
• Take action, be proactive:
- better than waiting for events to happen
- can create opportunities that didn’t exist before
- create opportunities to gain experience
- raise your profile, get known
- develop an information and support network
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Don’t just “carpet bomb” employers, target the ones you like!
Networking
• Discover and use connections between people.
• Genuine networks are built on professional relationships,
friendship and trust and are about give-and-take.
• Effective networking goes beyond your own contacts and taps
into other people’s networks.
• It’s a long-term thing and you need to network even when you’re
not looking for a job.
• Develop knowledge and opportunities within sectors,
organisations and specific job roles.
• Participating in real experiences improves decision-making, career
planning
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Your networks and job search…
“He jumped the queue because of the way he
engaged with us”
Use your own, existing ‘employability’ networks…
• Don’t forget the obvious! Parents, friends, friends of friends,
classmates, neighbours, relations, NTU (lecturers)…
• Aim to build networks continuously, all can be useful contacts, in
person as well as via Facebook and other online networks
• Attend reunions, spend time volunteering, go to networking
events...
But be careful with how you engage on social media!
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Weird and wacky (job) races
Rish • Philippe Dubost’s Amazon CV
• Adam Pacitti’s billboard
• Using social media to find work
• Creative CV gallery (competition entries)
• Prezi CV
• Vizualize
• NTU Creative CVs
Useful follow-up links
• Careers Guardian: social media job seeking
• Careers Guardian: using LinkedIn for job hunting
• From Facebook to LinkedIn: a free graduate career guide to
using social media effectively and avoiding them being used against
you!
• Social Media in Recruitment: includes case studies
• Social Media for Graduates
• BBC article on automated recruitment and recruitment via
social networking
• Using social media for job hunting: an overview article
• Social media and job search videos from Career Player
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NTU Careers and Placements Online…
What you could do next:
1. Register for specific vacancy and event
alerts
2. Follow NTU Careers on twitter and facebook
and Rish’s A&D blog and Twitter
3. Use MyCareerExplorer (use your NTU log-in,
view the ‘Getting Started’ video)
4. Do your personal employability SWOT
5. Take an assessment test...
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Future Focus
Many thanks and happy job hunting...
Slides available from Twitter @NTUCareersAD
Rish Baruah – Careers Consultant
Paul Foreman - e-Information Adviser
www.ntu.ac.uk/careers