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Developing Embryonic
Employability Skills: FOHS
Employability Support
Annabel Smoker, Employability Lead
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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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
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
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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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!
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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Building 37, Highfield Campus
UoSCareersandEmployability
UoS_Careers
www.southampton.ac.uk/careers
UoS_Careers
+44 (0)23 8059 3501