making yourself attractive to employers 2011
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Making yourself attractive to
employers
Yasmina Mallam-Hassam
Careers Adviser
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Learning objectives
Help you understand what it means to beemployable
Learn how to evaluate yourself Learn about employer requirements
Build a strategy for developing your
employability
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Understandemployerneeds
Reviewyour
activitiesand
interests
Identify thegaps
Getinvolved
Network
Learn toarticulate
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ATTITUDE/MOTIVATION
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Understanding employer needs
1. What is a graduate scheme?
2. In the UK 66% of graduate jobs will take
students from any degree True/False
3. Postgraduates have separate graduateschemes from undergraduates True/False
4. Experience gained outside the UK does notcount when looking for jobs in the UK?
True/False
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5. You can get a graduate job in the UK with a firstclass degree and no work experience. True/False
6. Volunteering/ unpaid experience is not valued byemployers. True/False
7. You have to wait until you graduate to apply for agraduate job. True/False
8. Employers who come to campus will recruit oncampus?
Understanding employer needs
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Think about what you are
interested in
Whatmodules doI enjoy?
Whatindustry do Iwant to domarketing?
What jobsam I
attracted to?
Finance..but which
area?
What skillsdo I like to
use?
Whatenvironmentdo I like towork in?
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Time to review
Competency Example
Communication Speaking to customers in part timework
Teamwork a group coursework
Problem solving Analysing a fault in a robot youdesigned
Organisation Helping create the international daystand
Creativity/innovation Creating a new marketing to recruit
members for the Malaysian societyAdaptability Succeeding in the UK education
system
Commercial awareness Coming up with a new idea formanaging stock in the shop whereyou work
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Identifying the gaps
A gooddegree
Skillsexamples
MOTIVATION
Workexperience
Videos on websitewww.prospects.ac.uk
Alumni careerscontactsLinkedIn
Part-time work
VolunteeringInternship
Placements
Careers fairsPresentationsSkills sessions
Drop In sessions
2:1 or above fromundergraduate (60%)
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Attitude and motivation
Why do you want to work in this role? Do you understand the role?
What research have you done?
How does the role match your drivers?
Why do you want to work for this company?
What do you know about the company?
How does this link to your interests?
What have you done to research it?
Why do you want to work in this industry?(e.g. Marketing roles which could be doneanywhere)
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Finding work experience opportunities
Recruitment
Agencies
On campus roles andjob sources.
Volunteering
Direct approach
SpeculativeApproach
Academic projects
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Targeting employers
UKBA register of sponsors
Where can you make a difference? Skills e.g. Web design, Arabic language
Knowledge e.g. Indian manufacturing market
Sources of employers could include www.yell.com Yellow Pages Online
Leicestershire Chamber of Commercehttp://www.chamberofcommerce.co.uk/,
China Britain Business Councilhttp://www.cbbc.org/directory/search.asp?dir=3, Federationof Small Businesses Directory http://www.fsbonline.co.uk/
http://www.yell.com/http://www.chamberofcommerce.co.uk/http://www.cbbc.org/directory/search.asp?dir=3http://www.fsbonline.co.uk/http://www.fsbonline.co.uk/http://www.cbbc.org/directory/search.asp?dir=3http://www.chamberofcommerce.co.uk/http://www.yell.com/ -
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Give yourself something extra
Student clubs and societies e.g. ISA, finance society
Student representative
Student mentor or buddy
Student outreach and recruitment (28-10-11 closingdate for applications)
Careers and Employability Centre programmes
Careers management skills
Work shadowing
Insight into management (2nd yr UG)
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Employability award
Enables you to evaluate your skills
Allows planning to undertake activities to meetskills gaps
Appears on academic transcript
100 points to achieve the award
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Networking
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The art of the information interview
Enables you to:
Find out about the activities in a job
Learn about a company
Build a network of contacts
Establish your motivation for a job area
Demonstrate motivation for a job role
Make new contacts with the company
Organise work experience/shadowingopportunities
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Your plan
Write three activities that you need to do tomake yourself attractive to employers. Make it
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