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Career strategy workshops
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Benefits of workshops
• Raise awareness• Create time for reflection• Provide frameworks• Create momentum• Help sustain focus and motivation• Opportunities for peer check and feedback• Manage stress!• Complementary to one-to-one coaching
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Developing a career strategy...
• Self-awareness
• Career planning
• Self-marketing
• Job-hunting techniques
• Review
• Self-assessment (including competencies)
• Career vision
• Understanding roles, industries, work environments
• Identifying an ideal job, second best, fall-back option
• CV writing, cover letter, interviewing
• Assessment centres, case study exercises
• Managing relationships with key career stakeholders
• Networking & unsolicited applications
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Self-assessment
• Step 1: hold an exercise (group exercise, that also requires analytical skills) or use a self-assessment test
• Step 2: write a “shield” with– What are your strengths?– What are your areas of development?– What achievements demonstrate your strengths?– What do you intend to do to work on your areas of
development?
• Step 3: discussion in pairs and/or review
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Career vision
• Career vision defined through Interests, Values, Skills.– Provide examples for each– Explain significance in career choices
• Write down own Interests, Values, Skills.
• Introduce a few companies' visions (e.g. mission statement) and try to identify their interests, values and skills.
• Ask to write a tentative career vision.
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Skype created a little piece of software that makes communicating with people around the world easy and fun. With Skype you can say hello or share a laugh with anyone, anywhere. And if both of you are on Skype, it’s free.
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Help our clients make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance and to build a great firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people.
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Understanding roles, industries
• Workshops with alumni, recruiters
• Introduce “a day in the life”
• Alumni Q&A panels
• Run case study workshops (e.g. consulting)
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Ideal choice, second best, fall-back
• Job is defined through Role, Industry and Culture (public/private, SME/bluechip, geographical location)
• Write options (3 choices for each)
• Create a scale of risk
• Discuss in pairs and review
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CV writing, cover letter, interviewing• Presentation followed by work in pairs• Use actual job ad or apply for ideal job role
Assessment centres, case study exercises
• Introduce feedback rules• Run exercise and act as observer• Facilitate feedback session• Invite recruiter
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Career stakeholders• Identify stakeholders:
– Internal network (if currently employed)– External network– Recruitment industry– Coach/mentor
• Work in groups to discuss ways of managing relationships with these stakeholders
• Report from each group and review with additional feedback
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More networking workshops• Write unsolicited applications:
– Identify target organisation– Identify project / contribution– Write a project proposal in a cover letter– Peer review
• Networking skills– How to pitch yourself
• Practice self-introduction• Write a personal profile
– Business etiquette
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Review - “Job Club”• Job-hunting process:
– Identify Role, Industry, Culture– Make list of target companies– Establish a strategy for each company– Review
• Job Club meets regularly– Share progress– Give feedback and tips
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Any questions?