How to start your career after graduation?
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The document provides 10 essential tips for recent graduates on starting their careers, emphasizing the importance of focusing on a specific job field, enhancing both technical and soft skills, and creating a strong CV and LinkedIn profile. It also encourages participation in job fairs and continuous learning, as well as considering post-graduate studies and entrepreneurship. Additionally, it highlights freelancing as a viable career option, outlining how to navigate freelancing platforms and the growth of the freelance workforce.
How to start your career after graduation?
- 1. 20 10 Tips about: How to start your career after graduation? and freelancing work… years Eng. Hany Saad Mostafa Senior Teaching assistant and lecturer ITI – Assiut Branch hghiett@iti.gov.eg
- 2. What’s Next…? What’s next after graduation? “It's time to take your career seriously…” You’ll get graduated in few months, congratulations
- 3. Tip No.1 Tip No.1: “Focus on one Job field”
- 4. Tip No.1 Tip No.1: Focus on one Job field: • Focus on the field that you like most, and you have more skills on it, for example: Software development, web development, mobile apps development, network engineering, cyber security, graphic design, web design,… etc. • You may combine maximum two related or frequently needed together fields. • Review job ads in that field to know the topics and technologies most needed on it. • Prepare yourself well in that field and its related topics, read and learn more about it. • Keep yourself updated with all new technologies in that field. • You may try to get a good training or get certificated in your field. • Never Stop Learning, and keep updated on other related fields.
- 5. Tip No.2 Tip No.2: “Technical skills isn’t enough, you need also strong Language and personal skills.”
- 6. Tip No.2 Tip No.2: Technical skills isn’t enough, you need also strong language and Soft skills: • Technical skills are the key, but you need also strong language and personal skills, in professional and real work environment. • You need to enhance and improve your English skills (or other language according to your field and work place), and this includes: reading, writing and conversational skills. • Also, you need to develop and improve you personal and soft skills, such as: communication skills, soft skills, teamwork skills,… etc. • You can find a lot of online resources for English and soft skills courses and learning.
- 7. Tip No.3 Tip No.3: “Make a good CV right now”
- 8. Tip No.3 Tip No.3: Make a good CV right now: • Make your CV right now, not tomorrow, not when you need it. • Focus on key skills required for your field. • Don’t write basic and minor skills that aren’t key skills for your field, for example: MS office, Windows OS,.. Etc. • CV presentation in very important. • As a fresh graduate your CV must not exceed 2 pages as maximum. • Tailor the CV to the role and to each job. • Keep your CV updated. • You may use CV building tools and websites. • Prepare yourself for interviews.
- 9. Tip No.4 Tip No.4: “Create a professional LinkedIn Profile”
- 10. Tip No.4 Tip No.5: Create a professional LinkedIn Profile: • LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking service, and it’s the world’s largest professional network on the Internet. • In 2016, total number of LinkedIn user reached 414 Million users, and number of active job listing on LinkedIn more than 3 Million jobs.
- 11. Tip No.4 (Cont.) Tip No.5: Create a professional LinkedIn Profile (Cont.):
- 12. Tip No.4 (Cont.) Tip No.5: Create a professional LinkedIn Profile (Cont.): • Create professional profile: • Add your skills, work information and samples in details. • Clarify your contact information and use formal and right Email. • Use clear profile name. • Use suitable profile photo. • Customize your profile URL. • Grow up your network, by connecting to your professors, colleagues and friends. • Ask your professors, colleagues to recommend you on LinkedIn. • Follow known companies in your field, their job vacancies, and you can apply to them through LinkedIn. • Be Active In LinkedIn Groups.
- 13. Tip No.5 Tip No.5: “Follow and create accounts on known recruitment websites”
- 14. Tip No.5 Tip No.5: follow and create accounts on known recruitment websites: • Create accounts on known recruitment websites, and follow the job opportunities on it. • Follow FB recruitment groups and pages. • Some of most known recruiting websites in Egypt and Middle East: • http://www.bayt.com • http://www.egyptitjobs.com • http://www.wuzzuf.net • http://www.arabrec.com • http://www.wzayef.com • http://www.jobzella.com • http://employermagazine.com • http://www.jobs-eg.com • http://www.recgate.com • http://www.meait.com
- 15. Tip No.6 Tip No.6: “Participate actively in Job fairs, technical events and online forums related to your career field.”
- 16. Tip No.6 Tip No.6: Participate actively in Job fairs, technical events and online forums related to your career field: • Participate in job and recruitment fairs related to your career field; you’ll find a lot of good opportunities on it. • Participate actively in technical events and conferences related to your career field; you’ll gain a lot of knowledge and good connections from it. • Follow and participate actively in known technical forums (MSDN forums for example), technical blogs and websites related to your career field; you’ll gain a lot of technical knowledge and experience from it.
- 17. Tip No.7 Tip No.7: “Always ask yourself how you want to see yourself after 2, 3 and 5 years, and plan for it.”
- 18. Tip No.7 Tip No.7: Always ask yourself how you want to see yourself after 2,3 and 5 years, and plan for it: • Plan for your Next 5 career years at least from now and from your first job. • Draw and plan for your career path from now, and to at least next 10 years or more. • Draw your career dreams, think how you can achieve them, then plan for it. • Begin to search for a new work, when you feel that you aren’t learning or developing your skills from your current work. • Work actively, and with passion.
- 19. Tip No.8 Tip No.8: “Plan for Post-graduate studies”
- 20. Tip No.8 Tip No.8: Plan for Post-graduate studies : • Plan for post-graduate studies during your career life. • Plan for taking your first post-graduate degree (Master) during your first 5 career years, because it will be valuable a lot for you during your senior and later career levels. • It’s not preferable to start your first post-graduate studies directly after graduation, you can work for a year at least first, because during your junior level career practical experience will be more valuable and beneficial for you. • Choose Post-graduate studies field relevant to your work field. • You can search for scholarships in known universities.
- 21. Tip No.9 Tip No.9: “Think about starting your own business”
- 22. Tip No.9 Tip No.9: Think about starting your own business: • Think about being an Entrepreneur or a business owner. • It’s not an easy way, don’t start it unless you’re ready. • It may be a risk, and need special skills; so think, and plan for it well. • Read about different entrepreneurs success stories; read well about the reasons of their success or fail, and their advices. • You own business can be: your own idea, your own product, or your own company. • There’s no specific time to start; you may start while you’re still studying (specially if it’s about a software product for example), or after your graduation directly, or later after you gain more experience in work. • Try to be different and innovative.
- 23. Tip No.9 (Cont.) • Some of organization and venture capital (VC) firms that can help you in starting your own business: • TIEC: http://www.tiec.gov.eg • Flat6labs: http://www.flat6labs.com • Sawari ventures: http://www.sawariventures.com • Tennra: http://www.tennra.com • preneur-masr: http://preneur-masr.com • Ideavelopers: http://www.ideavelopers.com • Arab Innovation Network: http://www.arabinnovation.net • Egypreneur: http://www.egypreneur.com • Funders and founders: http://www.fundersandfounders.com
- 24. Tip No.10 Tip No.10: “Freelancing, and working online is a very good option”
- 25. Tip No.10 - Freelancing Tip No.10: Freelancing, and working online is a very good option: • Freelancer, or freelance worker refers to a person who is self-employed and is not necessarily committed to a particular employer long-term. • Other related terms are “outsourcing” and “offshoring” that mean a company that delegates another company to accomplish some of its work or tasks. • There’s a lot of websites that working as a broker between freelance employees and companies or individuals who offer work for them. “Freelancing is the new normal -- and we have the numbers to prove it.” By Sara Horowitz, Founder and Executive Director of Freelancers Union and Fabio Rosati, CEO Elance-oDesk.
- 26. Tip No.10 - Freelancing (Cont.) • Freelancing and working online growth: (34% of entire workforce)
- 27. Tip No.10 - Freelancing (Cont.) • Top requested services:
- 28. Tip No.10 - Freelancing (Cont.) • Jobs posted growth:
- 29. Tip No.10 - Freelancing (Cont.) • Some of most common freelancing websites: • www.upwork.com (Formerly: oDesk and Elance - Top famous freelancing site) • www.freelancer.com (One of the most famous sites) • www.rentacoder.com • www.vworker.com • www.guru.com • http://www.peopleperhour.com • www.fiverr.com (For small services) • Some of fast-growing Arabic freelancing websites: • www.khamsat.com (For small services) • www.ikhedmah.com (For small services) • www.freelanceme.net • www.mostaql.com
- 30. Tip No.10 - Freelancing (Cont.) • How does freelancing websites work? • Create a worker profile, and define your skills. • Search for posted projects that fits your skills and bid on it (time and cost quotation). • The employer (project owner), will review the freelancer applicant, review their profiles, and shortlist some of them for online interview, and provide a final offer. • If the employer accepted your offer, he’ll start the project for you on the website, and notify you to start working. • After finishing the project, the employer will close the project, and transfer the agreed cost to you. • The website will ask the employer to evaluate your commitment and professionalism, and also will ask you to evaluate the employer.
- 31. Tip No.10 - Freelancing (Cont.) • Project cost estimation: • Hourly based: estimate the work hours in the project, and define a rate for your man-hour cost. • Fixed-price: estimate and fixed price for the whole project. • Money withdrawal from your account: • Payoneer. • Skrill and PayPal. • Wire transfer.