Springboardcareers kn ppt
- 1. Springboard and Jobfinding imogen@ctc.ie What happened last year What you might do We have limited time as I have to leave at 10:50, so take down my email – you are welcome to contact me afterwards, and if I can help or make individual suggestions, I will 1
- 2. Who’s yer one? • Ran a network of self-employed teleworkers involved in publishing 1985-2005 • Temporarily paralysed by Guillain-Barre Syndrome in 2004 (like a one-off attack of MS) and had to learn to walk again as well as create a new career • Pieced it together out of teaching, IT, horticulture • Taught the digital modules of the Springboard Creative and Digital Marketing certificate last year • Studied on the Supply Chain Management course • Now working at Apple (disclaimer...)
- 3. The portfolio career (Handy 1989) ✦ Wage or salary work – money paid for time given (what employees earn) ✦ Fee work – payment for results delivered (what professionals charge) ✦ Study work ✦ Gift work – work done for free outside the home eg for charities, friends or in the community ✦ Homework – care of the home and family The first three = your career portfolio
- 4. What happened last year? • Supply Chain Management: • New employment • Further educational course • Internship • No change/other eg maternity leave/family care • Creative and digital marketing • New employment 6 • Further educational course 2 • Internship 4 • No change/other eg maternity leave/family care 5
- 5. Finding out about yourself • Professional is best, but you can do it on the net DIY if you can’t access or afford that… • Myers-Briggs personality tests on web • Learning styles relate to communications styles eg Silver Felderman http ://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html • Ask your family and friends about your good and bad points. • Be honest and work with the positives
- 6. Assess your abilities • The realities are the same whatever your ability. Employers and clients want: – Communications skills including telephone and email – Punctuality and politeness – Reliability – Teamwork* – Good IT skills especially personal productivity – Competence in a skill area that's in demand • It’s up to you to get out there and create your portfolio to convince them you have it!
- 7. What did people find helpful? • Targeted searching of job websites (can also be time-consuming and depressing...!) • Practice at presentation skills • Creating a portfolio (CCDM students) • Networking eg it@cork http://itcork.ie and Skillsnet (you have free membership while you are at UCC) • Facebook group UCCNewMedia (free...) • Contacts built through the course (especially SCM course which also had students who were in employment) • Help with LinkedIn profiles – buddy up with someone you trust to “peer review” for each other • Careers interview and cv preparation help
- 8. Be open to new ideas • CSO website is full of information on what sectors recruit what skills and... gender and age-groups • Expert Group on Future Skills Report http://www.skillsireland.ie • Glassdoor.com – find out what others think of the company that you are applying to. – Interview questions and process • Do interim and voluntary work • Don’t be shy to do other work – being in a job helps you to get a job • Careers interview and cv preparation help 8
- 9. What are you doing so far? • Searching job websites? Which ones? – jobs.ie irishjobs.ie recruitireland.com fasjobs.ie • Recruitment agencies – pluses and minuses? • Updating your cv – are you taking account of the need to make it machine-readable? • Researching companies and their recruitment procedures eg “panels” in the public service – I once got a job because I was the only candidate who had looked up the company online, and knew what it did, and who the CEO was • Join relevant “interest groups” on LinkedIn • Social media - have you linked your various accounts and created an “about.me” page? • What is your “bottom line” on location as agreed with
- 10. Curating your portfolio • Get your ECDL (UCC Computer Centre) • Always have a note-taking device about your person (eg the voice or note memo on your phone) • Keep a contacts database and use it – after this session, make notes of who and what was useful because you won’t remember in a month • Do voluntary work and keep notes of what you’re doing. Treat it as a “job” – be professional! • Take opportunities to write and speak publicly however hard it is – consider joining Toastmasters to get free training in public speaking as well as networking opportunities? • Join stuff eg IT@Cork network
- 11. Curating means neglecting too • I don’t often tell people I worked on the post for a while the year after I had GBS… unless of course I am after a job that involves driving… – Eg I have a licence to transport hazardous chemicals: very useful for gardening work! – Think about using an ePortfolio to record your work and study because you don’t know when you will need a piece of portfolio “evidence” again in the future. – Most professions now require a record be kept of continuing professional development, so start collecting now! • Takehome: Dan Pink’s YouTube on motivation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc • What one thing are you now going to do as a result of today? Deadline? Next action to make it happen?
- 12. • Thanks! • Sorry I have to rush... • Email again: imogen@ctc.ie 12