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Career Skills - Step 1 assumes that students know broadly the direction they would like their careers to follow.  Those that do not are encouraged to make choices using the pointers given.The content of this Step is the focussed on empowering the reader to take the initial step, to answer the initial question “Do I really know what I want to do - and how do I go about getting it?”   It starts to establish a plan of action in an orderly and sequential way, providing the foundation for a well-organised campaign to move “from learning to earning”.

 Aims

Students will start to develop an understanding of the need to be definite about their goals and the absolute necessity to prepare well. Well-prepared candidates are able to demonstrate their true potential, which would otherwise be lost to the recruiter and as a consequence both parties could suffer.  

Learning outcomes

It is suggested that students will:

  • appreciate that success needs hard work, good organisation and application as well as ability – in job searching as with other activities (refer to Introduction page xviii)
  • carry out research in an orderly manner and keep good records (refer also  to Introduction page xviii)
  • understand rationale behind the various steps that need to be taken to achieve their objectives (see Introduction xx)
  • recognize that selling yourself has the same characteristics as any sales campaign, and that a marketing plan is needed (reference pages 2 to 3)  

Resources needed

Student copies of Career Skills for making personal notes and reference. Other resources could include:

Copies of downloadable forms for issue to students:

  • Websites – (Career choices/job search) (Appendix 4)
  • Network Control sheet (Appendix 4)

Access to Internet for research

General information on marketing would be useful to confirm the similarities with ‘traditional’ sales campaigns.

Tutorial structure for group or individual support

The detailed content of Step 1 in Career Skills should be used as the introduction (the ice-breaker) into the launch of the students’ campaigns.

  • group discussion covering the need for a marketing campaign;
  • individuals present their career aspirations to small groups of peers – to confirm students have commitment/assist decision process;
  • individual/team research into web sites and search engines available;
  • research into dates of career fairs, etc., and other resources available;
  • initial introduction to networking – this is covered in more depth in Step 3;
  • research into marketing campaigns; how they are developed, what they are made up of and how they work;
  • research into target companies to identify their appeal as employers.

 

 

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