Workout what you need

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Work-out what you need
Work Experience? Career Options? Effective
CVs/Applications/Interviews

• 1st year students
• Get started with a 30mins Guidance session
• Wed 7th Feb
• PFC G06
• 1.30-2pm

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To encourage students to think about what they
can do in their first year that can help them
build towards a career.
Aim
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Objectives

• to identify where to find resources to help
  understand the graduate market place
• to highlight a model for managing career building
• to explore what skills, experiences and
  attributes you can focus on in first year to help
  you develop your employability

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Learning Outcomes

• By the end of the session students should be able
  to
• identify resources to help build a career
• understand a model for managing a career
• recognise the skills, experience and attributes
  that improve your employability and career
  building prospects

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Careers, Work Placement Job ShopHouses 14
8 Malone Rd
Resources
Websites
Publications
People / Professionals / Networking /
Experiences
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Careers Websites

• Live Vacancies and Events
• Archives Occupations, Employer Profiles,
  Graduate Market Analysis

• www.qub.ac.uk/careers targeted vacancies, events
  
• www.prospects.ac.uk All HE students UK-wide
  (AGCAS)
• www.gradireland.com All HE students Ireland-wide
  (AGCSI)
• www.doctorjob.com Careers publisher UK
• www.hobsons.co.uk Careers publisher UK
• For Europe and International see links from above
  websites

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Download presentation www.qub.ac.uk/careers Click
undergraduate
Work it out!
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www.qub.ac.uk/careers download at Current Students
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Publications

• Subject Specific
• Finance
• Accounting
• Economics
• Management
• Prospects,
• Hobsons,
• Gradireland,
• Doctorjob,
• Insidecareers

• Generic careers

• Download PDFs
• Free hard copies

CVs, Applications, Interviews, Assessment tests
and activities
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People / Professionals Networking / Experience

• Careers Service Provision
• Subject Careers Advisers
• Information room staff
• Guest Employers
• Workshops and Events

• Professionals / Personal
• Family
• Friends
• Role Models
• Work Experience

• Academic Tutors
• Tutors
• Peer group
• Postgraduates
• graduates

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Resources

• QoL Queens on Line
• Work Experience Vacancies Database
• Personal Development Planning

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Accessing your PDP e-folio (an online planner)
Pick up your e-folio via Queens Online
Click on My School To pick up some supports
from me.
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Build a Career?
Personal Development, Networking and
Marketing CAREER MANAGEMENT/LEARNING 4. Getting
there
MODEL
Personal Planning DECISION MAKING ACTION
PLANNING 3. How do I get there?
Identify target markets and assess
needs OPPORUNTIY AWARENESS 2. Where do I want to
be?
Assess Personal Marketability SELF AWARENESS 1.
Where am I now?
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SELF AWARENESS

• How well does my CV or application form market my
  ability?
• How well can I market (with evidence) my non
  academic achievement?
• Skills, Experience, Attributes

SELF HELP Spring Careers Programme
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OPPORTUNITY AWARENESS

• What occupations/jobs are out there?
• Where would I have to work ?
• What criteria to I need to meet to be selected?
• What is involved in the selection process?

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Actions/Gaps - Getting there
First and Second year

• What do I need to improve?

How well am I doing in Recruitment Selection?
Final year
Managing your career
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EMPLOYABLE?
Academics ? Skills ? Experience ? Attributes?
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What is EMPLOYABILITY?

• Ability to
• -get a job
• -do a job
• -get another job
• Carl Gilleard
• Chief Executive
• AGR

To be employed is to be at risk, to be
employable is to be stable Dr Peter Hawkins
The Art of Building Windmills. Career tactics
for the 21st century
A degree alone is not enough. Employers are
looking for more than just technical skills and
knowledge of a degree discipline. They
particularly value skills such as communication,
teamworking and problem solving. Job applicants
who can demonstrate that they have developed
these skills will have a real advantage. Digby
Jones, Director-General, CBI
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Great Expectations

• Carl Gilleard, Chief Executive,
• Association of Graduate Recruiters
• ..Employers continue to raise the bar
• .Look for graduates with
• interpersonal skills
• commercial savvy
• cultural sensitivity
• knowledge of the business
• work experience
• the ability to market themselves
• and manage their own learning and careers

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Action Planning

• Careers Spring Programme Events and Activities
• Feb 21 Work Experience Fair
• Target Summer Work (transferable skills)

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Undergraduate development Experiences

• Sport
• Clubs Societies
• SSCC Staff Student Consultative Committees
• Science Shop
• Tutoring in Schools
• Voluntary work
• Enterprise/Entrepreneurship programmes

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Start now to build your career

• Get familiar with resources
• Work out what you need to do to manage your
  career
• Do things to develop your
• Skills
• Experience and Attributes
• The careers service can help
• Education programmes
• Information resources and events
• Guidance one-to-one