Market Yourself

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Market Yourself
By Samer Hammad For the Career Day
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Market Yourself

• Market Analysis
• Job Priorities
• Resumes
• Interviews
• Recommendations
• Conclusion

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Market Analysis
Saudi Old Job Market High demand Plenty of
opportunity (easy)
Saudi Present Job Market
Saturated High competition Low
demand Selective Specialized (difficult)
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Job Priorities
Define
Goals purposes?
Salary amount?
Where you want to work?
Working conditions?
What kind of company?
What knowledge/skills Needed?
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Job Priorities
Learn
Your needs
Your position in the market
Adjust
your needs position to market demand
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Résumés
 A well-written résumé is clear concise easy
to read understand
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Résumés gives       

• Personal data
• Career objectives
• Education
• Work experience
• Descriptions of relevant competencies,
• activities, and personal information
• Names, addresses, and telephone numbers of
  references

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Résumés

• Many companies now accept electronic résumés
  submitted over the Internet
• May be scanned and searched electronically

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Résumés
 

• MAJOR PARTS
• Purpose
• Contact section
• Objective statement
• Education section
• Experience/Employment section
• Professional activities accomplishments
• Other information

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Interviews

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• Vary in ability to predict on-the-job
  performance
• An interview can be misleading
• Interviewer tend to decide about a person early
  in the interview

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Interviews

•    Situational Interview

Assessing different situations Better predictors
of performance
Test
Test for candidates to predict job performance
more accurately

Cognitive Ability test Personality test Perfor
mance test
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Interviews
Cognitive Ability Test

• Measures general intelligence
• Verbal, Numerical, and Reasoning Ability
• Have proved to be relatively successful in
  predicting which applicants are qualified for
  certain jobs

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Interviews
Personality Tests

• Assess unique blend of characteristics that
  define the individual
• Assess the individual personality
• Assess the individual Conscientious

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Interviews
Performance Test

• Requires candidate to perform simulations of
  actual job tasks
• e.g., a code-writing test for computer
  programmers
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Interviews
Interviewers Tend to decide about a person
early in the interview Then spend the rest of
the time seeking information to support that
decision But, early impressions often are
erroneous

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Interviews

•    Interviewer Analysis

Present abilities vs. Future potential
What to Consider

• How do you handle failure?
• How do you solve conflicts?
• Are you flexible, honest, loyal?
• Have you traveled outside Saudi?
• Can you work on more than 1 task or project at
  the same time?
• Have you set goals and met them?
• Why are you here at our company?

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Interviews
Remember
The interviewer and the company have needs.
They are under pressure and must produce benefits
from the students they choose. The questions
they ask you clearly show this in some of the
application forms.

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Interviews
Review of Key Qualities
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Interviews
Sample QA
TOPIC Leadership Give an example of when you as
a leader of a group, set direction for them,
gained their commitment, and led them to achieve
outstanding results.

• Examples
• group work in class or project
• club, hobby, Co-op, Summer work
• sports, family situation, other
  responsibilities

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Interviews
Sample QA
TOPIC Problem-solving Describe a challenging
and difficult project which you have done. What
did you do, why and what was the result?

• Examples
• Co-op and report/presentation
• Research work for senior project
• Student club or group work
• Family life problem, but good grades

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Interviews
Sample QA
TOPIC Teamwork Give an example of when you
developed effective working relationships with
people from different backgrounds to accomplish a
goal. Describe a situation where you had to
involve others to achieve a task.

• Examples
• Co-op work, group projects at KFUPM
• Personal life, relationships with professors

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Interviews
Sample QA
TOPIC Innovation Describe a situation where you
used a new approach to solve a problem. Give
an example of when you thought of a new idea or a
better way of doing something.

• Examples
• Using internet to do research
• Time management to get more homework and
  studying done better and faster
• Looking up the company website, instead of just
  talking with other students about it

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Interviews
Sample QA
TOPIC Communication Give an example of when
you organized your thoughts, effectively
communicated them and got others to agree with
you.

• Examples
• your Co-op presentation or Senior project
• group work in class on project
• any work experience !!!

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Interviews
Interviewers Question Strategies
CLOSED OPEN

Be Aware to Avoid !!!
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Interviews
Market yourself through your answers!

• What do you know about our company?
• Why do you want to work here?
• What interests you about our products/services?
• Why do you want this job?
• Why did you choose your major (or change your
  major)?
• How much salary do you want?

Research, Sales, Persuasion, Negotiation, Logic,
Positive Attitude Communication
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Interview Tips
1. SMILE. Know your resume very well 2. Read
about company BEFORE 3. Know WHY you are there
(Job Tree) 4. Look good. Appearance and NVC 5.
Stay alert for open closed ?s 6. Be aware
of tell me about yourself 7. Relate Your Info.
to Their Needs market yourself as a product that
meets and exceeds their desire/needs 8. Answer
questions, then stop talking 9. Ask questions.
Know what to say about salary 10. Say thank you
ask for business card. SMILE!!!
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In conclusion . . .

• Stay balanced.
• Islam is the ??? ?????
• In other words, how many people just before their
  death ever said
  I wish I had spent more time at my office.
• Be aware to avoid a big mistake in life --using
  ladder of success

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