What's the formula for success?

Editor's Notes

1. ACCELERATE Only have 5-minutes with you so want to make it as worthwhile as possible. Hints and tips that can be applied to 10minds and to your career in general. My name is… & I’m the Jameson International Graduate Programme Manager I’m passionate about talent and I currently work with 75 talented, driven, motivated graduates who represent the Jameson brand as Ambassadors in 42 markets around the world. 100minds challenges Irelands Best & Brightest students to raise €1k each with funds raised going to Irish charities. Opportunity to help you set your apart from the crowd. Platform to stand up, stand out & make a difference! At Irish Distillers Pernod Ricard our mission is to mobilise a new generation to use their ideas to drive transformational change in the workplace and the world. Jameson, as our flagship brand, aims to be creative and innovative in everything we do. Therefore, we look for graduates who have an entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrate their creative and innovative skills through their time in college. 100minds enables graduates to bring the theory of what they’ve learned in their studies to use in a practical setting and also enables students to stand up, stand out and make a difference.
2. Success is the bottom line. Its why you work so hard in college, why you signed up for 100minds etc What’s the formula for success? There are lots of different variation but the one that I’m going to share today have 3-parts.
3. From an employers perspective… Attitude is everything.
4. A bad attitude is like a flat tyre, if you don’t fix it you’ll never go anywhere! Target driven (results orientated). Can do attitude. Are you flexible? Jameson = ambitious brand with a clear 2020 vision and we need innovative, creative, self-driven graduates with an entrepreneurial spirit who believe in our vision to help us achieve it. Ultimately they will become the leaders of the business into the future. 3 Career insights from Web Summit 2015 https://www.cpl.ie/Blog/Building-Your-Career/2015-(1)/November/3-Career-insights-from-Web-Summit-2015 Culture and Attitude are vital to employers Echoing findings in our recent employment monitor, Neil Vogel spoke about the importance of culture and attitude in reinventing about.com. While it was still a $100 million company About.cm was failing and on its way out of business. When Neil joined the business he set about fixing the culture and fixing the product then fixing everything else. The key changes in culture were overwhelming positivity, a focus on trust and honesty and an effort to hire and retain ‘believers’.So what does this mean for you? We’ve blogged about the importance of attitude before but this adds an extra layer of detail. By bringing positivity, honesty and faith in the business to your job you aren’t just a ‘good employee’ you have the potential to reinvent a business. What happens when the Sharing economy turns to the sharing of people? CEO of Jive Software, Elisa Steele, spoke about another topic close to our hearts, the future of the workplace. During the talk Elisa discussed what would happen if you applied the sharing economy, the Airbnb approach, to people. Her suggestion was that in the future people won’t have one boss or one employer at a time, they’ll have many. Companies will share people and you will work on small projects for some businesses while working on a larger project for another.It’s an interesting idea and one that certainly fits with the recent trend for people to spend less and less time with each employer and the increased popularity of contract or temporary roles. As a candidate, especially if you’re looking at technology orengineering jobs, your ability to adapt to multiple projects and work with a variety of departments or clients will be vital.
5. The next part of the equation is… Hire & develop leaders, people who get things done & add real value to the business.
6. Self-awareness is key. Believe in yourself, know our strengths how to leverage these to add value to a business or a situation (such as 100minds fund raising), your weaknesses and how you address and develop them. 100minds gives you the opportunity to move outside your comfort zone and build experience that employers value such as: Teamwork Communications achieving targets relationship management (with your mentor) stakeholder management influencing and negotiation skills If you were a brand (which you are) what's your USP? What makes you stand out? What are your key skills? How can you use them to add value?
7. Key to building ‘BRAND YOU!’ Online & in person Be proactive in using your network. Digital footprint… build your brand / network on and off line. Great power in this room. Tap into it and use it! Sibéal on top tips for 100minds students – I’d say give special attention to ‘make the most of your mentors’ and ‘most students don’t have this opportunity to connect one-to-one with people in your mentor’s position’ I think my advice to students would be the same advice I always give’ get experience outside of the classroom, be it travel, study abroad, working in related areas etc.’ I think it’s really interesting when you talk about students being their own personal brands and I think my mentees would really appreciate this kind of advice. Utilising their social media presence to build their profile etc. I think good advice for 100 minds students specifically would be to make the most of their mentors and don’t wait for them to always contact you, use their experience and also utilise their network because it’s all about who you know. I’m here later to chat with and if you don’t connect with me this eve I’m online at @SineadTweeter
8. Paul Ricard founder of Pernod Ricard ‘Make a friend everyday’ and one of our core values is conviviality. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ‘Its not what you know, its who you know’ Henry Forde The value of your social connections will be key to employers We already know that employers review your social media presence before hiring you, but Joanna Riley Weidenmiller of 1-Page took that a step further. She suggested that in the future employers will place greater emphasis on the value of your social connections. In other words if you and another candidate have very similar qualifications and both perform well at interview it could come down to your network.Employers would naturally be drawn to candidates with large networks of similarly skilled workers and former colleagues. From an employer’s point of view, if you have an amazing network they could use that to source teammates for you. The question they asked on stage was, ‘why try to find every superstar one at a time when you can get a whole Basketball team who already know how to succeed together?’The lesson for candidates here is simple - don’t just work on your social media profile, work on your network. Make connections with former colleagues and skilled peers and curate those connections to make sure that if an employer looks at your network they will find more than just ‘friends’ they’ll find a whole basketball team.
9. Success with 100minds and your career.