Prepare For A Career Fair To Impress Employers
Common Mistakes Students Make At Career Fairs
Your Self-introduction
Connecting The Dots On Resumes
Practice Activity: “Meeting A Career Fair Employer”
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Steps for Creating an Effective Elevator Speech
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Specific-Create a High Potential Target List of Employers
Measurable-Start Early – Make Each Step Count!
Attainable-Alternative Strategies and Resources
Realistic-Take Charge of Your Job Search
Timely-Job Search Planogram – Tips from Retail Experts
In Module VII. you will learn more about the U.S. immigration process and how to explain to prospective employers about how easy it is to hire you for co-op assignments and post-graduation employment.
In Module III. You will learn more about how to articulate your skills, strengths and accomplishments and increase your chances of getting interviewed.
The Importance of Perfecting Your Elevator Speech
Steps for Creating an Effective Elevator Speech
Competitive Articulation of Skills
Minimizing Communication Anxiety - US Business Customs Awareness
Understanding What Non-verbal Communicates to US Employers
In Module IV. you will discover how to meet the challenges of job searching with the creation and execution of S.M.A.R.T. Goals.
Specific-Create a High Potential Target List of Employers
Measurable-Start Early – Make Each Step Count!
Attainable-Alternative Strategies and Resources
Realistic-Take Charge of Your Job Search
Timely-Job Search Planogram – Tips from Retail Experts
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The coronavirus pandemic has put 100 million jobs at risk in India alone. The numbers globally are not any better.
Its probably the most uncertain time in history, for employed people and job seekers.
However, companies will take time to rebuild their workforce. Firms will focus on hiring for unique and specific skills. Companies will want to be and stay lean.
Thus, with more people competing for the same position, screening and interviewing processes will change and tighten up.
And your Interviewing skills can make or break your opportunity.
Are you ready to stand out from the crowd?
Join us in this live webinar on 4th July 2020, 12 noon (45 mins). Dr. Debolina Dutta will bring together 28 years of HR experience to help you amp your interviewing skills and differentiate yourself in this crucial conversation.
She will cover:
1 What employers are looking for (more so now)
2 Typical interviewing styles
3 How do you prepare to differentiate yourself.
This webinar is meant for Students, faculty, young workers, and anybody seeking a job in these troubling times. We want to help young workers and students prepare for a new way of hiring and working in the new normal.
"Presentation on writing an effective Resume. How to make a good resume
Effecive tips for writing a Resume. These PDF's are
available for all VEDA students for free on www.veda-edu.com"
This guide is a helpful resource to any teen working on a resume. Inside there are tips and examples on proper formatting and styling in your document. It also covers how to create a list of references.
4 Things that show will impress employers enough to consider giving you an interview:
1. Research the organization
2. Dress Appropriately
3. A good handshake, eye contact and introduction
4. Your resume
The presentation is part of Job hunting skills training program, focused on personal branding and job hunting tips, it gives the reader information on how to develop and maintain a good personal brand, how it helps him in finding a deserving job and further talks on techniques and tips on how to find a suitable job.
This presentation provides information about skills needed to be successful in career, it provides information about the list of soft-skills, technical-skills and hard-skills needed for an individual.
The coronavirus pandemic has put 100 million jobs at risk in India alone. The numbers globally are not any better.
Its probably the most uncertain time in history, for employed people and job seekers.
However, companies will take time to rebuild their workforce. Firms will focus on hiring for unique and specific skills. Companies will want to be and stay lean.
Thus, with more people competing for the same position, screening and interviewing processes will change and tighten up.
And your Interviewing skills can make or break your opportunity.
Are you ready to stand out from the crowd?
Join us in this live webinar on 4th July 2020, 12 noon (45 mins). Dr. Debolina Dutta will bring together 28 years of HR experience to help you amp your interviewing skills and differentiate yourself in this crucial conversation.
She will cover:
1 What employers are looking for (more so now)
2 Typical interviewing styles
3 How do you prepare to differentiate yourself.
This webinar is meant for Students, faculty, young workers, and anybody seeking a job in these troubling times. We want to help young workers and students prepare for a new way of hiring and working in the new normal.
"Presentation on writing an effective Resume. How to make a good resume
Effecive tips for writing a Resume. These PDF's are
available for all VEDA students for free on www.veda-edu.com"
This guide is a helpful resource to any teen working on a resume. Inside there are tips and examples on proper formatting and styling in your document. It also covers how to create a list of references.
4 Things that show will impress employers enough to consider giving you an interview:
1. Research the organization
2. Dress Appropriately
3. A good handshake, eye contact and introduction
4. Your resume
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• Connecting the Dots for Employers – Skills and Accomplishments
• Target Jobs with Customized Resumes
• The Keys to Getting Your Resume Noticed – Get a Higher Ranking!
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Just a game Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?Assignment 3
1. What has made Louis Vuitton's business model successful in the Japanese luxury market?
2. What are the opportunities and challenges for Louis Vuitton in Japan?
3. What are the specifics of the Japanese fashion luxury market?
4. How did Louis Vuitton enter into the Japanese market originally? What were the other entry strategies it adopted later to strengthen its presence?
5. Will Louis Vuitton have any new challenges arise due to the global financial crisis? How does it overcome the new challenges?
2. International Students Job Search
Seminar
Prepare for
Competitively
Julia Montier-Ball, MEd, CI/IDT, MGR. International Student Services, Adjunct Instructor 2017-2018
3. AGENDA In Module I. You will find what it takes to be extra prepared for
Career Fairs, and learn the techniques that will make it most
productive for you!
• Prepare For A Career Fair To Impress Employers
• Common Mistakes Students Make At Career Fairs
• Your Self-introduction
• Connecting The Dots On Resumes
• Practice Activity: “Meeting A Career Fair Employer”
5. Concepts of Skills
Career fair employers expect international
students to demonstrate:
• Applied Knowledge
• Effective Relationships
• Workplace & Soft Skills
• Company Research
• Confident Approach
• Readable Resume
• Concise & Clear
• Self-introduction
6. HEADLINE
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COMMON MISTAKES:
• Knowing nothing about the company
• Speaking too fast, or too long
• Not dressed appropriately
• Not having an excellent resume
• Not presenting a firm handshake with confidence
• Not having good eye contact, looking down
• Not making a good first impression
9. WAYS TO IMPRESS EMPLOYERS
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• Research each organization on your target list
• Ask about the open position & job responsibilities
• Relate to your coop expectations
• Ask questions about the hiring process
• Dress appropriately in business attire
• Good firm handshake & enthusiastic self-
introduction
11. BEST SELF-INTRODUCTIONS
Have for meeting companies on
your target list
Which have a high potential for hiring
International students?
• DO your research on the company list.
• Plan out your goal for talking to
to each company
Link to companies
attending the
career fair
12. Begins with a positive
Greet employers with...
• A friendly Smile
• Eye contact
• Greet w/their first name “Hi, John...”
• A Firm handshake (unless prohibited by religion/culture)
• End with a leading question
Your SELF-INTRODUCTION
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CONFIDENTLY GREET EMPLOYERSShould be
Don’t ramble about personal
life, tell where you are from...do tell them
• Who are you?
• Class, major, clubs, honors?
• Why their company?
• What kind of work you are looking for?
Your SELF-INTRODUCTION
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CONFIDENTLY GREET EMPLOYERSIs a of your achievements
Don’t hesitate to emphasize your strengths...
• Relevant work skills
• Significant school projects
• How working there meets your goals
• Why you are a strong candidate for the job
Your SELF-INTRODUCTION
15. Watch this
example:
Self-introduction
Video (begin at min.
6:34 thru 6:59)
What did she do
well? What didn’t
she do? (write out
answers on Module I.
Discussion Board)
“How to Prepare for a Career Fair and Impress Employers”
16. First Impressions are
Lasting Impressions
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
Find more on
this topic in
Module III.
• Head up, stand tall, eyes front
• Nice smile, Step up to table –
but not too close
• Look at their name tag, greet
employer by his/her first
name with a good handshake
• Then confidently introduce
yourself.
• See example:
“Hi Sandy, I’m a young professional mechanical engineer
that would like to work as your next Hardware Test
Engineering coop hired from UC! I can generate reports…”
17. Practice
Activity:
“Meet an
employer
at a career
fair”
PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE
30 second Self-introduction Review:
• Walk up to greet employer using their
first name
• Mention position of interest
• “I’m…” (use your US name or nickname)
• a great candidate for the (position)
because...”
• Emphasize 2-3 RELEVANT points
• Ask 2 leading questions - to get a response
(role play with a friend and record; upload
to your computer on Module I. Discussion
Board)
19. IMPROVE CAREER FAIR RESUMES:
My skills &
work
experience
Action verbs
Personal
qualities
“Quantify
& Qualify”
your skills & experience
To improve your
career fair
resume, see next
2 slides on how
to:
- use Action Verbs
- Quantify &
Qualify skills
- add Personal
Qualities
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Assist Devise Graduate Mentor Question Succeed
Author Direct Guide Model Rate Suggest
Authorize Discover Halt Modify Realign Summarize
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Budget Display Hire Motivate Recapture Supply
Build Distribute Honor Navigate Receive Support
Calculate Diversify Hypothesize Negotiate Recognize Surpass
Capture Divert Identify Nominate Recommend Synthesize
Catalog Document Illustrate
Champion Double Imagine
Chart Draft Implement
Clarify Drive Import
Classify Earn Improve
Close Edit Improvise
Coach Educate Increase
Collect Effect Influence
Command Elect Inform
Communicate Eliminate Initiate
Compare Emphasize Innovate
Compel Enact Inspect
Compile Encourage Inspire
Complete Endure Install
Compute Energize Institute
Conceive Enforce Instruct
Conclude Engineer Integrate
Conduct Enhance Intensify
Conserve Enlist Interpret
Consolidate Ensure Interview
Construct Establish Introduce
Consult Estimate Invent
Continue Evaluate Inventory
Contract Examine Investigate
Normalize
Observe
Obtain
Offer
Officiate
Operate
Orchestrate
Organize
Orient
Originate
Outsource
Overcome
Oversee
Participate
Perceive
Perfect
Perform
Persuade
Pilot
Pinpoint
Pioneer
Plan
Position
Predict
Reconcile Systematize
Record Tabulate
Recruit Target
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Qualify Nouns
• Completed a 10 page report with
accuracy
• Took on a challenging leadership
role
Examples of Personal Qualities for Resumes
22. Don’t be shy!
Improve your career fair resume
by
Quantifying skills utilized &
outcomes of your work...
• “Organized a product
analysis presentation over 3-
weeks that influenced design
changes.”
23. Show employability
skills
Include how you applied
classroom knowledge and
experience to coop work
activities…
• “Utilized Matlab and critical
thinking skills to test user
interfaces.”
24. Relate ability to
solve problems
Give an example…
• “Built a model within a tight
timeframe; met efficiency
criteria; awarded first place
in the competition.”
25. Show value in
hiring foreign
workersGive examples of Good English
and communication skills...
• Collaborated with other
coops to research polymer-
based nanofibers to improve
gauze pads
26. What sets you
apart?
Initiative to get additional
hands-on/field experience...
• Spent extra time with
biomedical scientists in a
hospital cancer lab
27. Congratulations! You have almost completed the Module I.
To complete, write post your answers to these questions in the Module I. Discussion Board on Bb.
MODULE I. Activity: Review Questions*
1. What are some ways you can impress employers at a career fair?
2. What are some desired employability skills?
3. What goes on a resume to connect the dots for employers?
4. What should you practice to prepare for the career fair?
See next two slides:
- How to earn your
Certificate of Attendance
- Upcoming seminar and
activities schedule
28. After Seminars: Resume Critiques
Appointments: 556-3471 or montiej@ucmail.uc.edu
Go to Blackboard Organization to access PPTs, news, quizzes & resources!
To receive your Certificate of Attendance:
• Attend at least 6 Seminars + 1 activity*
• Or combine completed Modules on Bb + attending Seminars + 2 activities*
• *Activities include: a resume critique, networking event, self-intro video,
mock interview, job search lab, or a follow-up appointment.
29. MOD I.
repeats:
Prepare for the Fair
Seminar
1pm-2pm
Tues. Aug 29
Wed. Aug. 30
Tues. Sept. 5
Wed. Sept. 6
Activities:
Resume Critiques
2pm-3pm
Aug 30 Sept. 7
Sept. 1 Sept. 8
Sept. 5
MOD II.
repeats:
Write Competitive
Resumes
Seminar
1pm-2pm
Fri. Sept. 1
Thur. Sept. 7
Fri. Sept. 8
Activities:
Tailgate Party &
Football Game
4:30-6:30
Aug. 31
MOD III.
repeats:
Perfect Your
Self-Introduction
Seminar
1pm-2pm
Mon. Sept. 11
Tues . Sept. 12
Activities:
Self- Introduction
Practice & Video
Recording
2pm-4pm
Mon. Sept. 11
Tues . Sept. 12
Module I-III Seminar Schedule:
See Blackboard Organization for full schedule, access Modules, Activity details, and more!
Repeating sessions & Activities
Editor's Notes
Handout: Ready Set Go! pgs. 10 ‘What are Employability Skills and Why do they matter? & 11 Top 10 Skills ranked by employers