Employers are looking for certain key skills when hiring. These include: communication (70-80% of employers say it's important), listening skills, teamwork skills, problem solving abilities, and written communication skills. Critical thinking, collaboration, communication and creativity (the "4Cs") are also important transferable skills sought by employers. Qualities like reliability, a positive attitude, honesty and loyalty are also valued. Employers use interviews to determine if a candidate has these skills and would be a good fit for their workplace.
My presentation for the NRF Conference in Dublin.
Covers Digital Marketing including changes in Google and what it means for seo and search. How to understand your target persona and develop a content and social strategy that will help you find and connect with candidates.
10 common resume mistakes that make recruiters go nutsArthur Gopak
When I was still a business student, I always found the resume and career preparation courses amusing. Really, isn't it common sense?
Sadly, common sense is not a common policy. I realized this after I hired new colleagues on behalf of companies I worked for and also for my own company.
Here are the 10 most common resume mistakes that make recruiters go nuts. In fact, not only recruiters but your potential bosses and colleagues.
Would you like to know how to succeed in an interview but don't know where to start? Are you getting ready for an assessment centre or a telephone interview and wonder what to prepare for?
This presentation is for all the students and graduates who are currently battling the job hunt, be it an internship, placement or a graduate role. Find the best tips, hints and lessons learnt and get to know some useful resources for your preparation.
Good luck all with your interviews and shine!
Natalia
These job hacks can only help you with step up on the ladder. To reach the peak of your success, you have to hustle.
For more information, watch my Youtube Video by clicking the link: https://youtu.be/uVjN0guf7BY
ICT School - How to write a better resume John Clegg
This is the Slides to the "How to write a better resume" talk that was delivered to the ICT Graduate school in Wellington.
This shows the fundamentals around good CV structure and how to write content for your CV
My presentation for the NRF Conference in Dublin.
Covers Digital Marketing including changes in Google and what it means for seo and search. How to understand your target persona and develop a content and social strategy that will help you find and connect with candidates.
10 common resume mistakes that make recruiters go nutsArthur Gopak
When I was still a business student, I always found the resume and career preparation courses amusing. Really, isn't it common sense?
Sadly, common sense is not a common policy. I realized this after I hired new colleagues on behalf of companies I worked for and also for my own company.
Here are the 10 most common resume mistakes that make recruiters go nuts. In fact, not only recruiters but your potential bosses and colleagues.
Would you like to know how to succeed in an interview but don't know where to start? Are you getting ready for an assessment centre or a telephone interview and wonder what to prepare for?
This presentation is for all the students and graduates who are currently battling the job hunt, be it an internship, placement or a graduate role. Find the best tips, hints and lessons learnt and get to know some useful resources for your preparation.
Good luck all with your interviews and shine!
Natalia
These job hacks can only help you with step up on the ladder. To reach the peak of your success, you have to hustle.
For more information, watch my Youtube Video by clicking the link: https://youtu.be/uVjN0guf7BY
ICT School - How to write a better resume John Clegg
This is the Slides to the "How to write a better resume" talk that was delivered to the ICT Graduate school in Wellington.
This shows the fundamentals around good CV structure and how to write content for your CV
Your UX Career Path: In-house, agency, both or neither?Fell Swoop LLC
With User Experience designers in such high demand, those entering the field today have more choices than ever before. There’s no single right way to embark on your journey, but many before you have uncovered a path to success, so why not learn from them? Matt Dente has shared insights from surveys and interviews with UX professionals in this presentation. If you’re planning your first step in a career, or considering your next move, this presentation will provide insights that will help you make the right choices for your own path.
How to prepare your resume for the interviews!Tarek Alabd
How to prepare your resume for the interviews!
Choosing the company
Resumes (components, tips & tricks)
Before the interview
During the interview
After the interview
Webinar Deck: 5 Reasons Why Job Seekers Abandon Your ApplicationFindly
You spend a lot of time and resources generating interest in your jobs. You advertise open roles, optimize your career site, and write thoughtful job descriptions. Candidates click, they start filling out an application and then… nothing.
View Findly's presentation to learn the 5 reasons that would cause a job seeker to start but fail to complete a job application. (The industry averages 90 percent drop off.)
Great Talks Start with Great Proposals: An IA Summit Virtual WebinarRuss U
The IA Summit and User Interface Engineering (UIE) are teaming up to present a free webinar about creating great presentation proposals.
Learn how to organize proposals in the way the most successful conference creators like to see. Our experts will discuss how to generate presentation ideas, choose a topic, and write a compelling abstract. They’ll also have tips specific to submitting a session proposal for the 2014 IA Summit.
First-hand insight from experienced speakers
UIE’s Adam Churchill will be our webinar host. He’ll be joined by two people with deep experience in both public speaking and organizing events:
Samantha Starmer
Samantha Starmer is Vice President of Customer Experience for Razorfish’s national Commerce and Content practice. Prior to Razorfish, Samantha was Director of Customer Experience at REI, a leading national outdoor retail co-op.
Samantha has led both workshops and presentations at the IA Summit, including full-day workshops on design for cross-channel experiences in 2011 and 2012. She is the coauthor of the forthcoming “Speaker Camp.”
Russ Unger
Russ is the Experience Design Director for GE Capital Americas. He’s also the coauthor of “A Project Guide to UX Design”, “Designing the Conversation”, and the upcoming “Speaker Camp”.
Russ’s name has been on a great many IA Summit programs, including the popular career workshop he has led for the last several years.
Presented by User Interface Engineering
User Interface Engineering is a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in web site and product usability. With in-depth research findings based on user observation, UIE empowers development teams to create usable web sites that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. UIE was founded 25 years ago by Jared M. Spool and has developed into the largest organization of its kind in the world.
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In this session, attendee’s will learn:
Creating a product content style guide
Connecting content through the product ecosystem
Refining your product creation process
Influencing and content decisions across the organization
Working in an agile environment with few resources
Many product people overlook the importance of providing their users with a positive first-time experience—or they just don’t know how. As a result, signups never become customers. But you can improve your onboarding experience and turn signups into sales (we’ll show you how).
In this workshop, you'll learn:
1. Why it's important to provide users with a positive first time experience
2. Common mistakes people make that cause them to lose users in the signup stage
3. Techniques to get users to come back and convert to paying customers
4. How to persuade your team to prioritize user onboarding
How To Build Your Career As A Freelancer?Aamir Qutub
Freelancing is equal parts positive and negative. You just have to decide if you’re willing to take the risk that almost always accompanies it.
For more information, watch my Youtube Video by clicking the link: https://youtu.be/qxE9E45bdQE
Benjamin Curry - Becoming a Voice for Your Leadership TeamLavaConConference
In this session attendees will learn:
How to build trust with executives
How to partner with company leaders to give voice to their vision and goals
How two infrastructure writers at Salesforce followed those steps to keep employees informed about recent plans and developments—and get them excited about what the future might hold
How To Design Customer Training For People Who Don't Think They Need ItServiceRocket
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Finding a CTO and other technical talents (for Startups) - Interactive Cologn...Nils Zündorf
It's hard to find fitting technical talents for you company. For young Startups it's even harder - not providing big salarys or a secure future. But small teams have other benefits!
Understand who you need. Understand whats going on in their heads. How to attract them. Where to find them.
Getting into UX: How to take your first steps to a career in user experiencePhil Barrett
Want to work in UX but can't get a job without experience? Here are a few ideas about how to break into the UX business, make a portfolio, win at your interview and design assessment - and whether UX is the right career for you. You can start doing UX in the job you already have, then build a portfolio from that.
Your UX Career Path: In-house, agency, both or neither?Fell Swoop LLC
With User Experience designers in such high demand, those entering the field today have more choices than ever before. There’s no single right way to embark on your journey, but many before you have uncovered a path to success, so why not learn from them? Matt Dente has shared insights from surveys and interviews with UX professionals in this presentation. If you’re planning your first step in a career, or considering your next move, this presentation will provide insights that will help you make the right choices for your own path.
How to prepare your resume for the interviews!Tarek Alabd
How to prepare your resume for the interviews!
Choosing the company
Resumes (components, tips & tricks)
Before the interview
During the interview
After the interview
Webinar Deck: 5 Reasons Why Job Seekers Abandon Your ApplicationFindly
You spend a lot of time and resources generating interest in your jobs. You advertise open roles, optimize your career site, and write thoughtful job descriptions. Candidates click, they start filling out an application and then… nothing.
View Findly's presentation to learn the 5 reasons that would cause a job seeker to start but fail to complete a job application. (The industry averages 90 percent drop off.)
Great Talks Start with Great Proposals: An IA Summit Virtual WebinarRuss U
The IA Summit and User Interface Engineering (UIE) are teaming up to present a free webinar about creating great presentation proposals.
Learn how to organize proposals in the way the most successful conference creators like to see. Our experts will discuss how to generate presentation ideas, choose a topic, and write a compelling abstract. They’ll also have tips specific to submitting a session proposal for the 2014 IA Summit.
First-hand insight from experienced speakers
UIE’s Adam Churchill will be our webinar host. He’ll be joined by two people with deep experience in both public speaking and organizing events:
Samantha Starmer
Samantha Starmer is Vice President of Customer Experience for Razorfish’s national Commerce and Content practice. Prior to Razorfish, Samantha was Director of Customer Experience at REI, a leading national outdoor retail co-op.
Samantha has led both workshops and presentations at the IA Summit, including full-day workshops on design for cross-channel experiences in 2011 and 2012. She is the coauthor of the forthcoming “Speaker Camp.”
Russ Unger
Russ is the Experience Design Director for GE Capital Americas. He’s also the coauthor of “A Project Guide to UX Design”, “Designing the Conversation”, and the upcoming “Speaker Camp”.
Russ’s name has been on a great many IA Summit programs, including the popular career workshop he has led for the last several years.
Presented by User Interface Engineering
User Interface Engineering is a leading research, training, and consulting firm specializing in web site and product usability. With in-depth research findings based on user observation, UIE empowers development teams to create usable web sites that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty. UIE was founded 25 years ago by Jared M. Spool and has developed into the largest organization of its kind in the world.
Building a Unified Product Content Strategy | Quentin DietrichLavaConConference
In this session, you’ll learn about the challenges and victories as we worked to build a unified product content practice at an enterprise software company. We took a help documentation team, and from there grew the content practice to influence, drive, and unify content throughout the entire product ecosystem. Many times, it can be hard to know where to start. We’ll share the steps we took and the lessons learned as we reimagined our content practice.
In this session, attendee’s will learn:
Creating a product content style guide
Connecting content through the product ecosystem
Refining your product creation process
Influencing and content decisions across the organization
Working in an agile environment with few resources
Many product people overlook the importance of providing their users with a positive first-time experience—or they just don’t know how. As a result, signups never become customers. But you can improve your onboarding experience and turn signups into sales (we’ll show you how).
In this workshop, you'll learn:
1. Why it's important to provide users with a positive first time experience
2. Common mistakes people make that cause them to lose users in the signup stage
3. Techniques to get users to come back and convert to paying customers
4. How to persuade your team to prioritize user onboarding
How To Build Your Career As A Freelancer?Aamir Qutub
Freelancing is equal parts positive and negative. You just have to decide if you’re willing to take the risk that almost always accompanies it.
For more information, watch my Youtube Video by clicking the link: https://youtu.be/qxE9E45bdQE
Benjamin Curry - Becoming a Voice for Your Leadership TeamLavaConConference
In this session attendees will learn:
How to build trust with executives
How to partner with company leaders to give voice to their vision and goals
How two infrastructure writers at Salesforce followed those steps to keep employees informed about recent plans and developments—and get them excited about what the future might hold
How To Design Customer Training For People Who Don't Think They Need ItServiceRocket
In this webinar, Bill Cushard from ServiceRocket sits down with Peter Bell from GitHub to discuss how training can be designed and delivered for customers who do not think they need training.
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It's hard to find fitting technical talents for you company. For young Startups it's even harder - not providing big salarys or a secure future. But small teams have other benefits!
Understand who you need. Understand whats going on in their heads. How to attract them. Where to find them.
Getting into UX: How to take your first steps to a career in user experiencePhil Barrett
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Ready for Work: 7 Ways to Better Prepare Millennials for WorkBentley University
How can we better prepare millennials for the workforce? The U.S. unemployment rate for people aged 20 to 24 is nearly twice that of those aged 25 to 34, according to the bureau of labor statistics. While there’s been plenty of talk about the challenges millennials face as they enter the workforce, there’s been less discussion of how to actually fix the problem. In an attempt to move this conversation forward, Bentley University asked leaders in higher education and business how they would solve it. The outcome of those conversations, supported by survey research conducted by Bentley and KRC Research, is Bentley’s “Ready for Work: 7 Ways to Better Prepare Millennials for the Workplace.”
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Here are 13 brochure template designs you can use to start growing your business today.
Work Ready Skills and Planning Your Career is a new subject taught online to 110 second year undergraduate students across four faculties and five campuses. The subject content was published in the LMS, with additional technologies being employed to further engage students, such as building a webfolio in PebblePad and the use of Blackboard Collaborate to hold fortnightly webinars. Students were encouraged to approach the subject as a self-paced one, with assessment tasks and webinars scheduled in such a way as to provide structure to enable completion of the learning activities on time. In this presentation, we will describe the design of the subject and reflect on the effectiveness of the teaching and learning activities and technologies used. We will also discuss the preliminary results of a pilot study measuring the Career Decision Self-Efficacy (CDSE) of students at the start and end of semester. Career Decision Self-Efficacy has been used in previous studies as a measure of the effectiveness of career development interventions.
Company leadership and hiring managers are only as great as the team they build. So, it’s no surprise that a core responsibility of all group managers is to design and hire top talent for their organization. But, in order to be effective at hiring and building a grade-A team, managers need to know what questions to ask during the initial interview stages. By asking candidates strategic interview questions, hiring managers can quickly identify the best job candidates or potential employees.
Cory Eustice, Talent Director at Hart, reveals ways the most effective leaders interview candidates to identify those great hires.
You’ll learn:
*The interview process most leaders and managers take
*The art and science to developing custom and strategic interview questions based on the role
*What to look for in the interview answers received from candidates
*The top interview questions CEOs ask candidates
See more upcoming LinkedIn Talent Solutions webinars: https://lnkd.in/gjfYMp9
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- How to enhance your social profiles and get noticed
- Best practices for a phone or video interview
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This session covers pitching, CVs, Github, Networks, Portfolio, Blogging, Cover Letter
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Ready for work
1. Ready for work? What job skills are employers looking for?
Learning objectives:
Determine which skills and qualities are necessary for employability
Decide which are most valued by employers
Make the connection that these skills and qualities are looked for during
the application process because they are required in the workplace
Martin Cooke 27 Aug 2015
2. Ready for work? What job skills are employers looking for?
the main resources can be found on the padlet
Padlet
http://padlet.com/wall/ejk7vn9flqpr
3. HOT jobs, COLD jobs
Do you think this job is growing or declining ?
Drag each job to the HOT jobs, COLD jobs boxes.
Any you are not sure about leave where they are – you still get feedback.
Admin assistant Printer
Forensic analyst Recycling Officer
Engineer social media executive
Factory worker Social worker
Fighter pilot Supermarket checkout
Healthcare nurse Theme park attendant
Legal professional Travel information advisor
Personal trainer Physics teacher
5. Ready for work? What job skills are employers looking for?
http://ed.ted.com/on/pk706erm
Video
Watch the video - one minute
Answer the questions
6. What the employer is looking for
• to get to know you
• to find out about your personality, qualities and skills
• to see if you would fit in
What are you looking for? Think of one thing and put it in chat
7. you have started your own business
eg web design, testing computer games, baby sitting
It is so successful you want someone to work with you.
Group X
list the qualities/ attitudes you will expect from your employee
Group Y
list things a poor employee might do that would let you down
compare lists and summarise qualities.
10. 4Cs
communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking
All employability skills will be included somewhere in the 4 Cs
can you map the skills to the 4 Cs ? Go to next slide
reliability
answering the telephone
teamwork
interviews
showcasing and CVs
attitude
new ideas
commercial know-how
loyalty
honesty
travel + independence skills
create communicate
collaborate
critical
thinking
12. Interview skills
Good v Bad Interview
http://ed.ted.com/on/E1i6ibnr
Watch the video and answer the questions
13. Interview preparation skills
• Know when and where it is
• Plan your journey and timings
• Research the job and the company
• Plan some good answers
• Have a smart outfit ready and clean
• Make sure you’re clean and neat
• Read your CV
• Be positive and show you’re interested
Can you think of one more item that you could be thinking about?
Type your idea into chat.
14. How would you show an employer you have this skill?
Communication and literacy
Speak up!
join in with discussions
express your opinions thoughtfully
but
also listen to what others have to say.
If you’ve done a presentation at college,
explain how you presented it and why.
15. http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
How to answer the telephone
using the UP-GOER5 text editor
Task: Can you explain how to answer the telephone
using only the 1000 most used words?
You are writing for learners with learning difficulties. Make your activity
easy read with this text editor.
You can copy paste the results and then add any words you feel you must
have. It will encourage you to restrict your vocabulary but add any
vocabulary you feel is necessary to make it more easy to understand.
You might also want to add images to the finished resource.
Use any software you wish: docs, blogs, storyboard, presentation etc
16. How would you show an employer you have this skill?
Team work
Have you taken part in a
• team sport
• drama production
• Duke of Edinburgh
• Summer camp
• some other activity ?
Show how you can get on well with others.
Do you listen to what people say?
Say clearly what you think
17. Team work: Which type are you?
http://doodle.com/xa7sgbwttefnduey
Leader Arguer
Comic Smoother
Listener ?
You might be more than one. Discuss with your neighbour.
What do they think? Now how do you feel?
19. Duke of Edinburgh Award Independence skills
Put the boxes in the correct order by dragging the boxes to the correct place.
Expedition
Decide your goals
Celebrate and showcase
Meet team to plan
Assessor makes report
Choose your activities
Map reading session
Upload photos to website
Decide your goals
20. How would you show an employer you have this skill?
online presence
Have you Googled your name?
What if the employer were to do the same?
Think about what you put up on Facebook.
Do you know how to change the privacy settings?
Explain to someone with learning difficulties what to do.
21. Using your gumption
Difficult decisions. Be careful. Think before you speak.
Discretion: avoid causing offence or revealing confidential information.
"she knew she could rely on his discretion"
synonyms: circumspection, care, carefulness, caution, wariness
decide what should be done in a these two situations:
You dont do what you are told
BUT
Must use your initiative
Get on well with people
BUT
Don’t chat at work
Discuss with your neighbour.
Get your
brain in gear
before opening
your mouth
22. Access You Tube http://accessyoutube.org.uk/
If you are using YouTube why not try this easy search site.
Like Google search it has no distractions and the results are all visual.
Group Y
they don’t turn up for work when they don’t feel like it
they are often off sick
they arrive late
they are rude or indifferent to customers
their appearance and manner are not professional
they don’t take pride in the job and make silly/ unnecessary mistakes
they cheat on you – perhaps use your goods, make telephone calls etc
they don’t do what they are told
they don’t show any initiative
they won’t be flexible – eg helping out/ staying a little longer when unexpectedly busy
they argue with you!
they don’t learn what you tell them
they complain when you give them more work
they are miserable rather than cheerful
you just don’t get on well together
The qualities you want your employee to possess:
Reliability
Dependability
Honesty
Did you come up with any new words or characteristics?
• work together in pairs or groups of 4 to discuss each word and identify an example of behaviour that demonstrates that
attribute, eg what behaviour might someone display which is typical of a caring person?
• pick one word discussed and present your thoughts to the class.
Identify which behaviours are typical of you or of each other if you know each other well.
Why do you think you’d be good in this role?
Group Y
they don’t turn up for work when they don’t feel like it
they are often off sick
they arrive late
they are rude or indifferent to customers
their appearance and manner are not professional
they don’t take pride in the job and make silly/ unnecessary mistakes
they cheat on you – perhaps use your goods, make telephone calls etc
they don’t do what they are told
they don’t show any initiative
they won’t be flexible – eg helping out/ staying a little longer when unexpectedly busy
they argue with you!
they don’t learn what you tell them
they complain when you give them more work
they are miserable rather than cheerful
you just don’t get on well together
The qualities you want your employee to possess:
Reliability
Dependability
Honesty