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Getting Experience and Developing your CV - Coggle Diagram
Getting Experience and Developing your CV
Career determinants
personality
interest
ability
opportunity
Influencing factors => Career/Job
Personality
Personality questionnaire
extroversion vs introversion;
sensing vs intuition:
thinking vs feeling:
judging vs perceiving.
Interests
6 types
Realistic—likes working with animals, tools, machines;
Investigative—likes science, maths, solving problems;
Artistic—likes drama, crafts, music;
Social—likes helping people;
Enterprising—likes leading and persuading people;
Conventional—likes working with numbers, records, is systematic
Skills and knowledge developed through university
Opportunity
Skills and knowledge developed through work experience
Types ofwork experience while you are at university
6 types
university-based;
volunteering
vacation jobs:
part-time jobs during term time;
placements and internships;
studying abroad and placements abroad.
Making initial contact with organizations—your CV
Using LinkedIn
Headline: Make sure that you think very carefully about key words describing yourself? What is your expertise? How can you help others?
Education: According to LinkedIn and completing this section gets
you seven times more profile views
• Summary: This needs to be interesting and to the point.
• Experience: This is where you can add documents (e.g. your CV), photos, links, videos and presentations
Securing a placement—the selection process
Training while on a placement or internship
Induction training
Planned development versus self-directed learning in the workplace
Ongoing appraisals and personal development
Learning new communication skills during your work experience
Networking while at work
Internal Networking
External Networking
visits to customers or clients;
trade exhibitions:
professional bodies' events (e.g. chartered institutes);
sales promotions;
training events;
site visits;
invitations to product launches;
company hospitality events (sports, dinners);
awards ceremonies.