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Brand You What’s So Special About You?

Brand You What’s So Special About You?. Paul Gaunt Senior Careers Adviser Liverpool Hope University College. Linguistic Interpersonal Intrapersonal Bodily-Kinaesthetic. Logical-Mathematical Visual-Spatial Musical Naturalistic. Kinds of Intelligence HOWARD GARDNER. Lighting Fireworks.

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Brand You What’s So Special About You?

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  1. Brand YouWhat’s So Special About You? Paul Gaunt Senior Careers Adviser Liverpool Hope University College

  2. Linguistic Interpersonal Intrapersonal Bodily-Kinaesthetic Logical-Mathematical Visual-Spatial Musical Naturalistic Kinds of IntelligenceHOWARD GARDNER

  3. Lighting Fireworks “I think that most people have more fireworks in them than we give them credit for” TOM PETERS

  4. “You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not”. Isabel Allende

  5. Ask yourself 5 simple questions 1 WHERE AM I NOW? 2 5 HOW CAN I KEEP IMPROVING? WHERE DO I WANT TO BE? 4 3 WHAT SUPPORT DO I NEED? HOW DO I GET THERE?

  6. The 3m Test • Mission – What values, skills, tasks are most important to you. What is your purpose? • Models – Who are the people who you admire, who have made a difference to you? • Mirror – When you reflect on your self, what gives you pride, what would you change?

  7. Employers Top Five Skills1998 Survey • 1 Willingness to Learn • 2 Commitment • 3 Dependability / Reliability • 4 Self-Motivation • 5 Teamwork

  8. Learning to Learn Deadlines / Time Management Group work Objectivity/Reason Information Skills Research Analysis Presentation Subject-Specific Performance Statistics I.T. Transferable Skills throughAcademic Study

  9. Winning CVs and Application Forms

  10. CV – Your Sales Document • Features vs. Benefits • Achievements / Skills • Active Verbs –facilitated, enabled, developed, refined, negotiated.

  11. CV – Three Rs • Recency • Relevance • Readability

  12. CV Errors • Hope to hear from your shorty • I was responsible for every aspect of the business right up to its bankruptcy • I am in good health but have minor allergies to house cats and Mongolian sheep • The company made me a scapegoat – just like my previous three employers • Responsibility makes me nervous

  13. Practical numeracy Team Work Communication Customer Service Product Knowledge Flexibility (unsocial hours) Responsibility (money, premises) Tact and Diplomacy Working under Pressure Dealing with boredom! “ I only worked in a shop”

  14. The First Four Minutes Secrets of Successful Interviews

  15. Body Language • If your body language is NEGATIVE this will have a detrimental effect on how people perceive what you are actually saying. • Negative body language can cancel out positive verbal messages! • Body language is VERY important.

  16. 1-to-1 Communication Total Message • VISUALS – Non-verbal signs 55% • VERBALS – What you say 7% • VOCALS – How you say it 38%

  17. The 3 Ps of Interviews • Preparation • Positive • Participation

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