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Introduction to Career Destinations Cheryl Keal Careers Practitioner

Explore support, tips, and workshops to enhance your career prospects. Boost skills, stand out, and excel in job applications. Get valuable guidance and resources. Prepare for interviews, CVs, and more with personalized advice. Develop your career journey with Career Destinations.

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Introduction to Career Destinations Cheryl Keal Careers Practitioner

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  1. Introduction to Career DestinationsCheryl KealCareers Practitioner Career Destinations www.southampton.ac.uk/careers careers@soton.ac.uk

  2. By the end of this session, you will have considered: • Support from Career Destinations • Career Top Tips • Selling your skills • How you can stand out • Further sessions this week • Contact details Image: freedigitalphotos.net

  3. Career Destinations Events Calendar • Skills Workshops and Presentations - Communicating with Confidence, Presentation skills, Improving your Employability for students with disabilities. • Additional skills sessions- Graduate Passport - Community Volunteering- Enterprise- Mentoring • Career Centre Tours • Employer events- Presentations - 1:1 appointments - Mock assessment centres www.southampton.ac.uk/careers

  4. How can Career Destinations help you? • Detailed website with lots of useful information and advice www.southampton.ac.uk/careers/ • Useful videos relating to applications, interviews, assessment centres - Online personality questionnaire - Skills Audit - Working abroad • Vacancies that can be accessed from our Student Portal • Career Destinations Centre – useful resources, e.g. sector specific information, advice on job applications, CVs and psychometric testing

  5. New for 2014 – Drop In Service

  6. Top Tips from Career Destinations 1) Reflect on your skills • Carry out a skills audit • Consider different experiences from which you can draw evidence • Break down each experience into the tasks involved • Draw out the skills • You will need to highlight your skills on your CV and applications • Panopto on skills auditing: • Take time to do this properly!

  7. Health Sciences – Your Skills • Flexible team worker • Organised • Excellent communication skills • Physical and emotional stamina • Responsible • Problem solver • Critically analyse and interpret information/data • Ability to explain complex information clearly • Research and report-writing skills • Innovation and design skills

  8. Top Tips from Career Destinations 2) Research thoroughly • Find out about your specialist area • Work placements • Written research • Contacts • Find out about the Trust/organisation • Beyond the obvious • Company website – media section, annual report

  9. Top Tips from Career Destinations 3) Prepare your CV and Personal Statement • Always tailor your application • Refer to the Person Specification (Essential/Desirable) • Demonstrate your knowledge • Show your enthusiasm • Consider SAKE – Skills, Achievements, Knowledge, Experience • Use the STAR technique (Interview Skills workshop)

  10. Top Tips from Career Destinations 4) Prepare for interview • Keep a copy of your application • Don’t forget the basics – punctuality, dress code, appropriate answers • Prepare examples of each competency required • Revise your specialist area/knowledge of the company or Trust • Revise important theory – Code of Conduct, accountability • Practice interview questions • Be passionate! How will you stand out?

  11. How can you stand out? • Work experience – related/unrelated • Voluntary experience – related/unrelated • Hobbies and interests • Relevant personal examples – be professional - personal experience of healthcare - family experience - inspiration to work in the field • Wider interests – e.g. travel, gap year, languages, cultural awareness/empathy

  12. Volunteering, who’s in? • Benefit your community and career • Website promotes local and national groups • Sign up to Volunteering group • Newsletters • 150+ Links • Latest opportunities

  13. Student Enterprise

  14. Further sessions this week • Careers-related workshops, presentations and talks • Support with CV writing, Interview Skills and Action Planning • Insight into a variety of career opportunities • Be open minded - first post or in the future?

  15. After you graduate… Career Destinations is available to you indefinitely after you complete your studies

  16. Career Destinations Building 37, Highfield Campus www.southampton.ac.uk/careers careers@southampton.ac.uk +44 (0)23 8059 3501 UoS_CareerDestinations UoS_Careers

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