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Confidence Building Recognising Your Skills

Confidence Building Recognising Your Skills. Recap: Past Present Future Happened Now Could happen Positive things You can You can do aim for Small steps?? Bigger steps??. Yes OR No??. I have a tendency underestimate myself

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Confidence Building Recognising Your Skills

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  1. Confidence BuildingRecognising Your Skills Recap: Past Present Future Happened Now Could happen Positive things You can You can do aim for Small steps?? Bigger steps??

  2. Yes OR No?? • I have a tendency underestimate myself • I find it difficult to determine my skills • I don’t like talking about my skills • I am not sure what skills would be useful for confidence • I get skills and attributes mixed up • What is the difference??

  3. Confidence Buildingand your skills • Activity: • Think back to the list of (bigger) things you might do to enhance confidence • What skills / personal attributes will help? • Maybe relate to getting a job?

  4. What are the typical skills • Skills include: • Communication Teamwork • Numeracy Problem solving • I.T. Organisational skills • Personal Qualities include: • Willing to learn Motivated • Honest Hard working • Friendly Reliable • You don’t need ALL of these do you?

  5. The STARIs all about identifying your skills & attributes • Situation: • Something you were involved with that had a positive outcome. • Task: • Something you did to deal with the situation. • Action: • Particular actions involved in carrying out the task. • Result: • The outcomes that resulted from your actions.

  6. STAR Example • Situation:Walked the Pennine Way (2010) with friends • Task:To get from point to point safely and on time • Action(s): • Research and then plan start / stop places / dates • Decide on equipment / get it all ready • Learn map reading / how to use a compass • Book Youth Hostels • Walk and ensure our safety …… • Result:Arrived safe and well and proud …. • What skills are evident?????

  7. The STAR Activity • Use the STAR activity to identify a: • Situation, • Task, • Set of Activities, • Result, • that illustrates a set of skills/ attributes that you are proud of.

  8. The STARand your skills • Will someone volunteer an example? • Note: • Different situations help identify different skills • Using the STAR is quite difficult • You need to practice and keep trying • Don’t give up • It is valuable as we will see later

  9. STARAnother Example • Situation: • Introduce infection control monitoring within a hospital • Task: • To raise standards • Actions: • Go on a course Join an infection control team • Act as a link person Create a training schedule • Train various groups Monitor events • Keep records Feedback results • Results:Improved standards and awareness

  10. Why the STAR is useful • Helps us: • Identify our skills • Things we may not realise we have • Justify our identification • Provides hard evidence of attainment of a skill • Think more positively about ourselves • I’m proud of having this skills • Create a CV • Formal job application

  11. Confidenceand your skills • Activity: • As fast as you can: • List as many of your own skills as you can • List as many of your personal attributes as you can

  12. Conclusion • Are you clearer about your own skills? • Would you like help with a CV? • Any Questions

  13. The CVCurriculum Vitae • What is a CV?

  14. The CVCurriculum Vitae • What is a CV? • A summary of useful (to an employer) things about you • What things? • Who you are • Contact details • Educational Background • Work experience • SKILLS (pertinent to the job) • Interests • Referees

  15. Employers and the CV • Employers know what they want • What skills / attributes they are looking for • Look carefully at the job as specified • Who they will interview • Selecting from CVs • What skills / attributes are they looking for?

  16. Can you remember? • Skills include: • Communication Teamwork • Numeracy Problem solving • I.T. Organisational skills • Personal Qualities include: • Willing to learn Motivated • Honest Hard working • Friendly Reliable

  17. Writing a CV • Two types: • Traditional • Skill based • SEE THE TWO EXAMPLES • Some tips: • 2 pages only • Well structured / clear headings • Neat layout • No spelling mistakes • Must relate to job / show yourself to best

  18. The STAR and the CV • How can the STAR help you to create a skills based CV?

  19. The Covering Letter • Often accompanies the CV • Tips: • Address to a particular person • NOT Dear Sir or Madam • Keep to one page • Neat and no spelling mistakes • About 3 / 4 paragraphs • State: • The job you are applying for (where advertised) • Why you are interested • Key skills that you have (and draw attention to your CV)

  20. Your address The dateEmployers address The Job Reference (Title /Code) Dear Mr Hind I am applying for the post of XXXX, as advertised in the XXX, on May 2nd 2011. I am particularly interested in this post because it provides an opportunity to xxxxxxx. I know that your company invests well in its staff and I am very keen to participate in activities such as xxxxx I am a very hard working person with a variety of skills appropriate to the post. For example I can xxxxx. See my CV for additional information. I hope that you find my skills and experience interesting and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future. Yours Sincerely xxxx

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