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Projecting a professional image – help for ECS students

Projecting a professional image – help for ECS students. 8.30 – 18.00 Mon-Fri (until 15.3.13). Career Destinations, Bldg 37 023 8059 3501 www.southampton.ac.uk/careers Diana Fitch djf4@soton.ac.uk. Career Destinations, Bldg 37. Today. Employability What it means for you And Employers

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Projecting a professional image – help for ECS students

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  1. Projecting a professional image – help for ECS students 8.30 – 18.00 Mon-Fri (until 15.3.13) Career Destinations, Bldg 37 023 8059 3501 www.southampton.ac.uk/careers Diana Fitch djf4@soton.ac.uk Career Destinations, Bldg 37

  2. Today • Employability • What it means for you • And Employers • Career Destinations • How we can help • Building up your professional image

  3. Employability – • What does it mean? • Whose responsibility? • Graduate Destinations and earnings? • ECS: Empl 68% Study = 9% Unempl 11% Pay £11k- £40k • UK IT: Empl 64.2% Study = 9% Unempl 13.9% Pay £21,490 • UK all subjects Unempl = 8.6% Pay £19,935

  4. What do employers want? • A good degree • And? • Someone who has got involved • Someone who looks outwards • Someone who has focus • Work Experience – “the missing ingredient in undergraduate education” • Someone who has thought about what they have to offer • Skills NB! These will also give YOU the EVIDENCE that you need for a good CV

  5. Employability Skills knowledge of computer systems and technologies; technical competency; the ability to communicate with clients, colleagues and management to explain complex issues clearly and concisely; a meticulous and organised approach to work; a logical, analytical and creative approach to problems; thoroughness and attention to detail; business and commercial awareness; the ability to work both in a team and alone and to manage your own workload; *Abridged from Prospects.ac.uk Attributes Leadership, interpersonal, and problem solving skills Self-motivated, detail-oriented, efficient Ability to prioritise, team player, reliable, ability to multi-task career motivation and a willingness to continue to further your knowledge and skills; an ability to learn new skills and technologies quickly; an awareness of current issues affecting the industry and its technologies. Systems Developer* Indeed.com 2010 5

  6. Characteristics of the world of work • Globalisation 24/7 BRICS • Part-time language courses?http://www.southampton.ac.uk/cls/ • The power of the customer • Flatter structures • Multi-skilling and re-skilling of the workforce • Change is the only constant • Technology

  7. Industry Intelligence • Industry • Technology contributes 12% to UK GDP or £140billion pa • Times Top 100 Graduate Employers 2012 No. 1 – PwC, No. 2 – Deloitte, No. 11 – Accenture, No. 14 Google • Guardian Top 300 – IT employers Google, Apple, Microsoft, IBM, MI6, Intel, Sony, MI5, BT, Accenture • Careers Fairs • ECS Fair in February - 79 stands – 29 new companies • IT, Science and Engineering Fair in October • Student publications • Guardian UK 300, Times Top 100, TARGETjobs IT & Technology 7

  8. E-skills news digest to 15.2.2013 https://www.e-skills.com/news-and-events/ • IT skills shortage hampers UK response to Cyber threats • ITPRO identifies top 15 emerging technology trends - big impacts by 2018http://www.itpro.co.uk/645616/forrester-identifies-top-15-emerging-tech-trends# • ‘digital disruption’ • Industry readiness • E-skills ‘Mentoring March’ –programme • Wipro o offer 9 month graduate internship • Big Data Analytics Report • Staff growth rate forecast at 18% pa (5 yr), all IT 2.5% pa • REC & KPMG put demand for IT staff in second place www.computerworlduk.com • VMware has taken on 6700 staff in 3 years, but shedding 900 • Computer Weekly 500 Club – “everybody is scrambling for talent”http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/CW500-Skills-shortages-loom-as-development-comes-back-in-house

  9. Careers information Industry sectors/job roles Jobs/Work Experience/summer options Recruitment process Part-time work Careers Events Calendar Workshops, talks, employer events Stand out from the crowd Volunteering, Mentoring Student Enterprise www.southampton.ac.uk/careers 023 8059 3501 Introducing Career Destinations

  10. www.southampton.ac.uk/careers • + Careers appointments for ECS students

  11. www.southampton.ac.uk/careers/subject/ecs Career Destinations www.southampton.ac.uk/careers/international www.southampton.ac.uk/studententerprise

  12. www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/careers + Emails from Joyce Lewis 12

  13. Get involved • ECSS, IEEE • Committee, Events, Speakers, workshops • ECSwomen and Theano – meetings & events • Robogals.org – ECS group forming – looking for helpers • SUSU – societies, Fish on Toast, Enactus Southampton • Open days, eg Intel, Vodaphone, JP Morgan, IBM . . . . • https://devecs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ • Competitions

  14. What is the Graduate Passport? • Achievement record, recognising and rewarding students like you, for activities not accredited to your course. • Provides a supportive and flexible framework to enhance your graduate attributes/employability skills. • Throughout your time at University. • Points based programme www.southampton.ac.uk/careers/passport

  15. “Show some focus, know what you want to obtain” Focus? • Computer Weekly advice: • http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/itworks/2012/11/university-as-a-springboard-to.html

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