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Crafting Your Career: Workshop on Job Search Strategies

Explore the essence of careers, including self-assessment, resume writing, cover letters, and interview preparation. Uncover your skills, values, and goals through engaging activities. Define success, personal branding, and job search tactics. Enhance your career development journey!

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Crafting Your Career: Workshop on Job Search Strategies

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  1. Session 1: Finding Your Career Fit Session 2: Writing Resumes Session 3: Writing Cover Letters/Work Search Strategies Session 4: All About Interviews Hanson Career Workshop

  2. What is a career? • Long term, lifelong pursuit • Not just a job. • Combination of your skills, interests, values, and previous experience • Careers are based on goals. • Careers change (almost all the time!)

  3. My career

  4. My career

  5. How do I build my career? Ask yourselves these questions: What are the things I like? What are my passions? What are my strengths? Who are my role models? What have I done before? Share with your partner!

  6. Activity: Coat-of-Arms A coat-of-arms represents the values and identity of knights, or a country. • Coat-of-Arms of Canada • Symbols of first immigrants’ nationalities • England, France, Scotland, Ireland, Wales • Motto: A mariusque ad mare (From sea to sea)

  7. Designing your personal coat-of-arms Values Goals Achievements Strengths 3 adjectives to describe yourself Role models motto

  8. Your coat-of-arms Symbolizes your identity Illustration of your values, your characteristics – what makes you unique. • How does this relate to your career? • You are aware of your skills. You are aware of what matters to you as you explore your career options. • Starting point of your journey in career searching.

  9. Activity: Career Life Statement What is important to your career and life? Useful when you write your resume/cover letter. • 2. Strengths • What are you good at? • What skills do you have that employers might want? • 3. Assets • What do you have that will make employers want you? • Achievements awards and previous experience • 5. Influences • Who are your role models? • Why are they your role models? What influence did they have on you? • 1. Desires • What do you want out of your career? (Goals) • Stability, money, fame, challenge, competition • 4. Qualities • What are you like? Your character? • Open, charismatic, dependable, organized, focused

  10. Activity: Career Life Statement I am a Psychology graduate with a minor in French from Simon Fraser University. In my academic experience, I have learned that my passion lies in service and learning. I have finished many research-intensive courses which taught me how to interpret themes from complex information. As a result, I thrive in environments that are intellectually stimulating and engaging. My professional experience includes being a conversation coach for overseas students in my university and teaching English in an international school in Jiaxing, China. My work experience, therefore, has taught me to appreciate a rich cultural diversity in the field of international education.

  11. Defining Success How do you define success? Money? Service? Growth? What are your primary motivations? Education? Fame? Food for thought: What do you want people to remember you for when you die?

  12. Personal Branding • What makes Apple, Burberry and Mercedes-Benz so famous? • Make your Personal Branding statement • Social Media: key to managing your personal brand online. • Keep your Social Media accounts clean!! Present yourself well! Personal Branding is the process of managing and optimizing the way you present yourself to others.

  13. Personal Branding • Create a tagline that is unique to yourself. • Think of it as a headline for the brand, “You” • LinkedIn : 40 – 50 million professionals. • Connections matter.

  14. Personal branding statement

  15. Personal Branding:Stephanie Wiriahardja • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro0RUWnNBK4

  16. Take Action: Finding Work Volunteering

  17. My career A process repeating itself My personal experience!

  18. THANK YOU! Session 2: Writing a resume Hanson International Academy

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