Enhance Your Career and Employability Skills

Week One: What do you want? – Self Awareness

• What do you need from your career? Identifying and assessing careers values.
• Self-discovery or self-creation – where does your true career identity reside?
• Can you predict what will make you happy? Common problems in anticipating the future.

• Can you speak the secret language of skills? Evidence your achievements in a meaningful way.
• Making yourself instantly attractive. What skills are employers asking for?
• How can you build your skills? Education and experience – what’s the best investment?

• Are you open to opportunities? What behaviours increase your chances of getting lucky breaks?
• Are you using the right methods? Which ways of finding opportunities are right for you?
• Can you create your own job? Intrapreneurship and entrepreneurship.

• Are you using the right medium for the message? CVs, portfolios and other ways of selling yourself.
• Your personal brand. What does your on-line profile say about you?
• Can you decode job descriptions? A step-by-step process for preparing better applications

• Do interviews always have to be nerve-wracking? The secrets to interview confidence.
• Can you deal with bad interviewers? Common interviewer weaknesses and how to use them.
• Can you increase the chances that people will like you? Maximising first impressions.

• Does networking actually work? The benefits of loose ties.
• Are you using online media effectively? How LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter can help your career.
• Is networking just for job hunting? The social workplace and the power of relationships