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Reflexi
Your professional
brand
Look at the image in the reflection section above and discuss with your classmates the importance of
social media in finding a job.
Is it important or not?
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Beef up your LinkedIn network. You need at least 50 connections for LinkedIn to be truly effective. Take
advantage of the site's search capabilities to locate people in your college alumni network as well as former coworkers, colleagues and friends. "Start with your low-hanging fruit and build out from there," Williams says. Don't
forget to share frequently by posting helpful articles, links and updates on LinkedIn. Your connections will
appreciate it - and they'll be more likely to refer you if they hear of a job opening at work.
Source: http://www.forbes.com/sites/nextavenue/2013/03/11/3-ways-linkedin-just-made-it-easier-to-find-a-job/
Exercise:
Visit LinkedIn.com as a guest and examine the opportunities it could offer you. Write an email to a friend who has
already been working for several years, mentioning LinkedIn and asking him/her what recommendations he/she
could make about how to create your LinkedIn profile. List your abilities and competencies, taken from the CV you
created in an earlier assignment.
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CV examples
Careers & Employability
Home
Employability
Employability Skills
Work Experience
Site Map
Choosing a Career
I want to work in ...
What can I do with my
degree?
Postgraduate Study
Vacancies
Applications and
Interviews
Example CVs
Practice Aptitude Tests
Working in Kent
Careers Events on Campus
CVs
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Az Europass dokumentumok
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Here is an outline to writing a successful cover letter. To the right of the letter, look for important notes concerning the
layout of the letter signaled by a number.
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After you've gotten an employer's attention, the content of your cover letter must convince an employer to interview
you.
I always think of cover letters being much like the opening and closing statements that attorneys give when
representing a client in court. Before making such statements attorneys carefully analyze facts that prove why their
clients should win - just as your cover letter should do.
They structure and prioritize their arguments for maximum impact and you want to do the same thing with your cover
letters. To build a convincing case of your qualifications it's important that you analyze and address each employer's
needs in your cover letters.
Most job seekers write very weak cover letters that don't build a convincing case for their qualifications. By following
the strategies you're about to learn you'll create powerful cover letters that put you way ahead of your competition.
1. Pretend that you want to apply for the position shown below and need to write a cover letter.
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2. On a scrap piece of paper, make a list of the personal traits, characteristics and abilities you think would be
important to put in your cover letter in response to this ad.
DRIVER / DELIVERY PERSON 2+ years experience driving and delivering high value products in the London
Metropolitan area. Customer Service experience dealing with corporate accounts required. Salary 15,000 Pounds.
Resume to: Mr. Jefferson Perry, Personnel, WeDeliver Co., 68547 Queens Road, Harwick, XE Q98212
How many personal traits and skills did you list?
Many job seekers often come up with a list like the one below:
Which of the lists below do you think will be more likely to grab an employer's attention in a cover letter for this ad?
This cover letter exercise illustrates why most people write such weak cover letters.
Job seekers often seem to relate to what the employer wants to hear, like those in the left column, but such cover letters
fall short because they don't address the specific skills employers are requesting.
The 5 skills in this very small job ad are an excellent example of why analyzing job ads to write powerful cover letters is
so important.
You should focus on any job ad you read. The 5 skills required to get this job and which therefore MUST BE INCLUDED
IN YOUR COVER LETTER!!! are those in the column below.
However, the ad asks for 5 specific skills and areas of knowledge which are listed here:
On the basis of the job ad below, use what you learned in the previous sections to write your own cover
letter:
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Finding a Job
Introductory discussion questions:
1. Have you ever sought employment? What kind of job were you looking for? How did you go about your
search?
2. Do you have a CV? How did you learn to write one?
3. What careers interest you for your own future? Why?
Read the text below about finding a job:
Need to find a job? Here's how to find a job fast.
There are several steps you can take to find a new job, including where to look for jobs, the top job sites, how to use
your connections to get a job.
Focus Your Job Search
Use the job search engines to find jobs by using keywords that match your interests and the location where you
want to work. Narrowing your search criteria will help you focus your job search and will give you more relevant job
listings to review and less non-relevant job listings to weed through.
Build your brand
Create profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, and VisualCV. A strong personal brand that portrays you in a professional
light will provide recruiters, employers, and contacts with a strong positive impression of you as a candidate they
should be interested in.
Connect With Your Contacts
Now that you've created profiles on networking sites, use them. Connect with everyone you know, because you
never know which contact may be able to help you with your job search or put you in touch with someone who can.
Use Job Search Tools
There are a variety of online tools that will help expedite your job search and manage your career. Use them to
organize your job search and save valuable job searching time.
Create a List of Companies
Do you have a list of companies you would like to work for? It's a good idea to research company information and
create a list of companies to target in your job search. All the information you need is available on the web, and it's
easy to find detailed information about potential employers online.
Target Your Resume and Cover Letter
It's important to take the time to write targeted resumes and cover letters that specifically link your qualifications to
the hiring criteria for the jobs you are applying for. The hiring manager will be able to see, at a glance, why, and how,
you are qualified for the job. You'll have a much better chance of getting an interview than if you send a generic
letter and resume.
Source: http://jobsearch.about.com/od/jobsearchhelp/a/findajob.htm
Match the verbs on the left (1-10) with the verbs on the right (a-j) below, to learn the meanings of new
verbs:
1. to look for a. to manage
2. to communicate with many others b. to narrow
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4. to recruit d. to search
5. to reduce e. to hire
6. to describe f. to network
7. to accelerate g. to create
8. to target h. to expedite
9. to give someone a job i. to portray
10. to monitor j. to find someone particular
JOB SEARCH: If youre tired of your current job or feel it is not fulfilling, perhaps its time to look for another one.
And heres the good news: already having a job makes the search for a new one considerably less stressful.
Thanks to the internet and flexible working models, looking for a job while you are employed is easier than it used
to be. You can do everything electronically and people are far more flexible, says Clive Davis, a director at the
international recruitment firm Robert Half. [Recruiters] will also often see you outside of normal working hours,
Davis told the Financial Times.
Corinne Mills, managing director of Personal Career Management, adds, Its always easier to look for a job while
youre employed there are so many networking opportunities with suppliers, customers, conference and so on.
You also have more confidenceIt's always easier to look for a job while you're employed."
If you need to meet a potential employer during your regular working hours, dont lie and say you have a doctors
appointment, Mills advises. You can get caught out and that can lead to disciplinary measures. Its better just to say,
I have a personal matter to deal with. Or dont say anything. Just explain that you need to come in late.
It may not be a good idea to tell your current employer that you are looking for another job, says Justin Spray of
Mendas, a business psychology firm. Some will immediately limit your opportunities or react very emotionally. But
if you feel your employer will not overreact, then be open, Spray advises. Having candid conversations with your
employer about your career aims should be part of your relationship with your manager, he says. A good way of
starting might be to tell your boss that youve been approached by a headhunter.
When talking to a potential employer, be careful how much information you reveal about your current workplace. Some companies
simply talk to the staff of the competition without intending to actually hire them.
Source: www.financialtimes.co.uk
Read the paragraph below and fill in the missing words from the words provided below the text.
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in dumbing down rsums when looking for work, Kearns adds. When you say
the story thats relevant to the opportunity.
Employers may be
to hire people they feel are overqualified,
that these employees will
quickly become bored and leave. Kearns warns: The
line with the whole job search is that you dont get
into a situation where your employer is going to be disappointed with you.
"Don't get yourself into a situation where you
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out / level / bottom / story / yourself / skill / telling / educated / put / game / temporary / feelings / fearing /
padding / value / advise / changing / disappoint/ less / things / hand / hesitant / overqualified
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I. Written homework:
1. Use some of the following elements from each list to try to create complete English sentences You will have to
conjugate verbs and add any missing grammatical elements, such as the or a. There may be more than one
possible correct way to write each sentence! :
1. modern, professional, to have, online, up to date, presence, to be, successful, career
2. traditional, CVs, to be, enough, today, everyone, to have to, to notch up, profile, online
3. often, to take time, a lot of, to upload, files, and, images
4. employees, to be careful, what, they, to blog
5. social media, can, to help, to increase, one's, presence, and, to build, recognition
6. websites, to assist, you, to get mileage out of, old cv
7. always, to remember, to provide, correct, information, about, yourself
When to say no
Not sure about that job
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when you should turn down a job. Taking a job that is not
for you can be
, says consultant Barbara Limmer of Career Navigation LLC in Phoenix, Arizona. The key is to
your needs and find a job that satisfies them, Limmer told The Arizona Republic newspaper.
If you dont need money immediately and can afford to keep
for a job, turn down the offer youre uncertain about, Limmer
advises. She points out that long
hours or retraining for the job may make it difficult for you to later find work that is
suited to your talents.
Think about how
youre willing to compromise, says Sharon Green, who owns Ace Resume, a professional rsum-writing service.
Do you want a flexible
and a short
to work? If the company is willing to be flexible about your
hours but is not close to your home, you need to decide how important a short commute is to your job satisfaction. Say no to
the offer if you feel you dont want to spend a lot of
getting to and from the office.
Be conscious of your career goals, but dont turn down a job because it does not fit your expectations
. The job could be a
stone to the job you want, Limmer says. However, all bets are off if there is no chance of advancement or possibility of
growth in the new position. Limmer suggests asking questions like: What is the companys philosophy on
Ideally, you should ask this during your job interview.
Finally, if you dont like the job or the
primary needs, it will most likely not be a positive
soon.
from within?
Source: www.nytimes.com
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offer accepts whether looking much identify employer schedule cases
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2. She (wash) her bike. Look, now it is really clean und looks like new!
Additional exercises:
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