community links for graduating students [email protected] 4 october 2012
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Today
My motto – friendly and professional – give YOU value
Only one person to talk at a time
• Seven Best Settlement Strategies• Three Main Networks• Networking• Mentoring• Budgeting• Questions and Answers
Seven Best Settlement Strategies
• Find a friend
• Source local information (council)
• Start of continue a hobby or interest
• Ask questions
• Expect it to be challenging
• Develop new routines and rituals
• You – your personality and health
Three Networks
• Social (friends and family)www.meetup.com
• Professional (work and industry)www.myfuture.edu.au
• Personal (sport or hobby)www.mav.asn.au (local council)
Use technology to maintain these connections (online with LinkedIn and your own database/address book)
Networking
• Smile (universal language)
• Fun, Food and Free (regular events)
• Recreate and maintain networks (inc repatriates)
• Women need Women Friends, Men need Men
• Talk to people (inc older people or borrow a dog)
• Keep up to date with popular technology – Email, Blog/Website, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Mobile Phones, Tablets, Computers
Networking Strategies
• Arrive first, leave last, target people on their own – ask how you heard about this event (not what do you do)
• Seven exchanges before a relationship, test before trust
• Add to your database if appropriate (and LinkedIn)
• Maintain contact every 90 days to keep alive
• Share items of value to them (not to you)
• Refer on whenever possible
• Follow up, follow up, follow up
Networking Strategies
Mentoring• Top three methods for finding work when you are clear about the goal
and work culture – Networking, Referral, Volunteering
• Require excellent English – written, spoken, comprehension and presentation skills http://australianetwork.com/businessenglish/
• Research organisations and industry through professional associations and make direct contact
• Find up to three mentors – industry, business, personal
• Request initial meeting, emails 2-3 per week, phone call once per week for three months, coffee meeting every six weeks
• Join your professional association http://myfuture.edu.au
• Career Management http://www.blueprint.edu.au http://www.worklifegroup.com
Budgeting• Important decisions – seek advice of at least three people (professional advice
can be worthwhile – research first, ring three people, evaluate options, choose provider)
• Avoid spending money unless ABSOLUTELY necessary – keep a cash reserve, save first, spend the rest. Put the savings in an account you cannot access via an ATM or EFTPOS
• Shop after eating and buy non perishable items for when you don’t feel like cooking and buy fresh fruit and vegetables when markets are closing
• Check for all the little amounts you are paying, gym memberships not cancelled, bank account fees, select your telephone/utilities carefully
• More excellent tips at http://www.moneysmart.gov.au http://www.cheapskates.com.au
Questions and Answers
Sue Ellson BBus, AIMM, MAHRI, CAR (REIV)
0402 243 271
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http://au.linkedin.com/in/sueellson
twitter.com/newcomersnetwrk
twitter.com/sueellson
facebook.com/newcomersnetwork
facebook.com/sueellson
Also YouTube, Google Places, Directories, Events Listings, Member/Other Websites etc
Professional Advice $199 for three hours