Get to know the market

Careerplanning

Agenda

• What’s your plan?• What’s the plan of your

future employer?• Getting started

Marieke van Heek

Stefan van Eerde

What’s your plan?

What’s your plan

What’s your plan

• Fun• Interesting

What’s your plan?

The importancy of a plan1. Get focussed2. Be convincing3. Be critical

What’s your plan

Take a picture• How does your working

environment look like?• How do your colleagues look like?• How does your desk look like?• How do you look like?

What’s your plan?

What’s your plan?

Source: Management drives - Graves

What’s your plan?

If you don’t know which way to go, every way is the right one (or the wrong one)

Alice in Wonderland

What’s the plan of your future employer?

Why you?

• Employers seek talent. But what's talent? No-one really knows. Multiple definitions. Define your own talent and show what your good at.

Why good for their business?

• Business continuity and Innovation - a paradox for which young people are needed (Pinterest, Facebook implications for business)

What do they want?

• ROI - attract talent that can make your company earn more than without them

Top Employers in NL 2012

http://www.topemployers.nl/TopEmployersNederland/TopEmployersNederland2012.aspx

From getting to know to job application

Get to

know

• Career Fair• Inhouse day

Interested

in working for

• Business Course-Summer Course• Internship

Want to

work for

• Traineeship• Career as YP

Why go to a career fair?

http://www.career.vt.edu/JobSearchGuide/JobCareerFairPrep.html

What’s the plan of your future employer

What’s the plan of your future employer?

• YP are 1/3 of the available employees in 2020

What’s the plan of your future employer?

Getting started

Online resume (Linkedin profile) and Offline resume (good old CV)

- two different things

http://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanvaneerde

Motivation Letter

• Motivation letter in PDF - Customization

List of grades in PDF

• Do you want to apply for a job where you have to?

Optional- recommendations and referrals

• good stories are better than no stories at all

Apply for a ….

• Choose from this overview to apply for the traineeship, inhouseday or business course you like.

Overview

• ABN Amro traineeship - define your own traineeship http://bit.ly/yrgp21

• Ahold Impact day (Business Course) – get to know Ahold Europe http://bit.ly/w3zCq9

• STEP Inhousedagen - choose the inhousedag you like most http://bit.ly/xzN0az

• Nestle Young Talent Business Course - apply today (final deadline) http://bit.ly/w7Twyf

• Voorlichting WerkenbijdeEU - EU traineeships en het EU Concours http://bit.ly/GFhNB3

Closure

• Know what you want• Know where to get it• Get it

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