north yorkshire secondary school june 2010
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Skipton Girls High School-Careers event for year 13
by Fluid
June 2010
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Contents2 Contents Page3-4 Introduction to Fluid5-9 CVs 10-13 Speculative approaches14-19 Interview skills20-29 Social networking30-32 Blogs33-35 Job sites36-38 Forums39-40 Conclusion and Questions
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Introduction
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Introduction to Fluid• Fluid Consulting Limited (Fluid) is a specialist human resources
consultancy headed by Tim Holden MCIPD. Starting out in banking, Tim worked for a leading human resources & recruitment consultancy for eleven years based in both Leeds and London. This role required him to understand the detailed workings of employers across all sectors and to travel throughout the UK and Europe to meet clients and interview senior candidates. To capitalise on this experience, Tim set up Fluid in 2006 to offer a new but related service to clients.
• Fluid provides consultancy advice and delivers training to private and public sector organisations across the UK. We are NOT a recruitment company, and pride ourselves on our extensive research capability which allows us to remain at the cutting edge of both best practice and creative initiatives that genuinely deliver in terms of Human Resources. Effective benchmarking with high-performing organisations, coupled with detailed surveys and questionnaires, ensures that a service exceeding clients’ expectations can be delivered.
• The core services provided by Fluid are:- Attraction & Selection- Retention- Remuneration & Reward - Outplacement- Training & HR consultancy
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CVs
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• Why a CV?• What’s it for?• Formats• Power words• Microsoft Word CVs• Other CVs
CVs (1 of 3)
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• Work experience and part-time job CVs
• Standing out from the crowd• Email CVs
CVs (2 of 3)
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• Useful pointers• Quiz - true or false
CVs (3 of 3)
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Speculative approaches
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Speculative approaches (1 of 2)
• What employers want, even as the economy is still weak
• UK Border Agency-Government-approved shortage occupation list for Tier 2 of the Points Based System
• Writing to third parties for assistance
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Speculative approaches (2 of 2)
• Identify your target job• Research the target job• Go through previous experience (if
any)• Consider personality & teamwork• Add in most recent experience• Compile endorsements
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Interview Skills
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PREPARATION• Qualifications• Achievements• Work experience• Looking and behaving the part
Interview skills (1 of 4)
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• What are interviewers looking for?• Questions and answers
Interview skills (2 of 4)
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DIFFERENT TYPES OF INTERVIEW• Screening• Telephone • Video • Panel • Serial • Informal
Interview skills (3 of 4)
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WHAT TO DO AFTER THE INTERVIEW• Whilst waiting for a decision• If an offer is not made• If an offer is made
Interview skills (4 of 4)
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Social networking
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Social networking (1 of 8)
• Bebo (no need to sign in)www.bebo.comGROUPS“Auckland Jobs”779 members
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Social networking (2 of 8)
• Facebook (need to sign in)www.facebook.comGROUPS“Airline employees of Facebook” 31, 573 members“Television freelance jobs”12, 880 members
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Social networking (3 of 8)• Flickr (no need to sign in) www.flickr.comGROUPS“Artists job network”222 members
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Social networking (4 of 8)• Glassdoor (no need to sign in)www.glassdoor.comREVIEWS“Best places to work”“BT”INTERVIEWS“Deloitte”SALARIESNeed to post a salary to gain access
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Social networking (5 of 8)• LinkedIn (need to sign in) www.linkedin.comGROUPS“Game Republic”235 members“Social scientists”224 members
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Social networking (6 of 8)• Second Life (no need to sign in)www.secondlife.comSEARCH“job search”“avatar4hire”WORKCase study - IBM
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Social networking (7 of 8)• Twitter (no need to sign in)www.twitter.com“financialjobsuk”
Twitterjobsearch.com“software engineer yorkshire”818 results
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Social networking (8 of 8)• YouTube (no need to sign in)www.youtube.comSinger/musician/dancer/comedian/actor/
sportsperson
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Blogs
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Blogs
• What is a blog?• Contributing to blogs• Own website• PWC www.pwc.blogs.com/pwcpeople/
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Job sites
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• careerbuilder.co.uk• cv-library.co.uk• get.hobsons.co.uk• gumtree.com• jobseekers.direct.gov.uk• jobrapido.co.uk• notgoingtouni.co.uk• prospects.ac.uk
Job sites
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Forums
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Forums• Personal interests• Contributing about a subject• COMPUTER GAMES
www.mcvuk.com • MUSIC
www.uk-musicjobs.com/forum• PRINT
www.jobsinprint.com
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Conclusion & questions
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Conclusion
• Summary• Questions