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Before we start...
• Introduce yourself to someone you haven’t met
• Ask them
– Where are they from?
– How did they get here today?
– What discipline are they studying in?
– What are they hoping to achieve today?
– Did you find anything in common?
QUT Careers and Employment
www.careers.qut.edu.au
Welcome to the
Postgraduate Career Development day!
Dr Shari Walsh – Postgraduate Careers Counsellor
[email protected]
Ph 3138 2649
What are your expectations of the day?
Welcome & Overview
• So what is today about?
– Non-career specific
Stretch
• Expectations of day
– Interactive – participate at own level
– Understand yourself
– Develop an action plan for the year
By the end of today – identify 3 people you will keep in
touch with & get their contact details
Career future?
What’s on today
9.00 – 9.15
Registration
9.15 – 9.45
9.30 – 10.30
10.30 – 11.00
11.00 – 12.00
Welcome & Introductory Activities
Career planning considerations
Morning tea
Problem solving activity
12.00 – 12.45
QUT activities – RSC, ISS, Careers & Employment
12.45 – 1.30
1.30 - 1.45
1.45 – 2.45
2.45 – 3.30
Lunch
Values game
Marketing your Phd
Putting it all together
3.30 – 3.45
3.45 – 4.00
3.45 – 4.15
4.15 – 4.30
Afternoon tea break
My career development plan
Discussion/review of day
Close
Career Planning Model
Decision Making
Self
Review
World of
Work
Understanding
Influences
Implementation
Goal
Setting
My Postgraduate Life
• Complete questions in book
• Discuss in small groups
Career Planning Considerations
• Dr Ruth Bridgstock
• Reflection in book
Kelvin Grove Redistribution exercise
• 8 groups
• 4 groups on each side of room
• ½ an hour to complete exercise
Kelvin Grove redistribution exercise reflection
• What skills were used in the activity?
• What did I do well?
• What would I change about how I performed the activity?
• How would I do it differently?
QUT Careers and Employment
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Development Opportunities at QUT
Information session re activites
• RSC training – Dr Eliza Matthews
• ISS - Maria McCarthy & Peter Nelson
• Postgraduate careers – Shari Walsh
– SAP
19 March 2010
– SCAD
9 & 23 July 2010
– Mentor Scheme – Jacqui Owen
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@ QUT Careers
QUT Careers and Employment
Postgraduate Careers Services
Dr Shari Walsh
Dr Susan Ryan
Dr Alan McAlpine
– GP (Mon & Tues) & KG (Wed & Thurs)
– KG (Fridays)
– GP (Mon – Fri)
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Career counselling – 1 hour booked appointments GP & KG
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Workshops throughout the year
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Effective Applications
Working productively – understanding your work style – April 6
Networking Know-How - July
Life Beyond the PhD – academia vs industry
Discipline specific upon request
Resume checking (5 day turnaround)
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E-mail: [email protected]
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Newsletter
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Discussion group??? – email Shari if interested
Next workshop
• Understanding my work style – applying Myers-Briggs to
enhance performance
Tuesday April 6 2.30 – 4.30 pm Kelvin Grove
Register via CareerHub
• July 26 – Postgraduate Career Development day KG
Sessional Academic Program
Tutors & part-time lecturers
• Meet other staff members from your Faculty?
• Engage with teaching and learning issues specific to your Faculty?
• Explore different strategies to help further enhance your teaching
and learning skills and scholarship?
When & Where: 8:50am – 3:40pm (registration from 8:15am)
Saturday, 19 March 2011, Z Block, GP
Standard catering will be provided. Payment for attendance.
Register via StaffConnect before COB Monday 14 March
Enquiries to [email protected] or phone 3138 9797
SESSIONAL CAREER
ADVANCEMENT DEVELOPMENT
(SCAD) PROGRAM
Semester 1, 2011
SCAD 2011 PROGRAM
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SCAD is an invitational program for higher degree
research (HDR) students who are also undertaking
sessional teaching at QUT and have aspirations of
becoming an academic. The program aims to assist
participants with preparing for their future career in
academia by identifying potential skill or experience
gaps and developing goals and plans to address these.
Program outcomes for participants will include:
Understanding of the Australian Higher Education Sector
and the role of an academic;
 Development of the framework for an academic portfolio
encompassing teaching and learning, research and service;
 Development of a career action plan focused on obtaining
an academic position; and
 Establishment of a mentoring relationship with a QUT
academic.
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SCAD 2011 PROGRAM
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Two full day workshops supplemented by
mentoring and eLearning activities
Workshop 1: Saturday 9th July, KG Campus
 Workshop 2: Saturday 23rd July, KG Campus
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Participants will be paid at the standard
sessional rate for their attendance at workshops
 Each Faculty may select up to 5 participants,
information on how to submit your nomination
will be circulated soon...
 For further information:
http://www.hrd.qut.edu.au/staff/development/aca
demic/scad.jsp
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Go confidently
into the
real world…
Career Mentor Scheme
What is the QUT Career Mentor Scheme?
• Students are matched with an experienced professional who
has “been there, done that”.
• Assists you with your transition to the workforce.
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Real world information and knowledge.
Advice and feedback.
Networking opportunities.
A supportive relationship to support your career.
Potential access to real workplaces.
CRICOS No. 00213J
How do I register?
• Via QUT CareerHub
• Further information and registration links are
available from the Careers & Employment website
www.careers.qut.edu.au/student/mentor/
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Values
Values
• What are values and why are they important?
– Are there work and personal values?
• How do your values impact on your interactions with
others and your work style?
• What is it like when you work with or interact with people
who have different values to your own?
Guess the university
• ??? is a highly successful Australian university with an applied
emphasis in courses and research.
• ??? is one of Australia’s premier learning and research institutions.
• Since opening its doors in XXX, ??? has come to be regarded as
one of Australia's most innovative tertiary institutions and one of the
most influential universities in the Asia-Pacific region.
• ??? is the ???, a public university funded by the Australian
Government and open to students and staff of all beliefs.
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Marketing your PhD
Marketing your PhD
– AKA just what do I have to offer an employer?
• What are the skills you are developing during the
process of completing your PhD?
• How do these transfer to employability?
Postgraduate Research Capabilities
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High Level Communication
Advanced Teamwork
Knowledge and Research Problem Solving
Research Career Learning
Technical Research Skills
Self and Project Management
Research Conduct
Leadership
Creativity
Enterprise
Identify your skills and learn how to link these to jobs/careers?
What are the most effective tips on how to
market yourself?
• What do you think are the most important things
when marketing yourself for employment?
10 Tips to effectively market yourself
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1. Self Reflect
2. Have a vision
3. Define your brand
4. Have an elevator story
5. Be willing to work outside your comfort zone
6. Do not wait to be noticed
7. Cultivate people skills
8. Volunteer
9. Dress for success
10. Be a strategic thinker
(Karalis, 2007)
1. Self reflect
• Spend some time figuring out your career trajectory
• Assemble a knowledge and skills inventory
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What are your unique strengths?
- what you do better than others in your field
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What skills are you developing during you PhD?
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What organisations could use your knowledge?
2. Have a vision
 Have a broadly defined goal
 Plan the steps that you will
have to take to get there
 Be as specific as possible
 Think about where you want to be in
 3yrs?
 5yrs?
and 10yrs?
3. Define your brand
• What makes you unique?
• What are you best known
for?
• Be able to state these
qualities fluently and with confidence
Feature vs Benefit
What is a feature?
-A distinctive element: an attribute, characteristic, mark, peculiarity, property, quality or trait.
What is a Benefit?
- Something that promotes or enhances well-being; an advantage.
- Something that contributes to an organization, such as
enhanced profitability, better efficiency, or reduced risk.
- Something that reduces hassles or inconvenience
 Take home message:
People buy benefits, not features.
Feature vs Benefit (cont.)
SMARTIES
Activity:
• Features
• Benefits
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• How do the features translate
into a benefit for an employer?
Knowledge
Skills
Abilities
Other
How this works:
-Describe your key features and then the benefit
-(i.e., what this means for an employer or collaborator)
4. Have an elevator story
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A concise summary of yourself or your research
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Key message should be delivered in 30-60 seconds (or the
time taken to ride an elevator)
Pitching the research
•Describe what it is
•Highlight features
that specialise it
Pitching Yourself
•Describe who you
are
•Why you will be a
benefit
5. Be willing to work outside your comfort
zone
• Overcome fear to forge into a new and unfamiliar area:
Do not let the job requirements stop you from applying
• Always accept additional responsibilities that can build
and diversify your curriculum vitae
6. Do not wait to be noticed
 Modesty does not create opportunity
 The one who gets noticed is the one who makes sure that his or her
boss knows how good his or her work is
 If there is a vacancy or assignment you want, ask for it
 When you are ready to make a
career move, talk about it out loud.
 Let people know you are ready for
the next challenge. The more people
you talk to about it, the more likely
you are to hear about opportunities as
they arise
Ways to get noticed
Distinguish yourself
 Speaking at conferences
 Actively participate in professional organizations.
Be likable
 Demonstrate your self-awareness, self-control, trustworthiness,
motivation, empathy and social skills
Define your brand
 Define your personal story, guiding principles, and elevator pitch
 Consider your biggest successes
 Consider your most instructive failures
(Goodman, 2010)
7. Cultivate people skills
• Good communication skills are vital in advancing
yourself; they are more important than the degrees
behind your name
• Good people skills can enable you to advance
at a much faster pace than others with more
experience
What are good people skills?
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Smiling
Eye contact
Listen to understand/listen intently
Using first names
Being open and confident
Being positive
Keeping messages to the point
Consider - What impact does culture have in communication?
8. Volunteer
Why volunteer?
 To experience a specific work place
 To get a taste of the real world of work in your field - leading to sounder
career choices
 To work on problem solving, initiative and team work skills, which you can
then write about in selection criteria and talk about in interviews
 To enable employers to observe potential employees in their work place
 Gain referees and references for your resume and for general recruitment
purposes
9. Dress for success
• First impressions are crucial
• How you dress sets the tone for interactions
10. Be a strategic thinker
 This means having the end in mind
 If you don’t get a job get some feedback and work out
what you can do differently for next time
“I found the job that I wanted and then applied three times
(over approximately10 years) before I got it. Each time I
tried to figure out why I wasn’t chosen and make
it a point to get expertise in that area.”
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Putting it all together
• Forming connections
• Linking with employers
• Cover Letter & Resume
• Answering Selection Criteria
• Interview
Why form connections?
The Hidden Job Market
Where can I find unadvertised jobs?
Who can I contact?
How do I prepare?
What questions do I need to ask?
Who do I network with?
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Friends& Family
Fellow Students
Staff Members
Employers
Alumni
Professional
Associations
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Conference delegates
HR Professionals
Librarians
Career Practitioners
Former employers
Remember….The first, or second, person may
not be the person you need to talk with!
How do I form connections (AKA networking)?
• Work within your comfort zone
• Ask opening questions – what, where, when, how
...avoid why
• Be confident about YOUR SKILLS!
– Understand your keywords
• Importance of business cards
• Practice, practice, practice
Information Interviewing
• You are not looking for a job
• You are finding out information about the job and/or
company
• It will help you to develop a well focused Resume
• It will enable you to speak knowledgably about the
career you wish to enter
• Prepare some questions that you might ask a contact
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Cover Letters & Resumes
Cover Letters
• Complements your resume
• Explains WHY you want to work for that organisation
• And WHY you want the job
• Lets your passion & commitment come through
Customise the Cover!
• Create a new cover letter for each position
• Align your cover letter with the organisation
Contents of the Cover..
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Opening paragraph - Introduction
Paragraph 2 Why are you applying?
Paragraph 3 Why you?
Paragraph 4 Highlight your skills
Closing paragraph See you soon!
Resumes!
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Your skills, knowledge, education and experiences – in only 3 pages!
Evolving document and therefore needs to be updated
Analyse the advertisement and identify key skills and attributes
Research the organisation via website and media releases – will
you fit in?
Tailor your resume for the employer, highlighting your skills and
abilities
What should your resume include?
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Personal details
Career objective/skills statement/personal profile etc
Education
Work experience
Achievements
General skills
Interests/Hobbies
Publications
Referees
PLUS ANY OTHER SECTIONS RELEVANT TO YOUR
BACKGROUND
Consider
» Photo?
» Hobbies/Interests?
Key points
• Bold important information throughout
• Personal details – clear and simple
• Skills/professional summary –
– 1 paragraph - benefits to employer
• Education –thesis title, supervisors, synopsis or skills
• Work Experience –career related / other, Academic /
industry
• Publications – sections – conferences, journals, ERA,
IF
• Referees
Do’s and Don’ts
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Spell check and proof read
Well presented easy to read
Active rather than passive voice
Matches your skills to their requirements
Lets your benefits show though
Presents a positive focussed image
 Don’t get it done by a professional- should be in
your own words
 Don’t raise straw men
 Don’t be dishonest!
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Selection Criteria
Understand the criteria
• Responsibilities vs Selection Criteria
• Mandatory vs Desirable
• Read each criterion carefully & answer specifically
• Good project management skills with the ability to participate in the
management of projects, which have a commercial focus (QIMR – Business
Development Associate)
• Evidence of developing skills in communicating with diverse
audiences. (CSIRO, Postdoctoral fellow)
• Ability to operate effectively in the field, including carrying out
research at sea. (Australian Institute of Marine Science – Research Scientist)
Typical Lay Out & Length
• Address each one under a separate heading – Don’t
summarise criteria; write in full
• Content for each SC (except Qualifications)
– 3/4 a page to a page for EACH criteria
– Approx 300 Words for EACH criteria
– 1 per page
• Use a combination of narrative & bullet points where
possible
Let’s compare…
• I have good communication skills
• My communication skills are demonstrated by the
number of people I have spoken to during my PhD
• During my PhD I have communicated with a range of
people. I outlined my research to participants. I have
presented my results on numerous occasions to my
peers and to my supervisor and other academic staff. On
each occasion feedback has been positive.
The Magic Formulas
S ituation
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A ction
R esult
L earning
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C ontext
A ction
R esult
Example
Context
A group of around 20 Postgraduate Students who wanted a workshop
on Job Seeking Skills
Action
Spoke with staff, researched employers needs and sourced relevant
information
Result
All students attended and verbal feedback indicated that content and
style of workshop was both highly relevant and useful to them
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Interviews
What are your concerns?
Overcoming concerns
• Understand the purpose of an interview
– Organisation’s reason
– Your reason
• Research yourself, the role, the company
• Prepare your responses
– Describe a time when....(behavioural)
– Can you tell me a bit about yourself? (personal)
• Develop your keywords/theme
• Anxiety reduction
Salary Questions
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Planning my next steps....
Steps to achieving a vision
• Have an overall picture of where you want to go
• Break it down into manageable steps
• Start along the way
• Record your progress and reward each achievement
Career development activities at QUT
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Tutoring
Research assistant
Laboratory assistant/tutor
Grant collaboration
Publications
• Networking, networking, networking
External activities
• Join a professional association
• Become an expert advisor
• Join the Board of a community organisation
• Write articles for blogs, newsletters etc
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Action planning - SMART
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S = SPECIFIC
– Who is involved?
– What do you want to accomplish?
– Where? - Identify a location.
– When? – Establish a time frame.
– Why? – Specific reason, purpose, or benefits of achieving a goal.
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Helps you stay on track, reach your target dates, and experience achievement.
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Break it down into steps - each step should move you closer to that goal.
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Personal and situational factors which may influence your ability to reach your goal.
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Define start points and end points to your goal and maintain commitment to these
deadlines.
Writing an Effective Goal Statement
• Rules for writing goal statements:
• Use clear, specific language.
• Start your goal statement with TO + a VERB
• Write your goal statement using SMART Goal Criteria
• Avoid using negative language. Think positive!
Next workshops
• April 6 – Understanding my work style – applying MyersBriggs to enhance performance
• July 26 – Postgraduate Career Development day
Review of workshop/reflection
• Sentence starters
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I have learned….
I discovered that…
I will ….
It surprised me that….
I was pleased that…
Contact Careers and Employment
LOCATION
Gardens Point Campus:
Level 2, U Block
(Above the Art Museum)
Level 2, X Block
Reception: Room X226
Kelvin Grove Campus:
Level 4, C Block
(Above the Refectory)
Caboolture Campus:
Student Centre - J Block
PHONE
Gardens Point:
07 3138 2649
Kelvin Grove:
07 3138 3488
Caboolture
07 5316 7400
U BLOCK, GP
EMAIL
[email protected]
X BLOCK, GP
WEBSITE
www.careers.qut.edu.au
C BLOCK, KG