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WARENESS AND CAREER MANAGEMENT

Semester 2, session 4

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 Target Jobs Careers Report  E-portfolio preparation  Motivation: drivers and types  Career coaching sign up

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JOS CAREERS REPORT

 Your TARGETjobs Careers Report will help you to:       1. Generate a list of careers that match your skills, motivations, personality and preferences 2. Investigate jobs, employers and postgraduate courses within these career areas 3. Understand your capabilities and compare yourself against skills that employers want 4. Better understand yourself, especially your key motivators, career interests and work personality type 5. Practise a series of ability tests and receive feedback on your current skills and how to improve them 6. Create your own action plan o In essence act as a summary of what we have done so far this semester o https://targetjobs.co.uk/careers-report

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 We have taken a number of tests this semester. Pick the ones that have been most relevant to you, create a way of presenting them, analyse their results and create a page in your e-portfolio to present them in

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OTIVATION

 Daniel Pink: CIPD’s motivation guru  ‘Drive: the surprising truth about what motivates us’ (2009) – amongst other books. A good read but here’s a quick summary:  http://www.danpink.com/2010/06/whiteboard-magic/  In conclusion knowledge workers need to be intrinsically rather than extrinsically motivated  How are you motivated? www.danpink.com/drive survey/

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AREERS COACHING CONVERSATION

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Monday 23 rd 2.30pm 3pm 3.30pm 4.00pm February:  1.

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 Core recommended reading from this semester so far:   Career Management and Work-Life Integration by Harrington and Hall chapter 2, 3 & 4 Career Management by Greenhaus et al chapter 3, 4 & 6  Next time we’re all together will be March 9 hand in date for Assignment 3. On that day we will look at: Cognitive biases th which is the  Please note that the Semester 2 Tutorial list has changed (below are the dates before we are next all together)    23rd Feb: Becky 9am, Alison 9.30am

2 nd March: Maryam 9am, Becca 9.30am

9 th March: Sarah 9am, Joyce 9.30am