S ELF A WARENESS AND C AREER D EVELOPMENT Week 6

STARTER Fill in the missing students on what we covered last week

B IG P ICTURE - ASSIGNMENT ‘Apply’ for a position on any of the Lloyds Banking Group Graduate Programmes Complete the dummy application form, produce an up to date tailor-made CV and letter of application by Thursday 19 th November You will be interviewed and provided with feedback on either Thursday 26 th November, Thursday 3 rd or Thursday 10 th December You will need to evaluate your performance and produce an action plan based on it following your interview feedback (due in 2 weeks after the assessment date and is the basis of the marks)

L EARNING OUTCOMES Discuss the purpose of a covering letter Consider what should be included in a covering letter Select and apply an appropriate covering letter template Do some practice psychometric tests

C OVERING LETTERS In small groups consider: What is the purpose of a covering letter? What should it include? Advice from Brookes Career Service: aspx aspx px

C OVERING LETTER EXAMPLES Look at the different covering letters under written tutorials : aspx aspx Which suits your application to Lloyds best and why?

F OLLOWING UP A COVERING LETTER If you have sent in a covering letter (and other elements of the application requested) (not necessarily for Lloyds) but have not heard back, what should you do? areerModules/itutorials/Tutorial.aspx?id=274

P RACTICE PSYCHOMETRIC TESTS Graduate recruiters will often give psychometric tests to candidates, sometimes at the interview selection stage sometimes at interview Does anyone have experience of these? What was it like? You can look at some examples/do some practice tests at: Look at the examples from numeracy and verbal reasoning test. If you have more time do them

O UT OF CLASS LEARNING P74/5 Career Management and Work-Life Integration, Harrington & Hall areerModules/itutorials/Tutorial.aspx?id= aspx

TUTORIALS Today: AJ 4pm, Anya 4.20pm, Yasmin 4.40pm After half term: Saima 9am, Mel 9.20pm, Riley 9.40pm Otherwise 10am on Thursday 5 th November (remembering you have CC&L due the same day)