1. Career strategy workshops

2. Benefits of workshops Raise awareness Create time for reflection
Provide frameworks
Create momentum
Help sustain focus and motivation
Opportunities for peer check and feedback
Manage stress!
Complementary to one-to-one coaching

3. Developing a career strategy...
Self-assessment (including competencies)
Career vision
Understanding roles, industries, work environments
Identifying an ideal job, second best, fall-back option
CV writing, cover letter, interviewing
Assessment centres, case study exercises
Managing relationships with key career stakeholders
Networking & unsolicited applications
Developing a career strategy...
Self-awareness
Career planning
Self-marketing
Job-hunting techniques
Review

4. Self-assessment
Step 1: hold an exercise (group exercise, that also requires analytical skills) or use a self-assessment test
Step 2: write a “shield” with
What are your strengths?
What are your areas of development?
What achievements demonstrate your strengths?
What do you intend to do to work on your areas of development?
Step 3: discussion in pairs and/or review

5. Career vision Career vision defined through Interests, Values, Skills.
Provide examples for each
Explain significance in career choices
Write down own Interests, Values, Skills.
Introduce a few companies' visions (e.g. mission statement) and try to identify their interests, values and skills.
Ask to write a tentative career vision.

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7. Help our clients make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance and to build a great firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people.

8. Understanding roles, industries
Workshops with alumni, recruiters
Introduce “a day in the life”
Alumni Q&A panels
Run case study workshops (e.g. consulting)

9. Ideal choice, second best, fall-back
Job is defined through Role, Industry and Culture (public/private, SME/bluechip, geographical location)
Write options (3 choices for each)
Create a scale of risk
Discuss in pairs and review

10. CV writing, cover letter, interviewing
Presentation followed by work in pairs
Use actual job ad or apply for ideal job role
Assessment centres, case study exercises
Introduce feedback rules
Run exercise and act as observer
Facilitate feedback session
Invite recruiter

11. Career stakeholders Identify stakeholders:
Internal network (if currently employed)
External network
Recruitment industry
Coach/mentor
Work in groups to discuss ways of managing relationships with these stakeholders
Report from each group and review with additional feedback

12. More networking workshops
Write unsolicited applications:
Identify target organisation
Identify project / contribution
Write a project proposal in a cover letter
Peer review
Networking skills
How to pitch yourself
Practice self-introduction
Write a personal profile
Business etiquette

13. Review - “Job Club” Job-hunting process:
Identify Role, Industry, Culture
Make list of target companies
Establish a strategy for each company
Review
Job Club meets regularly
Share progress
Give feedback and tips

14. Any questions?