Edinburgh Award

(Summer Work Experience

and Volunteering)

Final Session

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Today

Where are we now?

Final self assessment

What impact have you

had?

Selling the Award on your

CV

Talking about your

experience at interview

Final submissions

Stages of the award

Final Self-Assessment

• Go to your Dashboard on

MyCareerHub

• You can now access your

Final Self-Assessment

What impact have you had?

In 140 characters or fewer add the impact you had over summer to the whiteboard.

Where did you work? Museum Café in Paris

What did you do? Worked serving on the counter

Tell us about the impact you had on the organisation

How do you know? Most days I noticed particularly around early afternoon that we had long queues

(people in for lunch, some just wanting coffee) and often people wouldn’t wait

especially those wanting coffee to take away.

After a couple of weeks I suggested to my Supervisor that perhaps we could have a

dedicated person (i.e. me! )To go along the queue and identify those who were just

wanting takeaway drinks which I then made to order.

It worked! Queues weren’t as long, people didn’t seem to give up and leave and

even people ordering lunches got their food quicker as queues were smaller. I know

I made an impact on the organisation because daily takings increased, even on

days I wasn’t working we had a dedicated person on takeaways and from a personal

point of view I was offered more hours by my Supervisor. I was really pleased that

my suggestion was adopted and was successful.

What impact have you had?

Talking about your experience on a CV

http://www.ed.ac.uk/careers/recruitment/cvs

Do you have a CV already?

Do you feel confident with your CV?

Before you start writing…

What do you have to offer? What does the recruiter want?

• Job Advertisement

• Prospects Job Profiles

• Speaking to people

Talking about your experience at interview

http://www.ed.ac.uk/careers/recruitment/interviews

Some Common Types of Question

Introduction – Tell me about yourself?

Motivation - Why have you applied for this job?

Self-awareness – What is your greatest weakness?

Team work skills – Tell me about a successful team you have

been a part of? What was your role in that team?

Interpersonal skills – Give me an example of when you have built

rapport with somebody? How did you achieve this?

Organisation skills – How do you manage your time?

Talking about your experience at interview

Interviewers very commonly use competency /

skills based questions

Use a range of your experience to provide

evidence that you have the skills they want

Try using CARL framework to form your answer

CONTEXT ACTION RESULT LEARNING

The interviewer’s perspective:

They want you to be good

They already think you

are good

They need to get it right

They need evidence

They are human

Giving Feedback

Why do it?

How to do it?

Balanced

Objective

Observed

Specific

Timely

Try to give one piece of constructive feedback for every two positives.

Interview Practice

• We will soon break you out into groups of 3

• In your groups, you will run three interviews – taking turns to play the

roles of Interviewer, Observer, and Candidate

• Make sure you now have a copy of the Interview, Observer, and

Candidate handouts in front of you.

• You also need a pen and paper to take notes, and a timer to keep time

You will have 30 minutes to complete

Interview exercise

Each interview should take 10 minutes. Please ensure you stick to timings. We will be

moving you back into the main room after 30 minutes.

1. Quickly decide who will take which role first (Interviewer, Observer, Candidate)

NB if there are only two of you, remove the Observer role

2. Take one minute to each read over your handouts before you begin

3. After one minute, the Interviewer should begin the interview

4. During the interview, the Interviewer and Observer should take notes. The

Observer should keep time.

5. After the interview, take one minute for all three people to reflect

6. Share feedback for two minutes: Candidate shares reflections first, then

Interviewer, then Observer

7. Move on to next interview

Interview Exercise follow up

• Keep hold of your feedback and reflections for future reference

• Get our support with interviews here: www.ed.ac.uk/careers/recruitment/interviews

What’s next?

Think back over your

summer experience

Write down what you will

Stop, Start, and Continue

doing in the future

Make a note to check in two

months’ time

Next Steps

By Wednesday 16th August at 5pm submit:

• Final set of reflections

• Add a picture to the Padlet site if you have not

done so already

Keep in touch

Let us know ASAP if there are any issues

Email: csaward@ed.ac.uk – ‘Summer’ in the subject line

Website:

https://edinburghawardsummer2017.wordpress.com/

MyCareerHub: https://mycareerhub.ed.ac.uk

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