HAVING A DEGREE Expectations vs Reality

Presentation for Victoria University BCOMM Students (wondering what exactly happens next and why?)

EXPECTATIONA degree will get you a job

REALITY

EXPECTATIONUni will teach you all you need to know

REALITY

EXPECTATIONEmployers need to see a degree to recognise your expertise

REALITY

So what do Employers look

for?

Number One: Experience

So what can I do to get a job?

1. University Resources2. Know some basics about CV’s

3. Things to do now

1. Resources at Vic1. Career Hub

https://careerhub.vuw.ac.nz/students/login?ReturnUrl=%2f

2. Vic Plus Certificatehttp://www.victoria.ac.nz/students/get-involved/vic-plus

3. Become a Mentor:http://www.victoria.ac.nz/students/get-involved/lead-mentor/te-putahi-atawhai

2. Things to know about CV’s

1. CV’s go through SEO before they reach humans. Use KEYWORDS applicable to your job search (SEO Hack – look at the bottom of your Google

Searches where it says “Related Searches”)2. Employers look for experience. Get experience. Gain experience for free if

you need to. Ask for a letter of recommendation (and offer to write it for them)

3. Don’t worry so much about your grades (unless you have a reason to). Once you have a degree its rare that individual grades will be a deal breaker

3. Things to do now1. Apply to become a Tutor (but tutor something you are passionate about, not

just good at – would you rather have a bored, complacent know it all expert teaching you? Or a passionate, enthusiastic inquisitive personality that finds out because they really need to know – and accepts that there is still a lot

more to know?)2. Ask your favourite lecturer to be an academic referee (ask your favourite

tutor if you don’t like any of your lecturers…or if they don’t like you).3. Create a LinkedIn Account NOW and post your recommendations on it

One last piece of advice…Internships: Apply for ALL of them. Internships are harder to get than grad positions

For additional learning resources:Learn on demand is one of the top 5 angel investment categories (Silicon Valley) 2016…and it’s taken off in a very big wayI’m using Udemy among others – it’s awesomeA basic Google search will pull up a large number of them…

Such as the following Google searches:“best online study websites”“learn on demand labs”“top online learning resources”“top online learning sites”“e learning sites online education”“top free learning websites”

This is a handy little article:https://blog.todoist.com/2016/04/22/guide-to-online-learning-sites/

And the Reddit and Sub Reddit List:https://www.reddit.com/comments/cktxy/reddit_lets_compile_a_list_of_the_best_online/Because…Reddit.Is.Life.andtheuniverseandeverything

A small list. Wait until you see what they offer for free:UdemyCanvas NetworkOpen UWHowcastMemriseSchooltubeCourseraKhan AcademyAcademic EarthOpen Yale CoursesCodeacademyMOZClarityOpen2studyedXUredditLearnondemand

Microsoft On Demand (MS.IT.Academy)Virtual Training CompanyFASTJoshbersin.comStanford engineering everywhereBetter explainedHOW design universityHTML dogSkillcrushHack designEd2goCFCLearnFree.orgStack exchangeHippoCampusInstructablescreativeLIVEDo it yourself

GrovoMIT Open CoursewareOpen Learning InitiativeMIT VideoStanford OnlineHarvard Extension SchoolQuantum Physics Made Relatively SimpleUC San Diego Podcast LecturesUniversity of the PeopleNovoEdUdacityApple Developer SiteGoogle CodeCode.orgMozilla Developer NetworkLearnablePluralsight

CodeHSAquent GymnasiumALISONHubSpot AcademyiTunesUOpen Culture Online CoursesUC Berkeley Class CentralCarnegie Mellon Open Learning InitiativeUniversity of London/Oxford/BBC PodcastsLessonPathsTED-EdW3SchoolsPeer 2 Peer UniversityTreehouseThe Code PlayerTuts+Network

And if you don’t want to do any of that…Publish.Publish everything you write.Blog.Share what you know.Share what you don’t know! (Hint: most people share what they think they know – lecturers, professors, tutors, marketers and institutions alike).Most people don’t publish or share because it’s really scary to give yourself permission to fail, and to fail often, and publically.Ironically, failure is a massive component of effective learning.

Further Resources:If interested in more about what I consider highly intelligent views on the education system as we know it I encourage you to consider researching John Taylor Gatto I consider him to be one of the best teachers I have been fortunate enough to have had ( albeit online)I applied some of his ideas to some of my own classes and achieved what I consider remarkable results

http://www.filmsforaction.org/news/the-public-school-nightmare-why-fix-a-system-designed-to-destroy-individual-thought/

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/10-provocative-quotes-from-ivan-illichs-deschooling-society/

clinton den heyer (expectation approximately equal to reality)

c_den_heyer@hotmail.com

nz.linkedin.com/in/clintondenheyer