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IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts Simon DweckHead of Internationa Services Capita Education Resourcing Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts Understanding your Motivations CV Advice Your Public Profile Interview Advice

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IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

Simon DweckHead of International School ServicesCapita Education Resourcing

Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts Understanding your Motivations• CV Advice• Your Public Profile • Interview Advice

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

Understanding your motivations

“Status, pay

and

professional

autonomy”

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe to be great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you will know when you find it.

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

Activity one: What are your motivations?

What do you enjoy most in what you do now? What aspects would you not want to have?

• Great interaction with the School Leader

• A Teaching Assistant available to help

• A ‘light bulb’ moment with a student

• Too much extra curriculum activities out of working hours

• Not enough pay

• No recognition for great work

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

CV: Content is King

Heading: Full name in large, bold letters and centered on the page (not Curriculum Vitae or CV as it can be derived from the document itself that it is a CV)

Address: Should not take up a lot of space, needs to be better presented. Keep lettering consistent.

Email: Should be professional (e.g. first and last name)

Optional: Nationality, date of birth, gender and marital status are optional information which are best left out unless there is a specific benefit to their inclusion.

Education:

• The entries of this section need to be on chronological order (i.e. most recent first);

• Omit irrelevant and outdated education;• State grade/qualification achieved;• Expand on important education (e.g. degree)

and list some of the relevant modules;• Don’t forget: maintain the same structure and

format throughout your CV!.

Personal profile: • Avoid vague statements that are not specific enough to carry any weight or meaning• The Personal Profile needs to be punchy and should outline your personal characteristics as

it related to the role you’re seeking or applying for• All sections of a CV, excluding the personal details, should be appropriately labeled.

Hobbies: • Do not mention any irrelevant hobbies on your

CV that do not add additional value to your application;

• Do not disclose political or religious affiliations;• Avoid listing too many hobbies; when will you

have time to focus on the job?

Employment & work history: • For each entry the following is required: name of the company worked in, start and end dates

(month/year format), job title and main tasks performed;• Omit irrelevant or otherwise insignificant work experience;• Do not use many jargon or technical terms many readers will not understand;• The presentation of the information (i.e. layout) is equally important as the content!!

References: • The referee’s name needs to be mentioned in full;• Include the position that the referee holds in the company;• Do not disclose anyone’s private contact details on your CV

except with permission.

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

CV Content

Work you are proud of because:• it helped you to develop your skills• it delivered a quantifiable bottom-line benefit to your organisation/team• it improved the way your organisation/team did things• it benefit the people around you• you exceeded expectations• you received recognition in the shape of awards, positive performance reviews• you took ownership of a project or issue and helped to resolve it

Things you had to do as part of the job:• your key 3 or 4 responsibilities – things you had to do based on your job description

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

Search Optimisation

Optimise your CV for search: Make sure you mention the things that people will be looking for.

Use a clear format: Make sure that someone skim-reading your CV can pull out the important points without having to read it all. Use bold type and bullet points while also thinking about a page format that is easy to navigate and not too crowded.

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

Don’t do this!!!

• Tracked Changes: if you are using someone else’s CV as a starting point, make sure you are not using the “track changes” option in Microsoft Word

• Photos: if you don’t have a good one, don’t use one.

• Too much information: so keep it snappy.

• Don’t lie: You WILL be caught out

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

Social Media: LinkedIn

• Make sure your access settings are open so that people can see your name on search results

• Make sure your profile is search optimised

• Make sure all of your relevant roles are included on your profile

• Join relevant groups

• Make sure you use a good quality photo that you would be happy for a future employer to see

• Include your education and languages

• If you are actively looking, make sure some contact details are visible

• Work on your network – think about previous/current colleagues

• Check your profile regularly

• Recommendations are very useful to have on your profile but remember who may read these – they should not just be from workmates, but relevant bosses, important stakeholders, etc.

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

CV Libraries Dos and Don’ts:

• DO make sure that all of your profile information is accurate and up to date

• DON’T just upload your CV and ignore building your profile

• Focus just as much on populating all of the fields that the CV library requires - it is not just about your CV

• DO make sure you categorise yourself properly by sector and skills according to how the site works

• DO put in salary expectations and keep them realistic. If left blank, you will not appear in over 50% of search results

• DO be specific about location.

• DO make sure you are available to respond to interest in your profile once it is properly posted – you only have one chance to make a first impression.

• DO be careful about putting your profile on a CV library if you aren’t really open to new opportunities. You could end up wasting not only your own time but the time of potential future employers and recruiters.

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

CV Libraries Dos and Don’ts:

Use Recruiters!!!

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

Interviews

Situation: Think about a recent challenge or situation. Ensure this section is concise, relevant and provides a useful backdrop to the situation your example started in

Task: What did you have to achieve? What was the problem you needed to overcome or challenge you needed to tackle? What outcome were you looking for?

Action: What did you do? 

Result: What were the outcomes of your actions relating to the original task? 

Situation and Task should be summed up in a sentence or two while the majority of your answer is split between action and results.

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

Star Technique

Conversationally, you could think of it as follows:

Situation: The issue that I faced to start with was

Task: What I needed to improve

Action: So the steps I took

Result: And the outcome was…

IPSEF: Navigating the job market: Do’s and Don’ts

Questions and Answers

Have you heard any good interview questions and answers?