Building a mature career strategy your values and
Building a mature career strategy & your values and motivations in deciding a career Part of the Angela Mortimer plc group of companies
Live to Work? Work to Live?
Creating Balance Career Family Social Personal Development
Assessing priorities - Maslow
Life Plans Are Big But…
Just Take a Step Back
Glasgow. . . • Planning - set yourself short, medium and long term goals - Personal and professional • Road map the journey • Review regularly and re align them if your Glasgow trip changes course • Learn from every success and every failure
Thinking Skilfully What will employers expect? Preparation Interviewing A balanced Life Plan
“I don’t know Marge… Trying is the first step towards failure. ”
Building skills and gaining experience • 71% of businesses surveyed cited ‘quality’ and 43% cited ‘skills shortage’ as recruitment challenges for 2013. • 84% of the Times Top 100 employers offer work experience of some nature: • Less than half said they would employ a graduate with no experience • 75% of the roles in city banks are filled by someone who had previously done work experience with them already • Build strategic networks – 6 degrees of separation • “Could I leave this person alone with a client for 10 minutes? ”
Winning Interview Techniques “I really believe my research abilities would be an asset to whatever this company is called”
Defining Employability Self Management Business & Customer Awareness Team Work Positive Attitude Application of Numeracy Problem Solving Application of IT Communication & Literacy
Practice Makes Perfect Practice out loud what you’ll say High impact response Emphasise teamwork Hobbies Honesty
Katie Bard • Established 1976 • Leading supplier of high quality recruitment solutions • Office support, executive, graduate, IT, legal, human resources, marketing & media • 2, 500+ permanent placements per year • Circa 1, 200 temps out on assignment each day • 200 employees • 25, 000+ candidates register with us each year • Placement ratio of 1 in 2 (industry average 1 in 8) • Sales of £ 40 m per annum
What we do We recruit permanent and temporary staff across the Midlands for a full range of Office Support and Executive roles starting at graduate entry through to executive level – including the following: PA/EA Secretarial Administration/ Office Assistant Reception/ Front of house Office Management Call Centre Assistant Graduate Customer Service Our clients range from blue chip multinationals to one man businesses; and candidates are fresh graduates to experienced executives.
Some of the companies we work with. . .
How We Can Help? Test the water temping Permanent employment Career in recruitment Career guidance
Group locations
Tips for Success Build on your strengths Learn from your struggles You win some…. Humility and gratitude Strive for excellence Never give up Never compromise your values Have faith in your ideas
Seminar Interview Skills Seminar Thursday 21 st November 12. 30 -1. 30 Katie Bard, 14 Waterloo Street, Birmingham
Contact us Katie Bard Email: V. Stokes@katiebard. com and L. Bracha@katiebard. com Tel: 0121 633 4443 Web: www. katiebard. com Office: 14 Waterloo Street, Birmingham, B 2 5 TX
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