Skills for Employability Stand out in the Crowd

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Skills for EmployabilityStand out in the Crowd
Tanvir Haque Director, Capstone Consulting
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The world according to talent
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The conventional wisdom

• Anybody can do anything they want to be
• Select for skills and knowledge
• Help people find weaknesses and then fix them

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Did you know
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High performing companies

• What do they do?

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Focus on excellence

• It takes far more energy and work to improve
  from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to
  improve from first rate to excellence.
• And yet, most people concentrate on making
  incompetent performers into mediocre ones.
  Energy, resources and time should go instead to
  making a competent person a star performer.

Peter Drucker
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What is talent?
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Define

• Knowledge
• Skill
• Talent

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Define strength

• STRENGTH equals
• TALENT KNOWLEDGE SKILLS

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KnowledgeSkillTalentPainless injection
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Select for success
67 vs. 729
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Future leaders

• Talent profiles for graduates

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Putting it simply

• People dont change that much. Dont try to put
  in what was left out. Try to draw out what was
  left in. That is hard enough.

First, Break All the Rules What the Worlds
Greatest Managers do Differently (Marcus
Buckingham and Curt Coffman)
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Write a killer resume

• 15 ideas to make sure your resume receives the
  attention it deserves

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Follow the three Rs

• Readability
• Relevance
• Results

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Tip 1

• Know the purpose of your resume

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Tip 2

• Open strongly, force people to read

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Tip 3

• Be perfect, be accurate

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Tip 4

• Focus on results and achievements

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Tip 5

• Be brief short, concise and simple

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Tip 6

• Make it look good

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Tip 7

• Use buzz words / keywords

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Tip 8

• Most recent always first

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Tip 9

• Use action verbs and dont use pronouns

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Tip 10

• Use effective titles be descriptive

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Tip 11

• Use bullet points

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Tip 12

• Avoid negativity at all costs

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Tip 13

• Dont state the obvious!

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Tip 14

• Adapt your resume, not a case of one size fits all

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Tip 15

• Always be truthful

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Online job applications

• Hints and tips on completing online job
  applications

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Tip 1

• Print and read instructions first

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Tip 2

• Read the questions!

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Tip 3

• Prepare answers offline

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Tip 4

• Do your research

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Tip 5

• Check before you click next

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Tip 6

• Practice, practice, practice

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Tip 7

• Be honest and truthful

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Tip 8

• Final check