Employability Flashcards
Careers, Networking and Social media
To make oneself employable:
Develop personal and professional capacity to maximise one’s employment potential.
Professional Identity
One’s professional self concept based on attributes, beliefs, values, motives and experiences.
- Personality
- Values
- Personal goals
- Experience
What is personality?
Refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving.
What are values?
Broad preferences concerning appropriate courses of action or outcomes.
What is person-organisation fit?
Comprises an alignment of your personality, values, knowledge and experience with the organisation and the job position one is applying for.
What do employers want?
Seeking an alignment of knowledge, skills and abilities
Social media and networking benefits
- Access for a wealth of resources
- Meet key people
- Participate in blogs/share and receive information
- Become a member of professional groups
- Access potential jobs
Employers top ten skills and attributes
- Interpersonal and communication skills
- Drive and commitment/industry knowledge
- Critical reasoning and analytical skills/technical skills
- Calibre of academic results
- Culture alignment/values fit
- Work experience
- Teamwork skills
- Emotional intelligence (including self-awareness, confidence and motivation)
- Leadership skills
- Activities (including intra and extracurricular)
