My course and my career stage Flashcards
What is the definition of ‘career’?
Promotion through life, especially in a profession.
What is the career?
The journey through life.
Learning.
Work.
What is career management about?
Self-assessment. Research. Structure planning. Realisation. Journey evaluation.
What do we have to do if we want to succeed?
To be active.
What is Self-Assessment about?
To know what we are good at and what not.
What we like and not.
What do we have to do to achieve Self-Assessment?
Consider previous roles.
Talk to colleagues, friends, family.
Talk out strengths and weakness.
Check out online psychometric, personality, preference tests.
What is Research about?
Work out our interests.
What we need to be better.
Read articles, company websites, blogs, industry magazines.
Speak to friends, colleagues, companies, career coach.
Job descriptions.
What is Planning about?
Plan longer term goals.
Set objectives.
Be smart, specific, achievable.
Time frame
What is Action about?
DO what it is on my plan.
What is Evaluation about?
How well I am doing compared to my plan. Staying on track? Need adjusting? Realistic? Relevant? Don't be afraid of changes.
What is the first tip for career management?
Choose the right career for me.
How can I choose the right career for me?
Be fulfilled of work.
Something I like.
What can we do after we graduate and we do not want to work this subject as our job?
Find a field that covers a lot of different works.
Find something that excites me –> look for roles within this field.
What is the second step to do to achieve career management?
Manage my boss.
What is the third skill of advise for career management?
Develop a strong track record.
What does ‘develop a strong track record’ mean?
Show to people that must know your career path so far.
Let them know.
Make sure everything is well documented.
Do not rely on your boss.
What is the 4th advise for career management?
Seize opportunities.
How can we seize opportunites?
Get out of our comfort zone.
Take risks.
Do our best in every job at each place of our life.
What can be named as a good opportunity?
A crisis.
What happens in a crisis that improves career management?
Companies work harder in difficulties.
What is the final piece of advise for career management?
Have fun.
How can we have fun at job?
Enjoy colleagues and work.
Smile.
What can we gain from having fun at job?
Meet amazing people –> keep in touch with.
What are the 3 things we need to know to manage our career?
- Knowing why.
- Knowing how.
- Knowing whom.
What does ‘knowing why’ mean?
Understand my values.
What are our values?
Personal.
What are the personal values in a career?
What do I want to do within my career? Where do I want to work? About the people we work with. What our achievement and responsibility are. Have a clear idea of the priority.
What does ‘knowing why’ create?
Job satisfaction.
Success.
How we spend our time.
What can change during life?
Life-balance.
Values.
What does ‘knowing how’ mean?
How we spend our time.
What energises us.
What happens when we spend time on things that energise us?
We become good at these things.
What do we sell to an employer?
Things that energise us and we are good at.
What does ‘knowing whom’ mean?
Let people know about our career aspirations.
Invest in network to help you.
What people say about you.
What is career management about?
Awareness.
When should we seek change?
When we start feeling comfortable in our role.
What does the quote of Peter Drucker say?
‘It is far better to manage your career, than have to career managed for you.’ .
What is one of the benefits of career management?
Taking control of our own career.
Empowering.
What is it always important in career management?
Knowing what is going on within our marketplace and organisation.
Look at opportunities as time passes.
When do you often see the next opportunity?
When we are progressing.
What we must be?
Conscious.
Where we are.
What do we want to achieve for us and for the organisation.
What should we do once we achieve the next step?
Look at a further step.
What do we have to keep in mind in career managemnt?
Impact of technology in all aspects of business.
Aware of our environment and threats.
What happens if we do not engage in career management?
Circumstances will override us.
What does career do in our life?
It explains it day by day.
Why is career powerful?
It explains the paths of our life.
Think forward.
Think backward.
Recognise life.
What is a career guidance?
Any intervention that helps us think about our career, manage it and progress it.
What is the career definition based on OECD?
It is services and activities that assist individuals of any age and at any point throughout their lives to make educational choices to manage their careers.
Activities –> individual/group basis or face-to-face/distance.
=> very broad definition.
What is there to help people develop their career?
Different interventions.
Different ways to be done.
Different reasons to do them.
How is theory useful for our career?
Helps to decide what is important, useful.
Thinking things through.
What is worth doing.
What does Einstein say about theories?
They make the basic elements as simple as possible without experience.
How can we translate Einstein’s saying about theories?
Life is complicated.
Create theory –> lose what is important : dangerous.
Simplify human’s life –> lose something.
Take simple thing –> understand it –> use it.
What types of theories exist?
Theories of career context.
Career psychology of individual.
Career guidance –> best organise interventions.
What should we do with theories?
Impacted of all the theories.
Be interested.
Not choose only one.
What is the difference between theories?
They might come from different traditions.
We might not connect with all of them.
How can we tell a theory/career?
With different disciplinaries.
What are the disciplinaries of a theory/career?
Some are obeying to our aspects, some not.
What are some kinds of disciplinaries of theory/career?
Psychology. Sociology. Education. Economic. Career guidance.
What are the 5 points of the S.A. Leung’s version about telling the theory/career in comparison with our ‘traditions’?
- Work-adjustment.
- Vocational personalities: Holland’s theory.
- Self-concept: career development.
- Circumscription and compromise: Gottfredson’s theory.
- Social career.
How can we journals?
To understand how career theories are told.
How can we tell career theories through people’s interactions?
Via universities.
Social groups.
What are some of the important career theories?
- Trait and factor theories.
- Developmental theories.
- Structuralism.
- Social career.
- Life design.
- Emancipatory career.
What does theory try to explain?
What career is.
How career works.
How career guidance should respond.
What is the aim of the existence of different theories?
They inform each other.
What are theories not?
Closed boxes.
What we need to do in order to theories?
How we combine different theories together.
What does perseverance mean?
To focus on something and not quit until you succeed.
What is resilience?
The ability to recover quickly from difficulties.
What is known about perseverance and resilience?
They go together.
What is every goal?
A journey.
What will occur in every journey?
Setbacks.
What are the setback that will happen in a journey?
Mistakes.
Something unexpected.
Changed circumstances.
What we must do when we face setback in our journey?
Recover.
What exactly is resilience?
The ability to become strong again after something bad happens.
What can be named as a factor of resilience?
Trees that grow again.
Body suffering from a virus and recover energy and strength.
What do we have to do in order to achieve resilience?
Face the facts.
It is not our fault.
We could not predict the setbacks.
Try again with a new strategy to succeed.
What is the best plan to follow when a setback occur out of nowhere?
Examine what happened. Give time. Bounce back. Learned lessons from it. Reshaped plan. Growth.
Why are higher levels of resilience better for us?
In emotional and mental welfare.
What do candidates with higher resilience levels have?
Higher problem-solving skills.
Self-awareness.
Adaptability.
Emotional intelligence.
What is an advantage of high resilience in candidates?
They are more attractive to recruiters.
What does job hunting require?
High resilience levels.
How can we improve our resilience levels?
Through university training. Attending virtual careers workshops. Try something --> fail in safe environment. Review life, actions. Remember achievements. Positivity. Successful strategies. Keep calm. Solving techniques. Meditation.
Which employers seek resilience in candidates?
Medical/healthcare professions. Banking. Law. Sales. Retail. Hospitality. Logistics.
Where should we except resilience assessments?
During jobs–>pressure.
Where will we be asked a question about resilience?
In the application form.
What are some examples of resilience questions during an interview?
‘Describe an occasion when you found yourself dealing with an unexpected situation. How did you demonstrate your resilience?’
How do you deal with setbacks?
How do you cope with pressure?
What has been your biggest failure to date and how did you deal with it?
Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a major crisis.
Describe a time when something didn’t work out as well as you’d hoped. What did you do and what did you learn from it?
Tell me about a time when you worked with someone you didn’t agree with.
How would you respond if you received negative feedback from your manager?
How can we demonstrate our resilience in the recruitment process?
Know how we react to stressful situations.
Call strategies to manage our responses.
Get practise beforehand.
Practise online for free.
Book mock interviews by careers service.
What are we not expected to be?
Superhumans.
Perfect.
Never stressed.
What is one of the best actions to take in our life in general but especially in case of unexpected setbacks?
Ask for help.
What does ‘Readiness’ mean?
Motivation to begin.
Take action.
Begin journey.
What does ‘Decision making’ mean?
Reasonable fit.
Natural.
Opportunity.
Community.
What does ‘Self Awareness’ mean?
Values reflection. Likes/dislikes. Strengths/Weaknesses. Skills. Ability. Experience.
What does ‘Opportunity awareness’ mean?
Awareness of options available than awareness only of easily options.
What does the word ‘Decide’ mean?
Decide.
Go for it.
What does ‘Transition’ mean?
Manage change. Adapt to new situations. Apply for opportunities. Survive rejection. Go to a new place.
What does ‘Reflection’ mean?
What did go well? Am I going to do it again? What will I do differently? Do I need any different support? What kind of support do I need?
What does the career management cycle include?
- Readiness.
- Decision making.
- Self awareness.
- Opportunity awareness.
- Decide.
- Transition.
- Reflection.
What is Career Readiness?
Being fully prepared to transit into work.
What does Career Readiness include?
Career competencies. Broader employability skills. Attitude. Global and inter-cultural fluency. Work ethic. Professionalism. Plan Career successfully.
How are career decisions characterised?
Tough decisions.
Why is career decision a tough decision?
Behind the choice there is a decision:
Go with the familiar/safe or the exciting/new?
How are career decisions made?
Mind map –> brainstorm interests, strengths, values.
Asked people for advice.
Fell into it.
Weighed pros and cons.
Visualised each option.
Did what I told.
Prayed.
Tried things out.
Was in the right place the right time –> seized opportunity.
Researched all options.
Listened to inner voice.
Which factors play a part in a career choice?
Interests.
Friends.
Family.
Inspirations.
What might limit choice?
Financial statement.
Place.
Likes/dislikes.
What might expand choice?
Opportunities.
Listen to people with experience.
Watch videos.
Read articles.
How is our future characterised?
Unpredictable.
What can career planning and risk management help?
Reduce some future unpredictability.
Better chance in career finding path that works for us.
On what we should focus if we hit barriers and disappointments?
On what we can do.
Move forwards positively.
What is the most in-demand skill organisations will look for the next 5 years?
‘Resilience’.
What do employers want to know?
We are able to deal with setbacks.
Move forward positively.
What do we need to demonstrate when applying for jobs and internships?
Resilience.
Times were shown resilience.
Who is Lady Gaga?
Singer.
Songwriter.
Learned piano at 4 years old.
Who is Doddie Weir?
Scottish.
Rugby player.
MND diagnosed.
Who is Haben Girma?
Disability Rights Lawyer.
Author.
Speaker.
Who is Doug Scott?
English.
Mountaineer.
Who is Joe Simpson?
English.
Mountaineer.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
Pakistani.
Female education activist.
Who is Katie Piper?
English. Writer. Activist. Television presenter. Andover model.
