My strengths & Motivations and my value proposition Flashcards
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What is Ikigai?
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Japanese concept.
“Reason for being’.
Discovery process.
2
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Why should we find our Ikigai?
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Be happy.
Have purpose in life.
Fulfil desire and world’s health.
3
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How can we find our Ikigai?
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By asking questions to ourselves.
Answering questions honestly.
Try new things.
Explore different possibilities.
4
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How do we become to be more self aware?
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Identify and explore strengths, interests, improvement areas.
How to use strengths to achieve goal.
5
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What do we often do?
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Compare ourselves to others.
Fell we are better.
6
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What do we often realise about others?
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Realise others are better than us.
7
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What does self-awareness mean?
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Pay attention to: characteristics feelings reactions habits behaviours strengths weaknesses
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What does self-awareness allow us to do?
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Understand our self.
Understand how other people see us.
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What do we have to ask our selves if we want to succeed in our life?
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What we want to do?
Do we have the required skills to achieve our goals?
10
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What are some strengths people might have?
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Communication with people. Problem solving. Creative thinking. Hard working. Committed. Organised.
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Where do weaknesses relate?
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Traits we lack.
Areas to improve.
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From what do weaknesses hold us back?
A
Achieving success.
13
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What are some weaknesses some people might have?
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Unskilled. Unorganised. Undecided. Shy. Not accurate. Procrastinate.
14
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What is especially important if we are looking for career options?
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Being aware of skills and weaknesses.
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What can knowing what we are good at helps us decide?
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What jobs are suitable for us.
What we enjoy doing.
16
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What job can we do if we have the ability to convince people?
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Sales job.
17
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What are two the most important things interviewers want to know about?
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Strengths.
Weaknesses.
18
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Why are interviewers interested to know our strengths and weaknesses?
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To see if we are good at the job.
19
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How not to describe strengths and weaknesses?
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Don’t start with a negative.
Never say you don’t have a weakness.
Don’t use indeterminate words: maybe, probably, think = unsure about things.
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How to describe strengths and weaknesses?
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Mention a non-critical weakness.
Explain how you plan to overcome your weakness.
Mention a strength that is related to the job –> as a valuable employ to the company.
21
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What is the best way to reply in an intrview?
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Focus on strengths not too much on weaknesses.
Not mention personal weaknesses.
Mention professional weaknesses.
Be honest.
22
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What shall we do before an interview?
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Think how our strengths helped us in the past.
23
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What are the Big 5?
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Five personality traits we see and measure in people.
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What can we find by answering the 5 questions?
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- Idea of what we want out of life and work.
- Look beyond environment/situation.
- Explore opportunities/life chances.
- Plan changes in life/world.
- Become self-sufficient at job, life, career decisions.
- Understand what roles suit personality.
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Which are the Big 5?
1. Openness to experience.
2. Conscientiousness.
3. Extraversion.
4. Agreeableness.
5. Emotional Stability.
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What does 'Openness to experience' mean?
How inventive, curious we are.
| How much we like a variety of experience.
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What does 'Conscientiousness' mean?
How self-disciplined, planned and organised we are.
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What does 'Extraversion' mean?
How outgoing/talkative we are.
| To what extend we like others' company.
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What does 'Agreeableness' mean?
How friendly, compassionate, cooperative we are.
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What does 'Emotional Stability' mean?
Our ability to control emotions, not be overly sensitive to others' feelings.
How confident we are.
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What the understanding of skills and strengths is?
Key to career development.
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How can being able to categorise our abilities can help us?
To define our working role and career direction.
To celebrate what we are good at.
Accept things we are not good at.
Appreciate others for their strengths in our weakness areas.
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What are the 5 strength categories?
1. Prime.
2. Untapped.
3. Necessary.
4. Underdeveloped.
5. Weaknesses.
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What does 'Teamworking' mean?
Working well in teams.
Proactive.
Develop positive relationships.
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What does 'Solving problems' mean?
Analyse problems from different perspectives.
Identify logical solutions.
Have resourceful attitude.
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What does 'Public speaking mean' ?
Leading presentation.
Deliver speech confidently.
Engaging audience.
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What does 'Time managing' mean?
Effectiveness.
Prioritise work.
Meeting deadlines.
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What does 'Working under pressure' mean?
Performing well with high workloads.
Tight deadlines.
Other stressors.
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What does 'Working on own initiative' mean?
Being proactive.
Working under own direction.
Using own own judgement to make decisions.
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What does 'Decision making' mean?
Making important, frequent decisions, effectively.
| With confidence.
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What does 'Negotiating' mean?
Influencing.
Persuading others.
Reach an agreement.
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What does 'Numerical reasoning' mean?
Understanding and calculating numerical problems.
| Interpreting numerical data.
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What does 'Customer service' mean?
Meet and exceed customer and client expectations.
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What does 'Creativity and innovating' mean?
Conceiving, developing new ideas and solutions.
| Thinking 'outside the box'.
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What does 'Networking' mean?
Interacting with individuals and groups to form social and professional contacts.
Share information and ideas.
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What does 'Using technology' mean?
Using IT applications correctly with confidence.
| Adapt and learn new technology quickly.
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What does 'Verbal communication' mean?
Articulating thoughts clearly.
Considering audience, situation.
Appropriate abbreviations.
Suitable language and expressions.
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What does 'Written communication' mean?
Expressing ourselves clearly when writing.
Using appropriate vocabulary.
Care over grammar, structure, length.
Considerate audience.
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What does 'Multi-tasking' mean?
Effectively dealing with a lot of tasks and projects at same time.
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What does 'Managing people' mean?
Planning, organising people and their activities to achieve objectives of team and organisation.
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What does 'Leading others' mean?
Provide direction, guidance and inspiration to others.
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What does 'Managing projects' mean?
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Planning.
Implementing.
Evaluating.
Leading.
--> A project.
to successful conclusion.
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What does 'Budgeting' mean?
Working with finances.
Managing budget.
Reducing costs.
Maximising resources.
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What does 'Presentation-building skills' mean?
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Creating presentations with most important points.
Appropriate images balance.
Numerical data.
Text.
Story that engages listener.
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What does 'Managing conflict' mean?
Tackle conflict --> resolve it.
Remain calm and professional.
Categorical when necessary.
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What does 'Researching' mean?
Gathering information and data.
Investigating systematically.
Verifying information.
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What does 'Adaptability' mean?
Adapting positively to changing priorities.
New situations.
New environments.
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What does 'Delegating' mean?
Assigning tasks to others effectively to achieve team goals.
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What does 'Crisis management' mean?
Making sound decisions quickly under pressure.
| Facing deadlines.
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What does 'Motivating others' mean?
Encouraging others.
Keep others positive and enthusiastic.
Provide reasons to move forward.
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What does 'Training' mean?
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Explaining.
Giving instructions.
Guidance colleagues, customers, clients.
One-to-one informal discussions.
Formal settings.
Activities in large groups.
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What does 'Working in uncertainty' mean?
Handling, resolving unstructured problems/tasks.
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What does 'Commercial awareness' mean?
Understanding how industries operate.
How business functions.
How business competes in marketplace.
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What does 'Quality accessing' mean?
Measuring accuracy and quality of completed work.
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What does 'Designing' mean?
Developing new ways of working.
| New products and ideas.
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What does 'Coaching' mean?
Working with others over a given period.
| Help them develop themselves.
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What does 'Managing change' mean?
Considering impact a change will have on people.
| Supporting plans to change it.
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What does 'Planning' mean?
Determining, scheduling actions and resources to achieve goals.
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What does 'Troubleshooting' mean?
Identifying problems, inefficiencies in processes and products.
Resolving issues.
Streamlining processes.
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What does 'Appraising' mean?
Evaluating value/ cost of products, services and resources.
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What does 'Analysing' mean?
Analysing large volumes of information from different sources to establish facts.
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What does 'Giving feedback' mean?
Comfortable with giving clear, positive feedback through emails and updates.
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What does 'Facilitating' mean?
Assisting others to create and develop ideas, thoughts and plans.
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What does 'Mentoring' mean?
Guiding less-experienced.
Sharing experience.
Advice.
Help people develop themselves.
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What does 'Listening actively ' mean?
Close attention to other people's saying.
Asking questions.
Rephrasing.
Qualify understanding.
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What does 'Empathising' mean?
See something from another's perspective.
| Understanding, respecting opinions and points of views even when we disagree.
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What does 'Evaluating' mean?
Assessing ideas, information, processes.
| Recognising accuracy/quality.
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What does 'Mediating' mean?
Managing conflict between others.
| Finding mutual solutions.
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What does 'Implementing' mean?
Carrying agreed actions.
| Working accordingly to plans and policies.
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What does 'Observing' mean?
Monitoring.
Paying attention.
Identifying less-obvious details.
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What does 'Questioning' mean?
Choosing appropriate questions for audience and situation.
| Derive required responses.
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What does 'Strategy-planning' mean?
Planning effective long-term strategies for a team/organisation.
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What does 'Receiving feedback' mean?
Comfortable accepting and encouraging feedback.
Asking questions.
Implement advice.
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What is organisational culture is about?
How quickly an organisation receives feedback.
Way members are rewarded.
Levels of risk taken.
Type of leadership.
The 'glue' that keeps people working together.
Way thing get done in particular organisation.
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Where does a strong culture exist?
Where staff is aligned to organisational values.
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Where does a healthy culture exist?
Where there is equal opportunity for each employee to realise their full potential in the company.
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What does finding out our own preferences help us?
Find the best fit between us and an organisation.
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What does the type of culture in an organisation determine?
Leadership type.
Management practices.
Organisational strategy.
Success criteria.
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What is motivation about?
Our drive to act in a particular way.
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What is motivation at work?
Amount of effort we are prepared to make and for how long.
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What does motivation affect?
Job.
| Life choices.
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What do motivation insights to find?
1. Good idea of what we want in life and work.
2. How rewarding current situation is.
3. Challenge ourselves to what is over-/under-represented.
4. Plan changes in life.
5. Become self-sufficient at job, life and career decisions.
6. Understand what we need from job to be motivating and fulfilling.
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What are some of the ways to consider motivation?
1. Unsatisfied needs.
2. Intrinsic v extrinsic motivation.
3. Approach v avoidance.
4. Goal-setting = achievement.
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What does intrinsic motivation mean?
Development.
| Purpose.
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What does extrinsic motivation mean?
Result of task.
Reward.
Recognition.
Status.
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What are approach motivations?
Base experience on a positive outcome.
| Recognition.
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What are avoidance motivators?
Not to experience a negative outcome.
| Failure.
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What is the definition of 'Employability'?
'A set of achievements - skills, understanding and personal attributes - that makes graduates more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupations, which benefits themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy.' .
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How are employability skills best developed?
When engaging in real activities.
On-campus activities.
Off-campus activities.
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What do we achieve when we push ourselves engaging in activities that stretch and develop us?
Push us out of our comfort zone.
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Where is real learning and development take place?
When we push ourselves out of our comfort zone.
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What is essential to develop?
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Self-awareness.
Skills.
Qualities.
Personal sense.
Employability context.
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What does self-awareness help us to develop?
Self-confidence.
| Belief in abilities and potential.
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What is essential in order to develop in an employability context?
Know what we know.
Know what we are good at.
Develop our learning.
Pu our learning into our language.
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What are some essential employability strengths?
Write about ourselves in CVs.
Application forms.
Personal statements.
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What is career management all about?
Talk about ourselves to employers.
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What are some skills we might have as employes?
1. Communication Skills and Team Work.
2. Problem Solving, Analysis and Investigation.
3. Organisation and Action Planning.
4. Positive Work Ethic.
5. Networking.
6. Leadership.
7. Self-Management and Reflective Learning.
8. Opportunity Recognition.
9. Influencing, Persuading and Negotiating.
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What are the employability skills interviewers look for?
Learning.
Teamworking.
Work on our own.
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Why is teamworking important in a job?
People work and succeed together.
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What is really important to be able to deal with it in every job environment?
The customer.
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What does teamworking encourage?
New ideas.
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What must sell people have and do?
A will.
Negotiation.
Take information form customer.
Ask questions to customer.
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What do we have to understand in teamworking to achieve better results?
Other people's viewing and aims.
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What do employers want to hear and see in an interview from a person?
Identifiable skills.
| Way people show their personal skills.
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What must the skills showed in an interview be?
Specific to the role/job.
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What do we have to demonstrate in an interview?
That we have the right skills.
| Understand skills required.
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What do we have to consider when researching a company/role?
Required skills.
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In how many key sectors can organisations be categorised?
3.
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What are the 3 sectors organisations can be recognised in?
1. Public.
2. Private.
3. Voluntary.
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What does 'public sector' include?
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Local.
National.
Government bodies.
National healthcare providers.
Education providers.
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What does the 'private sector' include?
Commercial businesses.
| Industries.
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What does the 'voluntary sector' include?
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Non-governmental.
Non-profit organisations.
Grassroots community groups.
Village hall committees.
Social enterprises.
Registered national charities.
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How is the 'voluntary sector' described?
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Not-profit sector.
Charity sector.
Social economy.
Social enterprise sector.
Civil society.
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What organisations and how many does Scotland have?
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24.680 registered charities.
158 housing associations.
550 community interest companies.
20.000 grassroots community groups, sports and arts clubs.
5.600social enterprises.
95 credit unions.
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What are some voluntary organisations in Scotland?
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Edinburgh Zoo.
The National Trust.
The Guides.
Citizens Advice.
Mountain Rescue.
Glasgow Science Centre.
Edinburgh International Festival.
Pitlorchy Theatre.
The Beatson.
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What is the aim of charities as organisations?
Replace helping poor by modern progressive voluntary sector.
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What does a modern progressive voluntary sector do?
Activities to improve people's lives.
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How does a modern voluntary sector improve people's lives?
1. Supporting people.
2. Empowering people.
3. Bringing communities together.
4. Enabling better health and wellbeing.
5. Improving environment.
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How does a voluntary sector support people?
Social care.
Health services.
Employability programmes.
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How does a voluntary sector empower people?
Giving voice.
| Take action in communities.
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How does a voluntary sector bring communities together?
Social activities.
Local clubs.
Community centres.
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How does a voluntary sector enable better health and wellbeing?
Medical research.
Addiction services.
Sports facilities.
Self-help groups.
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How does a voluntary sector improve environment?
Conservation of land and heritage.
| Regeneration of communities.
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What are all the voluntary sector organisations?
Values-driven organisations with social/environmental purpose.
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To what are all voluntary sector organisations committed to work?
1/more of Sustainable Development Goals.
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What are the social/environmental purposes voluntary sector organisations have?
1. No poverty.
2. Zero hunger.
3. Good health and well-being.
4. Quality education.
5. Gender equality.
6. Clean water and sanitation.
7. Affordable and clean energy.
8. Decent work and economic growth.
9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure.
10. Reduced inequalities.
11. Sustainable cities and communities.
12. Responsible consumption and production.
13. Climate action.
14. Life below water.
15. Life on lands.
16. Peace, justice and strong institutions.
17. Partnerships for goals.
18. Sustainable development goals.
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What organisations do exist in voluntary sector?
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Social care.
Heritage = culture, family (cypriot).
Sports.
Culture.
Health.
Housing.
Animals.
Environment.
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What do workers love about voluntary sector jobs?
1. Feeling of making difference to people and communities.
2. People they support.
3. Colleagues, working in a team.
4. Days are not same, new projects.
5. Developing new ideas, being creative.
6. Independence, flexible, manage new ideas.
7. Ethos of sector.
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What are some of the most popular roles?
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Administration.
Business development.
Care work.
Childcare.
Community development.
Drug & alcohol support.
Education.
Events planning.
Finance & accountancy.
Fundraising.
Heritage.
Information & advocacy.
IT/digital.
Management.
Mental health support.
Policy & research.
Public relations.
Retail.
Sport & leisure.
Wildlife conservation.
Youth work.
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What are the numbers of youth volunteers?
Double the adult figure.
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What do volunteers gain?
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Important skills.
Experience.
CVs.
Job applications.
Fun.
New skills.
Confidence.
Happiness.
Career prospects.
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What can charities offer?
New trustees.
Younger voices.
Ongoing support.
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What do we need to have on our CV except academic achievement?
Extra-curricular activities.
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How can we meet new people?
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Sports clubs.
Societies.
Volunteering.
Part-time work.
University.
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What do we have to balance in our life?
Studying and social life.
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What is the aim of extra-curricular activities?
Learn about ourselves.
| Develop, use skills and knowledge.
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What are all employers looking for?
People with a range of skills.
Personal qualities.
Experience.
Productive.
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What can you build by taking part in societies?
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Long-lasting friendships.
Connections.
Meet students.
Communicate.
Teamwork.
Organisation.
Problem solving.
Time management.
Confidence.
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How can we develop our leadership abilities?
Becoming chairperson.
| Secretary of society.
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What if there is nothing matching our interests?
Set our own society.
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How can we connect with potential employers differently?
By volunteering.
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What can volunteering can offer to us?
Increase knowledge.
Decide what to do.
Give 'real life' experience.
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Where can we volunteer?
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Charity.
Non-profit organisation.
School.
Hospital.
Local community centre.
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Where can we volunteer?
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Charity.
Non-profit organisation.
School.
Hospital.
Local community centre.
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What skills can volunteering offer us?
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Boost CV.
Real life experience.
Decision making.
Build confidence.
Explore different work areas.
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What do we have to ensure when we do a volunteering work?
Does not interfere with university studies and extracurricular activities.
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What does working during university allow us to earn?
Money.
Insight into various roles in industries.
Friends.
Work experience.
Excellent examples for future interviews.
Responsibility.
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What is the working time recommended?
No more than 20 hours/week.
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What must we refer to when we apply for a graduate position?
Responsibilities carried out.
Extra-curricular activities.
Skills.
Knowledge gained.
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For what are extracurricular activities crucial?
Boosting graduate career prospects.
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What does an active student convince recruiters?
Can build positive relationships.
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What can hobbies and interests at university through societies can improve?
Chances of getting an internship/graduate job.
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Why are extracurricular activities important on a CV?
They can tell a lot about a candidate.
Show evidence of skills and potential to succeed in future.
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What is the key in extracurricular activities?
Be passionate about interests and activities.
| Talk about them in depth.
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What do subject societies offer?
Social events.
Professional development.
Networking.
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What does being involved in a subject society provide?
Genuine interest in subject/profession.
| Better preparing for employers.
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What do sports clubs provide?
Teamwork skills.
Regular commitment.
Leadership.
Communication.
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What do entrepreneurship societies provide?
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Mentoring.
Compete for funding.
Business challenges.
Solve problems.
Business case studies.
Commercial awareness.
Business principles understanding.
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What do student TV societies offer?
Communication skills.
| Teamwork.
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What does volunteering offer?
Emotional intelligence.
| Creativity.
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What do campaigning societies offer?
Find voice.
Effective communication.
Negotiation.
Influencing, persuading skills.
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What can joining a society with people outside university too provide?
Build positive relationships with clients, colleagues in workplace.
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Where must we emphasise when writing extracurricular activities on CV?
Skills developed.
| Contributions made.
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How can we use the extracurricular activities in applications and interviews?
To answer competency-based interview questions.
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What can a competency-based interview question be?
'Describe a time when you worked in a team'.
'Tell us about a time when you disagreed with someone. How did you resolve it?'.
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How can we answer questions differently in interview such as 'What is your most significant achievement?'. ?
Extracurricular activities, except degree courses.
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What does an inside self awareness mean?
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Motivations.
Energisers.
Strengths.
Weaknesses.
Tendencies.
Values.
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What does outside self awareness include?
How we learn.
Our interactions.
Teamwork.
How others see us.
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Why is self-awareness important?
We can only grow and develop with any success if we understand we are starting from.
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What does self-awareness help us do?
Better choices.
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When is making new choices important?
When applying for a new role.
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What does knowing what we are good at give us?
Confidence.
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What does confidence offer?
Talk about ourselves more convincingly in CV and interview.
Fit better in new role.
See clearly how we fit in a team.
See why others need us.
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What does self-awareness mean based on work?
What skills we need to work on.
| How come across to others.
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How can we know our-self better?
Talking to others.
Take self-assessments.
Reflection.
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What does talking to other people mean?
Ask for feedback from friends colleagues, coaches, mentors, managers --> listen carefully --> notice reaction.
Career conversations/reviews --> what is working/not.
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What can personality tests clarify?
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Preferences.
Values.
Styles.
Motivations.
Strengths.
Weaknesses.
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What does reflection mean?
Think about people's and assessments' feedback.
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What are some reflection questions to ask ourselves?
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When did you shine?
What did you learn?
What worked?
What didn't?
What did you enjoy/dislike?
When did you feel energised/drained?
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