Finding Your Career

"Finding Your Career" is a contemporary, relevant and entertaining look into the highs, lows, processes and journeys of job seeking.

Suitable for all audiences from secondary school students to adults, it gives both present and future jobseekers many helpful, empowering and sometimes humorous tips and techniques which will help give them the best possible foundation in the game of gaining employment.

Finding Your Career 1: Self Evaluation
Ahead of you is an opportunity. You probably don't know what it is, or where it will take you, but whatever it is we're here to give you some pointers on how to give yourself the best possible chance to take the opportunity and turn it into a reality.

Finding Your Career 2: Opportunities
Now you may have grown up with the impression that after you leave secondary school, you apply for a job, get a job, and work that job, and that's the whole story. But if you look outside the box there is a whole host of options which you can pursue which are completely viable and will possibly take you higher than just applying for a standard 9 to 5...

Finding Your Career 3: Know the Organisation
You will gain huge brownie points with your future employer during the application and interview process by knowing as much information as possible about their business or company before you are in the hot seat.

Finding Your Career 4: Selling Yourself
The resume (aka C.V.) will be the main reason why you are either weeded out of the race or shown a chair in the interview waiting room. As unfortunate as it may be, it is a reality that the first time an employer reads your resume, they are not reading it to find out about you... they are looking for reasons to throw your resume in the waste paper basket so they can get rid of that ugly pile of resumes from their desk! Wouldn't you?

Finding Your Career 5: First Impressions
After you have scoped out your opportunities, and chosen to pursue a certain avenue, don't go off unprepared, because its a dog eat dog world in the land of the jobseekers and you're going to have to play smart...

Finding Your Career 6: The Interview
Well here you are, at the climax of your jobseeking process; the interview. It is in this short interrogation that your future will be determined. You have very little opportunity to influence your future employer's decision after you walk out the door at its conclusion, so you might want to find out what you need to do during the interview (directly and indirectly) to convince the employer that you are the person they need to fill the gap in their organisation.

Finding Your Career 7: The Evaluation
Immediately after the interview, you have a few options: 1: You can worry about it, stress over what you should have said, and assume that you have failed. Or 2: You can write a very kind letter to the interviewer thanking them for the opportunity to talk with them and stating that you look forward to hearing the outcome. Then accept the fact that it the decision is in their hands and you gave it your best shot!