NAA - Work experience workshop 2

Academic Year: 2014/2015
Work
Experience
Module
Workshop #2
Nottingham Advantage Award

• Graduate Destination Surveys 2008 – 2013
Kevin Lim
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Work experience set you apart
Do an internship (or two or three)

Work Experience Module
Aim of the Session:
To translate your placement into a meaningful work experience.
Objectives:
• Make the most out of your work experience:-
a) SWOT analysis
b) SMART action plan
• To look at how to create a good reflective portfolio

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Your journey so far of securing a
placement?

Activity… Your journey securing a
placement
In pair (10 minutes). Talk about:
• Your initiative thus far
• How you land the placement
• Challenges
• What you looking forward/ next step

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SWOT analysis
A situation method of self-
evaluation for generating
solutions and examining
choices

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SWOT analysis
• To identifying areas for development
• Analysing your strengths and weaknesses as
well as the opportunities and threats that you
face
• Helps you focus on your strengths, minimize
your weaknesses, and take the greatest
possible advantage of opportunities available to
you

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Being aware of your own SWOT analysis
framework, you can pave your way on
your personal development, separate
yourself from your peers, identifying and
developing the skill sets/ abilities you
need to advance your career
SWOT analysis

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Strengths
I communicate well within in a team.
I am completely committed to my
studies.
Weaknesses
Presenting makes me feel very nervous.
I focus too much on the detail and
sometimes this effects how I manage
my time.
I’m doing a presentation as part of an
assignment. This will help to start to
build my confidence public speaking.
Apply for a part time job. This will help
develop my customer service skills.
Opportunities
Stronger candidates applying for the job
Finding that the work experience not as
expected
Threats
SWOT analysis

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SWOT analysis
Work in group (15 minutes)
Appreciate each and everyone own strengths and how these might be built
on to achieve their aim
Identify their own weaknesses which might get in the way but could be a
focus for development
Identify and make the most of the opportunities that would help
Recognise possible threats and how with planning some might be turned to
their advantage.

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Strengths
What strengths you should consider
making stronger to further enhance
your ability to pursue your goals
What do I do well?
Weaknesses
What weaknesses you need to improve
on, or manage, so that they don’t
impede your goal setting
What opportunities are best for you to
pursue
What internal strengths you can use to
enhance your pursuit of these
opportunities
Opportunities
What threats you need to eliminate/
minimise
What internal strengths you can use to
overcome these threats
Threats
SWOT analysis

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SMART action
S = Specific
M = Measurable
A = Achievable
R = Realistic
T = Timebound

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SMART action
Specific
Goal should be clear and unambiguous. A specific goal will
usually answer the five "W" questions:
What: What do I want to accomplish?
Why: Specific reasons, purpose or benefits of accomplishing
the goal.
Who: Who is involved?
Where: Identify a location.
Which: Identify requirements and constraints.

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SMART action
Measurable
Making sure you :-
1. Stay on track
2. Reach your target dates, and
3. Experience the exhilaration of achievement
A measurable goal will usually answer questions such as:
How much?
How many?
How will I know when it is accomplished?
How will I measure my success?
Indicators should be quantifiable

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Achievable
Goals need to be realistic and attainable. The goals are neither
out of reach nor below standard performance, as these may be
considered meaningless.
When you identify goals that are most important to you, you begin
to figure out ways you can make them come true. You develop
the attitudes, abilities, skills, and financial capacity to reach them.
SMART action

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Realistic
Choosing goals that matter. You may need support to accomplish
a goal: e.g. resources, your superior, etc.
A realistic goal can answer yes to these questions:
•Does this seem worthwhile?
•Does this match my needs?
SMART action

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Time-bound (WHEN?!)
A commitment to a deadline to help you to focus your effort
on completion of a goal on or before the due date.
To prevent goals from being overtaken by the day-to-day
crises that invariably arise in your responsibilities.
To establish a sense of urgency.
SMART action

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Work individually (10 minutes)
Refer to page 13 in your Work Experience Journal.
SMART action

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How to create a good reflective
portfolio

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Your reflective portfolio
• Log/ record which evidences your own learning and skills.
• Not necessarily a formal ‘academic’ piece of work.
• It is unique, without ‘right’ or ‘wrong’.
• Lessons learned and how to use/ transfer the new skills in
future.
How to create a good reflective portfolio

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You
• Record (experiences, feelings, thoughts)
• Structure
• Think about and reflect upon
• Plan, develop and evidence
• Making conclusion
your own learning

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FAQs
• What you did
• Your thoughts
• Your feelings
• How well (or badly) it went
• What you learnt
• What you will do differently next time.

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Don’t stop there. Ask yourself further,
Have I achieved anything? If so, what? If no, what happen?
What progress have I made?
Have I put any theory into practice?
How does what I have been doing lead to me becoming
better at a skill?
How can I use this to plan for the future?
How can I use this to plan new learning experiences?

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Be honest with yourself.

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Use these logs to prepare for your
interviews. Recall activities that
you had been involved.
Make the most of it!

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Completing the module
To gain accreditation for the work experience module you must complete
the following actions:
Before your work experience
• Attend the First workshop
• Submission of your Pre-work experience CV by April 15 at the latest
• Attend the Second workshop

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During your work experience
• Complete a minimum of 40 hours work experience
• Keep a reflective log or diary

After your work experience
• Create a CV, or develop an existing CV, to demonstrate your newly
acquired experience and skills
Assessment workshop:-
Present your work experience portfolio
There will be 2 wrap-up workshops in mid-October. Mobility students are
required to attend the wrap-up workshop in UoN.

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Submission of your Work Experience Journal
Please be informed that you are required to submit your journal (in hardcopy) to me (
Careers Advisory Service, Block H, Level 1, Room 18) by Oct 6, Monday by 12pm.
Highlights (please take note)
1. Please type and no handwritten
2. Please get your supervisor to sign and place the company stamp on the section 2.2,
(page 23)
3. You are required to submit your updated resume/CV (as mentioned in page 31)
together with your journey.

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Graduates with no experience (internship/ part-time/
extracurricular) will find it hard to compete
Can you hit the ground running?
Kevin Lim
Careers Adviser

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If not you, then who?

Any questions?
Contact us
Location: Careers Advisory Service, HB 18
Email: NAA naa@nottingham.edu.my
Website: www.nottingham.edu.my/careers
www.fb.com/unmccareers

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Thank you
Kevin Lim Khee Leng
Careers Adviser
The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus

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