ZeShaan Shamsi Recruitment Business Partner, BBC
What will we cover? Finding new career opportunities Top 10 application tips Top 10 interview tips 10 reasons why following your passion is more important than money • Q&A • • • •
Finding new career opportunities - Utilise your personal and professional network (including social) - Create your own personal brand
His approach led to:
- over 200,000 hits a day - close to 30,000 Facebook likes - numerous job offers
Top 10 application tips 1) Do your research 2) Analyse the job description 3) Keep your application simple, concise and impactful 4) Write a cover letter 5) Include an objective section on your CV/Resume
Top 10 application tips 1) Do your research 2) Analyse the job description 3) Keep your application simple, concise and impactful 4) Write a cover letter 5) Include an objective section on your CV/Resume
Top 10 application tips 6) Summarise your key achievements 7) Make sure your Academic/Professional Qualifications flow chronologically 8) No unexplained gaps 9) Check and double-check your application for spelling and grammar errors 10) Be confident and go for it!
Top 10 interview tips 1) Enhance the research you’ve already done 2) Understand the organisation and its values – show that you can be an ambassador of those values 3) Plan your journey and arrive with plenty of time to spare 4) Dress to impress 5) Stay calm and try to relax
Top 10 interview tips 6) 7) 8) 9)
Be yourself Sell yourself Build rapport Prepare some questions for the interviewers 10) Practice your answers
S.T.A.R Technique Situation: Task: Action: Result:
Describe the challenge or the task in which you found yourself What did you have to achieve? What did you do? What was the outcome and learnings?
10 reasons why following your passion is more important than money 1) Working for money alone may seem like good enough motivation to keep doing the job you don’t like 2) You’re more passionate about the work you are doing 3) You can relate more to the work and come up with better ideas 4) Work doesn’t feel like it’s forced upon you 5) No matter how much money you make, nothing will help you overcome the feeling of doing something you hate
10 reasons why following your passion is more important than money 6) You are more inclined to work later hours 7) You are willing to go above and beyond the call of duty 8) No obstacle will stop you from achieving success 9) Our working careers will consume most of our lives, so we might as well do something we enjoy 10) You will get more fulfillment when you finally make it
Always believe you can change the world – even if it’s only a tiny bit, because every tiny bit needed someone who changed it. Be confident! Be passionate! Be awesome!
Thank you for listening!
Any questions?