What is an elevator speech?
What is an elevator speech? An elevator speech is a short message about who you are, your career aims and the benefits you bring to the company. It is a …
Course: Becoming Career Smart: How to Sell Yourself
Beyond your resume
Times are changing; employers not only want to know what you have done in the past, but what you are capable of in the future. While traditional resumes and cover …
Your success
How do you define success from your point of view? The only person who can really answer this question is you, as we have all experienced different forms of success …
Week 2 wrap up
We have covered a range of topics and started your journey of reflecting more deeply on your past work experiences and understanding your current skills. The main highlights from this …
Your skills-audit journey
Now that you have finished your skills audit, we can consider and reflect on the process. You may have identified new skills that you would like to develop or existing …
The golden circle
A powerful model for finding your place in the workforce. Simon Sinek developed a powerful concept which he discussed in his TEDTalk “How great leaders inspire action”. It is important …
Skills audit
Now you are going to put self-reflection into practice. Your assessment task is a skills audit; it is a process for considering and recording the skills that you have picked …
Let’s meet each other
An important objective of this course is to explore your success and what it means to you. This is hard to do on your own. Being able to connect with …
KFC’s #myplan
Corporations are increasingly developing programs that enable employees to become more self-reflective. KFC ® Australia’s #myplan program provides a framework to engage team members in self-reflection, self-evaluation and goal setting. …
What, so what, now what?
Self-reflection is a critical key to unlocking your career-smart potential. Professor Gary Rolfe and colleagues (2001) describe another useful framework for self-reflection in their book ‘Framework for Reflective Practice’. It’s …
Reflective practitioner
We need to take some time to step back and learn from our experiences. But how do we do that? In creating your own elevator speech, you must have reflected …
What is an elevator speech?
It is a short message about who you are, your career aims and the benefits you bring to the company. Earlier, we have talked about how communication skills play an …
Your success
How do you define success from your point of view? The only person who can really answer this question is you, as we have all experienced different forms of success …
How is success achieved?
Success has various meanings, depending on the point of view of the person trying to achieve it. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines it as ’favorable or desired outcome; also: the attainment of wealth, …
Welcome back
Everyone has different criteria for success but learning to reflect can help us all achieve our goals. This week we will investigate: what success means and how to be more …