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Lesson 1
Your Unique Selling Points
Presented by:
Kevin Redmond
Diploma in Career Advancement– Part I
Lesson 1
About us
Course Agenda
Member Area & Community
Course Engagement
Identify Your Career
Your Communication Style
Your Unique Selling Points
Summary
Course Interaction
Q & A
About Us
• 4+ Years / 2012
• Largest LIVE Educator on the Planet
• 400,000+ new students per month
• Offices All Over the World
• 350+ full time employees (Shawsters)
• 10+ languages
• EGBET
The Truth is…
Achieving Results Takes Hard Work
• Foundation = “What is” ……
And Most Are Not Willing To Do It!
• Attend LIVE = Learn
Course Agenda
Week 1: Preparation
Lesson 1 : Your Unique Selling Points
Lesson 2 : CV Preparation
Week 2: Connecting
Lesson 3 : Job Search Strategy
Lesson 4 : Networking
Week 3: Proposal
Lesson 5 : Interviewing Part 1
Lesson 6 : Interviewing Part 2 Important
Week 4: Closing
Lesson 7 : Salary Negotiation Important
Lesson 8 : Your Career Roadmap Important
Final Assignment
• 70 multiple choice questions
• 70% to pass
• €9 administrative fee
• Free for Shaw Academy Members
Competition Time
• Live = Best
• Libraries = Don’t Teach
• We reward our most diligent students
• Shaw Academy Lifetime Membership Prize
- draw during lesson 6
• Attend 80%+ of the lessons live
Webinar Interaction
• Any questions?
Our support team are here to help
• Chat box
Comment and ask us questions
• Bonus Q&A at the end of every lesson
• How do I access recordings?
www.shawacademy.com – login top right
Class Interaction
• Challenges
• Submit by email
• Constructed to help you progress your career
Members Area
Let’s look at the Members Area
Social Media
https://www.facebook.com/shawacademy https://twitter.com/shawacademy
Let’s Begin
Career Advancement
Finding your ideal job…
Career Definition
Defn:
“An occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.”
Career Question
To stimulate the brain we will continuously ask questions…
How do you find and pursue your ideal career?
In this course…
• How to approach your career
• Finding your dream job
• Strategizing your career
• Finding and leveraging the right people
• Interviewing successfully
• Salary negotiation
1 – Very clear idea
2 – Sort of know
3 – No idea
Your next career move
Your next career move
Same job More money Lots of jobs
Like itor
Don’t like it
New jobor
Same job
Keep movingor
Want to focus
Health Wealth
Family Friends
Your next career move
6 human needs
1. Certainty
2. Uncertainty
3. Significance
4. Connection
5. Growth
6. Contribution
You know the direction of your
career
You don’t know the direction of your
career
Self assessment
Self Assessment
• More of?
• Less of?
• What skills to offer?
• Personal traits for employers?
• What environment will you fit?
Self Assessment
“The ones that are
successful are the ones that
love what they do. The rest
just give up. If you don’t
love it, you’ll fail”
- Steve Jobs
Self Assessment
Self Assessment
1. Your communication style
2. Your intelligence strengths
3. Experience inventory
4. Financial needs
5. Career Summary
• The Logical Communicator
• The Instinctive Communicator
• The Practical Communicator
• The Connected Communicator
1. Your communication style
Self Assessment
The Logical Communicator
1. Your communication style
• like hard data
• real numbers
• suspicious of people who aren’t in
command of the facts and data
Self Assessment
The Instinctive Communicator
1. Your communication style
• likes the big picture
• avoid getting bogged down in details
• cut right to the chase
• prefer a broad overview instead of linear
Self Assessment
The Practical Communicator
1. Your communication style
• well-thought-out plans
• place high value on action
• move ahead resourcefully and determinedly
• commit to action when they know that it is likely
to work
Self Assessment
The Connected Communicator
1. Your communication style
• ability to note discrepancies between
outward behaviour and inward feeling
• ability to sort out complex emotional
problems and situations
• to interpret the meanings of behaviour
Self Assessment
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place”
- George Bernard Shaw
Self Assessment
• Traits• Values• Motivations
1. Your communication style
Self Assessment
• Knowledge• Skills
2. Your intelligence strengths
Self Assessment
2. Your intelligence strengths• Visual • Linguistic• Musical• Physical• Logical• Interpersonal• Intrapersonal• Existential
Self Assessment
Opportunity
Approach
Result
OAR
Remember:• Increase profit • Reduced costs • Increased efficiency
What?
How?
Why?
3. Experience inventory
Questions to ask yourself
• What projects did I work on?
• Did I get promoted?
• Did I spot an inefficiency? (even if I was not in a position to action
a solution)
• Did I automate a processes to the betterment of the company?
• Strengths
• Weaknesses
• Opportunities
• Threats
Self Assessment
Ask friends and family
• Work colleagues
• Personal friends
Self Assessment
• Amount Needed to Live
• Amount Wanted to Live
4. Financial needs
Can Do Will Do How Fit • Knowledge • Skills • Traits
• Interests• Motivators • Satisfiers
• Environment• Culture • Values
5. Career Summary
Self Assessment
“Putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today.”
- Seneca49 AD
Ideal Career
How do you find and pursue your ideal career?
• More of / Less of• Create a plan• Follow a strategy
Summary
Identify Your Career
Your Communication Style
Your Unique Selling Points
Congratulations you have just laid the foundations
Tús Maith Leath na hOibreo Now we can start building on Your Unique Selling Points
o Attend all of the lessons live to ask Questions in real time
and benefit the most
o We’re here to help, so contact us anytime!
Next Lesson
• The next session is “CV / Resume preparation”
• Vital information for your CV
• What HAS to be in it
• What you can leave out
• The number 1 thing you need to focus on
• Technical approach
• Attend all of the lessons LIVE and your knowledge will grow
• Recordings are available within 24 hours
Go to www.shawacademy.com and then the Top Right Corner – Members Area
Q&A
• We begin creating your ‘brochure’
• You will learn Content, Length, Pitfalls and Grabbing Attention
• Covering these topics will allow us to move into more
application focused areas
• You will gain Insight and Clarity
• We reveal the answer to today’s question
Next Lesson is
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CV / Resume preparation
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