Supporting clients to use the internet for career building

Workshop for the National Careers Service, Rochdale, 1 th !anuary "#1$ %y &ristra' (ooley )Reader in Career *evelop'ent+

Learning outcomes By the end of the programme learners will: be able to articulate the key benefits and challenges of the online for career building; apply the seven Cs model of digital career literacy to their own practice with clients; confidently use, and explain to clients, key tools like Google and inkedin; and articulate their own learning goals and development needs in terms of digital career literacy!

What you said you wanted

"he "#$ suggested that you were competent but not necessarily enthusiastic users of new technologies! %eople said that their clients often asked for help with new technologies, but that they were only sometimes able to provide help! &ome experience in using 'acebook and (outube $ few people wanted to start using "witter

Twitter
&et up an account 'ollow at least )*+,** relevant people to get an interesting news feed! %ost anything -as long as it is no more than ,.* characters/ 0etweet interesting things that other people say 1se 2 to bring what you are saying to the attention of a particular individual 1se 3hashtags to group tweets and participation in wider conversations e!g! 3nationalcareersweek

Favourite website 4hat is your favourite website5 4hat is your favourite career related website5 6as your use of the internet ever supported the development of your career5

Discuss: What opportunities does the internet offer you in your career?

What opportunities does the internet offer our careers? $ccess to career information $n opportunity to interact with potential employers $ place to build and maintain your professional network $ place to raise your profile and manage your reputation!

Making the most of this takes skill

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C hanging Collecting

Curating

Creating

The 7 Cs of digital career literacy

Critiquing

Communicating

Connecting

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#! "ollecting

"ollecting &earch $lerts #etworks

$earch &earch is the way to find what you are looking for! 7ifferent search tools ranging from Google to specialist 8ob sites! 9ffective searching re:uires skill and the ability to use techni:ues like keywords, advanced search and even more technical things like boolean searching! &earch takes time and re:uires you to carefully refine your search as you go!

%lerts $lerts are the way to find what is new! ;arious specialist alerts are available! "hey are powered by a variety of technologies including email and 0&&! <ore sophisticated alerts allow you to manage and refine outputs in a similar way to search! 1sing alerts re:uire foresight and an upfront investment of time!

&etworks #etworks are a way to make happenstance discoveries! #etworks can operate online and offline and use a variety of technologies! &ocial media is a powerful ways to activate and sensitise your networks to your 8obs earch! 1sing networks re:uires upfront investment and a willingness to curate your networks!

'! "riti(uing

What do you use to criti(ue online resources?

$ome tools for criti(uing 4ook at 10 4ho created the site "he date it was last updated :sk 4ho paid for the site 4hy the site was created in the first place Consider 4hether the information is available elsewhere5

)! "onnecting

&etwork type

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&etwork type ' *-eal networks,

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&afe %rivate =ntense

But Can be dull ack new ideas >ften have too few visitors %eople dont always come back

What are the best tools for online networking?

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What makes for effective communication 4ith potential employers5 4ith your current boss5 4ith your current colleagues5 4ith your professional network5 4hen approaching someone new5 4ith friends and family5

7oes this change across different tools5

/! "reating

0ortfolio building

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0ortfolio #

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Discuss 4hat content could make people in your professional network think more positively about you5 4hat kind of content might be dangerous5 4hat is the minimum5

1! "urating

"urating <anage it by building a narrative &wamp out the bad stuff?less useful 7elete things -if you can/ that are really damaging 9xplain the damaging things that you cant delete

-eflection

What did you already know-

What did you want to learn-

What have we covered-

What do you want to learn neAt-

Learning outcomes By the end of the programme learners will: be able to articulate the key benefits and challenges of the online for career building; apply the seven Cs model of digital career literacy to their own practice with clients; confidently use, and explain to clients, key tools like Google and inkedin; and articulate their own learning goals and development needs in terms of digital career literacy!

2ibliography

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Tristram 3ooley
0eader in Career 7evelopment =nternational Centre for Guidance &tudies 1niversity of 7erby http:??www!derby!ac!uk?icegs t!hooley2derby!ac!uk 2pigiron8oe Blog at http:??adventuresincareerdevelopment!wordpress!com