Career Orientation – ONLINE HANDOUTS
Dag 1:

• Assignment 1 – Review of last year
• Assignment 2 – Find your Unique Strengths
• Assignment 3 – Identifying Values and The ‘Why’ of your work
• Assignment 4 – Define your areas of Attention
• Assignment 5 – What work do you want do in future

Dag 2:

• Assignment 1 – Brainstorm about skills and qualities that are hidden in a Post Doc
• Assignment 2 – Working with Skills cards- your favourites
• Assignment 3 – Working with Skills cards- Development Areas
• Assignment 4 – Using a metaphor to reflect on skills
• Assignment 5 – Filling up skills list, placemat, see if you can find a pattern
• Empty skills list
• Skill Patterns or Directions
• TS Placemat

 Dag 3:

• Assignment 1 – Using vacancies to find out what attracts you in a role
• Assignment 2 – My new role and Inportant aspects of my workingenvironment
• Assignment 3 – What channels can you use to find out about job opportunities
• Assignment 4 – Networking in the context of Career Orientation
• Assignment 5 – Think of examples using STARR
• Networking in the context of CO on a scale

Dag 4:

• Assignment 1 – Make a summary of what you’ve come to know
• Assignment 2 – Instruction for assessing the CV’s and motivation letters
• Assignment 3 – Practicing Skills section of job interview using STARR
• Assignment 4 – Practicing opening questions, questions about motivation and other questions of a job interview
• Assignment 5 – Fill in your Action plan
• Examples of all questions together
• Examples of opening questions, questions about motivation, other questions
• Examples of questions for skills section of a job interview
• How to make a job interview more interactive
• Skill Patterns or Directions
• STARR in detail for interviewer