Job Search Skills Workshop
This highly interactive course is designed for graduate students and alumni who want to learn or refresh their job search skills. This comprehensive program begins with self-assessment and runs through interviewing and negotiations and teaches skills that will be useful throughout your career. Graduate students and alumni are invited to attend any or all of the sessions that interest them.
The Job Search Skills Workshop is a stimulating and encouraging program that
improves your skills and your self-confidence and moves your job search forward. Sessions feature small group and individual activities, lecturettes, group discussion and take-home assignments.
The course meets one evening a week for five weeks. Courses begin in September, February, April, and June and are free of charge. Participants have a choice in how they attend, either by physically coming to campus or by “virtually” attending at the same time from a remote location, using their computer and a high speed internet connection.
If you would like to attend online please contact Jeanne DiBona at least one business day prior to the start of class. She will forward to you information on the specific steps you need to take to be included in the workshop.
Schedule of upcoming events in BentleyLink
Session Descriptions
Targeting and Researching Jobs
Your job search is faster and easier when you have a clear focus and are able to effectively research and target positions, organizations and industries that value your skill set.
In this workshop you will learn how to:
- Analyze the difficult of your job search
- Identify companies and industries that provide you with career strength and flexibility
- Identify and target positions and organizations that will help you meet your career goals
- Research employers using on-line databases to advance your job search
Developing Your Elevator Pitch
An “elevator pitch” is the cornerstone of your personal marketing campaign and positions you to interview and network with greater confidence and focus.
In this workshop you will learn how to:
- Design an “elevator pitch” that allows you to succinctly describe yourself and your potential value to an organization
- Use a 4-step process to develop an “elevator pitch” that markets you as the ideal candidate
- Quickly and easily modify your “elevator pitch” for use in a variety of job search and networking situations
Networking and Informational Interviewing
Personal conversations are a basic tool for networking. Effective networking leads to informational interviews with decision makers and others who are in a position to help you land the job you want.
In this workshop you will learn how to:
- Use “contact theory” to build your network
- Develop a powerful network that will generate job leads
- Use social networking sites to build your network
- Conduct informational interviews that expand your knowledge of targeted corporations, industries and jobs
Successful Interviewing
Effective job candidates don’t focus on simply answering questions correctly. Rather, they see each question as an opportunity to sell themselves and to position themselves as an ideal candidate.
In this workshop, you will learn how to:
- Respond to traditional interview questions
- Use the “STAR” technique to answer technical and performance-based behavioral interview questions
- Prepare questions that you want to ask during the interview
- Practice answering interview questions using on-line software
Building Effective Resumes
Your resume is one of the most effective tools you have in your personal marketing toolkit.
In this workshop, you will learn to:
- Design a resume that gets you interviews
- Develop and incorporate “summary statements” and “results statements” that will strengthen your resume and distinguish you from other candidates
- Analyze your resume as viewed by employers and technological screening software
Price
The program is free of charge.
Registration
- Graduate Students register via BentleyLink.
Click on the Events tab and find Workshops. - Alumni register via FalconNet
