Career planning or how to survive and thrive beyond college

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Career planning or how to survive and thrive
beyond college

• PPD Level 2

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Effective Career Planning

Self awareness
Opportunity awareness

Review Options DECIDE
Take Action!
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Learning Outcomes

• A comprehensive record of skills and
  understanding, from both the course and wider
  activities (LO1)
• Reflection upon their skills and achievement in
  relation to personal and professional
  development (LO2)
• Evidence of evaluation of skills gained (LO4)
• Evidence of reflection upon the application of
  skills in new situations. (LO3)

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Aims of PPD at this level are to.

• Encourage you to
• Develop a personalised career plan that will help
  you be prepared for life beyond this course
• Relate this to
• who you are (skills, achievements, values)
• the outside world (opportunities)
• Identify areas to work on knowledge, skills etc
• Represent your progress
• Represent and reflect on this through your PPD
  File

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PPD File Goal

• My goal is to work as an Editor, although this
  may take more than 5 years. I really enjoy the
  process of bringing sound and images together to
  make a final production. Im good at the skills
  that are important for this.

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PPD File Goals

• I am particularly interested in drama for film
  and television but there are other types of
  productions that Ive also become more interested
  in. Ive realised from the course that
  documentary has a lot of things in common with
  drama in both the production and use of
  narrative. Also there have been commercially
  successful productions recently and so this area
  is growing.
• Ive found from the course and from resources
  like shootingpeople.com that this is a very
  competitive area and I will have to be very
  skilled and determined. It is likely that I will
  have to work as a runner or assistant first.

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PPD File Reflection

• Work experience was a vital part in my career
  planning during Ravensbourne College. During my
  time at Ravensbourne College I have tried to
  undertake as many work experience placements as I
  can. When you go on work experience you have a
  great opportunity to witness how an organisation
  works. Since I began doing work experience I have
  worked for the BBC, lTV, Channel Four, Channel
  Five, Sky and foreign broadcasters. Each
  organisation I have worked for operates slightly
  differently and does things that other
  organisation would not. Unless you become a
  successful broadcast freelancer it is nearly
  impossible to see how such a wide ranging group
  of organisations work.

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PPD File Reflection - continued

• Consequently, the ability to obtain so many work
  experience placements during my time at
  Ravensbourne College has been extremely
  advantageous for two main reasons.
• Firstly, I have been able to extend my
  fundamental knowledge of broadcast operations. As
  I previously stated I learn something with every
  work experience placement. It can only be
  advantageous to witness other professionals work

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PPD File Reflection - continued

• Secondly, work experience is a great opportunity
  to make industry contacts. lf you read any
  broadcast career manual it will emphasise the
  importance of contacts. There is no doubt that
  having industry contacts is vitally important.
  The vast majority of television position are not
  advertised and simply filled by people that are
  known to the organisation. Put simply, having
  industry contacts can be the difference between
  being employed or unemployed. Also, something
  that I have learnt during my time at Ravensbourne
  College is the ability to manage your contacts.

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PPD File Reflection - continued

• lt is easy to get the e-mail address of industry
  professional then e- mail them a few times and if
  work is not forthcoming then simply to ignore
  them. However, I believe that is the incorrect
  method. I have a list of important industry
  contacts I have gained during Ravensbourne
  College and I make a point to contact them
  regularly to see how they are doing, ask advice,
  often supply them with a new CV and generally
  discuss possible job opportunities. lf anything
  this makes sure that they remember who you are
  and furthermore if they suddenly need someone it
  can beneficial to be at the forefront of their
  minds.

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KOLB career planning

• LEARN
•  REHEARSE
• EXPERIENCE
• REFLECT RECORD
• SHARE

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Self Awareness who am I?

• Strengths and weaknesses
• Achievements
• Skills - you have more skills than you think!
• Values
• Experience
• Attitudes

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Skills exercise

• Describing the achievement/ experience and the
  skills that you use
• The easy ones technical
• The softer and just as important ones
• Use of positive language

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• you have more skills than you think!

• I was a course rep and sat on Course Committees
• Write this statement in a different way make a
  more powerful statement that describes the duties
  carried out and evidence of skills used and which
  uses more powerful language

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I was a course rep and sat on Course Committees

•  I held a position of trust as an elected and
  committed course rep. I was responsible for
  representing the views and wishes of my fellow
  students at academic course committees. On
  several occasions I successfully negotiated
  assignment changes to support students unable to
  keep to set deadlines due to difficult family and
  work commitments

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I was a course rep and sat on Course Committees

• Attributes/qualities
• Trustworthy
• Leadership qualities
•  Skills
• Excellent communicator
• Negotiation skills

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Skills exercise-evidence

• In college
• Course projects and assignments
• Student activities course rep
• Out of college sport, leisure, clubs,
• Passions hand-gliding,allotment

• Work placements
• Employment
• Volunteering
• Freelance
• Temping

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NETWORKING

• It is a planned process in which you will
  interact with and become known, through formal
  and informal settings, to people who can provide
  information about job openings, leads, personal
  contacts, employers that are seeking people.

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NETWORKING

• Networking is about talking to people and
  obtaining referrals so that every contact you
  make is a warm contact.

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WHO/WHAT IS IN YOUR NETWORK?

• MAPPING AND GROWING NETWORKS
• People you know
• People who know you
• People who dont know you-yet!
• Resources
• WHAT ARE THE GAPS?

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  Opportunity Awareness STATIC
RESOURCES PEOPLE

• CAREERS RESOURCES WEBSITES inc
• PROSPECTS
• CREATIVE OPPORTUNITIES
• PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS
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• TRADE SHOWS
• VISITING TUTORS
• COURSE TUTORS
• INDUSTRY SPEAKERS
• WORK PLACEMENTS
• CURRENT EMPLOYERS
• OTHER STUDENTS
• ALUMNI
• EXISTING NETWORKS
• FRIENDS, FAMILY, NEIGHBOURS

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RESOURCES

• www.prospects.ac.uk -job descriptions, salaries
  etc
• www.arts.ac.uk/student/careers jobs, work
  experience, careers information
• Artsjobs arts council

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2 networks

• Claire massage AGCAS
• Women friends Breathe
• Doctor- specialist ex colleagues
• Bonnie Yoga UAL
• Websites Artsjobs
• Ashlins Email links

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taking action!

• What do you need to do on the following?
• Self awareness knowing and recording your
  skills, achievements, values, knowledge,
  experience?
• Career Goals clarifying goals?
• Research- opportunity awareness? Networks for
  support and information? Resources?
• Action Plan- what, how,when

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ACTION PLAN

• What
• How
• By when

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Get SMART!

• Specific Your goals need to be well-defined.
  Try and be as precise as possible
• Measurable You need to know when you have
  achieved your goal
• Attainable Make sure your goals are realistic
• Relevant Consider how relevant your goal is
  within your overall plan
• Time-Specific Try and keep a timescale

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Review Options - reflection

• One thing from today you want to follow up
• with your tutor individually
• in a Seminar
• In a Career interview
• With a Network contact

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• I believe that planning your career is extremely
  important. When many students arrive at
  Ravensbourne College they are totally unsure
  about their future careers. This is totally
  understandable. In broadcasting there is a myriad
  of roles in both the production and operational
  spheres. There is so much choice and variety that
  sometimes people can become confused.
  Consequently, they seek any work experience they
  can obtain often moving between var?ous
  contrasting roles getting know set knowledge
  about a specialist area. Although, it can be
  educational to experience a variety of job roles
  I believe it is equally important that at some
  formative phase that you begin to specialise your
  skills. The Broadcasting industry has been
  decrying the shortage of suitably qualified
  potential employees who have the capability and
  aptitude for engaging in the technical aspects of
  creating television. Many universities are quick
  to teach 'soft' skills or 'people' skills, or
  focusing on idea creation at the expense of
  technical delivery. Consequently, it has recently
  become more impodant for students to supplement
  their university education with work experience
  placements. I always knew what speciality of
  broadcasting that I wanted to undertake. I have
  always been interested in photography. There is
  just so much to consider. Composition,
  perspective, image and emotion are just some of
  the thoughts that enter the mind of a
  photographer. They say a picture can say a
  thousand words. Consequently, it is importantto
  convey the right emotion is any image you
  produce.