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CV Example
Interview Preparation
Interview - Technique:
- Scream
- Cry
- Worry
- Anxious
- Fear
- Scared
- Nervous
- Depression
- Needles
- Past Abuse - past trauma
- Pregnancy - constant fear
- Future - no idea what I want
- No ambition for exciting future - no future goal
- Feel grey - numb
- Don't know what makes me happy
- Time pressure of being alive- constant fear
- Fear of peer/ co-worker judgement
- Fear of being alone
- Children
- My hamster
- Dogs
- Clean bed sheets
- Dressing gown and slippers
For an Interview:
- Prepare
- Research
- Practice
- Search
- Address Negative Thinking
- Success
What causes me the most stress - past trauma and no future goal
My Success: Comfortable job. Aim to be happy, living comfortably. Long term partner. Dog. Small House, Leeds.
Worry bus - mindfulness, useful to help with times of anxiousness with past, present and future
worries.
Connect:
- Feel close to people
- Valued
- Human need contribute to world
- social relationships - act as a buffer - against mental illness
How?
- Talk don't message
- Speak to someone new
- Ask how the weekend went
- Put 5 minutes aside to listen to a person
- Be in a car with someone
Be Active:
- Regular activity
- Challenges cognitive decline
Take Notice:
- Savour the moment
- Take time to enjoy
- Laugh
- Plant
- Clear clutter
- Different Journey
- New place to eat
Learn:
- Education activity
- Class
- Read a book
- Puzzles
- Research
- Expand Vocabulary
Give:
- Helping others
- Community
Aims:
- Connect - Reach out to people more and arrange to hang out with people more.
- Be active - Pick 2 days of the week and take part in short works outs to maintain fitness as well as walking when I can.
- Take notice - Pay closer attention to the people in my life and how they are doing. Listen more when being spoken to.
- Learn - Read a book every month and watch more documentaries, take up some new hobbies (knitting and gardening)
- Give - Look at local community opportunities to help others when I have the opportunity to do so.
Complete by 17th January 2019
- Go out for a dinner date with a friend.
- Continue to read and watch 2 documentaries.
Interview:
- Do your research (company)
- Look sharp
- Be prepared
- Be on time
- Never be late
- Listen
- Answer the questions asked
- GIVE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES
Research - Website:
- Website
- Comments
- Showreel
- Who?
- Philosophy? Culture?
- Do homework on role
Look Sharp:
- Shirt, Tie, Trousers
- Confidence
Be Prepared:
- CV print & take it
- Copy of references
- Bank account
- Questions to ask
Interview with Pets At Home - Assistant manager
For this example I will be preparing for a job at Pets At Home as an assistant manager. To prepare for this role I had to do some research into what pets at home is like and the kind of people that work there. Following that I had to look into the role I wanted and how I would get ready for an interview for at position. I started by looking at the pets at home and discovering what their morals and culture stand for. To show what the company stands for I am going to provide two quotes from the website that demonstrate what the company stands for and how the business is run. “We are the UK’s leading pet care business, providing pet owners with everything they need to be able to look after their pet.” and “Our stores represent a unique environment and provide a practical, fun and unique experience for pet owners.” These quotes are just two examples of the morals pets at home stands for as well as an example of how the store is run. The general characteristics of the average worker are a happy character with experience with pet ownership. “A whopping 93% of Pets at Home Colleagues are pet owners!” This shows that to be able to apply for this role it would be beneficial to me to have experience with animals. As I do with my own pet hamster (see image 1), plus experience with other animals in the past. I think the role assistant manager would be fitting for me with the level of education I have and my experience with project management in class projects. The role is nothing to high on the business role however, will be a good entry level for me to gain more experience in management roles in careers. To dress appropriately for a interview for this position I would want to dress smart but with a twist. This could be a fun shirt and a skirt. This would show a more formal attire however, will make me stand out compared to other possible interviewees. I would also stand out as more of a character with a more interesting hairstyle and piercings. Which would give a bad impression in the job. However, in advertisements, other employees also have facial piercings, leaving me with the impression that my mildly alternative look would not compromise my opportunity at getting this job role (see image 2). To prepare me for a job I will be bringing in a copy of my own CV. This will help me if I do forget anything written on it if the employer chooses to ask about my previous experiences. I will also be bringing along at least 1 personal reference for the job by either a former peer or tutor from the college. I will also be sure to be prepared for the role by having a place for payment such as a bank account as well as having questions prepared to ask the employer in the interview. Doing all of this will help increase the odds of the interview going well and assuring me a position in the role I am applying for with this company.
For this example I will be preparing for a job at Pets At Home as an assistant manager. To prepare for this role I had to do some research into what pets at home is like and the kind of people that work there. Following that I had to look into the role I wanted and how I would get ready for an interview for at position. I started by looking at the pets at home and discovering what their morals and culture stand for. To show what the company stands for I am going to provide two quotes from the website that demonstrate what the company stands for and how the business is run. “We are the UK’s leading pet care business, providing pet owners with everything they need to be able to look after their pet.” and “Our stores represent a unique environment and provide a practical, fun and unique experience for pet owners.” These quotes are just two examples of the morals pets at home stands for as well as an example of how the store is run. The general characteristics of the average worker are a happy character with experience with pet ownership. “A whopping 93% of Pets at Home Colleagues are pet owners!” This shows that to be able to apply for this role it would be beneficial to me to have experience with animals. As I do with my own pet hamster (see image 1), plus experience with other animals in the past. I think the role assistant manager would be fitting for me with the level of education I have and my experience with project management in class projects. The role is nothing to high on the business role however, will be a good entry level for me to gain more experience in management roles in careers. To dress appropriately for a interview for this position I would want to dress smart but with a twist. This could be a fun shirt and a skirt. This would show a more formal attire however, will make me stand out compared to other possible interviewees. I would also stand out as more of a character with a more interesting hairstyle and piercings. Which would give a bad impression in the job. However, in advertisements, other employees also have facial piercings, leaving me with the impression that my mildly alternative look would not compromise my opportunity at getting this job role (see image 2). To prepare me for a job I will be bringing in a copy of my own CV. This will help me if I do forget anything written on it if the employer chooses to ask about my previous experiences. I will also be bringing along at least 1 personal reference for the job by either a former peer or tutor from the college. I will also be sure to be prepared for the role by having a place for payment such as a bank account as well as having questions prepared to ask the employer in the interview. Doing all of this will help increase the odds of the interview going well and assuring me a position in the role I am applying for with this company.
Such questions for my interview would be:
- What exactly is my role with the company?
- Who else will I be working with in this role?
- How does my role affect the wellbeing of the store?
- How can I make sure I do this job to the best standard?
Image 1
Image 2
Prepare for an interview
- Research
- Look sharp
- Prepared
- BE ON TIME
- Enthusiastic - hand shake, name and smile (Toilet and mirror)
- Listen - carefully & read between the lines
- Answer questions asked
- Give examples - specific scenarios - note examples and learn them
- Ask questions - opportunity to find out valuable information
- Follow up - email for feedback - market yourself
Recce - Pets at Home
Above is the distance from my own village to the location I would be applying for a job. Here we see the distance from the place of work to my own village, and I can see that it is a 20 minute drive or an hour bus ride from the village to the store.
3 Examples of Scenarios - Success, Unique, Problem Solving
A time I was successful in life was when I competed in the UK national competition known as World Skills. The competition takes place in Birmingham over the course of 3 days. I took part in the digital video production competition and my team won bronze. There were 3 members in my team including me as project manager, and my team mates Harry as camera operator and Tao as editor. I took the role of production manager and with our team work by team were able to fulfil the brief fully for the judgment day. The fact my team were able to achieve an award for this competition shows my strengths in team work and my ability to solve problems and puzzles presented to me. Also showing my ambition, as a team we were able to get to the finals and come in top 3 colleges of the UK, showing my motivation to do well in tasks given to me.
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Competencies - The ability to do something successfully or efficiently, what you're good at, if you meet the work criteria.
Job Spec
Playing Competency Snap
Past Experience (Extra Curricular)
S.T.A.R.
S - Situation
- Set the scene, context & background
- Details of project working on?
- Who working with?
- When it happened?
- Where you were?
T - Task
- Specifically exact role in the situation.
- What were you tasked with?
A - Action
- "I"
- Share a lot of detail.
- Avoid acronyms & jargon.
- My response to the specific situation.
R - Result
- Positive.
- What was learnt?
- Differently?
- Experience needs to be relevant to the job.
Give us an example of previous experience you have leading a team?
Back in November of 2018 I took part in a national UK competition known as world skills. I took part as a competitor in the digital video production competition, this took place at UEA located in Birmingham. I was in a team of 3 and took the role of project manager. We were given the task to create a promotional video for the skills show using a poem provide in the brief. We took the task seriously getting to work the second we were able to. the competition took place over the course of 3 days. As project manager, I had to guide the team and our idea making sure everything ran smoothly. I wrote and perfected a lot of the paperwork and research we provided along side the final video we created. our idea was to use the influence of the 2000s film Snatch. The intro for this film provided out main influence. To fit the poem into the video we had participants of the skills show read out paragraphs of the poem. Having the participants faces show the Snatch style title card. As project manager I found it stressful to deal with as we were under a strict time limit and we had a lot to do in that time. We were able to pull it off in the end however, if doing something like this project again I would try to manage our time better and try to provide more time for our editor as he had a lot to do in a short amount of time at the end and this resulted in our final video looking rushed.
Describe a time in your education you have had to work as part of team?
In early January of 2019, we started to work on a short project preparing for an interview, for this project I was in a team of 3 and it al took place in the college of west anglia. My role was not limited to 1 position as we had to help out in different areas. The task we were given to complete was a video that displays how to correctly involved a switch twice along the way. We started by making the pre-production for our idea and slept it up into 2 pieces go paperwork each. I took the job of creating the storyboard and character bios for this project. A week later we bought all of our paperwork together and swapped with another team. With the new batch of paperwork, we were given we were instructed to begin production with what we had from other groups. The point of this I to test our skills in pre-planning and paperwork to see if we could successfully tell an idea to someone who was not involved with the pre-production. From here we planned out our filming schedule and began production for the paperwork e had been given. Another week later we handed in a hard drive with all our recorded footage on it and swapped over for a 3rd time. From this swap we had to edit all the new footage we had not previously seen into a final video. we made an edit each, this section was not restricted to our teams. With this final product we swapped the edits over to the original teams so they could watch and see if the creation they got, was what they intended with their original idea. If we didn't get the video we envisioned back, we had to look at our pre-production closer to figure out where we had gone wrong with the planning. in my team we did not manage to hand in a full script, this made the telling on the story a lot more difficult to convey to the team who was working on production, therefore, the footage that as filmed and edited did not look like what we had originally envisioned. this project taught me a lot about the importance of pre-production and planning for a project as it is what shapes the main idea and is something everyone involved will have to say even if not being involved with the originally creation.
Have you ever made a project with an unsuccessful result?
In September of 2018 we were set with a project to create a milti-camera video, using more than 1 camera to film a project live then be edited either live or in post-production. In my project I had a cast of 4 people, this included me, a assistant camera opporator and 2 actors for set. We made this set my own home and filmed in my living room after adjusting furniture around to for the scene. I was the main person running this show so I took the most work with help from someone on filming day. My show was designed to be a online podcast talkshow, I had titled my show "Gag the Dog" the show was to feature 1 host guiding the show and 1 guest character. The plot of the show would be the host and guest talking about pet peeves and discussing events relating to those peeves. Towards the end of the guests time on the show they would decide out of the peeves spoken about which was worse and why. This project was unlike anything I had previously managed and I struggled to write a good enough script for the concept, following this I also struggled to set up everything with such a small crew behind me. This was my far my biggest fault on this set. There were alot of areas in this production that I would like to reconsider and try again given the chance to. I think I did well in this situation to pull it off. I did make a show and the script worked really well with what I was aiming to make. I found this project to be a really good learning opportunity about crew work and how to correctly execute a project with a crew. This would later reflect in my world skills work and other future team projects. If I was to do this again I would not be afraid to try getting a bigger crew to assist me in different areas of work and assist me further in production.
In early January of 2019, we started to work on a short project preparing for an interview, for this project I was in a team of 3 and it al took place in the college of west anglia. My role was not limited to 1 position as we had to help out in different areas. The task we were given to complete was a video that displays how to correctly involved a switch twice along the way. We started by making the pre-production for our idea and slept it up into 2 pieces go paperwork each. I took the job of creating the storyboard and character bios for this project. A week later we bought all of our paperwork together and swapped with another team. With the new batch of paperwork, we were given we were instructed to begin production with what we had from other groups. The point of this I to test our skills in pre-planning and paperwork to see if we could successfully tell an idea to someone who was not involved with the pre-production. From here we planned out our filming schedule and began production for the paperwork e had been given. Another week later we handed in a hard drive with all our recorded footage on it and swapped over for a 3rd time. From this swap we had to edit all the new footage we had not previously seen into a final video. we made an edit each, this section was not restricted to our teams. With this final product we swapped the edits over to the original teams so they could watch and see if the creation they got, was what they intended with their original idea. If we didn't get the video we envisioned back, we had to look at our pre-production closer to figure out where we had gone wrong with the planning. in my team we did not manage to hand in a full script, this made the telling on the story a lot more difficult to convey to the team who was working on production, therefore, the footage that as filmed and edited did not look like what we had originally envisioned. this project taught me a lot about the importance of pre-production and planning for a project as it is what shapes the main idea and is something everyone involved will have to say even if not being involved with the originally creation.
Have you ever made a project with an unsuccessful result?
In September of 2018 we were set with a project to create a milti-camera video, using more than 1 camera to film a project live then be edited either live or in post-production. In my project I had a cast of 4 people, this included me, a assistant camera opporator and 2 actors for set. We made this set my own home and filmed in my living room after adjusting furniture around to for the scene. I was the main person running this show so I took the most work with help from someone on filming day. My show was designed to be a online podcast talkshow, I had titled my show "Gag the Dog" the show was to feature 1 host guiding the show and 1 guest character. The plot of the show would be the host and guest talking about pet peeves and discussing events relating to those peeves. Towards the end of the guests time on the show they would decide out of the peeves spoken about which was worse and why. This project was unlike anything I had previously managed and I struggled to write a good enough script for the concept, following this I also struggled to set up everything with such a small crew behind me. This was my far my biggest fault on this set. There were alot of areas in this production that I would like to reconsider and try again given the chance to. I think I did well in this situation to pull it off. I did make a show and the script worked really well with what I was aiming to make. I found this project to be a really good learning opportunity about crew work and how to correctly execute a project with a crew. This would later reflect in my world skills work and other future team projects. If I was to do this again I would not be afraid to try getting a bigger crew to assist me in different areas of work and assist me further in production.
Name a time you have done something to better your own mental well-being within the past 6 months.
Back in October of 2018 I decided to get a pet hamster. This choice better helped me improve my own mental well-being. I chose a hamster due to my current life style being unfit for something larger such as a dog or cat. that being to due with my education and the space we have at home not being for for a larger animal. I made the choice of a hamster as they don't use up a lot of room and due to the fact they are relatively cheap to take care of. On the 30th of October 2018 after college me and a friend went to the Wisbech pets at home to pick up my small friend. I already knew a lot about hamsters having been interested in them for a long time and enjoying videos that feature them. having a small character in my life helped give me something to care and provide for. I named her mushroom and spend a lot of my evening bonding with her. She is very active when taken out of her cage, but not so active when inside as she likes to sleep a lot. This change in my life has provided a lot for me and has mad a noticeable difference in my mental health.
What personal interests do you have?
My personal interests other than my hamster include reading and and watching documentaries. I read a wide range of books both fictional and not. At the moment I am reading a book about aliens on earth. I find reading provides me with a lot of relaxation and comfort as the only thing they require is some time. I enjoy watching documentaries about almost anything. Having the opportunity to learn about the world and how things are portrayed has always been an interest to me. As I enjoy learning I am always willing to learn about the best care to provide any working environment I am presented with and have a strong ambition to be the best worker I can be for a job I am presented with.
Left hand side - Their name and address
Right hand side - My name and address
Date - Above "Dear..."
Purpose of letter in one sentence.
3 Paragraphs:
- Talking about the purpose
- Me - What you bring the job
- Attached CV.
Dear Sir/Madame - Yours Faithfully
Formal Letter Examples
Telephone Skills
Telephone skills - Sales and marketing.
- Use the opportunity to buy time. Always give 2 options, the client will always pick 1 option.
- Using a happy voice tone and smile when talking to convert a clear and amiable voice tone over phone. Smiling will help keep you calm and will get you somewhere when in a muddle.
- Create room in the telephone call for friendliness. Will keep you in good terms with the client and will encourage them to agree with you.
- Control the rate you speak. Don't talk non-stop, let them speak first. Then you offer the solution to the problem. let them let it out first.
- Use their name, ask for it, ask for them to spell it if necessary, pronounce correctly. polite and direct to call them by their name.
- leave the call satisfied. Leave the call with a positive vibe feeling good. make them feel like they were in control and owned the call.
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