Week 4

Today was the hand in date for my first piece of coursework. We were basically made to apply for a pretend job. The coursework required us to send a CV and a covering letter.

A piece of advice here is to always make sure you have your CV backed up. thinking that I did I left this assignment a bit to the last minute thinking I wouldn’t have to completely have to rewrite it, my mistake.
Any way I decided to apply for the fake job with Hyundai as it seemed the one I was most familiar with. after finishing my friend advised me to go to the careers centre to get my cv looked at but apparently had gone to the wrong place even though some one looked at my cv the help wasn’t as good as the other people may have given.

not that it mattered I wasn’t going to go try and find the right place so I submitted my work and started on my other courses work load.

Week 3

In today’s lecture we learnt about application forms that are sometimes given out when you wish to apply for jobs as well as C/V’s.

The lecturer made it clear that sometimes when you write something on you CV that it’s not what you really mean. For example "I have understanding writing C programs" does not necessarily mean your skill full you may only understand how to make a hello world program. In this case it would have been better to use more detail.

Another of he's examples were when people talk about using team work and instead of explaining what they did spend more time explaining what the team did.

This just goes to show that you should be carful what’s on your CV as you may be just as good at making yourself look like you have a wide range of skills, as making yourself look like you don’t have any experience

Proff

This is the first entry in a blog that I will be keeping for my professional skills and issues module at oxford brooks. I am a Computer student and am in my second year at brooks.

I have noticed that this module isn’t really related to my course but am hoping that it will give me a head start for applying for jobs and other things.

Last week I attended the first lecture for this module. It started with Samia Kamal explaining what the module was going to be about and whet we would need to do. She also talked about how appearance was an important thing when going to interviews. By going to an interview in professional clothing it shows that the interviewee has put effort into preparing for it, which in its self tells us a few things.

The person hasn’t left the interview to the last minute and has prepared showing that they will also do this in their work as opposed to someone in jeans who may as well woke up five minutes ago from a night in the pub.
They care about how other perceive them meaning they care about what others think of their work, which in turn will make them work harder.
The interviewers will take you more seriously because a person in a suite looks like their ready to become a businessman, but a man in his underwear looks like he’s unsure where he wants to be.
Finally wearing a suit changes the way you thing, it will make you feel better about yourself and encourage you to give more intuitive answers instead of half effort answers.
To conclude this are just a few things that I already knew and have been reminded of. I will instead say that it’s always a good idea to research into the company you are applying to as this is my downfall. Being asked about a company’s history when all I really want is a wage at the end of the week.