Navigating the Online World of Work how to find a job online

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What topics will you cover?

• Identify your skills, strengths and areas for development
• Discover what motivates you at work
• Investigate what employers want
• Identify your personal objectives for career development
• Improve your communications skills
• Practice presenting online and write covering letters
• Harness the power of teamwork for problem-solving
• Develop your professional online presence
• Explore how to research different organisations and their job roles online

Learning outcomes

• Discuss key characteristics and requirements of the 2020s workplace, including how digital technology is changing practices at work and in education/training

• Summarise your work skills and strengths, identify areas that need development, and plan how to address these in order to achieve your career goals

• Explore how digital communications are designed, e.g. for particular audiences, purposes and effects

• Interpret and respect the different norms of communicating in different spaces, e.g. professional, social, personal

• Describe the features of an effective presentation and use this knowledge to design and develop your own presentations

• Identify key factors that are associated with motivation and engagement at work

• Demonstrate that you can use the internet to find information and resources to help you make decisions and solve problems based on digital evidence

• Collaborate actively in discussion forums: post reviews, comments, ‘likes’ etc

• Identify, choose and use digital learning resources and tools

• Explore techniques to manage your emotions by strengthening your emotional intelligence (EQ)

• Assess the term resilience, recognise the skills you can practise to increase your resilience and identify strategies that allow you to adapt to challenging situations