In an earlier post, we talked about the role networking can play in your career development and subsequently ran a webinar on using LinkedIn to extend and manage your network.
For those of you unable to make the webinar on using LinkedIn to extend your professional network on August 29th, 2013, a recorded session is now available.
If you would like to consider how best to market the skills and experience you are gaining from your distance learning course then sign up for our online workshop, Marketing Your Masters. It will give you the opportunity to identify and assess the skills and experience you have developed through your distance learning masters course and reflect on what aspects you need to develop to move forward in your career (whether within academia or industry). It will also ensure you understand how you can market this experience most effectively in your CV.
The seminar will be run on Friday 20th September from 13:00 GMT until approximately 14.:15 To access it go to this link in good time for the start of the seminar.
If you can’t make this time then the seminar will be available to view afterwards on Career Connect.
In a previous post my colleague Darcey talked about the importance of learning from conversations. While we know this is important for good career management sometimes it can be difficult to have constructive conversations with others. For many (but not all) of you as distance learners, conversations with a current employer could be an important part of successful career management.
What: LinkedIn – Making it work for you
A webinar from the University of Edinburgh Careers Service
LinkedIn is about making contacts/connections – but it can be much more than that. This webinar will help you to explore LinkedIn for information, insights, groups and discussions. There will be plenty of time for questions and observations – and we hope that some of you might be happy to share any expertise you have in using LinkedIn.
You may remember that the Careers Service asked you to complete a survey on careers support for online distance learning (ODL) students a few months ago. It produced a few interesting results about what you are thinking so we thought we would share an overview with you.
Who you go to for careers support
When asked who you go to for your careers support, most common choices were your professional network (70% of you said you used this frequently or occasionally), friends and family (65%) and work colleagues (62%). This is really common and rightly so.
Making any kind of decision, but particularly ‘big’ life choices such as career decisions can be difficult. Many people will offer advice on how to go about the process, but it is good to identify how you tend to approach decisions, and identify what about your decision making style may be helping or hindering you.
As an idiomatic phrase, ‘talking shop’ has probably never had a pleasant connotation. Think of those people who can’t let work go at non-work events; or situations or organisations where lots of talking takes place but no decision is ever made and nothing gets done. Talking shop or professional conversation, to give it a more scholarly gloss, is an invaluable – and often overlooked – source of learning and development in our careers.
