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Supporting clients

to use the internetfor career building

Workshop for the National Careers Service,

Oldham, 15th January 2014

By Tristram Hooley (Reader in Career Development)

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Learning outcomes

By the end of the programme learners will: be able to articulate the key benefits and challenges of

the online for career building;

apply the seven C’s model of digital career literacy to their

own practice with clients; confidently use, and explain to clients, key tools like

Google and Linkedin; and

articulate their own learning goals and development

needs in terms of digital career literacy.

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What you said you wanted

The TNA suggested that you were open to new ideas!

Interest in the idea of online safety, copyright and how to

avoid the danger of fraud and identity theft..

Twitter

Facebook

Linkedin

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Favourite website

What is your favourite website? What is your favourite career related website?

Has your use of the internet ever supported the

development of your career?

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Discuss: What opportunities does the internet offer you in

your career?

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What opportunities does the internet offer our careers?

 Access to career information

 An opportunity to interact with potential employers

 A place to build and maintain your professional network

 A place to raise your profile and manage your reputation.

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Making the most of this takes skill

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Curating

Creating

Communicating Connecting

Critiquing

Collecting

Changing

The 7 C’s

of digital

career

literacy

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1. Changing

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2. Collecting

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Collecting

Search

 Alerts

Networks

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Search

Search is the way to find what you are looking for. Different search tools ranging from Google to specialist

 job sites.

Effective searching requires skill and the ability to use

techniques like keywords, advanced search and evenmore technical things like boolean searching.

Search takes time and requires you to carefully refine

your search as you go.

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 Alerts

 Alerts are the way to find what is new. Various specialist alerts are available.

They are powered by a variety of technologies including

email and RSS.

More sophisticated alerts allow you to manage and refineoutputs in a similar way to search.

Using alerts require foresight and an upfront investment

of time.

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Networks

Networks are a way to make happenstance discoveries. Networks can operate online and offline and use a variety

of technologies.

Social media is a powerful ways to activate and sensitise

your networks to your jobs earch. Using networks requires upfront investment and a

willingness to curate your networks.

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3. Critiquing

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What do you use to critique online resources?

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4. Connecting

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Network type 2

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Network type 3

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Walled gardens

Safe

Private

Intense

But

Can be dull

Lack new ideas

Often have too few visitors

People don’t always come

back

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Network type 4 (Real networks)

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What are the best tools for online networking?

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5. Communicating

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Dear SirI would like to apply for the

advertised job.

I believe that I have the necessary

skills required for the post and

that I would be a great addition toyour team.

 Yours faithfully

Tristram Hooley

dEr Sir I wud lIk 2apply 4 d advRtizd

 job. I BlEv dat I hav d

neceSrE skills

required 4 d post &dat I wud b a gr8

aDitN 2 yor team. urs

faithfullyTristram

Hooley

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What makes for effective communication

With potential employers? With your current boss?

With your current colleagues?

With your professional network?

When approaching someone new? With friends and family?

Does this change across different tools?

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6. Creating

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Discuss

What content could make people in your professionalnetwork think more positively about you?

What kind of content might be dangerous?

What is the minimum?

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7. Curating

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Curating

Manage it by building a narrative Swamp out the bad stuff/less useful

Delete things (if you can) that are really damaging

Explain the damaging things that you can’t delete 

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Reflection

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What did you

want to learn?

What have we

covered?

What

did

youalready

know?

What

do

you

wantto

learn

next?

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Learning outcomes

By the end of the programme learners will: be able to articulate the key benefits and challenges of

the online for career building;

apply the seven C’s model of digital career literacy to their

own practice with clients; confidently use, and explain to clients, key tools like

Google and Linkedin; and

articulate their own learning goals and development

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Hooley, T. (2012). How the internet changed career: framing the relationship between

career development and online technologies. Journal of the National Institute for

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Tristram Hooley

Reader in Career Development

International Centre for Guidance Studies

University of Derby

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