Week 3 - CVs and transferable skills
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Session objective: This session focuses on identifying transferable skills and designing effective CVs, Linkedin and GitHub profiles.
Exercise objective: To identify transferrable skills from different life experiences.
List 3 transferable skills to be gained for your previous jobs or educational experiences.
Exercise objective: To identify skills that can be developed during the CYF course.
The following is a real ‘junior software developer’ job description from LinkedIn. In small groups, map these skills back to the skills you will gain at the end of your CYF course.
Share back with the group. You can collate the answers on a white board.
JOB DESCRIPTION - JUNIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
Your skills and experience:
Demonstrate passion for technology (personal projects, open source involvement)
Have excellent interpersonal, oral and written communications skills.
Enjoy problem-solving and be logical.
Be able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
Like working in a team with lots of different people.
Be able to take responsibility for a piece of work from start to finish
Be good at planning and prioritising workload
Articulate and justify conceptual ideas and solutions to clients and internal teams
Focus on delivering value to the business with relentless efforts to improve process
Fluent in written and verbal English