Week 3 - CVs and transferable skills
Session objective: This session focuses on identifying transferable skills and designing effective CVs, Linkedin and GitHub profiles.
CVs and transferable skills slides
Exercise objective: To identify transferrable skills from different life experiences.
List 3 transferable skills to be gained for each of the following jobs:
- Stay at home parent
- Taxi driver
- Receptionist
- Academic
- Civil servant
- Project Manager
- Restaurant Manager
- Writer/Artist
- Teacher, or
- Feel free to use your current job as an example
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 in a demonstrable way.
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
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