Skills for success Personal development and employability
Book - 2015
"Each chapter encourages students to think reflectively about personal, academic and career goals and to plan a path to success. Rich in activities that develop valuable career skills, this revised and updated third edition has two new chapters on 'Taking charge of your life, learning and career' and 'What do employers really want?'"--
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- Published
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London :
Palgrave
2015.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- 3rd edition
- Physical Description
- vi, 394 pages ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781137426529
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Getting started
- Personal development planning (PDP)
- Making the right choices
- Taking and making opportunities
- How it fits together
- Part 1. Self-management
- 1. The vision
- Defining success
- Personal influences inspiration and values
- Vision, goals and motivation
- Personal investment
- Ingredients of success
- Congruence and goal inertia
- Taking and making opportunities
- 2. Know yourself
- Your life narrative
- Your top forty successes
- Your learning history
- Responding to setbacks
- The Expertise Metaphor
- Using personal expertise
- 3. Understanding your personal performance
- Your personal performance and learning
- SHAPE
- Evaluating factors in personal performance
- Your personal performance profile
- Identifying your Personal Performance Formula
- Task-specific performance factors
- 4. Successful self-management
- SWOT analysis
- Personal resources
- Time management
- Attiudes
- Responsibility, self-belief and solution-focused thinking
- Emotional intelligence
- Managing distress, change, confusion and uncertainty
- The Eight Levels framework
- Part 2. Managing people and tasks
- 5. People skills
- Evaluating your skills
- Developing rapport, listening skills and mutual trust
- Team work
- Action sets
- Constructive criticism
- Assertiveness
- Dealing with difficult people
- Negotiating
- Leadership
- 6. Successful problem-solving and task management
- Evaluating your skills
- Basic approaches and key steps to task management
- Problem-solving approaches and techniques
- Goals, criteria, priorities, targets, action plans and time planning
- Staring and completing tasks
- Projects
- Performance indicators and benchmarks
- Competitiveness
- Part 3. Extend your thinking
- 7. Thinking outside the box
- Evaluating your creative thinking skills
- Using your brain
- Creative problem-solving techniques
- Working with raw material
- Creativity and risk taking
- 8. The art of reflection
- Reflection in everyday life, in PDP and as a practitioner
- What is æreflection'? Evaluating your own skills in reflection
- Basic steps for reflection
- Types of structures reflection
- Transferring skills
- 'Critical events'
- Using feedback
- Models of reflection
- Developing your own model for reflection
- Presenting your reflection to others
- Part 4. Employability: enhancing your career prospects
- 9. What do employers really want?
- Whta is employability? Put yourself in the employers' shoes
- What employers want
- Translating academic skills for workplace
- Writing skills
- Communication skills
- Oral communication skills
- People skills
- Task management skills
- Self-management æskills'
- Being your own employer
- 10. Getting the job you want
- Career planning
- Models of career development
- Gaining experience of work
- Make effective use of your experience of work
- What do you want from your first ægraduate' job? Chossing a job
- What do you want from an employer? Plan ahead
- When to use the Careers Service
- Presenting yourself to employers
- 11. Maintaining good personal records
- Making use of personal records
- Making the application
- Preparing for the interview
- 12. Drawing it together
- Recognising personal changes
- Using the reflective process
- Raising the game
- Attitude to challenge
- Resource Bank
- Full contents of the Resource Bank
- Appendix 1. Application for success
- Appendix 2. Useful websites
- References
- Index.