Application and Interview Skills
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Employability | Making a Good Impression | A Winning Attitude | University Applications
Session Title: 'How to sell yourself' This session can be tailored to any of, or a mix of the following:
- Year 9-13 | S3-S6 | KS3, 4, 5 - In School Session or Webinar - Typically 60 Minutes - 1-500 in school, 1-100+ on Zoom |
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Learning Objectives
- Students will learn to see themselves from the perspective of an employer or university admissions tutor, understanding what makes them attractive as an employee or student.
- Learn about Unique Selling Points and the importance of distinctiveness, matching to needs and being useful.
- Grow in confidence as they realise how they are already a desirable and rounded person with potential to develop further.
- Students will learn how to handle rejection and recognise failure as an opportunity to learn.
Session Description
Being able to confidently sell yourself, whether to an employer or for higher education admission, is a skill that everyone can learn. Push will look into the use of ‘showing rather than telling’ and how stories (not specific qualifications) can greatly illustrate a person's skill set. When students can reflect on their positive traits and skills they can apply that thinking in a ‘sales’ context; this could be for university applications, job applications, interviews or other situations. Through a dissection of TV adverts, we highlight the 3 key lessons of marketing to show what makes products successful. Ultimately, they will learn to be the best salesperson for a great product: themselves.
- Students will learn to see themselves from the perspective of an employer or university admissions tutor, understanding what makes them attractive as an employee or student.
- Learn about Unique Selling Points and the importance of distinctiveness, matching to needs and being useful.
- Grow in confidence as they realise how they are already a desirable and rounded person with potential to develop further.
- Students will learn how to handle rejection and recognise failure as an opportunity to learn.
Session Description
Being able to confidently sell yourself, whether to an employer or for higher education admission, is a skill that everyone can learn. Push will look into the use of ‘showing rather than telling’ and how stories (not specific qualifications) can greatly illustrate a person's skill set. When students can reflect on their positive traits and skills they can apply that thinking in a ‘sales’ context; this could be for university applications, job applications, interviews or other situations. Through a dissection of TV adverts, we highlight the 3 key lessons of marketing to show what makes products successful. Ultimately, they will learn to be the best salesperson for a great product: themselves.