[MUSIC] Welcome to the second
course in interviewing and resume writing in English. In this course you'll build on what
you learned in the first course. You'll learn strategies for successfully communicating your value
through a perspective employer. In the first course, you undertook to
assess your values, your confidences, your goals,
all from different perspectives. You put together your
accomplishments journal and learn the importance of
keeping that journal current. You begin assembling your story file
of accomplishments from your biography. These self-assessments mark
the beginning of your research. In truth, the entire job search
process is a research process. After all if you knew exactly
the right organization and the right person and
the right job for you, then you'd simply go to that organization
that had that job and get hired. But that's not how life works. As the philosopher
Kierkegaard rightly observe. You discover what's important to
you looking back on your life but you live your life moving forward. You may have discovered that
your current work related values have changed as you've grown. This points to the need to
regularly reassess your values. At various stages in your career,
you may value money or leisure time or independence on the job,
or working for something you believe in. The new job hunt in the global
economy is a continuous process. Searching for new opportunities is
part of the regular routine of almost seven out of ten workers. For you, that means staying abreast
of market conditions both inside and outside your present organization. It means learning what you
have to offer to both market. It means developing new attitudes about
your work life and new skills for doing well in a changing economy. Today's economy requires
you to be more proactive, more sophisticated, and more willing to
take your career into your own hands. You must look after yourself, know what
you want, and know how to go get it. This is especially true if
you're a younger job seeker. But it doesn't matter where you are in
your career, you will always be engaged in research, continuous research
of the evolving job market and continuous development
of evolving job skills. This slide shows what I mean. It depicts six drivers of change
in the evolving job market. These drivers of change are identified
through research sponsored by the University of Phoenix. The research sought to identify the skills
that are technologically advanced and changing world calls for
in the near future. You can find the forum for
[INAUDIBLE] to this lesson. I trust you don't find any
of these drivers surprising. Certainly here at the University of
Maryland, a research institute, they're mainstream, but they have significant
consequences for your future career plans. Here you see the first three of the top
ten skills required by workers in 2020. As we record this video,
2020 is less than 5 years away and these skills are already needed today. We've talked, for example,
about social intelligence throughout this specialization and you'll learn more
about related skills in the next module. Here you see the next set of
future work skills of 2020. Notice the importance of
cross cultural competency. It's exactly that skill that this
specialization helps you develop. Here you see the next set
of future work skill. I'd like to draw your
attention to design mindset. As you learned earlier, the mindset
you apply to your job hunting and your career planning is itself a real life
demonstration of your designed mindset. You can use your efforts in this direction
to convey your ability to represent and develop tasks for desired outcome. Here, you see the last of the top
ten future work skills in 2020. The ability to work
productively as a member of the geographically dispersed team. To work across time, space, and organizational boundaries
using communication technology. Let me share with you my own observation
regarding virtual collaboration. The creative team that's
behind this specialization has been collaborating as a virtual
team from the onset of this project. I wouldn't even call virtual collaboration
a future work skill nor any of these ten. To my mind, they're all emergent
work skills in demand today. That's the world of work
you're job hunting in. To help you in this job hunting,
here is a career planning diagram. Reflect on these headings,
brainstorm all the target industries and companies you might be interested in. In the next lesson, you'll get
access to the many online resources you can use to help you in this effort. At this point in the planning,
you're not trying to get a job, you're conducting research. Of course if you're desperate for a job, you'll focus first on the target where
you're most likely to get hired. But if you have time to explore, maybe your highest ranking target is the
dream job you always wanted to explore. Next, count the possible positions
available in your targets. These are not current job openings,
but positions that you could fill. For example, there are roughly 16,000
engineering positions at Apple according to LinkedIn profiles. If the total number of positions
you're going after is less than 200, that's not enough. Remember, you're not
counting job openings, you're counting positions that
you might be able to fill. A search that's too small
will end up frustrating you. Finally, divide your targets into
an A list, a B list, and a C list. Your A list includes companies
where you'd love to work. Your B list are companies you
would consider to be okay. Your C list are companies
that don't interest you. This process is key to your research. It's the act of searching closely for
organizations to contact and people to look for
within those organizations. When creating your list of companies
you want to pursue, Aim High. It's too easy to fall in to a rut and
limit your search to one specific geographic area, or a company like
the one you've been working in. Widening your horizons will help you
more easily find a rewarding position. What I've outlined here
is a proactive approach. It's an approach where you're
creating your own opportunities, but it's an approach that demands effort. Think back on the top goals
you identified in course one. Those goals should fuel your
desire to undertake that effort. Today's successful job hunter
is thinking two jobs out. Your next job will
probably not be you last. So take a job that will position you for
the job after that. Ideally, the end result of your
interviewing efforts will be three offers to chose from. Having more than one offer makes you
select the job that best positions you for the long term. The online resources available to
help you in your search are vast. In the next lesson, you'll be
introduced to some of the most useful. [MUSIC]
