Preparing for Success at University Knowledge & Creativity

This assignment is a portfolio and contains two tasks i presentation and ii report Task 1 PowerPoint Presentation 8 slides to be delivered within 8 to 10 minutes You have been requested to give a presentation in the class about how to locate and evaluate the resources for academic or employment related purposes Think of at least three resources provide details of each resource and evaluate their advantages and disadvantages Task 2 Report Approximately 2000 words You are required to find information regarding your ideal job after graduation In the report you must mention a what is your ideal job b the job description for the role c brief summary of person specifications and how you qualify for the job You need to mention what are the resources available to you and how you will you use them to facilitate your job finding processYour tutors will elaborate more on the tasks to help you shape your work

Resources for
employment

Introduction
This presentation is made to explore the number of
resources, with their advantages and disadvantages, used
for developing employment related purpose. It describes way
to locate such resources as well for finding jobs for a specific
field.

Resource 1 – Social Media
It is one of the best resources for finding a relevant
employment for a specific field, where using various
platforms of social media like company’s websites, helps in
finding about information about latest job openings.

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Advantages:
Getting relevant employment per job profile
Engage with firm in real-time and posting question for
evaluating related skills and qualifications required for a job
etc.
Disadvantages:
Creation of unprofessional online image due to lack of
control on postings
Damaging the current employment status is another main
drawback of using social media sites for finding a relevant
job.

Resource 2 – Staffing Firms
Staffing firms help in finding the opportunities and getting
guidance for a job search, where chance to damage current
employment status or impact of having lack of knowledge to
get desired employment is relatively low, by getting time to
develop same.

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Advantages:
Shorten the time to get desired job
Understanding the job roles and responsibilities, with
relevant skills and abilities is also easy by using staffing
firms.
Disadvantages:
Additional procedures, documentation and policies
Limited potential options

Resource 3 – Online Job Boards
Job boards considered as one of the greatest ways for
finding out about desired jobs and apply to them. It aids to
not only can search for jobs as per job title, knowledge,
skills or company, but as can also upload resume.

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Advantages:
This resource helps in getting job alerts, match profile with
correct criteria
Easy to go back and start with a new search anytime
Disadvantages:
Difficult to measure effectiveness
Include a lot of documents and questions while profiling or
uploading the resume.

Conclusion
It has been concluded from all over this presentation that
for getting right employment, availability of various
resources as mentioned can be used. From these
resources, social media platform is the best one, because it
has relatively less disadvantages and help in locating better
jobs.

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Godlonton, S., 2020. Employment risk and job-seeker
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pp.194-239.

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