FY026 - Preparing for Success: Resources for Employment Presentation

This presentation, created for the FY026 module, explores various resources for employment-related purposes, examining their advantages and disadvantages. The presentation covers three key resources: social media, staffing firms, and online job boards, detailing how each can be utilized to find relevant job opportunities. Social media's benefits include real-time engagement and access to job openings, while staffing firms offer guidance and understanding of job roles. Online job boards facilitate job searching and resume uploading. The presentation concludes that social media is the best resource due to its fewer disadvantages. The assignment also includes a report component, where the student identifies their ideal job, provides a job description, and outlines their qualifications and the resources they will use in their job search.

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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