Make yourself employable

LLB Professional Skills & Practice

2013/2014

Professional Skills and PracticeMy Ideal Job?

Complete each of these statements. There are no right answers, only what matters to you.

In my ideal working environment I want:

1. A boss who is motivator for progression and development

2. To use my skill of leading and team work

3. To get recognition for inspiring through academic abilities and work life.

4. A place to work which is a team and strive

5. Freedom to express ideas and views

6. My salary to be enough to help with my expenditure

7. Working hours to be flexible around my needs

8. To travel to different sites and change of department when necessary

9. To get promotion when I show the ability of potential through development and progression

10. Colleagues that are focused on honesty and integrity

11. To get home at the end of the day feeling I made a positive difference to someone’s life and problems

12. Other – what? To be able to say confidently change and freedom is power

in a work place.

Make yourself employable

Review the statements you have just made and then prioritise as indicated below:

1. Write the number of the six most important statements:

11 5 10 9 4 2

2. From these six statements choose the four most important:

11 5 10 9

3. From these four choose the two most important:

11 5

4. From these two choose the most important one:

5

Your final choice usually tells you what it is you really want from your ideal job.

Now explain below WHY you prioritised as you did and what this means for your future.

What I like to achieve from my ideal job is the ability to empower change of ideas and express views to help colleagues and the business be successful. I want to voice opinions of others when certain situations go both positive or negative in a work place and be able to provide the appropriate level of feedback in the work place where these ideas and feedback will be taken on board and accommodate the necessary changes. It is too easy to be satisfied with a job role you do however my experience in the working environment is there are issues which go unnoticed which can harm a colleagues performance and in effect the business/organisation. Having a culture in a work place for myself to be able to express ideas and views which will be taken into consideration to make the necessary changes will help keep positive and open negotiations with all level of job roles and help shift the blame culture and put in place a culture at getting things right the first time by raising concerns and views of change when in certain situation a colleague may face difficulty with a certain aspect of their job.