The following is the note taken by Chenxing Mei at Chinese New Settlers Services Trust on 9/3/2017
1.
New Zealand Market
5.7% unemployment rate of New Zealand
10-13% among age 20-25.
The diversity of the employee within company becomes bigger
concern which creates specific advantage for Asian job seekers.
Employers often think about three questions regarding
non-resident applicants:
a)
Is there language barrier for
the applicant?
b)
Will he/she fit in our company
culture?
c)
Settlement issue, will he reign
from our company the second he gets his PR?
2.
Networking
Register on LinkedIn, more than 60% of the human resources
use LinkedIn for hiring.
90% the vacancies were filled via LinkedIn.
Always remember your Elevator
Pitch.
Step 4+1:
a)
List top 50 companies you want
to get in
b)
Find people who would like to
be your boss/manager
c)
Call/ask for contact of that
person
d)
Meet for coffee
# Follow up with
a Thank You Note with no more than 4 lines.
Question you
could ask:
@I wonder if I
could take up 15-20 minutes of your time to ask for advice.
REPLY: What about?
@ I am looking
for establishing………/change career into ……., and my background is ………. If you
were me, how would you getting a role of ………
@ Can you
suggest someone else I can speak with?
@ Do you offer
anyone internship?
Always send out
a thank you note by handwriting to the person you drink coffee with. It seems a
minor thing to do but can bring huge difference and make deep impression on
your potential boss.
Handwrite the
thank you note to re-sell you self.
Send out the
thank you note within one day.
3.
Application
Seek/Trade me
The online job search engine goes through the cv of each
applicants and look for specific key words which matches with the job
description before alerting the employer.
It means that employer will not review every CV they
received, only those with specific key words in it.
So, it is very
important to make your CV stands out among all those applicants.
When apply for a specific position, call the given number
given and ask for extra information, e.g. any training provided.
Ask for a full version of job description, so that the
manager might send you from his email. In this case, you have an advantage of
sending out job application to his email instead of seek.
Email application or hand deliver application so that you
could make your third impression on that employer.
Ending cover letter with phone call follow up, such as “I
‘ll phone you up in few days to check if you have received my application”. In
this way, you have schedule another potential meeting/phone call with employer.
Always, and always follow up with a thank you note. It is
important.
4.
CV
Top 3 mistakes
of CV:
a)
Mistake spelling
b)
Poorly layout
c)
Long CV
Key elements:
Name, Phone
number, Email address. No need for you home address.
Profile, key
competence
Name and page
number on every page. (So, that your CV will not easily mixed up with others)
Work Experience:
a)
Organization
b)
Job title
c)
Key responsibilities (spell out
in order)
d)
Key achievements (be specific)
Education
Interest
(balance with strong and quite activities)
5.
Interview
The CAR
To be standing out in interview you should focus on two
parts:
Knowledge AND Enthusiasm
Answering the question by focusing on your skill and
competence use above CAR formula.
When asked, describe your life in few words, it means to go
through your life and tell them about what characteristic, capability that can match
up with the job.
Finally, body language is IMPORTANT.
a)
Keep eye contacts
b)
Firm handshake with everyone
c)
Show confidence
d)
Always smile
Guest Speaker:
Kieran Bird
You can also find same content on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcBRq2L6oX4
