Steps to Work. A Pocket Guide for Youth Seeking Work

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1 7 Steps to Work A Pocket Guide for Youth

2 2 A Pocket Guide for Youth Acknowledgements: ILO International Labor Organisation I-YEN Indonesian Youth Employment Network DEPNAKERTRANS Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration Further information: ILO International Labour Organisation 14 L M. H Thamrin Jakarta, Indonesia Tel Fax

3 A Pocket Guide for Youth 3 Contents Page Who is it for? 1 Introduction 2 Step 1: Preparing and Reviewing (My Story) 7 Step 2: Identifying (My Profile) 10 Step 3: Exploring (Careers) 28 Step 4: Summarizing (Plan) 33 Step 5: Deciding (Choices) 35 Step 6: Doing (Connections with workplaces) 41 Step 7: Following Up 51 Job Seeking Sites 52

4 4 A Pocket Guide for Youth Who is it for? This Pocket Guide IS for Youth seeking work: o School leavers o Unemployed o Youth seeking new jobs o Youth in unpaid work. It IS NOT for youth seeking further education or training through university. It should be used by youth seeking work, with help from: o o o o o Career counselors Parents Friends Employers Teachers.

5 A Pocket Guide for Youth 5 Introduction Thank you to Kak WeEs for his cooperation in this project and permission to use his photos. My name is Kak WeEs. I m a storyteller from Yogyakarta. I tell stories to people of all ages. I ll help you complete your story to find work. I ll help you use this Pocket Guide to prepare your profile.

6 6 A Pocket Guide for Youth The Pocket Guide This Pocket Guide will help you find work. It will show you: o o o o o What information you need to collect. How to profile yourself for the world of work. How to build a résumé What to do to seek work How to follow up. It is an interactive Guide. There are activities to complete as you proceed through the Guide.

7 A Pocket Guide for Youth 7 These are seven steps: 1. Preparing and Reviewing 2. Identifying 3. Exploring 4. Summarising 5. Deciding 6. Doing - resume writing, application writing, assisting with canvassing techniques 7. Follow up. You need to have a folder to complete activities from this Guide. Keep ALL your information together in this folder.

8 8 A Pocket Guide for Youth Kak WeEs will guide you through the seven steps. He will help you check you have all your information organised after each step. He will remind you take care with your profile. He will show you that the best way to get work is to plan and organise. He will show you how to contact people and what to say. Have you got your folder?

9 A Pocket Guide for Youth 9 Step 1: Preparing and Reviewing: In this step you construct your story You: Who are you? Interests, skills, knowledge, age, gender, health, beliefs, hobbies Your Community: Will it influence the work you may choose? Family, peers, friends, community groups Your Environment: What opportunities or constraints are in your location? What access do you have to employment market, government grants, and projects?

10 10 A Pocket Guide for Youth My Story Summarise your story on the next page. With the following points: 1. Your age, gender, health, any other. 2. Your interests and hobbies 3. Your skills and knowledge think about how you use: o Communication skills: writing, reading and speaking, listening o Technology: computers, photocopiers, phones, faxes, o Teamwork o Problem solving, o Mathematics (for shopping, budgets, transport)..,..in your everyday life. These are also the skills and knowledge you need for work. If you need more space to record your story, use a book and keep it in your folder

11 A Pocket Guide for Youth 11 My Story Include your photo if you like

12 12 A Pocket Guide for Youth Step 2: Identifying In this step you specify your profile There are six areas to check. Interests Preferred work conditions Work location Skills and knowledge Education Goals (aspirations)

13 A Pocket Guide for Youth 13 My Interests List about 10 tasks that interest you. Here are some ideas: Growing things; looking after children; massaging; analysing finances; teaching; working on computers; playing sport; researching issues; managing a shop; selling clothes; using tools; playing in a band; interviewing people; helping sick people; fixing cars; taking photos, interior design, cooking, woodwork, sewing, healthcare, banking, interpreting/translating, acting/ singing/modelling. This list is suggestions. You can list other tasks.

14 14 A Pocket Guide for Youth My Interests

15 A Pocket Guide for Youth 15 Preferred work conditions: Shade in your preferred conditions. Indoors Sitting at a desk At one location Shift work Outdoors Hands on Different sites Regular hours With travel Flexible Long hours Contract Short term Permanent

16 16 A Pocket Guide for Youth Other:

17 A Pocket Guide for Youth 17 Location: Tick ( ) choices. Local In a City Overseas In a mall In an office In the country Remote

18 18 A Pocket Guide for Youth Skills and knowledge Think of categories of work in your daily life. Make a list of as those that interest you. Here are some clues: Actor, accounting, advertising, sports, banking, beauty care, construction, customer service, dancer, disc jockey, fashion, food, freight forwarding, healthcare, hotel and restaurant, information technology, manufacturing, media, models, multimedia, nursery, petroleum, photography, retail, secretarial, shipping, tourism, translation, warehousing, markets. Check interests, conditions and work location and list your skills over the page.

19 A Pocket Guide for Youth 19 My Skills

20 20 A Pocket Guide for Youth Now think about the knowledge you have. Check the categories over the page to help you summarise what you know.

21 A Pocket Guide for Youth 21 Categories - Knowledge Writing creatively Creating art Thinking critically Making decisions Researching Keeping records Managing finances Gathering information Interpreting information Translating languages Technical writing operations Programming Designing Solving problems Thinking creatively Planning strategies Analysing information Calculating Inspecting objects Administering rules Using systems Scheduling activities Planning Using computers

22 22 A Pocket Guide for Youth Other: Check interests, conditions, work location and skills. List your knowledge categories over the page.

23 A Pocket Guide for Youth 23 My Knowledge

24 24 A Pocket Guide for Youth Education List qualifications, awards, prizes you have received (from school, training programs, music classes, etc):

25 A Pocket Guide for Youth 25 Goals (aspirations) Who is the person you would most like for a role model in your life? What do you admire about him/her? What has been one of their important achievements? List the skills this person has. Which ones would you like to develop for yourself? Can you paste their photo over the page?

26 26 A Pocket Guide for Youth My Role Model Summarise what you can learn from your role model (knowledge; work conditions; interests, hobbies, goals)

27 A Pocket Guide for Youth 27 Step 3: Exploring In this step you look at careers and occupations Check your personal profile (pages 9 to 25) to generate career ideas. Select a combination of the results that you have added to your personal profile from: My Story (page 9) My Interests (page 13) My Skills (Page 19) My Knowledge (page 24) My education (page 25)

28 28 A Pocket Guide for Youth Remember these are some common career fields in Indonesia: Actor, accounting, advertising, agriculture, banking, beauty care, community care (NGOs), computer technology, construction, customer service, dancer, disc jockey, fashion, fitness, food, freight forwarding, government administration, healthcare, hotel and restaurant, horticulture, information technology, manufacturing, media, mining, models, multimedia, nursery, petroleum, performing arts, photography, retail, secretarial, security, shipping, sports, textiles, clothing and footwear, tourism, translation, warehousing, markets.

29 A Pocket Guide for Youth 29 Can you add some others? Choose five fields that match the criteria in your personal profile.

30 30 A Pocket Guide for Youth My Carrer Ideas List 5

31 A Pocket Guide for Youth 31 Step 4: Summarising In this step you set your career direction. This step provides you with a summary of your personal profile and your most suitable career favourites. Fill in the table over the page by referring back to previous steps. This will focus you towards a realistic goal for work. You should copy this table onto an A4 page so you have space to complete it appropriately.

32 32 A Pocket Guide for Youth My Career Plan: Education Interests Locations Skills Goals Knowledge Career Fields Work Conditions Occupations

33 A Pocket Guide for Youth 33 Step 5: Deciding In this step you plan a career Sorting your career favourites. In this step you can organise and/or compare your favourites. You can check information about industries, occupations, courses and contact organisations related to your career favourites. You need to narrow your choice to (i) career fields and (ii) occupations.

34 34 A Pocket Guide for Youth Career Fields Career fields are families of occupations and they have a common theme. For example: o o o Private Sector Banking, factories, farms, hotels and restaurants, shops, supermarkets, retail, galleries, textiles, technology etc Government Sector Local, provincial, central, national Community Sector NGOs, childrens services, libraries, health, medical, aid projects, international development projects Which career field suits your plans, skills and knowledge and access to employment?

35 A Pocket Guide for Youth 35 Occupations Occupations are grouped according to (i) level, (ii) specific industry, (iii) skills needed, (iv) specific knowledge. Example 1: i. Level Technical, paraprofessional ii. Industry iii. Skills iv. Knowledge Computer Technology Solve problems with everyday software Software packages

36 36 A Pocket Guide for Youth Example 2: i. Level Labouring ii. Industry iii. Skills iv. Knowledge Warehousing Storing electrical goods Storing procedures Which occupation field suits your plans, skills and knowledge and access to employment?

37 A Pocket Guide for Youth 37 You are close to going out to seek work. Now you will have a realistic work profile and it is time to make a résumé. This will (i) help potential employers know about your skills, knowledge and experiences and (ii) help you to seek work in areas that suits your profile.

38 38 A Pocket Guide for Youth Step 6: Doing In this step you build a résumé and identify potential employers you look for a job A résumé is a document that tells an employer about your skills, knowledge and experience as it relates to specific jobs. A good résumé can play an important part in securing a job. This step describes how (i) to build a résumé and (ii) submit it for a job. A template follows. You will pull together all the previous information from this Guide

39 A Pocket Guide for Youth 39 (i) Building a résumé Follow these steps: 1. Contact details 2. Your job goals 1. Make sure the Contact Details include as much of the following as possible: Phone, , address. 2. Your Job Goals should be one sentence stating what you would like to do. There are some examples over the page: C o v e r P a g e A small photo of you can go on this page.

40 40 A Pocket Guide for Youth Some examples of Objectives. Example 1: I want to work in an outdoor environment with physical activity and challenging tasks. Example 2: I want to work in the fashion industry to design new and interesting and garments. Example 3: I want to work with computers and learn to solve problems with software applications Qualifications, awards On this page you should list any qualifications, awards, prizes you have won or other achievements. Include: 1. Name of award 2. Date received Put the most one recent first 3. Awarding organisation

41 A Pocket Guide for Youth 41 Summary of work experience List all jobs you have had as a paid, unpaid, voluntary employee: 1. Job title Summarise tasks/duties 2. Location 3. Organisation 4. Dates (Put most recent jobs first) 5. Contact person and phone number (if available) Competencies Skills and knowledge Check pages 18 and 22. Q u a l i f i c a t i o n s 1. Write several sentences to summarise your skills and knowledge 2. Give several specific examples of where you have applied your skills and knowledge (refer to the Work Experience page of your résumé.

42 42 A Pocket Guide for Youth Hobbies and interests List your hobbies and interests, especially those that have specialist skills and knowledge relevant to the world of work (computer technology, child care etc) Referees List the (i) name and title, (ii) organisation and (iii) contact details for two referees who can comment on your skills, knowledge and character as a potential employee. Check they agree to be your referee first. Your completed résumé should be organised like this: Final Page Knowledge Work Experience Qualifications Cover Make copies and staple or bind to secure the pages together.

43 A Pocket Guide for Youth 43 (ii) Submitting your résumé for a job. Create your personal search strategy There are four easy steps to follow: 1. Research jobs in your area by visiting workplaces; talking to business and service providers; asking friends and other contacts about possible work. 2. Check suitable job leads through shop windows, newsletters, newspaper, government departments, and other agencies. 3. Confirm the employer s needs. 4. Choose the right approach.

44 44 A Pocket Guide for Youth In Summary: Applying for work is most effective when you can: 1. Meet the potential employer. 2. Submit your résumé. 3. Make sure you have their contact details. 4. Confirm your contact details 5. Follow up.

45 A Pocket Guide for Youth 45 Step 7: Follow Up In this step you keep in touch with workplaces where you have lodged your résumé or applied for work. Keep a record of the contact person, their phone number or address. Ask if you can follow up in a week, or other agreed period of time if you don t hear from them before this time. Follow up with personal contact if you don t hear from the potential employer as agreed. Good luck in your seeking work activities

46 46 A Pocket Guide for Youth Job Seeking Sites Government DEPNAKERTRANS (Ministry of Manpower and Transmigration) I-YEN Indonesian Youth Employment Network ILO - International Labour Organisation jakarta/staff/iyen.htm Websites General careersearch_12w.html

47 A Pocket Guide for Youth Websites Local Jobs/ Pekerjaan/ lowongan_kerja/ Indonesia/Bisnis/Pekerjaan/