When you want to take a career change you have to market yourself to potential employers.
This is how.

Getting a new job is not easy. For every advert there may be hundreds of applicants. There are selection, search and recruitment consultants. Interviews can be worrying and frustrating.

In this short intensive course we look at how to analyse adverts, write your CV and covering letters, who to talk to, how to network and how to prepare for and take interviews. We also discuss some ideas for finding out what it is you really want to do.

You may not always get the job you want but you need to be sure that you do everything possible to maximise your chances every time.

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Outline programme content

What am I selling here?
· What do I want/what can I offer?
· Reading employer needs
· Am I the right person?
· Do I really want this job?

CV design
· Basic rules
· Styles for audiences
· Format and key content
· Getting it right
· Adapting each time
· Covering letters

The job market
· Advertising in Portugal
· Intermediaries
· Networking
· Getting headhunted
· Supply and demand

Interviews
· Preparation
· Presentation and dress
· Spoken language
· What do they want
· Body language
· Listening
· Openness vs.intrusion
· Who you really are
· Negotiation
· Follow-up