How to use eResources?
The eResources for Kick Start Your Careerare designed to help graduates in a number of ways:

  • Applied Personal Learning
    This book is different from most guide or help books. Other books provide information; the reader is then left with the challenging task of relating it to their personal situation and creating an action plan. More often than not useful information never makes it through the extra steps required. Most people are busy and time poor so intentions to apply new learning information often go unfulfilled. Limited or no action is thecommon outcome, despite useful material and good intentions of the reader.
    The approach used in the book is based on direct instruction and proven successful learning methodology. Information is provided, the reader then applies that via the Personal Plan. By completing the Personal Plan the reader becomes the case study and information in the book is translated into an outcome that is applicable and useful to the reader.
  • Personal Plan: Digital

The Personal Plan may be completed using the hardcopy Appendices: Personal Plan in the back of the book. However, we would recommend a more useful and flexible approach is to complete your Personal Plan in digital format. The Appendices: Personal Plan can be downloaded from this website in digital Word format.

As you progressively complete the Personal Plan you are building valuable resource (desirably in a digital format such as Word).This forms part of your Foundation Resume. This is a comprehensive resource document containing your achievements, experience, education, training, goals and references.

  • Templates

Use the Templates in eResources to compile your Foundation Resume.
This can easily be edited across to the selected format or template for your
Targeted Resume. This ensures your submitted job resume is appropriate to the country, region and accepted norms (for that region) for job application documents.

  • Decision Tools

As you seek to find your career job you will most likely be faced with many decisions and options. At times these can be difficult particularly if there a more job seekers than positions. The decisions you need to make affect your life so they should be well considered. Emotionally trying to weigh up multiple complex job or career options in your head is not the best way to reach sound decisions.

The best way is to use Decision Making Tools. These are valuable techniques to help you analyse options and will lead you towards well thought through outcomes. We have included three valuable Decision Making Tools and analysis proformasin eResources:

  • SWOT Analysis( Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats)
  • Decision BalanceAnalysis
  • Force FieldAnalysis

Use them as you weigh up options and make decisions related to jobs and career. They are a valuable resource to help you.

  • Web References
    eResources provides the key external web reference urls as easily accessibleand clickable links to external web resources.