Boost your self efficacy!

What is self-efficacy?

According to American Psychological Association

Self-efficacy refers to an individual's belief in their capacity to execute behaviours necessary to produce specific performance attainments (Bandura, 1977, 1986, 1997). Self-efficacy reflects confidence in the ability to exert control over one's own motivation, behaviour, and social environment.

Boosting Self-efficacy - Working to enhance belief and confidence in abilities and capacity to undertake work tasks and duties and meet expectations. Can mean you are 3.25 times more likely to secure a job.

Get ahead of the game

Getting ahead of the game by recognising and being able to promote and be assertive about work and achievements will significantly improve your ability to get ahead of the game.

What is self-presentation?

According to the APA Dictionary of Psychology, self-presentation is

“any behaviours intended to convey a particular image of, or detailed information about, the self to others. self-presentational motives explain why an individual’s behaviour often changes as soon as anyone else is thought to be present or watching. Canadian-born U.S. sociologist Erving Goffman (1922–1982) likened self-presentation to a theatrical (dramaturgical) performance in which individuals strive to create an image of themselves through their verbal and nonverbal displays to influence the impressions formed by those around them.”

Increase your success

There are lots of different factors that contribute to job search success. Studies have shown that paying attention to the top 6 job search interventions will significantly contribute to positive outcomes to applications.

The top 6 job search interventions are

Job Search Skills - Learning how to recognise opportunities and suitable roles.  

Improving Self-Presentation - Be able to promote and be assertive about work and achievement.  

Boosting Self-efficacy - Working to enhance belief and confidence in abilities and capacity to undertake work tasks and duties and meet expectations.

Encouraging Proactivity - Career exploration and guidance, active involvement in career management, and developing a meaningful career plan.

Promoting Goal-Setting - Establishing meaningful actions and plans.

Enlisting Social Support - Connecting to supportive people, career allies and networks to become aware of and create opportunities.

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Why work with a Career Coach?

Why work with a Career Coach?

Searching for a job involves so much more than scanning online job sites, company websites and blanket dropping CV after CV to HR Managers. 

A report - Career Development Works - commissioned by the Career Development Association of Australia summarised formal empirical research and professional experience on the effectiveness of professional career development interventions and services.  

Using a meta-analysis of 47 independent research studies, which involved a total of 9575 participants, the report identified the top 6 job search interventions.

What are the top 6 job search interventions?  

Job Search Skills - Learning how to recognise opportunities and suitable roles.  

Improving Self-Presentation - Be able to promote and be assertive about work and achievement.  

Boosting Self-efficacy - Working to enhance belief and confidence in abilities and capacity to undertake work tasks and duties and meet expectations.

Encouraging Proactivity - Career exploration and guidance, active involvement in career management, and developing a meaningful career plan.

Promoting Goal-Setting - Establishing meaningful actions and plans.

Enlisting Social Support - Connecting to supportive people, career allies and networks to become aware of and create opportunities.

This report established that people who participated in those who focused on these six job search interventions were overall 2.67 times more likely to secure a job than those that do not target these essential elements.

If you…

• Develop Job Search Skills: You are 3.32 times more likely to find a job than those who don't.

• If you Improve Self Presentation, you are 3.40 times more likely to secure a job.

• If you Boost Self Efficacy, you are 3.25 times more likely to secure a job.

Success is even higher for interventions that target proactivity, goal setting, and enlisting social support. 

• If you become Proactive in your career management, you are 5.88 times more likely to secure a job.

• If you plan and take steps to set and achieve goals, you are 4.67 times more likely to succeed than those who don't.

• If you develop an awareness of your social support network and career allies, you are 4.26 times more likely to secure a job.

At Career Tree, we have developed the expertise to ensure that you, the career explorer, build and refine skills in the top 6 critical job search interventions.  

The Intelligent Career Card Sort ICCS®, enables career explorers to work to understand the Why better, How and Who of careers, create meaningful plans and action steps to be proactive, set goals and enlist support and career allies.  

Working to develop tools such as CVs and interview skills, develop opportunity awareness and job search strategies to boost self-efficacy, improve self-presentation and develop job search skills.   

Decoding a Job Ad

Step 1 - Highlight all the Hard and Soft Skills

Step 2 - Use keywords and ideal criteria from the job advert as titles and headings of your Skills Profile.

Step 3 - Write Skills Statements which give evidence to each skill heading, your hard skills.

Step 4-  Write a Personal Profile that includes a description of who you are, how you go about your job and your soft skills.

What are Employability Skills?

Employability Skills are the skills employers look for in ALL employees.

They are a set of ways and behaviours that include how we react in situations - attitude. Employability skills include how we work with others - teamwork. They include stickability - commitment, how we tackle concerns or problems - thinking and reasoning. Employability skills include our ability to be flexible and motivated; they are our willingness to learn in and outside work. These skills are examples of how we talk to and relate to others - communication.

Examples of employability skills are given throughout a CV, from the personal profile to the education record and everything in-between.

What are Soft Skills?

Soft skills can be considered the skills we use when going about our work.

Soft skills are considered personal strengths and qualities.

Soft skills include honesty, reliability, dependability, punctuality, appearance, attitude, motivation, team player, sense of occasion or relating to others.

Some examples of soft skills statements are;

Appearance - maintains a high standard of personal appearance and realises that first impressions count in a customer service role.

Motivation - enjoys completing the tasks and is prepared to roll up one’s sleeves to get the work done.

Don’t forget to prepare examples of when you’ve done the extra work so you can discuss it in an interview.

What are Hard Skills?

Hard skills are what we “Do” in our work

They are represented in the Skills Profile in a CV. Verbs describe hard skills - verbs are words that end in an ing or ed.

Hard skills are the core competencies or the “must-haves” on the job description and are used to make a match between the job applicant and the vacant position. Hard skills must be explained in your CV. That way, the reader will know how suitable you are for the role.

Hard skills include communication, computing, organising, working with others, reporting, and building.

Some examples of hard skills statements are;
Cash handling - Processed payments, and balanced till takings.

Working with and helping others - Assisted the PTA group at a fundraising event, which raised $8000 after expenses.

What are skills?

Skills can be defined as individual abilities people learn. Skills are required to be able to perform a given job successfully. 

Some examples of skills are processing payroll, operating machinery, assembling from plans, computer software proficiencies, written and spoken communication.

Skills are developed and demonstrated in all aspects of our working life. These include community or voluntary work, recreation and leisure work, study and training work, paid work and life role work - the things we do at home and with others.

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