Area C: Career Building
Competency 7: Secure/create and maintain work
Phase IV - Competency 7.4

Improve on abilities to seek, obtain/create and maintain work

Acquire
7.4.1 Investigate specific work that supports your desired career intentions.
7.4.2 Identify job opportunities that suit your own needs and values.
7.4.3 Identify relationships that will help with finding work.
7.4.4 Update your work search tools and the skills required to seek, obtain/create and maintain work (job application forms, résumés, portfolios, job interviewing, proposals, cover letters, etc.).
7.4.5 Explore strategies supportive of career change (e.g., on-the-job training, mentors, networking, continuous learning).
7.4.6 Investigate the career planning/ employment and recruitment services available through organisations (e.g., government, educational institutions, business/industry and community agencies).
7.4.7 Identify your transferable skills, knowledge and attitudes.
7.4.8 Understand the importance of making career decisions that align with your preferred future.
Apply
7.4.9 Establish relationships that will help with finding work.
7.4.10 Market yourself using work search tools and skills (job application forms, resumes, portfolios, job interviewing, proposals, cover letters, etc).
7.4.11 Experience the career planning, employment and recruitment services available through organisations (e.g. government, educational institutions, business/industry, and community agencies).
7.4.12 Demonstrate the skills, knowledge and attitudes that are transferable from one work role to another.
7.4.13 Plan career changes reflective of your preferred future.
Personalise
7.4.14 Re-examine your networks and determine the relationships most helpful to your work search strategies.
7.4.15 Evaluate your skills, knowledge and attitudes in terms of their effectiveness for seeking, obtaining/creating and maintaining work.
7.4.16 Assess work opportunities in terms of your preferred future.
Act
7.4.17 Use up-to-date work search skills to create and engage in work opportunities reflective of your preferred future.