Impress at job interviews and keep up to date
Lots of students are now leaving college and applying for jobs. Many will be working in a particular sector such as hairdressing, construction, fire service, nursing or child care.
New developments are being made and affect the workplace all the time e.g.
- · new legislation or guidelines passed (e.g. health and safety)
- · new initiatives being piloted,
- · new problems being tackled
- · new people with new ideas.
Hairstyles change,
new research comes out in helping children’s development, new fashions in
cooking and hospitality, and new materials and techniques in building homes and
structures, for example.
Keeping up to date with professional Periodicals/ Journals
In the library (due to the refit they are currently in Room
121 and then sent out to departments) we have a range of professional periodicals
which are one way of keeping up to date in your field. If you want to have the
edge in a job interview, why not read up on what the latest issues are so you
can mention these and show that you take an interest in the work you will be
doing.
Some titles we currently hold are:
Building
Caterer
FE Week
Fire (I expect a lot will be written about the Grenfell Tower fire in forthcoming issues)
Hairdressers Journal
Highways (previously Surveyor)
Leisure Management & Health Club Management
Make Up Artist Magazine
Marketing Week
Navy News
Nursery World (with archive online)
Nursing Times
Professional Beauty
RAF News
TES
THE
Travel Weekly
Caterer
FE Week
Fire (I expect a lot will be written about the Grenfell Tower fire in forthcoming issues)
Hairdressers Journal
Highways (previously Surveyor)
Leisure Management & Health Club Management
Make Up Artist Magazine
Marketing Week
Navy News
Nursery World (with archive online)
Nursing Times
Professional Beauty
RAF News
TES
THE
Travel Weekly
Library Periodicals. Photograph by Peterborough Regional College |
Some other ways to keep up to date and keep learning in your chosen profession/ job
Websites of professional bodies (organisations which
represent a profession) – e.g Hair Council, ABTA, Institution of Civil
Engineers. It is probably best to concentrate on those based in the UK as
legislation and practice may be different in other countries such as the US.
Websites of professional journals (see above) – these will
give a summary even if you don’t subscribe. Building magazine is already
discussing the construction materials used in Grenfell Tower as is Fire
magazine.
Social media accounts – e.g, the nursing and midwifery
council has a twitter account@nmcnews, the Royal Navy has a Facebook account.
You need to make sure you have the official accounts (look for the tick) and
that new content is being regularly added. Well known professionals in your
field may also write a blog eg Sarah Jagger (Make up artist).
Email lists and RSS feeds. You can subscribe to news feeds so
new information about subjects in which you have an interest are sent to your email
account. You can often choose to get a weekly digest so that you don't get too many emails.
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