How to Prepare Yourself for a Career in the City - Mojisola Akande

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1. How to Prepare Yourself for a Career in the City www.bluebook.io
2. Table of Contents • Invest in Yourself • Be Internship Ready • Professional Development Skills
3. INVEST IN YOURSELF
4. Employability Skills Drive Interpersonal Commercial • Self-Motivation • Perseverance • Initiative • Adaptability • Teamwork • Oral & Written • Emotional Intelligence • Business acumen • IT • Social Media
5. Know Yourself • Describe Yourself • Understand Your Strengths & Weaknesses • How? – Take a Personality Quiz eg. Myers-Briggs Test – Skills Health Check Tool – Ask Your Friends! • Improve on your weaknesses but more importantly leverage your strengths ‘Focus on what you do best and do it the best you can’
6. Skill Up • Employability Courses – Business Writing – Presentation Skills – IT • Professional Development Courses – MOOCs (Coursera, edX) – Inhouse (BlueBook, General Assembly, Citylit) • Certification & Qualifications
7. CV Additions • An appealing career summary • University & Society Involvement • Awards, Interests & Hobbies • Languages • Philanthropy
8. BE INTERNSHIP READY
9. Research Your Potential Employer Company Industry Role Helpful Resources
10. Your Selling Documents • CV • Cover Letter • LinkedIn Profile • Facebook, Twitter & Social Media Channels
11. Market Yourself - LinkedIn • How to make a good impression? • Complete Your Profile – Upload a Professional Photo – Create a Compelling Headline – List all Previous Positions & Education – Complete the Summary Section – Give Recommendations • Join Linkedin Groups
12. LinkedIn Webinar – 18th June • Register online for a free webinar on ‘How to Use Social Media To Drive Your Career’ in association with Bright Futures • Date: 18th June; 5.30-6.30pm • http://www.brightfutures.co.uk/home/event s/webinars.html
13. Tips: How to Perform on the Job • Make friends with your colleagues • Take on the responsibility of the level above you • “An investment in knowledge pays the best interest” • Find your specialty and be seen as the go- to person in your niche
14. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SKILLS
15. Develop Your Technical Skills • Get Great at Excel • Learn How to Build a Financial Model • Attend professional development courses related to your field • Read the FT, Economist and WSJ
19. About BlueBook A Campus For Financial Education, Enterprise & Career Creation
21. Competition Four investment bankers need to cross a bridge at night to get to a meeting. They have only one flashlight and 17 minutes to get there. The bridge must be crossed with the flashlight and can only support two bankers at a time. The Analyst can cross in 1 minute, the Associate can cross in 2 minutes, the VP can cross in 5 minutes and the MD takes 10 minutes to cross. Q: How can they all make it to the meeting in time?
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