Tag: leadership

Confidence is key to showcasing your skills when it comes to selling yourself to the interviewer. How will you convince the interviewer that you’re fit for the job when you are not confident in yourself in the first place? Here are some tips to build that confidence to help you better showcase your skills.

1. Identify your skills
It all starts with getting to know more about yourself. In addition to the technical skills gained through study and experience, what human skills do you have? Human skills include verbal and non-verbal communication, cultural awareness, empathy, compassion, being inspiring and so on. What human skills make you who you are? Self-reflect and ask others for feedback.

2. Monitor your self-talk
Negative thoughts and self-talk are culprits of your diminishing confidence. Imposter syndrome makes us doubt our abilities and results in self-sabotage. It’s important that you monitor these negative thoughts and self-talk to identify their origins.

3. Make your skills real with evidence
This is part of showing, not telling. Feedback from others or examples of achievements you’ve accomplished with your skills are great evidence to back up your skills.
How do you build confidence during the job hiring process or at work?

Source: Seek

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CRICOS 03878K | RTO 45644

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 Phone: (+61) 261 018 650

 Email: enquiry.act@opc.edu.au

 Website: https://opc.edu.au

 Canberra campus: Mezzanine Level, 15 Moore Street, Canberra ACT 2601

 Melbourne campus: Suite 802, Level 8, 474 Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000

As a leader, did you find company values necessary?
Company values aren’t just fancy words shown on the organisation’s ‘about’ page. In fact, many professionals believe it is more worthwhile to work for a company that has clear missions and values.

How can you make effective company values?

1. Align your core values with the company’s values
It seems tempting to directly adopt other companies’ values, but your company values should be unique to your value systems.

2. Base them off real values
When it comes to defining your core values, consider the most important ones to your team. Because at the end of the day, you want your employees to reflect the company values.

3. Gain team’s buy-in
You can arrange a brainstorming activity to involve your team in the values and establish a process to better implement company values. This helps create shared values within the organisation and gives employees more sense of working as a team.

4. Make values simple and concise
Avoiding too many values and making them too complex helps the employees have a clear mind so that you wouldn’t scare them off.

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CRICOS 03878K | RTO 45644

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 Phone: (+61) 261 018 650

 Email: enquiry.act@opc.edu.au

 Website: https://opc.edu.au

 Canberra campus: Mezzanine Level, 15 Moore Street, Canberra ACT 2601

 Melbourne campus: Suite 802, Level 8, 474 Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Understanding the graduate recruitment process will aid you to prepare for the best in each step. Here’s a brief overview of what you may expect.

1. Cover Letter and CV
Tailor your cover letter to be relevant to the graduate employer you are applying for.

2. Online application through Application Tracking Systems (ATS)
This just involves filling out fields about yourself and uploading documents like your CV and cover letter. It’s an automated way for graduate employers for shortlisting candidates from thousands of applications.

3. Graduate phone interviews
A quick phone call that aims to validate if you are as good as you sound on paper.

4. Psychometric testings
Involves personality tests and cognitive ability tests.

5. Video interviews
Generally, you will be asked a set of questions for which you need to record a video of yourself answering them.

6. Graduate assessments centres and interviews
Generally involves group work and individual interviews.

Source: GradConnection

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CRICOS 03878K | RTO 45644

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 Phone: (+61) 261 018 650

 Email: enquiry.act@opc.edu.au

 Website: https://opc.edu.au

 Canberra campus: Mezzanine Level, 15 Moore Street, Canberra ACT 2601

 Melbourne campus: Suite 802, Level 8, 474 Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Have you ever felt disorganised and inefficient at work?
Did you struggle to find the causes and solutions?
Did you then work late to finish the tasks on time?
Here are the top four main causes and their corresponding solutions:

1. Fail to manage important messages
Think of a scenario in which your team and the other team are involved in a project using different communication tools. It could either be easy to miss out on some information or difficult to concentrate on your current tasks with too many notifications and information piling up in your inboxes.

Solution: Establishing boundaries allows your team to know when to respond and where to manage projects and tasks.

2. Too much workload
When dealing with time-sensitive projects and large initiatives falling behind schedule, the unbalanced workloads lead to a high volume of work, stressing employees and making them lose their focus.

Solution: Using proper tools to plan for a busy period reduces the workload on your employees’ plates and brings them back to focus.

3. Seek approvals and feedback
Seeking approvals and feedback from others is one of the types of ‘work about work’, leading to staying up late for work.

Solution: Creating clarity gives employees a picture of each party’s duty and removes the guesswork.

4. Chase teammates to complete works
Constantly chasing teammates’ progress to ensure they can meet the deadline may cause tensions on both ends.
Solution: Training everyone on the same work management platforms aligns everyone’s work and enhances a transparent and communicative environment.

Source: Asana

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CRICOS 03878K | RTO 45644

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 Phone: (+61) 261 018 650

 Email: enquiry.act@opc.edu.au

 Website: https://opc.edu.au

 Canberra campus: Mezzanine Level, 15 Moore Street, Canberra ACT 2601

 Melbourne campus: Suite 802, Level 8, 474 Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000

Find a passion is the phrase that we always hear others suggest but defining your real passion can be challenging and time-consuming. It requires you to regularly self-reflect and take action to find tasks and industries that make you feel excited. Find the following four steps to identify your passion:

1. Explore high points in your day
Taking notes of both seemingly significant and insignificant high points in both your life and work allows you to collect details related to your career for future assessment, and to know yourself better.

2. Know where you consume your resources
Time and money, the two essential resources in your life, are meaningful to you. They will help find your passion if you pay attention to how they are consumed and if you find the hidden theme of your consumed items.
They could be any of your consumptions, for example, the movie you have watched, the topics you taught or talked about with others, and so on.

3. Think about your strengths
It could either be a hard or soft skill you have been cultivating or a natural one that makes you feel confident and motivated when completing specific tasks.

4. Examine the details
As you have gathered enough information on your record, you might also deeply consider some internal logic behind the scenes to figure out what motivates you. And this will help you to have a narrowed selection among jobs and industries and help you find job opportunities that align with your interests.

Source: Indeed

𝗢𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲

CRICOS 03878K | RTO 45644

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 Phone: (+61) 261 018 650

 Email: enquiry.act@opc.edu.au

 Website: https://opc.edu.au

 Canberra campus: Mezzanine Level, 15 Moore Street, Canberra ACT 2601

 Melbourne campus: Suite 802, Level 8, 474 Flinders St, Melbourne VIC 3000