List of employability sessions (60 minutes)

Goal: Feel ready and confident to get a job in tech

The following themes are the ones that should be discussed. They are guidelines in a suggested order, but you can choose the one you want to discuss each week.

Ideally, these should be worked on in smaller groups with a broader group reflection.

1. Profiles 

• Can you identify the different aspects of your profile?
• Compare their profiles against the portfolio module criteria 

2. Understanding Job Descriptions 

• Find and share jobs and then collectively review them for suitability 
• Identify the aspects that make a suitable job description and compare jobs they find against those criteria 

3. Collective Job Hunting 

• What are the benefits of collective job hunting?
• How can we make this work best?
• How will you support this?

4. Networking 

• Share which networking event you went to last week
• How do you think it will help your job search?
• What would you do differently for the next event?

5. Interviews 

• Practice mock interviews with different people, with two behavioural and two technical questions.
• Thinking about “Would I hire this person I just interviewed/?” give each other honest feedback on if you would/wouldn’t hire them and why.

6. Creating sessions together 

• Collectively identify and request support on employability/PD areas they need help on