你会给年轻时的自己什么建议?
由inTEC集团首席技术官 雷贝尔
I was recently asked to deliver a talk to a group of Year 9-11 students (aged 13-16) who want to know more about finding a Digital based role in business. The content around what our business does and the roles we offer pretty much writes itself but finding a way to deliver life and career advice to a room full of teenagers is far more challenging!
在纸上, my experience of being a parent to two children in that age bracket (and a third to reach it soon) should mean that I am well placed to deliver advice to that very age bracket. 不幸的是，养育青少年并不是写在纸上的. 任何有十几岁儿子或女儿的人都知道, dispensing advice as a parent is rarely a straightforward process and largely ignored! My solution will therefore be to deliver a talk as a prospective employer, not as a Dad!
The next challenge presented was where do I actually begin answering the question
“你会给13岁的自己什么建议?”?
My memories of that period in my own life are both distant in time and low on clarity but several things do stand out…
首先, 我现在更不明白了, about how a 13-year-old is supposed to make decisions about which subjects to take if they believe that it could form their future career path. That’s a lot of pressure on anyone, let alone a child with all their future ahead of them. Looking back now, those decisions had no bearing on my career and frankly neither should they have. 十大网博靠谱平台这一点，我现在的建议简单如下:
- 只要有可能, choose subjects you enjoy and absorb as much information and knowledge as you physically can using whatever resource you can. 进进出出教室. 不仅仅是互联网. 和你认识的人交谈, 谁也喜欢这个主题, and take advantage of the knowledge they possess and the perspective they can provide. This advice should apply just as much to the career path you follow as the GCSEs you choose.
- You will have to take on subjects that may not be your ideal choice. 尽自己最大的努力, 你觉得有挑战的事情, will be a far greater benefit to your future career than the subject matter concerned.
The second thing I remember was thinking about what job I wanted to do. 有一段时间我想成为一名橄榄球运动员. 在我上学的时候，这甚至不是一份工作，但在现实中, the greater hurdle was ability; both to play and to avoid injury! There was also a phase of wanting to follow my late father’s footsteps into the Police Force (where he served as a Special Constable). 那时我想成为一名建筑技术员, 他的主要工作是什么, and I carried this hope into my university years as I read Structural Engineering with Architecture. That didn’t pan out either, but other doors opened, and my journey began. So, what advice would I give to myself aged 13 regarding finding a career?
- 类似于主题选择, I would start with whatever your passions are and what careers might be connected to that – but don’t over-analyse as your ideal job may not have even been invented yet!
- Absorb as much as you can about that industry (if there is one you are passionate about) but more importantly gather as much knowledge as you can about the workplace and business in general
- Get a summer role/part time role (ideally connected to what you enjoy doing but actually any volunteering, 社区, job experience will help you work out what you like and don’t like)
- Take any opportunity you can to ask anyone about what they do as a job even if it’s not something you know much about.
The final thing I remember agonising over was how my qualifications look on my CV. A really difficult thing to do at the start of your career with no context or experience to fall back on now. 现在回想起来，我最好的建议是:
- 无论你的目标是什么，尽你所能做到最好. 把它们作为你学到的东西呈现出来，而不仅仅是分数.
- Your CV is actually more about what else you have done than your grades as a 15-year-old. Your hobbies, what motivates you, your values, your personality, what makes you an individual.
- 澳门十大正规赌博娱乐平台 a sports club or if sport isn’t your thing, find a 社区 club and get involved. 自愿指导或帮助他人.
- 找一份暑期工作，不管有没有薪水. 不要在床上度过暑假!
- Speak to businesspeople about what they really look for in a CV (and in an interview).
到达博客的结尾, I’m not sure whether the best audience for my talk will be the students to help them make the best choices they can or to remind hiring managers of what it was like to be a young student looking for a job and help them be a better recruiter. 你知道吗? 我认为这并不重要. Anything that any of us can do to help our brilliant young people find the best roles for them is a win-win in my view.
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