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Conclusion

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Now you've come to the end of the course, we would appreciate a few minutes of your time to complete this short end-of-course survey. We’d like to find out a bit about your experience of studying the course and what you plan to do next. We will use this information to provide better online experiences for all our learners and to share our findings with others. Participation will be completely confidential and we will not pass on your details to others.

References

Bruce, S. (2019) A Look at the 2020 Job Market [Online]. Available at www.myworld.com.mm/blog/2019/12/a-look-at-the-2020-job-market (accessed 22 January 2021).
Cunningham, W and Monoz, R. (2019) Myanmar’s Future Jobs: Embracing Modernity [Online]. Available at documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/958621536141390299/pdf/129754-Myanmar-Future-Jobs-Main-Report-Final.pdf (accessed 22 January 2021).
The Open University (2014) Career planning and job-seeking workbook, Milton Keynes, The Open University.
The Open University (2015) Analysing job advertisements [Online]. Available at www2.open.ac.uk/students/careers/applying-for-jobs/analysing-job-advertisements (accessed 20 May 2015).

Acknowledgements

This course was written by Maria Townsend and Gill Gustar. It was subsequently adapted and contextualised for Myanmar learners by academics at Yadanabon University.

Some of the material in this course is based on material originally available on the Open University Careers Advisory Service website.

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence.

The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit:

Module image: © masterzphotois/iStock/Getty Images Plus

Week 1

Figure 1: Knowledge and skills: Adam Cohn, https://www.flickr.com/ photos/ adamcohn/ 48504481416/ in/ photolist-2gUb9sm-dPEdd3-pCDpV2-2k5qX2r-hZfbvg-22owHxW-fPALeQ, This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-NoDerivatives Licence http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-nc-nd/ 2.0/

Figure 2: Roles I play in life: © Thodoris Tibilis/Shutterstock.com

Figure 3: Abilities: www.artofanderson.com

Figure 4: Skills: © Andresr/iStockphoto.com

Figure 5: Learning: © Goodluz/Shutterstock.com

Figure 6: Skills: © Aliwak/Shutterstock.com

Week 2

Figure 1: Looking at job adverts: © PPILIPPOU/Shutterstock.com

Figure 2: Key areas: © Publisher unknown

Figure 3: Presenting yourself.: © unknown

Figure 4: Application forms: © sampsyseeds/iStockphoto.com

Figure 5: © Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock.com

Figure 6: CV Checklist: © pagadesign/iStockphoto.com

Figure 7: Types of CV: © wavebreakmedia/Shutterstock.com

Figure 8: chronological CV: © Kutaytanir/iStockphoto.com

Figure 9: Functional CVs: © unknown

Figure 10: CV Preparation: © andresr/Dreamstime.com

Figure 11: This is me: © Publisher unknown

Table 1: HECSU/AGCAS (2011) 'Skills that employers want, how they can be developed', What Do Graduates Do?, © HECSU/AGCAS.

Week 3

Figure 1, Interviews: © Robert Daly/Getty Images

Figure 2 Types of interview.: © Javier Brosch/Shutterstock.com

Figure 3, Preparation: © DNY59/iStockphoto.com

Figure 4, Planning: © Poprotskiy Alexey/Shutterstock

Figure 5, Phone interview: © wavebreak/iStockphoto.com

Figure 6, Personal statement: from http://mamsports.org

Figure 7; Practice: © marekuliasz/iStockphoto.com

Figure 8, Interview questions: courtesy of © Don Moyer

Figure 9, Tough Questions: from: https://msjodym.wordpress.com

Figure 10 Prepare to ask questions: © iQconcept/Shutterstock.com

Figure 11: © Jose Gil/Shutterstock.com

Figure 12, What first impressions will give you.: © Dan Brandenburg/iStockphoto.com

Figure 13 Sound confident: © denis ous su-ansah/Dreamstime

Figure 14, Difficult Questions: © Bigstock.com

Figure 15, Thank you note: © Filmwork/iStockphoto.com

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