Quality Matters

Another week more, I have reasons to congratúlate my team about a new success. This time because we get renew our Matrix quality standars acreditation, I can extend this congratulation to our collegues of Student Service, because they get as well!

Quality is a property we give to things and what indicate hight efficiency  in the achievement  of goals, we need in this case (a service) analyse process, lidership and his management, the use of resorces, service delivery and continous quality improvement.

All this give me to ask myself about quality developing our profesional career and i reflected about some aspects. Firstly, we can highlight the importance about to have delimitated our goals (we only can know if we are getting our goals if we have this goals, Only approach or moved away of their goals who knows what this are!). laterly is very important to do a good analysis about the enviroment we move in, and make a plan to develop those weakness we could have (for example, if we want to work as a lawyer in the future, and we are studying laws, and we are shy, and we have panic to talk in public, maybe could be a good idia to profit we need to work, if is our case, to try to get a part-time job in in customer service), also, in the long walk to get our goals we must to stop and measure our process and try to improve it!. Is other good idea to start doing links or just follow success people in our subject, could be a good way to learn about quality behaviour!

From Careers and Employability service can help you in this, you can find with us information, inspiration, guidance, vacancies and helping building your Cvs, job interviews, etc so Don’t hesítate and be sure you have high standars of quality first to face the hard labour market! Use us!

This time I give you some adive making careers decision from Donald Trump!

Move yourself, contact, get inspired!

The last week we could enjoy Creative Futures Event in City Campus as well in Caerleon. I would like to take advantage to congratulate my team, specially @JingLu (employer advisor) on the success of this event. During its course we could be informed about the labour market in the creative industry and inspiration with a lot of stories about creative entrepreneurs (I found it particularly inspiring Mike Jordan –business director of Bluegg Creative- and Emma Price –freelancer consultant- presentations).

We also could enjoy this event with the help of Anna Murray who was with us doing her placement week, I was so glad to chat with her. If we plus any personal contacts I had recently (friends and family) or the watching of some documentary about neuroscience (where I learnt that some memories are not stored in neurons but they are stored in the connexions between this neurons – If I remember well it calls Synapses). All this things plus my knowledge about the labour Market did me reflect about the words what inspiring my post of today.

We (humans) are social by nature, so we are prepared to socialise and this give us to create one social model organisation who become us interdependent (as we discussed last night in home about the healthy system), in order to this for us it is essential to be in contact with others. Because this is necessary to move, don’t be static, be all the time changing, adaptation and inspiring to self motivate. I can talk in my personal point of view, because I realise about all the task I do everyday, even more I think there is one person behind my actions I feel more motivate, the work that this service does give me the possibility to analyze how is so important to link (in our case students whit employers), so we are not important in itself, the important thing is the relationships that we could do and the help we give to students to have relations in a more effective way with labour  market. Finally, inspiration is very important, above all to do different things, and if you want to improve or create something you need get inspired (in my case, I discover I have more inspiration when I chat with someone during 10 minutes than trying to have inspiration in front of my computer, is for this I need to improve my English! To be able to speak better with people!)

To finish I would like to show you one video about the event “creative Futures” (congratulations to Mei Lewis for this great job!) what I started talking about, if you like, pay attention to us, we are running more! I let you know…

Creative Futures 2012 Newport University from Mei Lewis on Vimeo.

Ps. Yesterday @Lloydwilliams (Careers Advisor) was trying to help one student whit his possible application to one Leonardo Grant in Turkey, I have the chance to give some advise to him (European Volunteering Service), and we give to the conclusion he was inspiring by some Erasmus and Leonardo Students that he has as a friends, that it is what I am talking about!