Own
Your Story.
Get interview ready and get hired.5 day intensive course, May 31 – June 4, 2021
Join our 5 half-day virtual, intensive program that will help you get and keep a job. Leverage your own life experiences and talk with confidence.
Land that job faster with Skillpod!
Build Self Awareness
Identify your strengths
Identify your blind spots
Establish the mindset, habits and behaviours to help you get to where you want to be
Get Interview Ready
Understand what employers are really looking for
Prepare and practice responses
Gain immediate feedback
Develop confidence in your skills and your ability to manage an interview
Succeed on the Job
Prepare for a steep learning curve
Be the one who is growing as fast as the company
Ensure that you are adding maximum value
Build Self Awareness
Know your strengths
See your blind spots
Establish the mindset, habits and behaviours to help you get to where you want to be
Get Interview Ready
What employers say they want vs what they really want
How to approach most common questions
Companies want people, not robots! Create evidence of your unique skills
Develop confidence in your skills and your ability to manage an interview
Succeed on the Job
In a culture of hire and fire fast, be the one who keeps the job
Prepare for a steep learning curve
Set realistic expectations
Make sure that you’re adding value and growing on the job
In this course:
- Discover your unique strengths and blindspots
- Establish clear goals, vision, strategies on your path forward
- Improve your ability to talk about yourself and your capacity to face the unknown
- Improve your collaboration skills
- Increase your overall feeling of confidence
Tangible outcomes:
- You will create a personal biographical statement for a LinkedIn “About me” profile or in response to an interview question “tell me a little about you”.
- You will learn how to create a portfolio of skills demonstrating concrete evidence of your skills. These can be used to prepare for skill-based/behavioural interview questions.
- Skillpod LinkedIn badge: complete the program AND submit a portfolio of skills for a LinkedIn digital skills badge.
This Zoom/virtual social and interactive program is based on Skillpod’s 7 skills: Smarter Learning, Selfwork, Design & Innovation, Strategic Thinking, Communication, Teamwork, and Information Management. Although this program is based on theory and years of research, it will not feel like school.
Participants will receive an e-copy of the Skillpod Workbook, Be There, With 7 Skills for Working (and Living) in the Digital Age.
The Skillpod 7 Skills:
Smarter Learning
Discover and apply your unique learning profile to learn faster and better.
Strategic Thinking
Develop more efficient decision making skills.
Selfwork
Understand what drives you.
Teamwork
Communication & Networking
Improve your online and in-person communication skills.
Design & Innovation
Information Management
Use code SKILL21 for $100 off
Regular price $500
This is Instructor-led, social and active, cohort-based learning.
Each day runs from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm, including breaks.
Day 1: Introduction to the program; baseline self assessments; create a mindset for growth.
Day 2: Develop habits for growth; initiative, drive, motivation.
Day 3: Think better; how the brain works; strategic and creative thinking.
Day 4: Tools for collaboration; curiosity, communication and teamwork.
Day 5: What makes you unique; reassessments; get interview ready.
Meet Your Instructor
Connie Wansbrough, B.Sc., M.A.
Connie is a designer, teacher and co-founder of Skillpod, Inc. In the past 2 years, she has helped over 300 George Brown College students transition from school to work using the Skillpod program. Connie is the co-author of Be There, With 7 Skills Critical for Working (and Living) in the Digital Age, the Skillpod workbook. Now she is offering her expertise as a course designed to empower others who are looking to confidently evolve from student to successful employee.
“Do NOT overlook this course. This course is all about identifying yourself and others as learners and to help you work, collaborate and create more
effectively.
Employers look for these skills and competencies that are in the Be There Workbook. There is nothing else out there like it.”
-Matt P., 2019
