AB2000 Lesson 3

Career Foundations II
Above & Beyond

Elevator Pitch/
Tell me about yourself
Work Ethics
Mock Interview

NBS Career Services

Roadmap to Getting the Internship

Know Know the Roles Write Interview Get the

Yourself and the Resume and
Company Cover Letter
Internship

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Why is Personal Branding Important?

Differentiate yourself from

others

Sets you apart from your peers

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 Personal Branding
Prepare your Elevator pitch (ABC)

A Attribute(s)

B Build a story
• Story-boarding, where/how/when
these attributes were demonstrated

C Contribute
• Why it adds value for others/the listener/the
employer
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Personal Branding –
Essentials of Elevator Pitch/
“Tell Me About Yourself”

Concise & Clear

Customized &
Compelling

Credible & Consistent

30 – 45 seconds

30 – 35 words

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 Elevator Pitch/
“Tell Me About Yourself”
Preparation & Practice

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Work Ethics

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What Constitutes Work Ethics

Interpersonal Skills

Initiative

Accountability &
Responsibility
Respect & Consideration
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 Accountability &
Responsibility

Dear Career Services,

With regards of the interns, we would like to express our displeasure

due to the numerous inconveniences and delays caused.

Several preparations have been done prior to intern’s commencement,

such as getting the IT setup, preparing and offering the contract letter,
etc and the preparation hence all came to naught, when he turned up
on the 1st day and sms me in the afternoon informing me that he will
not continue the assignment due to his projects/study. Such an
irresponsible attitude was completely uncalled for. 

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 Accountability &
Responsibility
We believe that your esteemed institution, with a reputation for high
caliber students, would have better handled this matter.  We hope to
be able to nurture your students and provide them with a fulfilling
working experience with us and would appreciate if we are able to
work towards a mutual relationship.   However, the recent experience
has left us disappointed, amongst the lost of confidence in your
interns.

Hope that such incidents will not re-occur again in the

future internship program.

Best regards
Evelyn Ng
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 Accountability &
Responsibility
Dear Career Services,
 
Thought we update you on one of your students, Mark Lee. We had tried to
get him to sign the letter of offer since 2 weeks ago (he told us he has been
on vacation). After 2 rounds of rescheduling, we planned to meet this
morning, but he did not turn up, and had e-mailed me this morning to turn
down our offer after all. Had asked him for his reason, but have yet to
receive a reply.
 
The rest of the NTU students who accepted our offer had signed the letter
of offer.
 
Regards,
Human Resource Manager 
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 Accountability &
Responsibility
The employer showed the NTU supervisor a sms (on his handphone).
The sms was sent from his intern on Sunday, 2.30am. The sms says:
 
• “Hi Mr Smith,  I am stuck in KL and cannot get transport back to
Singapore. I will not be able to get back to work on Mon. I will come in to
the office on Tues. Thks.”
  
• What will the employer think of the intern and her behavior?

• What should the intern do when she returns to work on Tuesday?

  
• (Background: The intern drove to KL with her parents for a wedding and
their car broke down. They could not get transport back nor repair their
car in the middle of the night.)
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 Attending Events
From: Levy.lee [mailto:levy.lee@jpmchase.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2018 9:51 AM
To: NTU
Subject: Turnout for JPM talk
 
Hi NTU,
We had about 9 business managers who took time off their busy
schedule to participate the event held at NTU yesterday evening. I
believe we were expecting about 70 students and only 13 students
turned up! It was very disappointing and as you can imagine, threw
the logistics off-balance.

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 Attending Events

We do see NTU students as a strong talent pool for JP Morgan.

However, this has unfortunately left a bad taste in the mouth for
all the managers and will affect the reputation of NTU students.
 
I would appreciate if you could send me a list of the registered
students as we do want to follow up with the 13 who attended. I
would also appreciate any insight you may have on the low
turnout rate.

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 Attending Events

In any case, many thanks for your kind help in making the
arrangements.

Warm regards,
Levy Lee

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 Always have a Nice Closure
From: May Yee[mailto:May.Yee@haygroup.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March, 2019 10:19 AM
Subject: RE: Full time recruitment

Dear Career Services,

Thanks for your email. Congratulation to your graduates who have

just completed their convocation.

We have interviewed 2 candidates from NTU. Both of them did

not respond to my email for second round of selection. I
assume they have withdrawn from their application and decided to
seek opportunities elsewhere.

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Always have a Nice Closure (Cont’d)
All the best to their future endeavor. We have selected a suitable
candidate from another university instead.

I look forward to work with you again in future for both internship
program and full-time hire needs. Enjoy the rest of the week!

Best regards
 
May Yee

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Leave a Lasting Impression with Employers
(whether they hire you or not)

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Get Prepared for the Future NOW
• Incorporate tutor’s comments & suggestions
• Revise/amend your resume and cover letter in NBS
CareerFIT.
• Submit your amended resume and cover letter in
NTULearn.
• Your final assignment must be submitted in
NTULearn after Lesson 3 (within 8 days inclusive
of the day of your lesson 3).
Example: if your Lesson 3 is on Tuesday, 4 Feb 20, the
submission deadline is on 11 Feb 20 at 2359hrs.

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Writing Resumes and Cover Letter
Lesson 3
Steps to submit your assignment.
1. Go to NBS CareerFIT url link:
https://nbscareerfit-csm.symplicity.com/
2. Login your NBS CareerFIT account with your school email and
NBS CareerFIT password .(Your NBS CareerFIT account
password was sent to you in August 2018 via your ntu email. )
3. If you have deleted the log-in password given to you, go to
https://nbscareerfit-csm.symplicity.com/students/index.php to reset
your login details for the CareerFIT . Click ‘forgot password’.

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 Writing Resumes and Cover Letter
4. Resume: Once you login to CareerFIT, go to Profile-
Update to work on your resume. Click on resume builder to
revise/amend your resume and cover letter in NBS
CareerFIT.
5. Resume photo (corporate photo) is optional.
6. Cover letter : Create a cover letter in the NBS CareerFIT
or use a word document and upload it in NBS CareerFIT.
7. Combine resume and cover letter in a .pdf document and
save this document as AB2000#Your Name# and submit
the assignment in NTULearn.

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Writing Resumes and Cover Letter
8. Login to your NTULearn.

9. Click on to the AB2000 course site of your group.

10. Click on the Assignment on the left panel.

11. Click on the title name (Assignment – Resume and cover letter submission) and submit
your assignment.

12. This component makes up 35% total marks for AB2000.

13. Professional resume photo is optional to be included in your resume.

• Note: if you would like your resume photo to be in your resume, you are required to add
your photo in your resume in word document.

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 AB2000 Online Teaching Evaluation
• The Online Staff Teaching Evaluation is opened in teaching week 6 & 7.

• All of you have just attended the AB2000 course, we strongly encouraged
you to participate in this exercise as soon as possible.

• To access the feedback, you can go to Studentlink >> Academic Matters

>> Student Feedback on Teaching. Alternatively, go to the following link:

• https://venus2.wis.ntu.edu.sg/SFT/Login.aspx

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• Self sourcing of PA
• Resume & Cover Letter
• CareerFIT resume mining portal
• Preparation for Interviews
• Interviewing 201
• Elevator Pitch/Tell me about yourself
• Communication Skills, Work Ethics
• Mock Interview; Phone interview

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