1. Job Search, Recruitment & Selection and Career Development
[Anglophone]
Duration : 12 hours M1 / 13 hours M2 [Repeated programme]
Objectives:
•To harness and build upon pre-existing work experience and knowledge of workplace
practices in recruitment, selection and career development
•To prepare for securing MICAI placement/internship and subsequent employment and
career development. Specifically:
•Self-analysis and reflection in terms of:
•identification of personal work/career ideas and preferences
•auditing personal and professional capabilities and suitability for the
work/career preferences identified
•development of a strategy for closing the gap between future career
requirements and existing capabilities
•Job search and research:
•job advertisements in the traditional media
•online job-search: corporate websites; employment agencies; c.v.-posting
sites etc.
•speculative approaches: the pros and cons.
•de-coding job advertisements, job descriptions and person specifications.
•self-assessment against recruitment criteria
•The curriculum vitae, covering letter and application forms:
•role; content; structure/layout; dealing with constraints like length;
presentation & use of space; complying with accepted conventions; use of
photos; individuality and creativity;.
•review and revision in the light of the potential employer recruitment criteria
(particularly the 'essentials' and the 'desirables' as identified in the job
advertisement and person specification)
•high-impact vocabulary/business terminology and the translation and
equivalence of educational qualifications.
•The interview ... and other recruitment formalities and possibilities:
•taking your cues from the de-coding of job advertisements, job descriptions
and person specifications (see above) and understanding the employer
perspective
•identifying predictable questions
•typical 'difficult' questions and how to prepare for them
•what to do when you don't know the answer to the question
•dealing with pressure and stress
•interview rehearsal
•other possibilities: 'board' interviews; personality tests, multi-candidate
scenarios and role-plays: what employer-observers are looking for.
•interview follow-up / feedback

2. •The first few weeks/months:
• first impressions
• building relationships and confidence
• mentors
• the role and value of professional associations
•Career planning:
• career structures and promotions
• the continual need for personal professional development
• building your own network
The teaching programme will broadly follow the above chronological structure, built, as it is,
around recruitment and selection as a process.
Indicative Evaluation / Assessment.
This unit will be assessed by means of coursework only. Your final mark will be comprised
of two components: 1 x written + 1 x oral.
Where team or group-work is envisaged, its value will not exceed 40% of your overall
mark. Where group/team marks are to be awarded, the tutors reserve the right to moderate the
group/team base mark according to the conspicuous personal performance of individuals [for
example the quality of creative contribution demonstrated]. This is to help ensure that no
individual can be 'carried' or indeed significantly held back by the team as a whole.
Indicative examples of possible elements of coursework:
•creation and 'perfection' of a c.v. or covering letter (individual / written)
•interviewer / interviewee interview rehearsal pair-work (team / oral)
Sources & Resources (Indicative)
Tutor Resources: Tony Jolley's Tonyversity homepage www.tonyversity.com (click the
picture: with the rubric: 'Are you a University Student', then follow the links to MICAI and
this unit. His former site at: http://tjolley.googlepages.com/oneofflecturestopics also remains
available. Here you will find materials (lecture notes and links) relating to most elements of
this programme.
Hard copy textbooks:
Job-Hunting & Career Change All-in-One For Dummies - Rob Yeung (Editor)
R Paperback: 570 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (14 Dec 2007)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0470516119
ISBN-13: 978-0470516119
[At the time of writing – summer 2009 - one could purchase this from either http://www.bookdepository.co.uk or
http://www.amazon.co.uk for under 20€ including delivery charges for shipping to France]

3. Lecturers:
Mr Tony Jolley. Proprietor: Tonyversity (www.tonyversity.com) Management and
Professional Development Consultancy. Learning and Teaching Fellow, Senior Lecturer in
Tourism and Services Management at Bournemouth University, England 1988-2007).
Visiting lecturer at IUT Colmar and Berufsakademie Lörrach. Manager of a range of
European/International Tourism Management programmes at Masters and Undergraduate
Levels. Specialist subjects: Planning and Development; Information Technology and
Communications applications in Business. Formerly Research and Development Manager for
the Regional Tourism Board covering Southern England [Responsible for the analysis and
evaluation of major development projects and their suitability for public sector grant and loan-
aid funding].