Speed dating workshop

Speed dating with employers

Speed dating is intended for students who want to gain job interview experience in a safe environment by talking to a representative of a potential employer. For students it means an activity, where they can make contacts that will benefit them in their career path. On the other hand, employers also benefit from this activity, as they gain insight into what sort of candidates will soon enter the job market. Through this activity they can obtain CVs and contacts of the candidates and can even make them their future employees. Representatives of employers are invited to the faculty or to the event taking place online as they mostly do during this time. Career Centres organize a prep workshop for students, where we educate them about speed dating and give them useful tips for preparing a good CV and personal presentation. If speed dating is meant for internship or student job search, this prep workshop could be followed by employer presentation s. Students can apply on several different speed dates, but each time they have to be with different employers.

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So how can you avoid a meeting turning into a round of rambling or becoming an excuse to show off, instead of pushing the team forward? And how can you drag people out of their habitual way of thinking by freshening up the meeting? Here are our ready to use tips. You can also use speed dating with other topics which are directly linked to the goal of your meeting. Just adapt the initial question however you like How can we improve our sales effectiveness, how should our department look one year from now etc. This way they stay focused and important ideas will be highlighted.

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Make sure that all participants have name tags, placed in a visible position. In case they don't, provide them with a piece of paper tape and the marker in order to write their name on it and then stick it on themselves. Prepare some basic topics for the participants to cover, e. Name, Department, Country of origin, years in the company, hobbies, etc. You need to divide participants in two, equal, groups.

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Speed Dating At Work – Team Building Exercise

At the start of a speed dating session, students are given a topic or question to discuss. Each student sits facing another student. Students typically remain in their partner-groups for about minutes before the instructor, who must keep time, notifies them to move on to their next partner. Once students rotate to their new partners, the timer is reset and students again discuss their topic or question, this time with a new discussion partner.

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