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Preparing for Training in the Job Market

The ultimate goal of vocational training is to engage in the job market and secure suitable employment opportunities. To achieve this goal, dear student, you must turn the training process into an opportunity that helps you secure future employment. This requires, first and foremost, understanding your career aspirations, values, and professional awareness by taking some tests available on the page. To learn more about the tests, click here.

Dear student, the set of tests on this page has been specifically designed to assist you in making informed decisions about your professional status. You will find:

  1. Work Values and Attitudes Test: This test helps you identify important aspects of work, including the environment, financial returns, and the main purpose for which you work. It guides you in seeking a place that aligns with your values and attitudes toward work.
  2. Professional Awareness Test: This test provides insights into your knowledge of the chosen specialization, the professions associated with it, and, when combined with the Work Values test, equips you with all the necessary information to find a suitable training placement.

Before starting the training in the job market, it's crucial to prepare yourself adequately. Field training through the job market is a successful method that helps discover hidden talents in students. Simultaneously, students can acquire new skills not provided during their vocational education, especially with the rapid advancement of technology and current sophisticated programs. Training helps students practically prepare for market requirements. Therefore, having a training program in the job market is essential:

  1. Motivating Students: It encourages students to refine their skills and prepare themselves well for the upcoming training period.
  2. Understanding Training Requirements: It helps students understand the training requirements in the job market, the nature of required skills, and how to master them.
  3. Searching for Work Opportunities: It assists in finding workplaces in the market that can provide distinctive training for students during the training period.
  4. Exploring Specializations: It helps students identify areas and professions where they can train within the same specialization.
  5. Connecting Test Results: It enables students to connect the results of tests (work values and professional awareness) with the training places they visited.

Furthermore, it is necessary to:

  • Participate in meetings held with employers, asking relevant questions to increase awareness of the job market.

In conclusion, before starting training in the job market, students should extensively research to find a suitable training placement, connecting all vocational, practical, and counseling training for the best results. This step is a crucial first step towards a successful professional future. To learn more about your career aspirations, you can use the Work Values test and the Professional Awareness test.

During the training process, learn how to make the most of it:

Dear student, during the training process and your presence in the job market, you have the opportunity to familiarize yourself with the training location, potentially turning it into a permanent workplace.

After Completing Pre-training Steps, Entering the Job Market for a Specific Training Period

After completing the pre-training steps, entering the job market for a specific training period becomes a valuable opportunity to test all the procedures and decisions you made earlier. It provides you with direct contact with the job market and serves as a practical test for the correctness of the decisions you made earlier. Therefore, you must approach the training seriously, invest effort in learning, and demonstrate your professional skills. During this period, it is essential to:

  1. Increase Knowledge and Professional Skills: Participate in all required tasks and employ observation. Increasing knowledge and skills enables you to perform your job efficiently and discover new, job-specific skills.
  2. Explore the Profession: Get a broader understanding of your profession, including all practical aspects, working with machines and equipment efficiently, and dealing with them to save time and resources.
  3. Advanced Professional Skills Training: Acquire advanced professional skills and learn about administrative and ethical aspects in practicing the profession in the job market.
  4. Direct Interaction with Professionals: Interact directly with professionals in the market, deal with customers and suppliers, and learn the correct practices in occupational safety and security.

Training in the job market should be a unique opportunity for the trainee to execute required tasks correctly, contributing to:

  • Honing skills for the best practical applications.
  • Discovering creative aspects of the trainee's personality through the wide experimentation space provided by job market training.
  • Expanding thinking, mental visualization, and implementing new creative and organized ideas.

During the training period, work to achieve readiness at the cognitive and skills levels, including:

  • Understanding the logical sequence of work steps and their application.
  • Identifying strengths and enriching and developing them.
  • Recognizing weaknesses, overcoming them through attention and observation.

Paying attention to the employer's reaction to your performance in executing the required skills and listening to their feedback, whether negative or positive, serves as a random transfer of experiences that can be utilized to improve skill performance.

The training period provides a unique opportunity to understand the community's need for the profession you have learned and the importance of this profession. Building good relationships with professionals, employers, and businesses in the workshops and industries in your area will later help you find job opportunities.

The job market is a wealth of knowledge that can be employed and benefited from after the training period to secure a suitable job opportunity. Here are some key pieces of knowledge to focus on, record, and keep in a training file:

  • Identifying machines and their names in the job market.
  • Recognizing the materials used and distinguishing between them.
  • Understanding the correct work steps and their denominations.
  • Learning about best professional practices and how to apply them.
  • Understanding the workshop's departments, work, and each section's contents.
  • Identifying suppliers of raw materials, tools, machines, and preferred types.
  • Understanding the mechanism of dealing with customers and pricing.

Important Note: Try to obtain this information diplomatically, avoiding sensitivity with the employer.

 

After completing the training period, dear student, you are now on the threshold of a new phase.

 

You have completed your training in the job market, and you are ready to transition either as an independent professional or as an employee in one of the professional workshops. To ensure a smooth and comfortable transition, and to secure the opportunities you have planned for, you should leverage all the experiences you have gained, whether at the professional level within the training institution or in the job market.

Start by visiting the graduates' section to familiarize yourself with the available tools that will assist you in accessing the best options. This section offers various services, including how to search for job opportunities, assistance in conducting job interviews, preparing resumes, and providing useful information for you as a graduate with good experience and training in the job market. You can benefit from this period in the following ways:

  1. Practical Work Experience: Utilize it as practical work experience in your field, boosting the confidence of employers in your abilities.
  2. Understanding the Job Market: Acquire knowledge about the job market in your area, the workshops present, and the nature of the work they engage in.
  3. Knowing Workshop Owners and Businesses: Identify workshop owners and businesses in the area.
  4. Seek Recommendations: Request a recommendation from the workshop where you trained if there is no job available.
  5. Express Availability for Future Work: Inform the workshop owner of your readiness to work in specific periods if needed in the future.
  6. Seek Assistance for Independent Work: Ask the workshop owner for help in starting your own project or working independently by recommending you to potential clients.