Advertise your dream job.
Forget Watkins for a minute — what’s your dream job? In this one you’ll work out what that job really takes, then research whether you were right. It’s the exact thinking HR does for every role — pointed at your own future.
Watkins HR · Project Brief
The brief
Your job
Pick your dream job. Anything — footballer, game designer, vet, pilot, electrician, YouTuber, CEO. The one you’d love to wake up for.
Step 1 · Reflect
Before you Google anything, write down what YOU think that job involves and what it takes. Guess honestly — that’s the point.
Step 2 · Research
Now find a real advert or two for that job and see how close your guesses were.
The output
Write the job advert for it — one page, as if you were hiring someone for your dream job.
Hand in
Show it to your HR buddy before the end of your placement.
Time
Around 60 minutes — ask your buddy if you’d like longer.
STEP 1 Reflect first — no Googling!
- What would you actually do day to day?
- What skills do you think you’d need? List five.
- What qualifications or experience get you in?
- What do you reckon it pays — starting out, and later?
- Why you? What have you already got that fits?
STEP 2 Now research it for real
- Find one or two real adverts for the job
- How close were your guesses? What surprised you?
- What’s the real route in — apprenticeship, degree, working up?
- What’s the honest salary range?
- One thing you didn’t know you’d need
Why this matters
This is how you actually get there.
Knowing what a job really takes — and being honest about the gap between where you are now and where you want to be — is the first real step to closing it. HR does exactly this for every role in a business. Now you’ve done it for the one that matters most: yours. Prefer a real one? You can do this for a live Watkins role instead — just ask your buddy.
Mapped out your dream job?
Once you’ve reflected, researched and written your advert, show your buddy and mark this complete. Keep hold of it — it’s a genuinely useful thing to look back on.