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Structure Units Differentiation Support

EMPLOYABILTY STRUCTURE OF AWARD Mandatory:Preparing for Employment: First Steps 10 hrsBuilding Your Employability Skills 20 hrs

Optional:Responsibilities of Employment 10 hrs Dealing with Work Situations 10 hrs

Features of the Employability Award

Designed to be flexible Learner focus Capture smaller chunks of learning No external assessment Suitable for a range of learners

Preparing for Employment : First Steps

Learners will think about their past and present experiences to identify skills, knowledge, interests etc.

Based on their review, learners will draw conclusions about how their skills, qualities and interests can help them to enter the world of work

Learners will think about what they want

from a job, what types of job fit with what they want and what they will need to be able offer to get and keep a job.

Preparing for Employment : First Steps

Review past and present experience

Draw conclusions on how your past and present experience can help you enter to the world of work

Find out about yourself and the world of work

Building Your Employability Skills

Learners will use a range of sources to find out about jobs available

They will think about which jobs would suit them in relation to their skills, knowledge etc and which employers may have suitable jobs.

Learners will practise skills such as contacting an employer, completing an application form, preparing a CV, taking part in an interview

Building Your Employability Skills

Find information about employmentopportunities that may be suitable foryou

Practise the skills you will need to useto apply for a job

Responsibilities of Employment

Learners will identify their responsibilities as employees. They will also identify how they should be treated by an employer when they are in the workplace

Learners will draw conclusions about the differences between how they should behave in the workplace and other places they know of

Learners will identify types of behaviour which are unacceptable in the work place. They will also draw conclusions about possible consequences of such behaviour.

Responsibilities of Employment

Identify how employers will expectyou to behave at work and how theyshould treat you

Identify what might happen to you ifyou do not act in the way an employerexpects

Dealing with Work Situations

Learners will think about the different types of people they could be working with.

They will think about how to behave towards other people at work and how other people should behave towards them

Learners will learn how to discuss a work related task with a colleague. They will learn how to deal with conflict and they will draw conclusions about the consequences of not dealing with situations at work in an acceptable way

Dealing with Work Situations

Know how to interact with others atwork

Develop skills you will need to copewith situations you could meet at work

The Employability Award can help learners to …. reflect on their own achievements recognise the value of these achievements in

gaining employment develop the skills needed to find suitable

employment develop the attitudes and behaviours necessary

to sustain employment make progress towards the four capacities

DifferentiationPrinciple SCQF level 3 SCQF level 4

Support: learners will work with Directive support, ie the teacher/lecturer will issue explicit instructions

Support, ie the teacher/ lecturer will offer advice

Level of participation: learners will Participate in, ie agree to ideas, suggestions and plans

Contribute to, ie offer some ideas and/or suggestions

Level of understanding: learners will show

Basic knowledge, ie a small number of key facts

Basic knowledge of a number of key points some of which will be factual

Complexity of tasks: learners will be involved in activities which are

Simple, ie routine and with which the learner may be familiar

Straightforward, ie contain some routine elements

Level of maturity displayed: candidate will

Take account of some identified consequences of action

Identify and/or take account of some of the consequences of action/ inaction

Support

External verification Assessment Support Packs Future?