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Career Options, Skills & Abilities
Employment
How do I start looking for a job?
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Employment
Further Education (Key Stage 5)
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Employment
How do I start looking for a job?
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Today we will:
Start looking at different career options.
Identify sources for job searches.
List 3 potential jobs that interest you.
Identify the Skills and Abilities needed for these jobs.
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Why do people get jobs? What motivates a person to work?
Slide 3 - Mind map
Why Get a Job?
At different times in life, you may have different reasons for wanting a job.
Right now you may want a job, just for extra money, it's not a career or an interest. It is simply for money.
As you get older you may decide that you want a career rather than a job.
A career means that each of your jobs, experiences, and training programs is helping you advance in pay or responsibility.
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Where would you look for a job?
Slide 6 - Mind map
Where do I find jobs?β
Online: Indeed.com, NI Job Finder, NI Jobs, Gumtree, Facebook Groups
What other sites do you know about?
Newspapers
Direct with employer
Agencies
Slide 7 - Slide
The 1st Step
Before you start looking, it is a good idea to consider jobs that interest you.
The following website is a great place to look at what is involved in many careers.
Slide 8 - Slide
www.bbc.co.uk
Slide 9 - Link
List own career options using information sources.
Now that we have some ideas about jobs that interest us, let's see what we can find locally.
Do an online search for 3 jobs that you would like to explore further.
List these in your OCN Workbook, along with details of where you found the job.
Slide 10 - Slide
Skills and Abilities
Each job advertised will require the successful applicant to have certain skills and abilities.
You can find these listed as either:
Essential or Desirable Criteria
Job Specification
This should help you when considering whether to apply for a job.
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Skills
Things we learned through training & experience
Developed by practice
Abilities
Natural or inbuilt
Decision Making/Leadership
Can be improved to an extent
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My Skills & Abilities?
Sometimes it's hard to identify your own skills and abilities.
The video on the website helps with this:
Slide 13 - Slide
www.bbc.co.uk
Slide 14 - Link
SKILLS
ABILITIES
Computer Coding
Carpentry
Lifting heavy objects
Teamworking
Remembering
Slide 15 - Drag question
Skills and Abilities for your Career
Looking back at the 3 jobs you listed previously:
List the skills and abilities you currently have that would help you in this job
Slide 16 - Slide
Today we:
Found 3 different career options.
Identified sources for job searches.
Listed 3 potential jobs that interest you.
Identified the Skills and Abilities needed for these jobs.
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Are you happy with the jobs you found?
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Slide 18 - Poll
What is the one thing you are happy to have learned today?
Slide 19 - Open question
uk.indeed.com
Slide 20 - Link