Career Options, Skills & Abilities

• Employment
• Further Education (Key Stage 5)

Employment

How do I start looking for a job?

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.

Why do people get jobs? What motivates a person to work?

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. 

Where would you look for a job?

Where do I find jobs?​

• Online: Indeed.com, NI Job Finder, NI Jobs, Gumtree, Facebook Groups
• What other sites do you know about?
  
• Newspapers
• Direct with employer
• Agencies

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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.

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.

Skills

• Things we learned through training & experience
• Developed by practice

Abilities

• Natural or inbuilt
• Decision Making/Leadership
• Can be improved to an extent

My Skills & Abilities?

Sometimes it's hard to identify your own skills and abilities.

The video on the website helps with this:

www.bbc.co.uk

SKILLS

ABILITIES

Computer Coding

Carpentry

Lifting heavy objects

Teamworking

Remembering

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

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.

Are you happy with the jobs you found?

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What is the one thing you are happy to have learned today?

uk.indeed.com