Career Management for Two-year Post-16 Courses

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Age Range: KS4+

Students focus on past experiences and achievements in order to develop their ideas on future careers. They explore options in the UK and Europe and consider the long-term benefits of acquired skills.

Topics include: Factors affecting career decisions; Employment trends; UCAS; Self-employment; Taking a year out; SMART targets; Managing periods of unemployment.

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Size: 72 Pages
ISBN: 987 1 86025 261 7
Author(s): Alan Hoddy
Code: CMTY
Popularity rank: 319

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Contents List

LESSONS

7. WHO'S PERFECT? Allows students to recognise their strengths and weaknesses through self-appraisal and application exercises.
9. I CAN DO THAT Aims to explore achievements, interests, abilities, values and attitudes in relation to learning using a personal statement development exercise.
11. INFLUENCES Encourages students to recognise the influences and possible barriers relating to career decisions.
13. EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING Using matrix and Likert Scale exercises the worksheet raises awareness of the possibility of things going wrong with career plans and considers ways to overcome these situations.
15. A JOB FOR LIFE Using collage and information extraction exercises the worksheet introduces students to different types of employment with a particular emphasis on the development and growth in the self-employed sector.
17. EMPLOYMENT TRENDS Raises student awareness of the development of employment trends considering the past, the present and then the future.
19. WHY HAS THIS HAPPENED? Aims to introduce students to the recent changes in working trends in a research and presentation exercise.
21. ON COURSE Aims to raise awareness of all types of courses and to practise associated decision-making.
23. ONLINE Aims to raise awareness of, and use, some of the new technology available for research through an information-gathering exercise.
25. AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT Invites students to consider, research and plan a year abroad prior to going to university or starting work.
27. GIVE IT A REST Allows students to consider the implications of taking a year out and justifying the reasons for doing so in a problem page type activity.
29. GAP YEAR Allows students to consider the implications of, and the planning involved in, taking a gap year through research and presentation activities.
31. U CAN WITH UCAS Introduces students to the UCAS process by developing flowcharts and spider diagrams to aid application.
33. CAREER PLANNING Introduces students to a simplified matching process to highlight the need for careful career planning.
35. TRANSITIONS Enables students to better deal with transitions in their lives using a questionnaire to gather pertinent information about them.
37. UNEMPLOYMENT (SOCIAL) Invites students to use poetry and roleplay to build up knowledge and insight into the social costs of unemployment.
39. UNEMPLOYMENT (STRATEGIES) Tackles some of the problems associated with unemployment through a strategy-planning exercise.
41. CAN YOU MANAGE? Investigates what management training is using a spider diagram and a matrix.
43. PART-TIME OR TEMPORARY? Uses a brochure-designing activity to examine what working part-time or on a temporary basis implies.
45. SOMETHING NEW EVERY DAY Uses a time-line activity to examine the concept of 'life-long learning'.
47. UNI ... OR PERHAPS? Investigates the reasons for going on to university or not in a spider graph activity.
49. I STATE MY CASE Encourages students to make decisions based on sound reasoning using a cost:benefit analysis approach.
51. THE 'F' WORD Aims to discover the financial implications associated with being a student through a budget-creating activity.
53. FINANCE - EUROPEAN STYLE Focuses on the concept of exchange rates in an information-gathering exercise. (The student may need to work abroad).
55. DEDUCTIONS, TAX & PENSIONS Investigates the issues linked to employment taxation and related issues through research and calculation exercises.
57. THE CONTRACT Explores aspects of typical working conditions through a contract design and completion exercise.
59. WHAT HAPPENS IF...? Aims to help raise student awareness regarding the rights and benefits of the employee through information-gathering and presentation activities.
61. CONDITIONS Uses a word definition exercise to highlight the conditions of work an employee can expect.
63. LEGAL & ETHICAL Acquaints students with the responsibilities of employers and employees by gathering information in a questionnaire and interpreting the findings.
65. JUST THE JOB Aims to access and understand job advertisements and to gain practical skills in the application process.
67. A BRIEF LIFE HISTORY Aims to develop CV presentation by compiling an up-to-date example.
69. IT'S GOT TO BEEE PERFECT Aims to plan and organise a letter of application and produce a perfect example.
71. MAKING SENSE OF IT ALL Aims to produce an extended document which links information about a student's own plans to careers research in a way which helps readers to follow the student's decision-making process.