Employment Essentials

Employment Essentials – mix and match courses to gain the skills you need. Available online or face-to-face. All modules are 2 hours

Personal Power and Confidence – Engage with your most confident, successful self and explore strategies to build confidence.
Recreate moments from the past that bring out your best, most capable self.

Uncover Your Genius – Transferable Skills What do you love? What sets you apart? What makes you unique? Use Mind Maps to identify skills, strengths, values and needs of specific jobs to inform decision making and applications. How to change jobs or work areas whilst benefiting from the experience you have.

Personal Profiles and Tailored CVs – Look at what makes a great personal profile and how to tailor your CV to each application. Use the job description to tailor your CV.

Hunt the Hidden Job Markets – Make social media work for you, making the most of online resources. Finding those jobs that are not advertised.

Agency Work – Is it for You? – Working for an agency – what to expect and how it differs from a permanent position. Rights and responsibilities.

Testing Times – What are Psychometrics? – What are they? Why are they used? Practice tests / Personality Tests / Situational judgement tests / Aptitude tests – numerical, verbal, inductive and deductive reasoning tests.

How to Ace that Video Interview – Interview preparation and the differences with a Zoom interview.

Stay Positive while Job Searching – Introduce ways to help you stay positive and be at your best while looking for a job. Explore areas that range from self-care and keeping healthy, to new ways of developing skills and confidence.

Skills in Action – Interview Practice – Build confidence by looking at common interview questions and thinking about our own answers. Use strategies to make a strong first impression, explore stress management specific to interviews. Discuss and demonstrate answering common interview questions.