Employability Skills
Careers
Employability
PSHE & Citizenship
Well-Being
Age: 11–16
Time requirement: x6 lessons 45–60 minutes
How can you prepare your students for life after full time education and give them the tools to succeed in the job marketplace?
This suite of teaching resources cover all aspects of the job-seeking process. Six flexible lessons each with supporting videos, presentations and thought-provoking worksheets run through different aspects of employability skills.
Lesson 1: How do you find out about careers?
Lesson 2: Identifying their own strengths and finding areas to improve.
Lesson 3: Applying for jobs. Writing a good application applying the STAR method.
Lesson 4: Interviewing skills. Using filmed case studies, students explore the art of the good job interview.
Lesson 5: In the workplace. Students will identify the importance of resilience in the workplace, and how to develop it.
Lesson 6: Money management. Students explore budgeting in different scenarios.
The Employability Skills resource is aligned to both the Gatsby Benchmarks and PSHE / Health and Wellbeing curriculum guidelines. The lessons can be used individually and independently, or together as a complete scheme of work.