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Who you are and what you wantObjectives To identify your skills, qualities and interests To reflect on how your strengths can benefit employers To explore different job sectors and the skills and qualities that are the
best fit To gain an understanding of how your strengths align to different job
sectors and roles To explain how your skills, qualities and interests match your job goals
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Activity 1A Your skills
What are skills?
Why are skills important when looking for an opportunity?
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B Your personal qualities
What are personal qualities?
Why are personal qualities important when looking for an opportunity?
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C Your interests
What are interests?
How can these interests help you when looking for an opportunity?
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Activity 21 Read through the list of skills and tick all those you feel you have.2 Circle your top 3 skills.
Administration Being creative Calm under pressure CommunicationComputer Construction Creating ideas Customer service
Goal settingHandling complaintsHelping othersLanguagesLeadershipListeningManagementMulti-tasking
OrganisingPlanningPrioritising Problem solvingPublic speakingTeam buildingTechnical supportTimekeeping
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Activity 31) Read through the list of personal qualities and tick all those you
feel you have.2) Circle your top 3 personal qualities.
AdaptableAmbitiousAssertiveCalm CleverConfidentFriendlyHardworkingHelpfulHonestImaginativeIndependent
PolitePositivePracticalPunctualRationalRealisticReliableRespectfulResponsibleSelf-motivatedTrustworthyWilling
3) Now, consider your three strongest qualities. Why would an employer like them?
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Activity 4Complete the spider diagram below with things that you like or find interesting. Write as many as you can. You can fill the whole page if you like!
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Activity 5Write a list of practical factors you need to consider when searching for a job or progression opportunity? For example, travel distance, hours of work, salary.
Practical factors
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Activity 6Where are you now?
Write your skills, personal qualities, interests and top 3 practical factors in the boxes below.
Summary
Skills Personal qualities
Interests
Practical factors
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Activity 7 A The Advice Panel
In your group, review each other’s summaries from Activity 7. Give advice to each other on which job sectors or types of employment or volunteering might be a good match.
Job sectors
Business Administration Hospitality and Catering
Construction and the Built Environment Creative and Media
Information Communications Technology (ICT) Law and Politics
Distribution and Warehousing Animal Welfare and Environment
Green Education and Training
Finance Energy and Utilities
Retail Public Services
Health and Social Care Engineering and Manufacturing
Travel and Tourism Science and Mathematics
Security Childcare
The trainers can help you with descriptions for each of the job sectors.
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B Group suggestions
Record in the table below the sectors you have chosen from the group suggestions. List which of your skills, personal qualities and interests match these sectors.
Sector Matching skills, personal qualities and interests
For example, retail For example, open and friendly person with excellent customer service skills and interested in helping others
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C Matching sectors to roles
From the list of job sectors and from descriptions of jobs you have considered, select at least 2 job roles that you are interested in and write these in the table below.
The roles you list here can be paid employment or a voluntary position.
Job role Why you have chosen it1.
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Personal action plan – who you are What have I learnt?
What more support do I need?
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