YAYC Mod 6 Get Some Experience

SKILLS TO
SUCCEED
ACADEMY
Interactive, online employability
training program.
ACTIVITY
PACK
Choose A
Career 6
Get Some
Experience
SKILLS TO SUCCEED ACADEMY
Get Some Experience

This activity pack contains four activities to help you check that you can apply
what you have learnt in the ‘Get Some Experience’ module. In activity 1, you will
consider careers you are interested in and the practical steps you can take to gain
more experience or skill relevant to these careers. In activity 2 you will look at your
‘goals’. Following all of the work that you have done in this course – what is your
goal? In activity 3 you will learn how to complete an action plan for yourself. The
final activity, activity 4 is a list of sources that you can look at to find out more
about work experience and volunteering.
You will need to use the information from the activities with a * against them in
activity 3 of this activity pack.
Remember the key learning points from this module:
1. Try things out. You will never know what something is really like
unless you try it out. Trying things out helps you to understand if you
enjoy them and can be a good way of gaining new skills and
expertise.
2. Make it happen. Keep an open mind and have a positive attitude. Be

active in looking to find opportunities to get started.
3. Try things out for yourself through:

o Work experience
o Increasing your skills outside work
o Starting work
4. Set goals to give direction to your career.
5. Use an action plan to help you achieve your goals.
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ACTIVITY 1: Next steps

As you saw in the module with Ravi and Lila, it’s important to work out what your
next steps are when considering your career options. Being active and positive
along the way will help.
Use that space below to list any careers that you are interested in.
Thinking of the careers you’ve listed above, consider how you can be active and
positive. Complete the table below for each career and plan some active and
positive steps that you can take. If you need to make a note of useful websites
and you are doing the pack online you can copy and paste the website address
into the table from the address bar on your internet browser.
You will need to complete this table for each career you’ve listed. Further copies
of this table are available in the appendix of this activity pack.

Question Answer
Career:_________________________________________________________
Who do you know who you

could ask for more
information about this
career? (They could be in
this type of work now or
have done this type of
work in the past).
You may have listed them

in the activity pack for
Module 2 already but have
you identified any more
when going through the
modules?
How will you contact them?
What questions will you

ask them?
You may have written
questions already in the
activity pack for Module 2,
but think about whether
you have any new or
different questions now you
have completed the whole
course.

Question Answer
Where else can you find

out more information
about this career?
(Online, offline, people).
You may have written this

Module 2, but think about
whether you have
discovered any new
sources now you have
completed the whole
course.
Where can you find out

more information about
getting work experience in
this career?
Can you get work

experience in this career?
Where?

Question Answer
Do you need to develop

any skills outside work that
will help you in this career?

more about developing
these skills? (Think: online,
offline, people).
Can you do any courses to

get experience in this
career? (college, uni,
vocational, part-time, full-
time, online, self- study).

Question Answer
What jobs could you

apply for now that would
give you some
experience that could be
helpful in this career?
e.g. If you are interested in
customer service roles but
still in full time education
you could get a part time
role in a bar or restaurant
where you work with
customers.
How can you find out more

about these types of jobs?
(Think: online, offline,
people).
What are the ‘quick’

options you could take to
gain experience or skills
for this career?
e.g. Hobbies, self-practise
or volunteering.
Question Answer


about these options?
people).
ACTIVITY 2: Goals*
Following all of the work that you have completed in the ‘Choose a Career’
course, you should be ready to set some career goals. You will remember from
the module that it's best to give all this experience and skill building some sort of
focus i.e. to have a goal in mind.
Not everyone will have an idea of what their goal is. The important thing is to have
something that you'd like to achieve in mind, so you are heading in a direction!
You may find that you have more than one goal; this is fine, so long as they don’t
cancel each other out. You can’t be a police officer and an astronaut at the same
time!
In the earlier activity packs, you will have completed activities to help you to know
more about yourself and to know more about what is out there.
Now is your chance to make some decisions about your goal.
Remember, goals can just be a general aim or an idea. You give as much detail
as you like. You can say ‘I want to be a wildlife photographer and work in the
Galapagos filming penguins’ or you can just say, ‘I want to take pictures for a
living’. Either one is a goal and either one works, so long as you approach it the
right way.

Based on what
you have learnt during this course, use the box below to write down a goal or
number of goals that you have about your career.
My Goal(s)
ACTIVITY 3: Action plan*

So once you’ve got a goal, what is your next step?
Complete an ACTION PLAN!
The template below is an action plan that has been created based on what has
been covered in all the modules in this course. Now you have finished the course,
you will find that, handily, you have already completed a number of the actions on
the action plan when you did the previous activity packs!
Each module activity pack has an activity that is starred like this *. These starred
activities all fit into your action plan. Your action plan is a to-do list with some
serious potential.
It should help you achieve your goals by allowing you to plan and track the things
you need to do to get there.
Update the action plan with dates for when you plan to complete each action and
also note if you have already completed some of the actions.
There is a section at the bottom of the action plan where you can fill in additional
activities that you want to do following this course. These could include conducting
further research about your chosen career(s), talking to people or carrying out
some of the next steps actions from activity 1 above. Just try to make sure you
understand how they help you achieve your goal in the long run.

Your Action Plan
Relevant Activity
Action Date to be
Action Complete? Activity Activity
no. completed
Pack Number
Write down who can help Module 2 Activity 2
1 you find out more about
careers.
Talk to people you Module 2 Activity 2
2 identified about careers.
Write down two career Module 3 Activity 1

3 areas you are interested in.
Write down why you are Module 3 Activity 1

4 interested in these careers.
Go through your reasons Module 3 Activity 1

5 and check which facts are
and which are
preconceptions.

Relevant Activity
Action Date to be
Action Complete?
no. completed Activity Activity
Pack Number
Create actions about how to Module Activity
6 check your preconceptions. 3 1
Identify obstacles that could Module Activity

7 get in your way. 3 2
Write down how you will Module Activity

8 challenge each obstacle. 3 2
Write a list of your interests. Module Activity

9 4 5
10 Write a list of your strengths. Module Activity

4 5
11 Write a list of your motivations. Module Activity
4 5
12 Write a description of your Module Activity
style. 4 5
13 Create a career path for a Module Activity
career you are interested in. 5 2
14 Investigate what the Module Activity
current/future prospects are for 5 1
careers in Action Number 13.
15 Write down your goal – where Module Activity
you want to be 6 2
Actions that will help me achieve my goal
16 Get someone who knows you
to check points 8-12.
17 Investigate a variety of
jobs/careers to match your
interests/strengths/motivations/
style.
18 Set date for when you will
review the points 8-12 as they
will probably change over time.
19 Talk to people in the careers

you are interested in and
discuss with an advisor.
20

Relevant Activity
Action Date to be
Action Complete? Activity Activity
no. completed
Pack Number
21
22
23
24
25

Remember, it’s important to follow up on your activities:
o Share your ‘Next steps’ actions from activity 1 with someone who can
review your answers. Ask them to help you to fill in any gaps that you
have. For example, they may know good places to research or know
people who work in that area who you could contact.
o Talk to someone about your goal(s) and ask them for advice about how
often you should revisit these. If you don’t have an Advisor, you could call
the National Careers Service Helpline to speak to a careers advisor about
your goals. You can also ask them for advice and guidance about the
areas that you are interested in.
o Once you have completed your Action Plan, set aside some time every
week to review it and assess your progress against it. You may find that as
you complete your initial actions, you create more that you can add into
your Action Plan. This is the best way to use the Action Plan, as a
document you refer to help you reach your goals one step at a time.
o If you find that you are hitting barriers or obstacles as you try to complete
your actions, make sure that you talk to your Advisor or find someone who
can help you to challenge them. Once again the National Careers Service
can help you with this.

ACTIVITY 4: Where to look online

There are a number of sites online that can help you get some experience. There
are some examples of useful websites listed below for work experience, self-
learning and volunteering opportunities.
Work Experience
o https://targetjobs.co.uk/search/all/focus/ad_vacancy#path=focus/ad_va
cancy/focus/ad_workexperience
o www.prospects.ac.uk/work_experience.htm
o www.plotr.co.uk/opportunities/opportunity-finder/
o http://www.careerswales.com/en/jobs-and-training/job-seeking/i-need-
experience/volunteering/
o http://www.movementtowork.com/
o https://www.gov.uk/find-traineeship
Volunteering
o www.do-it.org.uk/
o www.volunteering.org.uk/
o www.vinspired.com/
o www.vso.org.uk/volunteer
o www.gov.uk/volunteering/find-volunteer-placements
o http://www.careerswales.com/en/jobs-and-training/job-seeking/i-need-
experience/volunteering/
Online Learning
o http://ed.ted.com/
o www.udacity.com/
o www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/
o www.khanacademy.org/
o www.open.edu/openlearn/
o www.coursera.org/
o www.edx.org/

USEFUL RESOURCE
The Skills Builder Partnership has several resources that can help you learn
more about how to reflect on your skills and how to use research and mind
mapping to tackle complex problems and generate ideas.
The Skills Builder Partnership is a collaboration of over 700 educators,

organisations and employers working together towards a common mission: to
ensure individuals of all ages build the essential skills to succeed. An essential
skills framework has been developed which breaks down eight essential skills
into teachable and measurable steps. These are skills that you may already
have, or skills you would like to develop.
Throughout the ‘Get Some Experience’ module and activity pack, you have
built your understanding of:
- How setting own personal development targets and identifying useful

resources to complete tasks can help to advance your career. Activity 3
references Step 8 of the essential skill Aiming High in the Skills Builder
framework: “I set goals and secure the right resources to achieve them”.
For more information, please refer to https://www.skillsbuilder.org/universal-

framework, where you can access the Skills Builder Interactive Universal
Framework.
REMEMBER
These Activity Packs are yours to keep. Make sure you review them regularly
and keep them updated.
You could also discuss them with advisors, friends, family and anyone else
who you think could help you get some feedback.

If you haven’t already completed

Choose A Career – Module 6 – Get Some
Experience in the Skills to Succeed Academy
give it a go!
http://www.s2sacademy.com.

Appendix
Below you will find further copies of the template from activity 1 ‘Next Steps’, so
you can consider steps you can take for different careers. You should use a new
table for each career.

Question Answer
Career:_________________________________________________________
Who do you know who you

could ask for more
information about this
career? (They could be in
this type of work now or
have done this type of
work in the past).
You may have listed them

Module 2 already but have
you identified any more
when going through the
modules?
How will you contact them?
What questions will you

ask them?
You may have written
questions already in the
activity pack for Module 2,
but think about whether
you have any new or
different questions now you
have completed the whole
course.

Question Answer
Where else can you find

out more information
about this career?
(Online, offline, people).
You may have written this

Module 2, but think about
whether you have
discovered any new
sources now you have
completed the whole
course.

more information about
getting work experience in
this career?
Can you get work

experience in this career?
Where?

Question Answer
Do you need to develop

any skills outside work that
will help you in this career?

more about developing
these skills? (Think: online,
offline, people).
Can you do any courses to

get experience in this
career? (college, uni,
vocational, part-time, full-
time, online, self- study).

Question Answer
What jobs could you

apply for now that would
give you some experience
that could be helpful in
this career?
e.g. If you are interested in
customer service roles but
still in full time education
you could get a part time
role in a bar or restaurant
where you work with
customers.

about these types of jobs?
people).
What are the ‘quick’

options you could take to
gain experience or skills
for this career?
e.g. Hobbies, self-practise
or volunteering.
Question Answer


about these options?
people).


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SKILLS TO

Get Some Experience

Remember the key learning points from this module:

2. Make it happen. Keep an open mind and have a positive attitude. Be

3. Try things out for yourself through:

4. Set goals to give direction to your career.

5. Use an action plan to help you achieve your goals.

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

ACTIVITY 1: Next steps

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

Who do you know who you

You may have listed them

How will you contact them?

What questions will you

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

Where else can you find

You may have written this

Where can you find out

Can you get work

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

Do you need to develop

Where can you find out

Can you do any courses to

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

What jobs could you

How can you find out more

What are the ‘quick’

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

How can you find out more

Now is your chance to make some decisions about your goal.

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ACTIVITY 3: Action plan*

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Your Action Plan

Write down two career Module 3 Activity 1

Write down why you are Module 3 Activity 1

Go through your reasons Module 3 Activity 1

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Identify obstacles that could Module Activity

Write down how you will Module Activity

Write a list of your interests. Module Activity

10 Write a list of your strengths. Module Activity

19 Talk to people in the careers

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

Remember, it’s important to follow up on your activities:

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

ACTIVITY 4: Where to look online

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

The Skills Builder Partnership is a collaboration of over 700 educators,

- How setting own personal development targets and identifying useful

For more information, please refer to https://www.skillsbuilder.org/universal-

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

If you haven’t already completed

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

Who do you know who you

You may have listed them

How will you contact them?

What questions will you

Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved.

Where else can you find

You may have written this

Where can you find out