This presentation will cover:

 Structure
 Units
 Differentiation
 Support
EMPLOYABILTY
STRUCTURE OF AWARD
Mandatory:
Preparing for Employment: First Steps 10 hrs
Building Your Employability Skills 20 hrs

Optional:
Responsibilities of Employment 10 hrs

Dealing with Work Situations 10 hrs

Features of the Employability Award

 Designed to be flexible
 Learner focus
 Capture smaller chunks of learning
 No external assessment
 Suitable for a range of learners
 Preparing for Employment : First Steps
Preparing for Employment : First
Steps
Review past and present
experience
Draw conclusions on how your past
and present experience can help you
enter to the world of work
Find out about yourself and the world
of work
Learners will think about their past and
present experiences to identify skills,
knowledge, interests etc.
Based on their review, learners will draw
conclusions about how their skills,
qualities and interests can help them to
enter the world of work
Learners will think about what they want
from a job, what types of job fit with what
they want and what they will need to be
able offer to get and keep a job.
 Building Your Employability Skills
Building Your Employability Skills
Find information about employment
opportunities that may be suitable for
you
Practise the skills you will need to use
to apply for a job
Learners will use a range of sources to find
out about jobs available
They will think about which jobs would
suit them in relation to their skills,
knowledge etc and which employers may
have suitable jobs.
Learners will practise skills such as
contacting an employer, completing an
application form, preparing a CV, taking
part in an interview
 Responsibilities of Employment
Responsibilities of Employment
Identify how employers will expect
you to behave at work and how they
should treat you
Identify what might happen to you if
you do not act in the way an employer
expects
Learners will identify their responsibilities
as employees. They will also identify how
they should be treated by an employer
when they are in the workplace
Learners will draw conclusions about the
differences between how they should
behave in the workplace and other places
they know of
Learners will identify types of behaviour
which are unacceptable in the work place.
They will also draw conclusions about
possible consequences of such behaviour.
 Dealing with Work Situations
Dealing with Work Situations
Know how to interact with others at
work
Develop skills you will need to cope
with situations you could meet at work
Learners will think about the different
types of people they could be working
with.
They will think about how to behave
towards other people at work and how
other people should behave towards them
Learners will learn how to discuss a work
related task with a colleague. They will
learn how to deal with conflict and they
will draw conclusions about the
consequences of not dealing with
situations at work in an acceptable way
The Employability Award can help
learners to ….
 reflect on their own achievements
 recognise the value of these achievements in
gaining employment
 develop the skills needed to find suitable
employment
 develop the attitudes and behaviours necessary
to sustain employment
 make progress towards the four capacities
 Differentiation
Principle
Support: learners will work with
Level of participation: learners will
Level of understanding: learners will
show
Complexity of tasks: learners will be
involved in activities which are
Level of maturity displayed:
candidate will
SCQF level 3
Directive support, ie the
teacher/lecturer will issue
explicit instructions
Participate in, ie agree to
ideas, suggestions and
plans
Basic knowledge, ie a small
number of key facts
Simple, ie routine and with
which the learner may be
familiar
Take account of some
identified consequences of
action
SCQF level 4
Support, ie the teacher/
lecturer will offer advice
Contribute to, ie offer some
ideas and/or suggestions
Basic knowledge of a number
of key points some of
which will be factual
Straightforward, ie contain
some routine elements
Identify and/or take account
of some of the
consequences of action/
inaction
Support

 External verification
 Assessment Support Packs
 Future?