Economic well-being & financial capability - Careers at Key Stage 4
The links in the 'links' box on the right offer support for careers education and guidance. If you follow the first link, it will take you to the Department of Business Innovation and Skills where you can order a free DVD KS4 teaching resource designed to raise awareness of employment rights and responsibilities. It covers: basic employment rights, discrimination issues, information sources, work experience, health and safety, and workplace bullying.
This unit also offers two sets of resources:
A lesson using the principles of advertising to enlighten the students as to what makes a good Curriculum Vitae. Students benefit from working in small teams, and using resources that they are familiar with (newspapers, magazines) in a novel and creative way. Ideally it would be part of a series of lessons designed to enable students to recognise their skills, abilities and work values.
Young Managers' programme - a model for providing work experience for your students within your school or college at a level which will support a programme of career development and employability.This model has been adapted from the Springboard Young Managers programme, now no longer in operation, which was developed by the Frederick Gent School in Nottingham in conjunction with the Nottingham branch of the Institute of Management. In this format, it aims to offer schools and colleges suggestions for providing opportunities for students to develop their skills at coping with and initiating change through inviting them to take on management roles within the organisation. Students being expected to take on the role of a young manager within the school or college has the potential to raise their self-esteem and help them to develop understanding of the framework necessary for the development of a career plan.
There are five stages in the programme:
- Organisation decides management roles, draws up job descriptions, establishes a series of tasks linked to each of those roles and sets a timetable
- Student writes curriculum vitae and a letter of application
- Interview process and appointments
- Student carries out the tasks
- Student writes a report which includes evaluation of their performance and the activity with teacher assessment and feedback where required
The full article which is included in the zip document on the right describes the process. The resources which support this activity are:
Resource 1 is a comprehensive list of suggestions for management roles that students
Resource 2 is ideas for the type of activities that may be carried out by students working in those roles
Resource 3 offers you a sample job description for twenty-five of the roles suggested in Resource 1
Resource 4 offers a template for a CV
Resource 5 gives suggestions for the structure of a letter of application
Resource 6: Staff guidelines for setting up interviews
Resource 7: Interviewing panel guidelines
Resource 8: Invitation to interview
Resource 9: Template for letter of appointment
Resource 10: ‘Young Manager’s statement of intent’ can form a basis for discussions in the induction process
Resource 11 gives a suggestion for the content of the student’s report and evaluation
This programme is mainly targeted at Year 10 but the format is suitable for adaptation for older students.
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