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Skills for Careers

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To look at what's happening in the world today and understand British Values and PREVENT within a localised environment

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What's in your toolbox?

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Win Or Lose, Do It Fairly!

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Print sets of the cards off.

Issue 1 clue to each group who need to secretly share the answer (text, drawing, note, email, photo etc) to obtain the next clue.

There is a prize for the first team to complete all clues.

Discussion afterwards around each answer.

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Pay

All workers are entitled to be paid at least the National Minimum Wage (NMW) – it’s the law. The minimum rate you’re paid depends on how old you are and if you’re an apprentice. You cannot contribute financially to your apprenticeship.

Employee rights

You're covered by employment law, which includes protections such as:

a minimum of 20 days paid leave each year, plus bank holidays

a safe working environment

equal access to facilities

other standard employee rights

Training time

A minimum of 20% of your working hours should be dedicated to training or studying. You shouldn't have to work extra hours outside of your normal working schedule to complete this.

Course structure

You have the right to know the content of your apprenticeship and what’s required of you. These rights exist to make sure your apprenticeship is a positive and fair experience. You can ask your employer or training provider about your rights during your initial assessment, or at any time during your apprenticeship.

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When you are joining the job market, or maybe you are returning to searching after a long time with one company, LinkedIn is going to be your new best friend. This innovation in a professional social media platform is a great way to connect and expand your professional network from the comfort of your couch.

As a new job seeker, LinkedIn has several different ways to help assist you in your search. BeFunky has 5 tips for curating your profile. With these tips and your experience, you'll be armed with the skills to make your LinkedIn page make recruiters stop in their tracks and invite you to interview with their company.

Tip 1: Make Your Profile Look the Part

Although the famous saying goes "You should never judge a book by its cover," your LinkedIn profile is often the first thing that recruiters and your peers see. You should put your best foot forward when it comes to the appearance of your profile.

Touch Up Your Headshot

Making sure your photo is top-notch is one of the biggest tips that should be a no-brainer. BeFunky has some more tips on your headshot alone using the Photo Editor and Touch Up Tools, but here are some quick pointers: Make sure you are the only person in the photo and that your face takes up at least 60% of the frame, avoid dark photos or distracting backgrounds, put on an outfit that you want to wear to work, and most importantly . . . SMILE! Choosing an image that represents you will give potential employers the best sense of who you are before you even have an interview scheduled.

Add a Complementary Background Image

The background image is one of the most underutilized spaces on most LinkedIn profiles. The background image gives the opportunity to let recruiters know a little bit more about you while expressing individuality. BeFunky has some great tips on making your background image an extension of you using the Graphic Designer. Whether you settle on something more creative or choose to showcase a quote that is personal to you, you can create something stellar with BeFunky. LinkedIn's specific size recommendations for background images are 1584 x 396px.

Add an Inspired Headline, Not Just a Job Title

When it comes to your LinkedIn headline, it is tempting to jot down something fast like your desired job title. However, what catches the attention of potential employers is to select something more inspired for your headline. It is the first thing that recruiters may read about you, so skip the simple headline of "Recent Grad" and opt for something more exciting like "Library-aholic with extensive experience editing through internships and a recent journalism degree." You have 120 characters to use, so use them creatively!

Tip 2: Add Your Work Experience

Next on your profile to-do list is to start adding your work experience. This doesn't have to be every role you have ever held within your time at school or in the workforce. Focus on your most recent roles, and the roles where you had the most impact. Be sure to include where you had experience, what your role was within the organization, and the stretch of time you were in the role.

Add Detailed Descriptions

Within the description section of each role, be sure to emphasize experiences that you had that are relevant to your goals and achieved objectives in your organization. Illustrating your direct impact within each role is going to give recruiters a solid idea of what kind of contribution you can make within their organization.

Create Conversational Content

LinkedIn often feels like a digital version of your resume, and when it comes time to set up your experiences, there is a tendency to simply copy and paste the formal language of your resume over to your LinkedIn. You should focus on making the content you share and express within your experiences feel more conversational and organic. This is a chance to be excited about what you did and share it in a way that is engaging to read. Use this space to tell stories about your professional experiences.

Tip 3: Grow Your Connections

After you have set up your profile, your next task is to start growing your connections. Connect with former school peers, teachers, coworkers, and mentors alike. Find people who know you and your work ethic and make those connections. After you have started to have the connections roll in, you have two areas where you are able to boost your LinkedIn profile's success: skills endorsements, and recommendations.

Request Skill Endorsements

Add your skills to your profile, and request your connections endorse you for them. This gives your future prospects an idea of your skillset and how you have demonstrated them publicly when others endorse you for them. Essentially this functions as a peer review system for the skills you say you have and allows for a curated view of what others think you are good at.

Request Recommendations

The recommendations section of your LinkedIn profile is a great way for your peers to let others know what impact you have had on them directly. After you have made connections, you can go to the Recommendations section of your LinkedIn profile and click the plus sign and select Ask For a Recommendation. This will allow you to select who you want to write a recommendation from your connections list.

Tip 4: Curate Your Content Carefully

There are lots of options for ways to share content on your LinkedIn account. From resharing ideas of other creators to your own written recommendations there are a few suggestions we have for maintaining a professional presence.

Keep Sensitive Info Off Your Profile

In the digital age, there are scammers everywhere. Yes, even on professional networking sites. It is important to make sure that you keep identifying information off of your profile so that you have the best shot at evading the scammers or anyone who has poor intentions. This means keeping your address and phone number off your profile, keeping your full name to yourself, and making sure you don't share your social security number online.

Save Your Personal Life Posts for Another Platform

LinkedIn is not a place to share your images from a weekend of parties, it is not the place for sharing your religious or political views, or for commenting on others' posts with intimate details of your fun times in college. It is for sharing professional opinions and advice, it is for congratulating others on professional development and new jobs. You want to make sure the content you are expressing on LinkedIn are things that you would feel comfortable having recruiters at all your future jobs look at because that is what it is for.

Tip 5: Have an Active Presence

Lastly, be active on your profile! Make sure to check it weekly and start commenting and liking your connection's posts! If you need more inspiration on how to utilize your LinkedIn account, here are two examples of how to have an efficient and active presence:

Follow Companies That Align With Your Interests

Start searching for companies that are aligned with your ideas, interests, and experience. Maybe you are looking for a job from them, or you just like their ideology, give them a follow and be sure to interact with them from time to time.

Apply for Jobs

Start applying for jobs that you are interested in! Be sure to read the whole job post and complete the tasks they ask of you. Pay attention to the details, even on EasyApply jobs, they may have more steps for you to complete in order to be fully considered for the role. Follow the companies that you apply to and be sure to check for updates periodically.

Start Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile!

Freshly equipped with these 5 tips and BeFunky's Photo Editor and Graphic Designer, you are ready to curate your profile to be the most clickable. Whether you are returning to the job search or just starting out, you are able to make the most of this professional networking site and find the best fit for your future with just a few easy tips.

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This session teaches people about coping stratgies and how to use them.

In this session we will learn: there are a range of coping strategies that can be helpful; to understand that everyone experiences difficult times and feelings; resilience is about working through challenging times.
1 hour
Create a safe and positive learning environment by agreeing ground rules for the session.

Sometimes we use coping strategies we know and have used before, at other times we need to ask for help. If you feel lonely or isolated or are going through a difficult time, reach out to someone for support.

Resources

Activity

1. Watch the film "Resilience". Allow time for students to talk about the film. Asking the student to work in small groups, hand out the discussion points, one character per group. Ask each group to complete a character profile (handout) for their character from the film. Thinking in particular about what the character can do to build resilience and what you would recommend as a friend. Share these as a class.

2. Ask students to write down difficult situations or problems on pieces of paper or sticky notes (or use situation cards). Gather these up.

3. Hand out two cards to each student: either two coping cards or one coping card and one blank card where they can add their own idea. Each student chooses one to hold up where everyone can see it.

4. Label areas in the room helpful, harmful and useless. Read out one of the situations which the students wrote down and ask them to move according to which category their coping strategies would fit into for that situation.

5. Discuss each response and compare ideas and thoughts. Would you need more than one coping strategy? What makes something harmful or useless? What do we need to consider when thinking about how we are coping? How will we know if what we are doing has helped?

6. Does anything ever get in the way of us doing what we know will be helpful? Is the helpful thing the same as the easy thing? Can it be difficult to do what we know will be helpful? Can you think of an example (for instance, knowing who to go to for support is not the same as actually ringing them up or going to their office)? How could we overcome this (for instance, go with a friend)?

7. Plenary: To build resilience we need to have a toolkit of strategies that keep our lives in balance and might help us feel able able to cope when a challenge comes our way. Remind the class of the video clip. It's also useful to have a specific plan to help us cope with things that may come our way and cause us stress, to make sure that we have 'the right tools for the job' when we have to cope with a difficult situation.

8. Hand out the "My Five" sheets and ask students to think about a plan of 5 things they can do to help themselves cope with stressful situations. They do not need to share it if they do not wish to do so.

Reflection

Which coping strategies will I try to use when I need them?

What ideas will I take from this lesson?

Links and Learning Journeys

This session links to: Finding a way forward | Barriers to seeking help | Exam stress | My support network | Supporting a friend

It is also part of 2 suggested learning journeys:

Learning journey: building resilience: Ups and downs of the day | Expressing feelings | Managing stress: making choices | Building resilience |Talking helps | Being positive

Learning journey: learning about me: What is emotional health? | Building resilience | Let it out | Being positive | Barriers to seeking help | Making assumptions (short) | Helping my friends
Make sure young people know what support is available and how to access this support.

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The 5 Pillars of Resilience - The Wellbeing Project

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Steps and strategies to build resilience and help you bounce back

Taking these steps to stay on top of your wellbeing even when things are OK helps you to learn how to bounce back.

This means having the skills you need to cope with life's challenges and feel better in tougher times - it's also called building resilience.

This might sound difficult, but the chances are you already manage challenges well in many areas of your life, no matter how big or small. And there are lots of different things you can do and think about to help you learn to build resilience and bounce back.

These 6 tips will help get you started.

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Bouncing back from life's challenges and building resilience - Every Mind Matters

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Aim and Objectives on Self-Confidence and Building Self-Esteem

Aim

To help develop a positive self-image, build self-confidence, and foster resilience through understanding and valuing your own worth and the worth of others.

Objectives

Knowledge and Understanding: you will develop an understanding of self-esteem and its impact on personal and social well-being.

Skills: You will be able to identify personal strengths

Attitudes and Values: You will be able to demonstrate increased self-confidence, respect for yourselves and others, and a positive outlook on life.

By developing self-confidence and building self-esteem, you will be better equipped to interact with others respectfully, appreciate diverse perspectives, and contribute positively to your community.

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Complete a worksheet on what went well and what could have went better in work, college and life. And awards ceremony, learners to vote for their fellow classmates for a variety of awards to encourage good behaviour and keeping on top of work.

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Discuss the differences between confidence and self-esteem.

Use your device to find images and quotes that represent your confidence to create a digital collage and present it to the class. This activity combines creative expression with public speaking and mutual respect.

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Each person to write their name on a piece of paper. Hand this around the classroom and each learner to write down compliments and positive observations about each other. Collect your paper and keep as a reminder of your strengths.

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What makes a good leader and why do we need one?

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Students research various leadership styles (e.g., transformational, transactional, autocratic, democratic) and create a summary. These summaries will help in identifying leaders during the game.

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Complete the Jisc Digital Capability Assessment. This insightful assessment will help boost your digital confidence.

Follow these steps:

Watch the Video: Begin by watching the introductory video.

Complete the Assessment: Follow this link Burton and South Derbyshire College (potential.ly) and log in using your college credentials (at login, tick all boxes). Please answer honestly!

Once you have completed the assessment, you will also gain access to the Digital Capabilities Resource Bank. There you will find a range of resources that have been mapped to the different elements of the digital capability framework and other elements used in the question sets. Recommendations will also be made in your report.

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Discuss past inventions and what everyone's favourite item is, whether it's an iPhone, a game, a car, an item, a tool, whatever. Talk about what skills entrepreneur's have and ask the apprentices to think about what they would like to be remembered for. Lay out a plan on how to build the skills to achieve it.

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You will complete a worksheet on setting SMART goals and reflect on a goal you achieved and increased your self confidence.

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Take the quiz and find out your leadership style.

This self-awareness activity fosters personal growth and adaptability.

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Do you believe that you can adapt your style? Harvard University professor Ron Heifetz and leadership experts David Rooke and William Torbert say that you can. So let's look in more depth at Lewin's leadership styles, their strengths and risks, and how you might become more skillful in using them.

Authoritarian, Autocratic Leadership

This approach is helpful when your team needs to follow a process "to the letter," to manage a significant risk. It's also effective when you need to be hands-on with people who miss deadlines, in departments where conflict is an issue, or in teams that rely on quick decisions being made.

But you need to be aware that relying on control and punishment to maintain standards will likely drive people away. Similarly, if you always demand that your team works at top speed, you can end up exhausting everyone.

Instead, you can show respect for team members by providing the rationale for your decisions. And they will more likely comply with your expectations if you take the trouble to explain Why the Rules Are There.

You can improve your ability to "lead from the front" by Planning for a Crisis, Thinking on Your Feet, and making good decisions under pressure. But be sure to balance these skills with an awareness of their potential negative impact on creativity, ideas gathering, motivation, and trust within the team.

Being too autocratic can also mean that you'll find it hard to stand back from the detail and take a wider, more strategic view.
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Democratic, Participative Leadership

With this approach, you set goals, guide team discussions, and make the final decision. But you also acknowledge that your people can have valuable insight into a problem or process, so you actively consult them. As a result, you'll likely gain creative input and fresh ideas that you wouldn't have come up with if you were working alone.

You might wonder how to manage differing opinions in the team, once you've invited participation in this way. Your goal is to build a culture in which people can have healthy debates with one another. So:

Be aware that processes could become dangerously slow if you involve your team members in every decision. You'll need to judge carefully whether you need to adopt a more autocratic approach, even if it's only briefly.

The Delegating, "Laissez Faire" Leader

"Laissez faire" is a French phrase adopted into English that means, "Let (people) do (as they choose)." It describes a policy of leaving situations to run their own course, without interfering.

By adopting this style of leadership, you empower your team to make decisions and to organize its own processes, with little or no guidance. The danger of this approach is that situations can collapse into chaos if your people have low motivation or poor skills. It can work, however, if they are experienced, knowledgeable, confident, creative, and driven, or if deadlines are flexible and processes are simple.

Be in no doubt, though, that as the leader you will still be held accountable for the outcome! So you might want to organize team decision making processes to support your people while you take a "hands off" approach. Just be sure to delegate the right task to the right person, as a mismatch could mean that the whole team fails.

Avoid becoming too remote, even with a high-performing, highly autonomous team. Change can occur at any time in business, so your organization's requirements for your team might shift after your initial brief. If this happens, stay in touch with your people, and communicate clearly and promptly. Remember, you can offer your support without becoming a micromanager!
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What's Your Leadership Style? - Learn About the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Way You Like to Lead

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Use this quiz to discover your preferred leadership style, and to develop other ways to lead people successfully in different situations.