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We are here to help you get the advice you need to make the right decisions about your future working life.

Our careers advisers are professionally qualified and can give individual advice to help you make the right choices about learning and work.

Whether you want help with looking for work, information on local courses or dealing with redundancy, this service can point you in the right direction.

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My name is Katy. I am a services support assistant for Breast Cancer Now.

I've done a bit of office management as well. I've temped for a hospital, again, doing administrative duties for theatre. And that's really sort of helped add loads and loads of different types of admin strategies and understanding of different systems to my repertoire.

My current role involves being that first point of contact for any person diagnosed with breast cancer who wants to access our services. You learn so much doing administrative duties as well, because even though the absolute core of what you do is like spreadsheets, registrations, emails, answering the phone, you get so much knowledge about the company for which you work.

Something that over the years I've learnt is equally as important is understanding your company's style of communication. Sort of taking that time when you're new into a role to think like, how are they sending emails? What sort of tone do we use? How do we answer the phone? How would we phrase a certain thing?

My favourite thing about my job is, and it sounds so cheesy, but it's just helping people do what they want to be able to do. So whether that be someone who wants to access support, whether that be my colleague who wants to revamp the way that we send emails to someone. Being able to support people, to expand both the service that we are providing and how they work within their job. It's really, really rewarding for me.

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My name is Katy. I am a services support assistant for Breast Cancer Now. I've done a bit of office management as well. I've temped for a hospital, again, doing administrative duties for theatre. And that's really sort of helped add loads and loads of different types of admin strategies and understanding of different systems to my repertoire.

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Traineeships can help young people get an apprenticeship or a job. Find out more about what a traineeship is and get started today!

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Talk to your tutor about completing assessments to find out what skills you need to focus on to help you to progress onto your main learning programme.

These can be completed through learnmyway or your tutor may have alternative resources.

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Learn My Way | Learn how to use the internet

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Learn how to use the internet. Learn My Way is a website of free online learning for beginners, helping you develop digital skills.

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Each topic heading is in a column.
Not all of the content is visible on the screen at once.
To see more of the content you need to use the scroll bars.
There are three different scroll bars:

1. There is a scroll bar at the right of each column to move up and  down within each topic.

2. There is a scroll bar at the bottom of to move left and right to view more topic columns

3. There is a scroll bar at the right hand side of the screen to move up and down the whole Padlet.

Some of the tiles just contain some text, for example, 'Possible personal goals' but others contain links to other things such as documents, presentations, websites and videos. These may open in a new tab at the top of your screen. You will need to toggle between the tabs to work if you want to keep this Padlet open while you work on the activities. Ask your tutor if you are unsure how to do this.

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Using the 'Other Learning Opportunities' and 'Employability' sections:

I will review my progress on Pathfinder

I will discuss my next steps with my tutor

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I will evaluate and plan further learning opportunities

I will find three more learning opportunities that might be suitable for me using the library notice boards, course brochures and websites

I will write or type up a list of courses and compare how easy it was to use the offline brochures in comparison to the online ones.

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I will discover two techniques to help me to be less nervous when taking exams

I will follow instructions carefully so that I can answer exam questions

I will plan my course of learning using own calendar

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I will search the internet to find jobs relevant to me

I will find recipes on the internet

(Watch the videos below on search tips and try creating a web quiz for someone else to try)

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Making learning work for you at Entry Level

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Making learning work for you at Entry Level

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Making learning work for you at Entry Level

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Making learning work for you at Entry Level

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I will use all the buttons on the mouse correctly

I will type quickly and carefully enough so that I do 600 words in 1 hour for the English exam.

(Use some of the resources below to help build up your mouse and typing skills and feedback to your tutor)

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I will show my kids a new maths trick (Complete Maths or Magic)

I will get 3 calculations correct using long division (Complete activities on BBC Skillswise)

I will work out the cost of clothes in the sales. (Complete activities on BBC Skillswise)

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I will try out 3 methods of planning a document to decide which one works for me (Complete the activities from BBC Skillswise below).

I will draft a short handwritten document. (Write on a topic that is of interest to you and hand it in to your tutor for feedback)

I will spell 3 words which I find difficult using new spelling strategies. (Complete activities from BBC Skillswise or from your tutor)

I will proofread my own work (Use the documents below to help you to check your work)

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Can you pass the National Numeracy Challenge?

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Can you pass the National Numeracy Challenge?

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Bronze questions are the level expected for nine to eleven-year-olds.

Silver questions are equivalent to GCSE grades D-G

Gold questions are equivalent to GCSE grades A*-C

A YouGov survey - conducted to mark the launch of the National Numeracy Challenge - found that 25 per cent of adults thought their maths was no better than satisfactory, while seven per cent believed it was poor.

The National Numeracy Challenge, which takes around 20 minutes to complete, reveals the overall level a participant is working at, as well as a score out of 100. If you're working at Gold standard, you can happily leave the challenge, confident in your maths ability. If you don't, a page of learning resources aims to help you progress.

>> Can you pass the primary school maths test?

The challenge has drawn support from numerous individuals including Martin Lewis, founder of Money Saving Expert, who congratulated the charity saying: "Maths is the lifeblood of good money saving, helping you understand when you're getting a good deal and when you're being ripped off."

Tristram Hunt, Shadow Secretary of State for Education said that the challenge is a great way to change people's attitudes towards maths, from seeing it "as work which is difficult and boring to a skill that is based on creative problem solving and tackling new challenges."

Last year it was revealed that almost a third of parents lack the confidence to help their primary-age children when confronted with maths homework.

Furthermore, in a study of more than 2,000 parents, just one-in-20 were able to correctly answer ten questions specifically designed for pupils aged 11 and under.

Have a go at a few of the sample questions above and see how you fare. Then have a go at our Primary School Maths test here.

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Can you pass the National Numeracy Challenge?

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Bronze questions are the level expected for nine to eleven-year-olds. Silver questions are equivalent to GCSE grades D-G Gold questions are equivalent to GCSE grades A*-C A YouGov survey - conducted to mark the launch of the National Numeracy Challenge - found that 25 per cent of adults thought their maths was no better than satisfactory, while seven per cent believed it was poor.

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Here are three 'tricks' to amaze your friends.

But the really clever trick is explaining to them why these 'tricks' are maths and not magic. Like all good magicians, you should practise by trying them. Can you explain how they work?

This trick will impress even your maths teacher.

Think of a number.

Double it.

Add $10$.

Halve it.

Take away you original number.

Is your answer $5$?

Try this with a different starting number. Did you get a different result? Why does this happen?
Write the answer on a piece of paper without letting anybody see it and seal it in an envelope. Have somebody hold the envelope and at the end ask them to open it and reveal the number you wrote at the beginning. Wow, Magic!

Guess how much money people have in their pockets!

Without giving you any information, ask a friend to count the value of some coins and write the amount on a piece of paper. Then ask your friend to:

Double the amount.

Add the first odd prime number to the new total.

Multiply the result by 1/4 of 20.

Subtract the lowest common multiple of 2 and 3.

For the grand finale, you ask for the final answer. Take off the last digit and you will be able to work out how much the coins are worth!

Amaze your audience by working out not only their age but also what size shoe they wear! Wow them even more by telling them how the maths works.

Give them the following directions but tell them not to show you any calculations:

Write down your age.

Multiply it by 1/5 of 100.

Add on today's date (e.g. 2 if it's the 2nd of the month).

Multiply by 20% of 25.

Now add on your shoe size (if it's a half size round to a whole number).

Finally subtract 5 times today's date.

Show me you final answer!

Look at the answer, the hundreds are the age and the remaining digits are the shoe size. If for instance somebody shows you 1105, there are 11 hundreds - the age, and the remaining digits 05 (or 5) show the shoe size.
Now, how on earth does that work?

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creating and manipulating expressions and formulae

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Here are three 'tricks' to amaze your friends. But the really clever trick is explaining to them why these 'tricks' are maths not magic. Like all good magicians, you should practice by trying them. Can you explain how they work?

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8 topics for using computers and the internet

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Learn My Way | Learn how to use the internet

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Learn how to use the internet. Learn My Way is a website of free online learning for beginners, helping you develop digital skills.

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Free videos and downloadable worksheets to help adult learners improve their reading, writing, spelling and grammar.

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Prior to this course you should have completed:
An National Careers Service (NCS) session
Talked to your tutor to assess your needs

Complete this Pathfinder course to:

find out what you want to learn. This may be with Adult Learning & Skills or with another organisation

what skills you will need to be able to learn effectively

update these skills to help you to progress to and achieve your overall goal

Skills you may need to focus on might include:

English

Maths

ICT

Online Search Skills

Study Skills

Talk to your tutor about completing an assessment to find out what skills you need to focus on to help you to progress onto your main learning programme.

This Padlet contains just some of the resources that you might need to improve your skills but your tutor may have other resources that you can work through. Suggestions for activities are in italics.

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Follow directions

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learndirect - UK's largest provider of courses, training and employment services | learndirect

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Inspiring people to realise their potential through distance learning and online courses. Enrolment from just £19.99. 19+ Advanced Learner loan available.

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Free videos and downloadable worksheets to help adult learners improve their calculation and numeracy skills.

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Watch the video on planning

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BBC - Skillswise - Planning your writing

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Learn how to plan your writing with these English skills resources, videos and games designed for adults who want to improve their literacy skills, as well as basic skills tutors and teachers.

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Understand Health and Safety aspects of working on PC

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It's possible to think of the internet as the world's biggest library - but instead of books, its shelves contain billions of individual web pages.

Imagine being in such a vast library. It would take forever to find what you were looking for!

Every library has an index to help you track down the book you want. The internet has something similar in the form of 'search engines'.

Search engines are special websites that have indexed billions of pages - and make it easy for you to find a website or page in an instant. Popular search engines include Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask.

To get to a search engine you just need to go to your browser's address bar and type in the address of the search engine website, or you can use the search box that's usually found in the top right-hand corner of a browser.

Each search engine works in a similar way. If you go to a search engine's homepage, you'll find a single box. You simply type whatever you want to search for into that box.

If you wanted to search for days out in London, you could type London days out into the search box and then either press 'Enter', or click on 'Search' or the search symbol (which can be a magnifying glass).

You'll get a list of the most popular web pages that contain the words you typed in.

You could search again using more key words. So instead of just London days out, you could add the word kids. Now your search results should give you pages relating to days out in London that kids might enjoy.

You can keep on adding more key words to narrow down your search results further.

If you wanted to exclude certain pages from your search, you could use the minus operator (sign).

Therefore, if you only wanted to find indoor attractions, you could add -outdoor to your entry in the search box. This would filter out any results that mention 'outdoor' on their web page.

Another useful trick is to add quote marks around more than one word so they are searched for as one term, rather than each word separately.

For example, searching for tourist attractions would mean that the search engine looks for any page that contains the word 'tourist' and contains the word 'attractions' - which could be a site for people who are attracted to tourists!

By putting quote marks around the words - to make it "tourist attractions" - the search will only look for pages with these words next to each other, as one term.

You can search for all sorts of information using a search engine - holidays, videos, news articles, music, pictures, maps... The possibilities are endless!

But it's important to remember that search engines are a bit like robots - they don't check the truthfulness or the reliability of the information they find.

Also, it's possible for companies to pay the owners of search engines for their pages to appear at the top of searches or as adverts called 'sponsored links' (these typically appear at the top and down the right-hand side of the search results).
So, just be aware that not all search results are based on the popularity of a site.

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It's possible to think of the internet as the world's biggest library - but instead of books, its shelves contain billions of individual web pages. Imagine being in such a vast library. It would take forever to find what you were looking for! Every library has an index to help you track down the book you want.

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BBC - Skillswise - Editing and Proofreading

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Learn how to edit and proofread your writing with these English skills resources, videos and games designed for adults who want to improve their literacy skills, as well as basic skills tutors and teachers.

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http://ComputerTips101.com. Google does far more than simply show you results for searches. It can answer questions, too! In this video, Eric Spellmann shows you some hidden Google tricks that can save you time. You will learn the secret search keywords that Google uses to give immediate answers to common questions.

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Use this interactive tutorial to build proficiency with a computer mouse by playing a series of mini-games.

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Using a Search Engine Better | Search Engine Tips

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How to Use Search Engines Better -- Billions of searches are performed using search engines each day. It's estimated that more than 17 billion searches are made each month. You type in a word or a phrase, you hit the "Enter" Key and you get your search results, it's that simple.

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Palm Beach County Library System Mousing Tutorial

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A tutorial to help beginning computer users learn how to use a mouse

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11 Google search tips and tricks - tutorial

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Learn how to touch type

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Welcome to the free touch typing tutor - ARTypist

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Free touch typing course. Enjoy learning to type using this web site or just improve your typing skills

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