Employability Workshop
Overview
This workshop is designed to help participants identify the knowledge and skills required for obtaining and keeping employment. Course work will emphasize individual skill assessments, interpersonal communication skills, workplace responsibilities, teamwork skills, safety issues, and personal management skills for the workplace.
Course Content
- Value clarification and matching assessment skills into employment
- Long term and short term goals
- Dealing with barriers to employment
- Decision-making strategies
- Setting priorities in work and personal life
- Factors that contribute to confidence and self-esteem
- Communicating effectively with employers, supervisors, and co-workers
- Teamwork approach to completing tasks
- Strategies for handling stress
- Appropriate clothing choices for interviews and the work site
Methods of Instruction
- Lecture
- Class discussion
- Roleplays
- Guest speakers
- Written assignments
- Videos
Means of Assessment
A mastery model of on-going evaluation will be used. A student will have completed the course when he/she has demonstrated through satisfactory completion of exercises and assignments that the course objectives have been achieved. Where formal tests are used mastery will be defined as a score of 80% or more.
Progress will be monitored on a regular basis by the instructor in consultation with each student. The student will be expected to maintain regular attendance and progress, actively participate in all lab instructed activities, and completes all assignments as directed.
Learning Outcomes
- To help students explore their values and career choices through individual skill assessments
- To make realistic employment choices and to identify the steps necessary to achieve a goal
- To develop and practice self management skills for the work site
- To explore and practice basic communication skills
- To learn skills for discussing and resolving problems on the work site
- To assess and improve personal grooming
- To promote safety awareness including rules and procedures on the work site
Speaker
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KnowLand Staff TBDSkills Development ExpertKnowLand Instructors are qualified professionals with many years of experience in their field. The reason these experts are selected to teach and facilitate courses and workshops is that they are not only seasoned professionals, but also they have a natural ability to teach and motivate their students.
