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Creating your personal brand
This module will help learners build a personal brand and understand how this is presented in the workplace.
Finding better work opportunities
This module will boost learners' confidence and resilience by increasing positivity and managing their doubts to give them the best chance of success in returning to work.
Building your career network
This module aims to help learners proactively seek opportunities to network and increase their ability to source jobs that might not have seemed accessible otherwise.
CV skills 1: Showing your best you
Find out how to write an accurate, relevant CV that can help learners secure a job interview.
Using CVs and LinkedIn to showcase personal brand lesson
Encourage discussion on how to showcase skills to potential employers through CVs and LinkedIn profiles.
Communication and digital skills at work
Help students understand how to develop different digital communication styles for different situations at work.
Communicating digitally in the world of work
Help students understand the importance of email communication and how to adapt their digital communication dependant on the situation.
CV skills 2: Tailoring applications to roles
This module builds upon the concepts of CV skills 1: Showing your best you module and will help a learner to understand why their CV should be tailored to each job they apply to.
5 tips to help parents support students towards employability
How can teachers help parents with their children’s journey to the workplace? Janet Colledge, chief careers education consultant with Outstanding Careers, offers some invaluable advice.
CVs and covering letters – putting their best foot forward
How do these two crucial documents combine to make a positive first impression?
Virtual Work Experience: An educator’s experience
Read Lin’s story about how she used our interactive video tool to prepare her students for work experience.
Job sectors preparing for work activity
Prepare your students for work with this activity exploring different job roles and sectors, including film case studies.
Getting ahead through social media
Head of LifeSkills Kirstie Mackey tells us how social networking is the new networking.
BITC Scotland: Cultivating a culture of enterprise amongst young people
Hear from BITC Scotland about the positive impact business engagement in schools can have.
Social action: An educators experience
Read Simon’s story about how to go about implementing a social action programme in your school.
A school social action programme that works for all
Read how Laura Mason rolled out a social action & volunteering programme to her whole sixth form at High Storrs School in Sheffield.
Managing workplace challenges activity
Challenge your students to complete projects similar to those set in the workplace.
Social action toolkit
Build a comprehensive social action programme and support young people to access enriching experiences that build transferable skills for work.
Exploring personal strengths for employment lesson
Help students understand that sensible career choices lie where their strengths, interests and personality meet.
Bridging the gap between school and work
How businesses can work with LifeSkills to give students the skills they need.