BTEC L 3 Unit 1 Communication and Employability

BTEC L 3 Unit 1 – Communication and Employability Skills for IT

Recap • Last time: – Introduction to the unit – Look at personality types and the way that they are used to profile types of jobs and applicants – Talked about personal attributes and skills – Watched two videos and captured some headings on personal attributes and skills • This session we are looking at personal development and personal development plans

Personal Development • Personal: – Applies just to you • Development: – Over a period of time • Establishing a benchmark • Building on your strengths • Managing you weaknesses

What you will have for this Unit • AS 1 Setting a benchmark • AS 2 Strengths and Weaknesses • AS 3 My USP • AS 4 Technical skills • AS 5 Planning • AS 6 Attributes and attitudes • AS 7 Personal Development Plan

Assignment 3 Personal Development • This assignment covers the following: – Personal evaluation and creation of an initial PDP, P 7 – Tracking aims and objectives and providing evidence of progress and reflection, P 8 – Understanding how you learn and the different ways of learning, M 3 – Reflection on the overall progress that you have made towards you personal goals, D 2

General Attributes, Skills AS 1 Have you too much or too little of these? : • • Planning Organisational Time Management Team Working • • Verbal Written Numeracy Creativity Take each heading and: • create a short definition about that the general attribute is • write one paragraph about how good you are at this attribute • do you know anyone that is particularly good at it? • state how you think this attribute would matter to an employer Create a Word Template Referencing – One Note

Attitudes AS 1 Have you too much or too little of these? : • • • Determination Independence Integrity Tolerance Dependability • • Problem Solving Leadership Confidence Self-motivation Take each heading and: • create a short definition about that the general attribute is • write one paragraph about how good you are at this attribute • do you know anyone that is particularly good at it? • state how you think this attribute would matter to an employer Create a Word Template Referencing – One Note

Technical Skills AS 4 • Research some jobs in the IT Industry • Look for: – Skills required – Attributes preferred • Keep • Potential job sites: – Jobs. co. uk

Personal Blogs • A bit like a diary or personal journal • Want you to get used to writing a short blog for each unit that you are doing, but certainly for Unit 1 • For this session, I would like you to write a blog entry of 200 words on one or two of the opportunities that you arrived at and how you plan to achieve them

Summary • Introduced and revised information to help you complete and track your Personal Development Plan • You MUST provide evidence that you have completed and tracked your PDP as part of Assignment 3 • Tomorrows session will introduce assignment 3