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NCFE Level 1 Certificate in Employability Skills

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Man learning how to create a good CV via video call.

Description

These units are designed to enhance employability skills by focusing on teamwork, mindset, problem-solving, and continuous improvement. Learners will understand how to work effectively in teams, recognise their strengths, and contribute to team goals. The course also covers how a positive mindset can impact employability, practical problem-solving strategies in a work context, and the importance of ongoing self-improvement for career progression. Additional units provide insights into developing assertiveness, understanding management expectations, and promoting health and well-being in the workplace.

Course Content

  1. Working in a team
    It will cover how teams work, recognising your own strengths when contributing to a team and the contributions of others and understanding team goals.


  2. Understanding Mindset
    It will provide you with an understanding of how employability can be affected by mindset, focusing on the key qualities sought by employers.


  3. Problem solving at work
    This unit will introduce you to problem solving in a work context, recognising and moving current understanding of problem solving in a home, education or social situation into a work environment.


  4. How to keep improving
    This unit will introduce you to the concept of ongoing self-improvement at work. It links individual self-improvement and business/organisation need for improvement in a competitive environment, improvement for progression or promotion at work and for being responsive to new demands at work.


  5. Developing assertiveness
    This unit will help you understand what assertiveness is and how to be assertive.


  6. Being managed by others
    This unit introduces the types of expectations line managers have of those they manage and introduces you to the understanding and skills needed to work successfully for a manager. It covers the roles of managers or supervisors, how to interact positively with a manager or supervisor and how to build a good working relationship.


  7. Health and Well-being in the workplace
    This unit will aid you in understanding health and well-being in the workplace and assess risks in own future career/area of work.