Resources for Vocational Experience
and Environment and Enterprise units

Introduction to the unit

What is employability?

Job search strategies

Skills, interests and values

CVs, covering letters and application forms

Interview technique

This unit gives you tuition and practice in the process of identifying and applying for a job, together with work experience in a relevant organisation.

It is different from many of your other units because it has a much stronger employability focus. It complements your other units by helping you to gather together the knowledge an skills which you have learned and to apply them in a practical situation.

The unit has three elements:

• face to face sessions (group of individual)
• on line learning
• placement learning