Title: Recognising Skills and CV Building (VER.2)

Introduction

Welcome to Module 1 - Recognsing Skills and CV Building

In order to successfully build a CV you will first need to identify what skills you have and what skills you have been able to display in work based settings.

Following on from this you will be taken through a section by section tour of the way a CV is typically built, being invited to create a new CV as you progress,

By the end of Module 1 you will have:

Applied to simple methods of reflection, helping you to consider your existing skills which can be highlighted in your CV and in job applications.

Applied your understanding of a CVs purpose and appropriate content through development of an up to date CV.

Skills Recognition

To build a better picture of what jobs would be suitable you first need to look at what skills you have, you can explore relevant opportunities.

Remember that everytime you enter a new workplace you develop and learn more about your skills and abilities which means that once yoi have accessed a certain type of work it usually means it gets easier to find similar opportunites.

As you progress through your work search journey you will be asked to demonstrate your knowledge. This means discussing how you have applied your skills.

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Careers an their Skills

Careers and their Skills

When building a CV emphasis is placed on the skills you have and how you can use those skills.

But because identifying our own skills can be difficult, let's first start by identifying skills some careers might use.

Career Skills Drag and Drop

What Skills do I Have?

As we move closer to building a new CV a useful way to assess our own skills is to think about the things we do day to day.

In other words, the roles we fulfill

Thinking of ourselves in a role specific way can help us understand all of the skills we actually have.

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What Skills do I Have? (Activity)

My Roles

Think of two roles you might fulfill and note down at least two skills for each role in the box below. If you can't think of any examples pick two from the list below.

Parent

Carer

Cook

Doing the shopping

Going to the gyn

Previous employment

Volunteering

For example

As a ... two skills I might use are ... and ...

My Roles

What am I Interested in?

What am I Interested in?

Sector Based Job Searching