talkingJobs: Lesson Plans

Independent sessions

The session beneath involves hearing from the Talking Jobs interviewees about their working lives and family backgrounds followed by completing a series of simple activities to help you focus on your future career plans.We recommend you spend about 1 hour to get through the four steps involved, but remember the more time YOU put into the process the more you will get out of it.

While this session can work using the 7 interviews available in the preview, full access to the wider body of interviews will make the experience more rewarding.

NOTE: For those with full site access, login details will appear top right in the header area of 'Let's start talking jobs' document. We hope this helps make this resource even easier to use.

Let's start Talking Jobs - 1 hour required

Things may seem a little foggy when you think about your future work plans. You just need to realise that careers or job planning is about deciding what's important to you. This means being able to:

Think about your personal strengths

Plan and research your interests

Understand your ideas, aims and goals


	Aims:	To broaden your knowledge of the world of work To look at jobs you might not normally think of To understand what’s important to you in terms of an occupation To understand that a job may not always be for life To understand that we continue learning throughout our lives To know the skills that we have and identify those we need To understand how personal qualities and skills relate to real jobs
	You will need:	The login details for the www.talkingjobs.net website Pen and paper Speakers or headphones for listening the interviews A copy of the 'Let's start Talking Jobs...' instructions for this session Approximately 1 hour to go through four steps involved To arrange an interview with your Personal Adviser to discuss your findings Click here to launch the 'Lets Start Talking Jobs' instructions

Aims:

To broaden your knowledge of the world of work
To look at jobs you might not normally think of
To understand what’s important to you in terms of an occupation
To understand that a job may not always be for life
To understand that we continue learning throughout our lives
To know the skills that we have and identify those we need
To understand how personal qualities and skills relate to real jobs

You will need:

The login details for the www.talkingjobs.net website
Pen and paper
Speakers or headphones for listening the interviews
A copy of the 'Let's start Talking Jobs...' instructions for this session
Approximately 1 hour to go through four steps involved
To arrange an interview with your Personal Adviser to discuss your findings

Click here to launch the 'Lets Start Talking Jobs' instructions