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Prescribed Learning Outcomes
Suggested Instructional Strategies
Suggested Assessment Strategies
Recommended Learning Resources

It is expected that students will:

• identify basic job-seeking skills
• demonstrate an understanding of personal management, academic, and teamwork skills that are transferable to the workplace
• demonstrate an ability to manage basic personal finances

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SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Provide sample résumés, covering letters, and completed application forms for students to examine. Have them identify and list attributes of good job-search support documentation.
• Ask each student to interview someone who recently started a new job, focussing on how the person learned about and obtained the position.
• Have students analyse videotaped job interviews to identify effective interview skills.
• Suggest that those students participating in job-shadowing experiences record their observations about the skills needed for the jobs.
• Identify for the class hypothetical personnel needs in various businesses or organizations. Form groups and have each group develop a profile of a candidate whose academic, personal management, and teamwork skills make him or her ideal for one of the jobs.
• Provide a generic list of transferable skills grouped under categories (e.g., clerical, creative, helping, service, research, physical, communication, technical, financial). Have students circle those they believe they possess, sharing their analyses with partners to confirm or adjust their profiles. Then, as a class, brainstorm jobs in each of the categories (some will appear in more than one category). Have students identify jobs they feel match their transferable skill set.
• Brainstorm with students reasons for saving money (e.g., postsecondary plans). Remind students that in addition to predictable living expenses, they should consider irregular expenses, emergency or unexpected expenses, specific purchases related to personal goals or opportunities, and long-term security savings. Have students agree on a set of expenditure or allocation categories (e.g., entertainment, savings, contingency) and each use these to develop a one-month budget, allocating a given amount of money to each category. Propose specific events with financial implications and challenge students to adjust their budgets accordingly.

• Work with students to develop criteria to assess the quality of given samples of letters of application. Criteria might include:
  • purpose of letter is clearly stated and refers to position applied for
  • language used is clear, concise, and to the point
  • conveys enthusiasm for the position
  • information is presented logically
• Ask those students who have participated in job-shadowing activities to:
  • list the personal management, academic, and teamwork skills they have already developed that are transferable to those workplaces
  • describe how each skill is used in the workplaces
  • explain the extent to which their current proficiency level in each skill is (or is not) adequate for the jobs they shadowed
  Look for accuracy, detail, and logical connections in their answers.
• To assess students' abilities to manage basic personal finances, develop with the class a list of activities that each student is to participate in and document over a period of time. Students could present the results to the class as posters or other visual forms together with oral reports. Activities might include:
  • developing charts or graphs of income and expenditures for one or two months
  • writing anecdotes about how they made decisions on whether or not to make particular purchases
  • gathering testimonials from friends, family, and banks about personal financial management skills
  • reviewing and reporting on the features of various personal finance software
  Look for evidence that the presentations explicitly show the students' abilities to manage personal finances.

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