Earning Criteria

• This person may have skills and knowledge designed to improve their employment prospects across a range of different industry areas. They can career plan, apply for jobs and attend interviews, and understand workplace responsibilities. They may have skills in business administration and customer service. They may also have developed life skills leading to greater independence, personal development, and have the ability to complete projects and activities.
• This person may have skills and knowledge that will prepare them for employment:
• 1. Planning for progression
• 2. Work-based experience
• 3. Career planning and making applications
• 4. Interview skills
• 5. Searching for a job
• 6. Career progression
• 7. Preparing for work
• 8. Investigating rights and responsibilities at work
• 9. Undertaking work placement
• 10. Recognising employment opportunities
• 11. Alternatives to paid work
• 12. Understanding conflict at work
• 13. Applying for a job
• This person may have skills and knowledge that will allow them to succeed at work:
• 1. Effective communication
• 2. Working as part of a team
• 3. Safe learning in the workplace
• 4. Building working relationships in the workplace
• 5. Introduction to health and safety awareness in the workplace
• 6. Effective skills, qualities and attitudes for learning and work
• 7. Contributing to a team
• 8. Rights and responsibilities in the workplace
• 9. Understanding personal finance for employment
• This person may have skills and knowledge relating to equality, diversity and community issues:
• 1. Awareness of equality and diversity
• 2. Valuing equality and diversity
• 3. Understanding the language and culture of a community
• 4. Environmental awareness
• This person may be able to undertake projects and enterprise activities
• 1. Candidate project
• 2. Enterprise activity - producing a product or service
• 3. Community project
• 4. Using materials and equipment for a practical activity
• 5. Developing performance improvisation techniques
• This person may have business and customer awareness skills and knowledge:
• 1. Business and customer awareness
• 2. Behaviour in a business administration environment
• 3. Create a positive impression on customers
• 4. The customer service experience
• 5. Introduction to customer service
• This person may understand issues relating to family, childcare and parenting:
• 1. Family relationships
• 2. Parenting awareness
• 3. Developing skills in caring for young children
• 4. Understanding child development
• 5. Understanding children’s social and emotional development
• 6. Introduction to understanding growth, social and emotional development of children
• 7. Understand the physical and psychological needs of children
• This person may understand health and social care issues and related work:
• 1. Introduction to alcohol awareness
• 2. Introduction to drug awareness
• 3. Understanding crime and its effects
• 4. Understanding eating disorders
• 5. Introduction to working with vulnerable adults
• 6. Introduction to working in health care, adult care and childcare
• This person may have developed lifestyle skills:
• 1. Managing personal finance
• 2. Keeping safe
• 3. Contribute to own healthy living
• 4. Rights, responsibilities and citizenship
• 5. Recognise the benefits of having a work/life balance
• 6. Dealing with problems
• 7. Awareness of stress and stress management
• 8. Assertive living
• 9. Sex and relationship education
• 10. Using cooking skills in the domestic kitchen
• This person may have personal development skills:
• 1. Self-assessment and development
• 2. Developing personal confidence
• 3. Understanding assertive behaviour
• 4. Coping with change
• 5. Interpersonal relationships
• 6. Supporting others
• 7. Introduction to decision-making
• 8. Disclosure of information
• This qualification is regulated by OFQUAL
• This qualification is regulated by qualifications Wales
• This qualification is regulated by CCEA