Earning Criteria

• This person may have skills and knowledge designed to improve their employability from across a range of different areas such as career planning, job applications, workplace responsibilities, health and safety,  team working, dealing with customers and vulnerable people.  They may also have developed life skills leading to greater independence, personal development, and the ability to complete projects and activities. 
• This person may have personal development skills and knowledge:
• Plan for progression  
• Self-assessment  
• Effective skills, qualities and attitudes for learning and work  
• Personal confidence  
• Understanding of assertive behaviour 
• Attitudes and values for personal development  
• Introduction to CPD 
• Introduction to leadership  
• Introduction to coaching  
• Introduction to mentoring 
• This person may have skills that will allow them to career plan and seek job opportunities:
• Undertake work-based experience/work placement  
• Career plan  
• Carry out job searches  
• Apply for jobs 
• Demonstrate good interview skills  
• Use ICT  
• Prepare for work  
• Recognise employment opportunities  
• Recognise alternatives to paid work  
• This person may understand workplace rights and personal safety:
• Understand personal safety  
• Understand safe learning in the workplace  
• Know rights, responsibilities and citizenship  
• Know rights and responsibilities at work  
• Health and safety in the workplace  
• Awareness of equality and diversity  
• Value equality and diversity  
• Understand the language and culture of a community  
• Understand disclosure of information  
• This person may have good communication skills:
• Know effective communication and feedback  
• Work as part of team  
• Build working relationships in the workplace 
• Contribute to a team  
• Manage interpersonal relationships  
• Understand conflict at work  
• This person may have business and customer relationship skills and knowledge:
• Behaviour in a business administration environment  
• Create a positive impression on customers  
• Understand the customer service experience  
• Understand different customers and communication methods  
• Valuing customers 
• Introduction to setting up a business  
• Managing time in the workplace  
• This person may have project and enterprise skills:
• Conduct an enterprise activity to produce a product or service  
• Plan, carry out and review a community project  
• Plan, use and review materials and equipment for activities  
• Plan, develop and evaluate performance improvisation techniques  
• Use practical skills and techniques to carry out an activity  
• This person may understand lifestyle choices:
• Manage personal and work finances  
• Contribute to own healthy living  
• Recognise the benefits of work life balance  
• Deal with problems  
• Cope with change  
• Managing yourself  
• Know the importance of decision making  
• Understand eating disorders  
• Be aware of stress/stress management  
• Have domestic cooking skills  
• Maintain good personal presentation and hygiene  
• Recognise benefits of leisure activities 
• This person may have an awareness of social, citizenship issues and family relationships:
• Environmental awareness  
• Introduction to sustainable development and global citizenship
• Awareness of alcohol and drug issues  
• Awareness of crime and its effects  
• Family relationships  
• Parenting awareness  
• Caring for young children  
• Child development  
• Children’s social and emotional development 
• Children’s physical and psychological needs 
• Sex and relationship education 
• This person may have an awareness of working in different settings:
• Maintaining a motor vehicle  
• Working in healthcare settings 
• Introduction to the hospitality industry 
• Construction industry skills and knowledge 
• Introduction to retail 
• Introduction to customer service  
• Using tools and equipment 
• This qualification is regulated by OFQUAL
• This qualification is regulated by qualifications Wales
• This qualification is regulated by CCEA
• This qualification is regulated by SQA