You can be employed, seeking work, self-employed, working as a volunteer or someone who just wants to improve their knowledge and practical work-related skills and achieve a qualification.
Please note this may vary from college to college depending upon government funding criteria.
Each unit has a credit value. You will need to build up 13 credit values to achieve a Level 2 BTEC Certificate in WorkSkills (QCF). The units and their individual credit values are summarised below. This qualification is classed as a ‘full’ Level 2.
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Level 2 units:
This unit will help you to identify a range of potential sources of employment and equip you with the skills to match potential job roles to your own strengths and abilities. You will be expected to:
This unit will give you the skills to identify and apply for jobs that are matched to your abilities. You will know how to present information in an appropriate format depending on the type of qualification. You will be expected to:
This unit will give you the skills to prepare for a successful interview. You will know how to anticipate an interviewer’s questions and prepare appropriate responses. You will be expected to:
This unit will help you to develop the skills to undertake a successful interview. You will know how to conduct yourself at an interview and understand the importance of both verbal and non verbal communication. You will be expected to:
Employees need to be able to manage themselves in the workplace in order to make a positive contribution at work. The ability to successfully manage your own time and workload is a key employability skill. In this unit you will be expected to:
This unit will help you to identify relevant opportunities for career development that are matched to your experience, skills and aspirations. The emphasis of the unit is for you to evaluate potential employment opportunities in terms of their relevance to your ongoing career development. You will be expected to:
Working with others provides invaluable opportunities for learning how to lead. In this unit, you will practise your skills with other members of a group. In addition to developing your leadership skills through working with others, the unit also considers how to evaluate your ability to lead others. You will be expected to:
The ability to work successfully in a team is a key workplace skill. By taking part in a team task, you will gain the skills to work in a team and understand the different skills and attributes that are necessary for successful team work. You will be expected to:
People learn and develop by interacting with others who are more experienced in a particular field of work or study, such as visiting experts or senior colleagues. In this unit, you will identify what you have learned from senior or more experienced people and put these skills into practice for yourself. You will be expected to:
This unit explores the ways in which colleagues rely upon one another in a constructive working environment. You will also consider the consequences of positive and negative behaviours of individuals on whole teams or organisations. A key focus is to help you to develop some of the most important behaviours necessary for interacting effectively with colleagues. You will be expected to:
Although WorkSkills is free, your commitment is time. As you get started on your course we ask you to complete a short course induction. From this the vision2learn system will provide you with an Action Plan, which will tell you when you need to submit your assessments to your tutor and help you to plan your study time into your busy lifestyle. Each unit requires approximately 10-30 hours of study time.
You will be assigned to an online tutor who will help you and assess the work you submit as your assessments during the course. These assessments will form your portfolio of evidence. This demonstrates that you have met the learning outcomes of the course. You can contact your tutor at any time using vision2learn’s own internal messaging system or by telephone or email too.
The course is offered online with vision2learn – an innovative web-based learning system, which you can access via your internet-connected PC. The online course contains all of the learning content needed to meet the assessment requirements of the course, as well as activities to enable you to practise your skills and test your learning. In addition, you will receive help and support from an online tutor – who is always just a click away.
In order to study this course, you will need:
WorkSkills courses are eligible for government funding. This means that the Level 2 courses are normally free of charge to anyone over the age of 19 and who has been ordinarily resident in the EU for 3 years or more, as long as this residency has been for purposes other than full-time study.
It’s important that you log on to your study area regularly, keep in contact with your tutor and complete the assessments as you work through your course. If you don’t do this you may lose your free place. If you are experiencing any problems with your learning please let your tutor know and they can help you and ensure that you remain enrolled on the course.
After you have completed our online registration form, we will need to confirm the availability of support from our network of partner colleges/training providers and tutors. When we have confirmed that there is support available for you from a college/training provider in your area you’ll receive an enrolment form from the college/training provider that you will need to complete and return immediately. Please remember to sign your form, as it is crucial in securing your free place. Once this form has been processed, your vision2learn study area will be activated and your chosen course will become available. You will then be able to log on and get started.
