Employment Workshops For Adults on The Autistic Spectrum
Session :8 DEVELOPING YOUR CAREER PLAN • Introductions • Ground Rules • Where Am I Now • Where Do I Want To Be • How Do I Get There • Who Can Help Me • Practice Plan Creation • Evaluation Of Workshop
Ground Rules
WHERE AM I NOW?
LET’S REVIEW THE COURSE SESSION 1 FINDING THE RIGHT JOB FOR YOU • We Looked At A Variety Of Jobs • We Looked At The Skills You Had • We Looked At The Experience You Had • We Used This To Create A Personal Grid
PERSONAL SKILLS GRID NAME :__________________________________ SKILL
LET’S REVIEW THE COURSE SESSION 2 CREATING CV COVERING LETTER • We Looked At Sample Cv’s • We Looked At Sample Covering Letters • We Used The Skills Grid To Create A Cv
LET’S REVIEW THE COURSE SESSION 3 JOB SEARCH • We Looked At Ways To Find Jobs • We Looked At Universal Job Match • We Looked At How To Create A Profile On Universal Job Match Using The Cv And The Skills Grid
LET’S REVIEW THE COURSE SESSION 4 APPLICATIONS • We Looked At How Jobs Are Advertised • We Looked At Sample Adverts • We Learned How To Read Adverts • We Matched Our Skills To The Advert
LET’S REVIEW THE COURSE SESSION 5 DISCLOSURE • We Looked At The Law • We Looked At Reasons To Disclose • We Looked At Reasonable Adjustments • We Looked At Ways To Disclose
LET’S REVIEW THE COURSE SESSION 6 INTERVIEWS • We Looked At How To Prepare • We Looked At What To Wear • We Looked At Common Questions • We Looked At Linking Your Answers To The Job
LET’S REVIEW THE COURSE SESSION 7 SOCIAL SKILLS • We Looked At Interview Social Skills • We Looked At Work Place Skills • We Looked At Body Language • We Looked At Conversation
WHAT IS MY NEXT STEP? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? HOW DO YOU GET THERE? WE MAKE A PLAN
My Plan The Job I want is…… What I have CREATE A What I need CAREER PLAN Who can help me? Action Plan
CREATE A CAREER PLAN A Career Plan Is A Visual Picture Of What You Want To Do And How You Plan On Doing It You Have Thought About It And Know What To Do
ACTIVITY Let’s Create A Career Plan Together We Will Take Accounts Clerk Just As A Sample
ACTIVITY My Plan The Job I want is …… Accounts Clerk
ACTIVITY Transfer Skills From The Sample Personal Grid To The Sample Plan
This Is A Sample Personal Grid MY PERSONAL SKILLS GRID NAME :_not a real person_________________________________ SKILL Honest Methodical Attention to detail Analysing information Good ICT skills Good Time management Self motivated
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY Transfer Qualifications From The Sample CV To The Sample Plan
ACTIVITY These are the qualifications on the CV Education Pemborough Secondary School (1996 – 2000) • 3 GCSEs passes (Grade C or above in English, Maths and Food Technology) • RSA 1 and 2 in Customer Service
ADD SLIDE PLUS QUALS
WHAT DOES AN ACCOUNTS CLERK DO? LET’S LOOK AT OUR PACK OF JOBS AND SKILLS
Accounts Clerk Accounts Clerk also known as - payroll clerk, accounts assistant Your job is to make sure that people get paid correctly and on time. You will keep financial records, and help to prepare accounts. You need good general office skills, good IT skills. You need to be an organised person and good at time management. You need to pay close attention to detail and to very accurate in your work. Useful past jobs - book keeping, working in accounts, other types of office work. Possible Tasks for this role Checking how many hours employees have worked Creating / maintaining records for staff Calculating pay / managing expense claims Processing holiday, sick, maternity/paternity pay and expenses
What skills does an Accounts Clerk need? Accounts Clerk skills grid These are the skills needed to write things like letters, Administrative Writing Skills agendas and minutes Analysing Information You will need to look at information and draw conclusions Attention to Detail Office work requires attention to detail and accuracy To quickly and accurately enter data (words or numbers or Data Entry Skills both) onto a computer Financial information is handled using specialist software Financial Software such as SAGE, training is available Office work often involves basic maths such as adding up a General Math Skills bill and calculating VAT The job needs to rely on you to be honest as you will be Honesty trusted with valuable items. being able to carry out all of a task, not leaving bits Methodical unfinished, checking at the end that everything has been done.
Let’s highlight some of the skills missing from the sample grid Accounts Clerk skills grid These are the skills needed to write things like letters, Administrative Writing Skills agendas and minutes Analysing Information You will need to look at information and draw conclusions Attention to Detail Office work requires attention to detail and accuracy To quickly and accurately enter data (words or numbers or Data Entry Skills both) onto a computer Financial information is handled using specialist software such Financial Software as SAGE, training is available Office work often involves basic maths such as adding up a bill General Math Skills and calculating VAT The job needs to rely on you to be honest as you will be Honesty trusted with valuable items. being able to carry out all of a task, not leaving bits Methodical unfinished, checking at the end that everything has been done.
SO TRANSFER THE HIGHLIGHTED SKILLS THAT YOU WERE MISSING ONTO THE PLAN WHAT I NEED
ACTIVITY
ACTIVITY SOME JOBS LIKE YOU TO HAVE QUALIFCATIONS AS WELL HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT QUALIFICATIONS HELP. The Careers wales Web Site http://www.careerswales.com/en/ Or the National Careers web site can help https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk
ACTIVITY Searching via Careers Wales Enter the name of the job you want and you will find a full page of information
ACTIVITY Searching via Careers Wales Entering the name of the job you want provides information including courses a
ACTIVITY Searching via National Careers Click on careers advice and select Job Profile
ACTIVITY Enter the name of the job you want and you will find a full page of information
So what do the National sites suggest. five GCSEs (grade A-C), including maths and English. A levels in business studies, maths, economics or equivalent qualifications could also be useful.
Experience of using computers, particularly spreadsheets, would also give you an advantage when looking for work. You could take a recognised accounts or bookkeeping qualification while looking for work. These are widely available.
SO WE NOW RETURN TO THE PLAN AND ADD THESE QUALIFICATIONS SKILLS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET ONTO THE PLAN
ACTIVITY
Who Can help me? Job Centre, Job Centre online, Careers Wales Library, Local job club, Local College for qualifications and funding , National Careers web site Trade organisations e.g Institute of Accountants
SO WE NOW RETURN TO THE PLAN AND ADD THESE ONTO THE PLAN
So, where did we get to? We have decided on a job, Accounts Clerk We know what skills & qualifications we have We have compared with the job We know what the gaps are We know who can help us fill the gap Now we need an Action Plan ………….
ACTION PLAN Look at what you need to get Look at who can help you. You need some qualifications in business You need some more GCSE’s Where do you get qualifications ? A College
ACTIVITY Look in the college prospectus Find some suitable qualifications Hint :- It might not be called bookkeeping or accountancy How about Business Studies.
ACTION PLAN So we found some qualifications Are they the right ones ? Back to the plan Who can help Try asking the College Try asking the Job Centre
ACTION PLAN Let’s add these in. 1 Look up some qualifications 2 Ask for advice at the College 3 Ask the Job Centre
ACTIVITY So, I’ve found a business course that looks good. BUT it doesn’t start for 9 months What should I do? You could find some short fill in courses You could volunteer You could find a part time job
ACTION PLAN Let’s add these in. 4 Find some short courses 5 Find a Volunteer position 6 Find a part time job
My Plan The Job I want is…… ACCOUNTS CLERK What I have Honest, Methodical, Attention to detail, Analysing information, Good ICT skills , Good Time management, Self motivated, 3 GCSEs English, maths Food tech, RSA1&2 customer care What I need Administrative Writing Skills, Data Entry Skills, Financial Software, General Math Skills Bookkeeping Qualification, Who can help me? Job Centre, Job Centre online, National Careers web site, Local College for qualifications and funding , Library, Local job club, Careers Wales, Trade organisations e.g Institute of Accountants Action Plan 1. Look up some qualifications 2. Ask for advice at the college 3. Ask the job centre 4. Find some short courses 5. Find a volunteer position 6. Find a part time job
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