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What is Careers Lab?

What is Careers Lab?. How do we make sure the jobs we do will match our skills abilities and aspirations? Careers Lab will help us explore and find our way through the world of work, with Business Ambassadors coming to school each year. Aims of ‘Inspire’.

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What is Careers Lab?

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  1. What is Careers Lab? How do we make sure the jobs we do will match our skills abilities and aspirations? Careers Lab will help us explore and find our way through the world of work, with Business Ambassadors coming to school each year.

  2. Aims of ‘Inspire’ To broaden your understanding of the range of roles and jobs available by exploring the career pathway of the Business Ambassador/s. To recognise the link between aspirational figures and your own lives. To identify skills and qualities used in every job and to recognise their importance to achieving success.

  3. Icebreaker: A - Z of Jobs Challenge Task: Working in pairs you have 5 minutes to think of a job title for each letter of the alphabet. Write your job titles in your A-Z jobs table, in your student booklet Then discuss with your partner what each job role is. AtoZof jobs Activate your fun balloon timer here

  4. A - Z of Jobs Challenge

  5. Welcome to our Business Ambassador. Please welcome our Business Ambassador. We will now hear from the ambassador about their job role and what this involves. Please make notes in your student workbook. Who do you work for and what is your job role? How long have you worked there? What skills and qualities do you need to have, to do your job? What’s the best thing about your job? Hardest thing? Any questions from the class?

  6. Spot the Difference:What do these words have in common? Skills and qualities that employers look for…. But which is which?

  7. Spot the Difference: Skills and Qualities Askillis something you do or learn. Aqualityis something that youare. Complete the ‘Your Skills and Qualities’worksheet with the skills and qualities you feel you have. Use the Word bank to help you complete the diagram with your skills and qualities. Think about skills & qualities you use in each subject lesson, hobbies, school clubs, jobs you do at home

  8. ‘Top Dog’ What does being successful mean? What can we learn from other successful people? Does our Business Ambassador/s have someone they admire? What other role models do the class admire?

  9. And finally… For the Class What would you tell someone at home about today? For our Business ambassador; What will you tell them back at work about today?

  10. Extra activities Take the Buzz Quiz online quiz to find out what animal you are. Twitter Job descriptions - 140 characters or less to identify/describe or guess your dream job. My ideal lifestyle. Create a poster/presentation of "Me at 25" - include aspects of place, type of work, salary, holidays, car etc.

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