This presentation discusses careers and employability. It defines a career as a person's lifelong progression through learning and work. Employability refers to how employable a person is based on factors like their education, skills, appearance, motivation, and personality. The presentation teaches that choosing the right career path is important for one's well-being, and developing employability skills throughout school helps prepare for future work.
2. In this presentation, you will learn;
What a career is
How to choose the right career
What employability means
How to be employable
3. What Is A Career?
A career is a person’s lifelong progress through learning and work.
Your career doesn’t start when you leave school, college or university. It has already
started.
The skills and knowledge you learn each day at school will prepare you for the work you
do in future
4. What Is Your Career?
If everybody was equally educated, equally intelligent and equally skilled, we would
probably all want to
do the same or similar jobs.
Fortunately, we are all different and we all have our own aspirations and ambitions in life.
Take a moment
On your own, or in pairs, try to list as many types of career as you can think of.
The next slide will give you some ideas.
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7. Employability
A persons employability is how employable they are. It covers many factors and may
change as a person goes through their life.
For example, employability covers;
Education – the level to which a person has been educated
Skills – any training a person may have had
Appearance – how a person looks when they have an interview
Motivation – does a person come across a s someone who is willing
to work hard
Personality – whether someone has the right personal attributes to
fit into a companyor a job
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9. What Have We Learnt?
A career begins at school, not just when you leave
It is important for our own well being that we choose a career we are good at and enjoy
To work in the right job we need to be employable
Employability covers many factors such as skills, education, motivation and
appearance
10. What Have We Learnt?
A career begins at school, not just when you leave
It is important for our own well being that we choose a career we are good at and enjoy
To work in the right job we need to be employable
Employability covers many factors such as skills, education, motivation and
appearance
