personal and professional learning opportunities and understand their link to career development, the value of participating in lifelong learning designed to support career goals Qualifications training and experience Skills, attributes, values, interests Career matching – Holland’s Theory Strengths, weaknesses – create an action plan SMART goals – use technique to write career goals 9 YR 12 RETREAT – Wed, Thurs, Fri 10 Assessment Task 3 – Production/Performance Profile Matching Create, draft and present Term 2 1 Entrepreneurial behaviours taking personal when making career decisions, including: relocating, accepting less pay, taking a gap year, undergoing re-training remaining employable in constantly changing workplaces, including: undertaking training and networking and e-networking considering labour market information to identify employment opportunities, including: opportunities, business and product development Enterprising career development – developing enterprise self assessment Career Life cycle Internal/external career change factors Retraining and updating skills Career specialisation growth and change Formal training and education Dealing with change Career and Enterprise General 12 – Michael Carolan pg 179-189 2 Assessment Task 4: Investigation: Nature of Work Assessment Task 5: Electronic IPP
2–3 Career development and management strategies that give an individual an advantage in the workplace, including: taking advantage of work opportunities, undertaking training, seeking learning opportunities strategies to assist in making decisions in a work context, including: choosing from a set of options, using a formal decision-making process Examine personal progress in each of the following career competencies: make career-enhancing decisions - seeks advice, feedback and support as required maintain balanced life and work - develops a personal, school and work timetable to manage all commitments understand the changing nature of life and work - identifies changes in personal roles and commitments that will occur in the school to transition understand, engage in and manage the process - sets personal learning challenges using formal and informal learning opportunities Career myths and realities Career pathways opportunities Sources of jobs Refine IPP Refine E-portfolio Career and Enterprise General 12 – Michael Carolan pg 256 - 263 Online e-portfolio IPP Career Portfolio 4–5 Gaining and keeping work location of job opportunities, including: newspapers, websites, social and professional networking, professional associations Finding work Sources of jobs – online, networking, jobactive, specialist agencies, employer associations, employment agencies, print media Career and Enterprise General 12 – Michael Carolan pg 115-135 Speaker – Recruitment company manager
Week Key teaching points Lesson Content Resources Term 2 8-10 Term 3 1 Semester 2 – Unit 4 Work skills adapt communication skills to show respect for differences within the work place, including: values, beliefs, cultural expectations Strategies and processes for resolving conflict in the workplace, including: informal strategies and processes, such as, communicating concerns through supportive relationships, tolerant of others, adopting a positive approach to resolving differences, and internal mediation formal processes, such as, arbitration processes, industrial tribunal hearings and union intervention work rights and protocols in the use of technology, including: legal rights and responsibilities (for example, copyright implications), procedures and expectations in the workplace Individual differences Differing values and beliefs Differing cultural expectations Cross cultural communication Interpersonal conflict Conflict resolution – formal/informal Conciliation, trade unions, arbitration Workplace technology – manufacturing and service technology Information and communications technology – rights, responsibilities and appropriate use, legal rights and responsibilities, policies and protocols Career and Enterprise General 12 – Michael Carolan pg 220 - 249 9 Assessment Task 7: Investigation - Conflict Resolution
2-3 The nature of work the interrelationships between individual efficiency, workplace productivity and sustainability the use of performance management as a tool to improve individual efficiency and workplace productivity considerations for individuals in the workplace, including: pay and conditions, ethical considerations, including following the code of conduct the concepts of organisational restructuring and workplace reform the impact of organisational restructuring on individual career development the of work/life balance Efficiency and productivity Job satisfaction – intrinsic motivators, individual efficicency, employee expectations Environmental/sustainability issues Performance management – employee reviews, appraisal process Pay and conditions – salaries, commissions, superannuation, leave and allowances Ethics, accountability and responsibility Organisational restructuring Reform and restructuring – issues to consider Work/life balance – causes of work/life imbalance, flexible work arrangements, family-friendly workplaces Career and Enterprise General 12 – Michael Carolan pg 88 – 91; 290 - 317 3 Assessment Task 8: Response – Problem Solving in the workplace 4-5 Entrepreneurial behaviours being enterprising in a global economy, including: making international business links, identifying consumer gaps, using technology (including online groups) in problem solving within the work place, including: identifying the problem, applying a Global enterprise – international business links, consumer gaps and niche markets, using technology Work related problems – employee, client, equipment and process problems Problem solving tools – SWOT analysis, 80-20, IASM Career and Enterprise General 12 – Michael Carolan pg 202- 212