This advanced level course under the Education and Career Planning aims to prepare adult learners with life and employment readiness skills. Learners will be prepared to pursue individual occupational and/or educational goals within a changing and diverse world.
Hours: 160 (Lecture Hours: 12.5; Formal Work Experience: 60)
Total Weeks: 8
Prerequisites:
None
Non-Course Prerequisites:
None
Course Content:
There are four (4) main components of the B.E.S.T. course: Academics, Career Development, Personal Development and Innovative Work Search Strategies:
1. Academics:
- Assess education and learning potential
- Identify upgrading options (if required)
- Math and English skills
- Computer skills
- Learning styles
- Study skills
2. Career Development:
- Vocational assessment
- Search occupations
- Labour market and employment trends
- Interview skills
3. Personal Development:
- Emotional intelligence competencies
- Overcoming barriers to success
- Improving self-esteem
- Interpersonal skills
- Assertiveness skills
- Goal setting
- Problem solving
- Stress management
- Use of community resources
4. Innovative Work Search Strategies:
- Resume writing
- Exploring the entrepreneurial spirit
- creative job searching - the hidden job market
- New labour market realities
- Action plans
- Portfolio organization
- Exploration of work experience and/or community volunteer work
- Completion of 60hrs of work experience and/or community volunteer work
- Receive and discussion of feedback and evaluation from employers
Learning Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course learners will be able to:
- Develop positive attitude towards work and return to learning
- Assess own career interests by use of assessments tools
- Apply change management techniques to the development of educational and career planning
- Identify own communication style and demonstrate/practice effective listening and feedback skills
- Define key concepts of self-esteem and how these concepts apply to themselves
- Identify and access college and community resources
- Develop interview skills and complete a minimum of three (3) informal interviews
- Apply work place essential skills
- Write the college Math and English placements tests
- Perform set tasks using computer skills
- Establish self-determined, realistic personal/educational/career goals, and complete an Action Plan
Grading System: Letters
Passing Grade: D (50%)
Percentage of Individual Work: 50
Percentage of Group Work: 50
Textbooks:
Textbooks are subject to change. Please contact the bookstore at your local campus for current book lists.