Employability Skills

Employability Skills Activities

Introduction to Digital Technology

Activity Details/Skills Covered

GACollege411 Learn About Students will take 6 different career assessments and write a summary of the 6 assessments
Yourself findings.
Employability Skills Students will choose a career or job or their choice and use the employability skills summary
Summary Worksheet worksheet to assess the skills needed for that particular job. This activity will help students
evaluate their employability gains against the market demand.
Student Resume Students will create a basic resume
Orientation Program Students will work in a four-person human resources team for a large company. Students will
develop an orientation program for new employees. Students will design a presentation about
Mock Interviews the company to welcome new employees to their jobs. They can choose to invent a company or
choose an existing one. Present the company to the class using an overhead poster, brochure or
PowerPoint presentation.
-Students will research common interview questions to help prepare for mock interviews
-Students will participate in mock interviews in preparation for employability skills

Digital Design

Activity Details/Skills Covered

The ABC’s of Employability Using the employability skills listed within the handout students will create a new employee
information package. Students will define the various skills with an example and/or a picture.
Dress for Success Students will then create a presentation in the form of a (PowerPoint, Foldable, Brochure, etc).
Students in CTAE classes are given points for each week in which they participate on
Employability Graphic Wednesday’s “Dress for Success”. These points count as 5% of the course grade.
Organizer Using www.wordle.net students will create a graphic organizer listing at list 8 employability
Your Keeping Skills skill employers are seeking.
“You’re the Boss Now” Students will create a handout using the employability skills they identify within their
employability graphic organizer. Students will create their own business and list 5-10 qualities
that you expect as an employer at their business.

Workplace Rights and Laws Students will fill in the graphic organizer provided to identify workplace laws and how they
protect workers.

Web Design Details/Skills Covered

Activity Students will choose a career or job or their choice and use the employability skills summary
worksheet to assess the skills needed for that particular job. This activity will help students
Employability Skills evaluate their employability gains against the market demand.
Summary Worksheet Students will create a basic resume
Students will complete the online work ethic inventory using OWEI
Student Resume Students will use questions within the assignment to research and gather the data that they will
What is Work Ethic need for this activity. The final activity submission must be in the form of a Prezi or PowerPoint.
Employability Skills Students will take photos of themselves and create an employability card of themselves, listing
Assignment the employability skills, qualities and values could be used to describe themselves.
Student Reflection –
Employability Card





Name: Kenneth Brown
Introduction to Digital Technology- 4th period
Mr. Dobbins

Employability skills summary

Employability skills

Employability skills are the "key skills and personal attributes you need to enter, operate
and thrive in the new world of work." These are the transferable skills that we take with us
from one work situation to another, just like a tradesperson carries their toolbox.

Directions: You are to choose a career or job of your choice and complete the employability

skills summary sheet.

Employability skills sheet

Job: Mechanical Engineer

Skill and elements of skill Very Not so Doesn't
apply
important important

Communication x x
x x
Listening & understanding x
Speaking clearly & directly x
Writing to the needs of the audience x

Negotiating responsively x
Reading independently x
Empathising x

Speaking & writing in languages other than English x
Using numeracy x
x
Understanding the needs of internal & external customers
Persuading effectively x

Establishing & using networks
Being assertive

Sharing information

Team work

Working across different ages, irrespective of gender, race, religion
or political persuasion

Working as an individual & as a member of a team x x
Knowing how to define a role as part of the team x
x
Applying team work to a range of situations e.g. futures planning, x
crisis problem solving
x
Identifying the strengths of the team members x
Coaching & mentoring skills including giving feedback x
x
Problem solving x
x
Developing creative, innovative solutions x
Developing practical solutions x
x
Showing independence & initiative in identifying problems &
solving them

Solving problems in teams
Applying a range of strategies to problem solving
Using mathematics including budgeting & financial management to

solve problems
Applying problem solving strategies across a range of areas
Testing assumptions taking the context of data & circumstances

into account.
Resolving customer concerns in relation to complex projects issues

Skill and elements of skill Very Not so Doesn't
important important apply

Initiative and enterprise x x
x
Adapting to new situations x
Developing a strategic, creative, long term vision x
x
Being creative x
Identifying opportunities not obvious to others x

Translating ideas into action
Generating a range of options

Initiating innovative solutions

Planning and organising

Managing time & priorities- setting time lines, co-ordinating tasks x
for self & with others
Being resourceful x
x
Taking initiative & making decisions x
Adapting resource allocations to cope with contingencies x
x
Establishing clear project goals & deliverables x
Allocating people & other resources to tasks x

Planning the use of resources including time management x
Participates in continuous improvement & planning processes
x
Developing a vision & a proactive plan to accompany it x
Predicting – weighing up risk, evaluate alternatives and
x
apply evaluation criteria x
Collecting, analysing & organising information
Understanding basic business systems & their relationships

Self management

Having a personal vision & goals
Evaluating & monitoring own performance

Having knowledge & confidence in own ideas & visions x x
Articulating own ideas & visions x
Taking responsibility x

Learning x

Managing own learning x
Contributing to the learning community at the workplace
Using a range of mediums to learn – mentoring, peer support & x

networking, IT, courses x
Applying learning to 'technical' issues x
(e.g. learning about products) and 'people' issues x
(e.g. interpersonal & cultural aspects of work) x
Having enthusiasm for ongoing learning x
Being willing to learn in any setting - on & off the job
Being open to new ideas & techniques x
Being prepared to invest time & effort in learning new skills x
Acknowledging the need to learn in order to accommodate change x
x
Technology x
x
Having a range of basic IT skills
Applying IT as a management tool

Using IT to organise data
Being willing to learn new IT skills
Having the OHS knowledge to apply technology
Having the physical capacity to apply technology

e.g. manual dexterity

Nthabiseng Bernice Carlisle
9776 Ivey Ridge Cir
Jonesboro, GA 3038
Cell: (678) 770-5142
[email protected]

Career Objective

To work as a computer sales associate.

Education

Mundy’s Mill High School May 2013 – May 2017
9652 Fayetteville Rd GPA 4.0
Jonesboro, GA 30238

 Outstanding Academic Excellence Award, "A" Honor Roll Award, Honors
Chemistry Academic Excellence Award, "A/B" Honor Roll Award, CTAE
Achievement, Tiger Award

Activities

Undeniably Gorgeous Ladies of Youth (U.G.L.Y.), Volunteer work at Bloom, Future
Business Leaders of America (FBLA), Distributive Education Clubs of America (DECA)

References Dione Griffin
Mundy’s Mill High School
Pat Cain
Mundy’s Mill High School 9652 Fayetteville Road
9652 Fayetteville Road
Jonesboro, GA 30238 Jonesboro, GA 30238
(678) 817 – 3000 (678) 817 – 3000

Thabi Carlisle
9776 Ivey Ridge Cir
Jonesboro, GA 30238
(678) 770-5142
[email protected]



Name: Aaron Dollar Period: 2nd

Employability Skills Assignment

Students will use this question to research and gather the data that they will need for this activity. The final activity
submission must be in the form of a Prezi, PowerPoint or PowToon. Be creative with your method of deliver to the
class to make it interesting!

1. What do you think employers expect out of their employees?

I think employers look for employees who have the skillset that matches their needs.
Employers expect employees to be on-time and follow the rules of the company.

2. Research the Top 5 Employability Skills that employers look for in their employees.
 Communication skills
 Teamwork
 Numeracy & Computer Literacy
 Honesty, Integrity & Diversity
 Positive ‘Can Do Attitude’, Motivation

Source: http://www.careers.gg/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=86669&p=0

3. Why do you think it is important to have these skills (from #2)?

I think it’s important to have the skills mentioned above because they are the basic skills
that employers look for. These skills should be natural skills and not have to be taught.

4. Research and list the Top 5 reasons that people lose their jobs and/or are fired.

 Dishonesty
 Performance Inconsistency
 Inability to Work as a Team
 Misuse of the Company's Resources
 Late Or Absent

Personal Goals

1. Think about and list your Top 3 Goals (personal goals) for the next 3 years.

1) Graduate High School
2) Get a job
3) Enroll into college

2. List 5 things that you must do to achieve the goals listed in #1.

1) Complete all my high school classes as required
2) Research the job I would like
3) Learn how to create a professional resume

4) Get a car
5) Earn the grades I need to get into college while in high school

3. What are you plans for life immediately after high school (college, trade school, junior
college, work, etc.)?

My plans after high school are to attend a technical school such as Atlanta Technical
College and earn my associates degree to save money. My next goal will be to use the
money I save on my education and use it towards my first car. I know I will need a car in
order to get a job and go back and forth to school.

4. What is your career goal?
My career goal is to become an Accountant or Lawyer. Right now I don’t know for sure
which career I would like to go into but it’s between these two fields.