Lecture: 3 hours/week
- Lecture
- Lab
- Role-plays
- Audiovisual media
- Composing cover letters, resumes and thank-you letters
- Completing online and written job applications
- Participating in full job search process
- Identifying personal and community job search networks
- Preparing and responding to interview questions
- Grooming and hygiene
- Basic computer skills including formatting Word documents and emailing
- Rights and responsibilities around disclosing a disability
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will be able to:
1. Collect all related information to prepare a resume.
2. Identify their personal job search network.
3. Prepare and practice responses to communication skills for interviews.
4. Prepare for an interview.
5. Participate in role plays.
6. Present at job interviews in a professional manner.
7. Respond to interview questions by representing their strengths.
8. Ask relevant questions of potential employers.
9. Conduct a local job market analysis.
10. Identify and outline individual employment support and training needs.
11. Demonstrate effective goal-setting and time-management skills.
12. Demonstrate an understanding of the strategies needed to start and maintain a job search.
13. Develop appropriate job-targeting cover letters.
14. Develop effective job search techniques.
15. Identify the pros and cons of when and how to disclose one’s disability.
16. Access a computer for word processing.
17. Demonstrate a basic level of skill in using digital resources.
18. Access an email account, compose and reply to messages.
19. Understand and use safe internet protocols.
20. Construct resumes, cover letters and thank-you letters.
21. Upload resumes to submit a job application online.
- Final Interview
- Assignments
- Presentations
- Demonstration of Skills
- Final evaluation
Relevant material will be provided in handout form throughout the course.
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