1. BTEC L3 Unit 1 – Communication and Employability Skills for IT

2. Recap Last time: – Introduction to the unit – Look at personality types and the way that they are used to profile types of jobs and applicants – Talked about personal attributes and skills – Watched two videos and captured some headings on personal attributes and skills This session we are looking at personal development and personal development plans

3. Personal Development Personal: – Applies just to you Development: – Over a period of time Establishing a benchmark Building on your strengths Managing you weaknesses

4. What you will have for this Unit AS1 Setting a benchmark AS2 Strengths and Weaknesses AS3 My USP AS4 Technical skills AS5 Planning AS6 Attributes and attitudes AS7 Personal Development Plan

5. Assignment 3 Personal Development This assignment covers the following: – Personal evaluation and creation of an initial PDP, P7 – Tracking aims and objectives and providing evidence of progress and reflection, P8 – Understanding how you learn and the different ways of learning, M3 – Reflection on the overall progress that you have made towards you personal goals, D2

6. General Attributes, Skills AS1 Planning Organisational Time Management Team Working Verbal Written Numeracy Creativity Have you too much or too little of these?: Take each heading and: create a short definition about that the general attribute is write one paragraph about how good you are at this attribute do you know anyone that is particularly good at it? state how you think this attribute would matter to an employer Create a Word Template Referencing – One Note

7. Attitudes AS1 Determination Independence Integrity Tolerance Dependability Problem Solving Leadership Confidence Self-motivation Have you too much or too little of these?: Take each heading and: create a short definition about that the general attribute is write one paragraph about how good you are at this attribute do you know anyone that is particularly good at it? state how you think this attribute would matter to an employer Create a Word Template Referencing – One Note

8. Technical Skills AS4 Research some jobs in the IT Industry Look for: – Skills required – Attributes preferred Keep Potential job sites: – Jobs.co.uk

9. Personal Blogs A bit like a diary or personal journal Want you to get used to writing a short blog for each unit that you are doing, but certainly for Unit1 For this session, I would like you to write a blog entry of 200 words on one or two of the opportunities that you arrived at and how you plan to achieve them

10. Summary Introduced and revised information to help you complete and track your Personal Development Plan You MUST provide evidence that you have completed and tracked your PDP as part of Assignment 3 Tomorrows session will introduce assignment 3