1. Developing Personal Confidence – Unit 431 and Searching for a Job Unit 308

2. Learning Objectives – Personal Confidence
By the end of this session you will:
Identify confident behaviours
Review your own confidence
List your personal achievements
State the importance of transferable skills
Identify your personal strengths

3. Learning Objectives – Searching for a Job
By the end of this session you will:
Say what your personal job goals are
Match your personal skills and requirements to job vacancies
Identify employment and learning opportunities
State where to find information and key facts about jobs
Search for job vacancies and alert systems
Describe the key features of a job advert

4. Self Awareness
Self awareness is knowing your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Self awareness allows you to understand how other people perceive you, your attitude and your responses to them.

5. Confidence
Confidence is a feeling of emotional security resulting from faith in oneself.
Confidence is a firm belief in one's powers, abilities, or capacities.

6. Building Confidence
Step 1. Consider where you want to be and where you are now
Step 2. Look at what you've already achieved and think about your strengths
Step 3. Set goals and develop the skills you need

7. Personal Achievements
But I haven’t really achieved anything….

8. Personal Achievements
Achievements are things you’ve done that you are proud of and can include:
Arranging events
Awards from work or school
Raising children or caring for others
Sports achievements
Having many friends
Playing a musical instrument
Passing your driving test
Dealing with a difficult time or situation

9. Achievements – Skills and Strengths
I set up a fund raising stall for children in need and got help from family and friends who baked cakes and sweets so that I raised a total of £250.
Shows:
Initiative
Motivation
Communication
Team player
Customer focus
Knowledge of finances.

10. Achievements – Skills and Strengths
Each morning I get my three children up, dressed, fed and ensure they have everything they need for school. Then I drop them off on time at two different schools.
Shows:
Planning and organising
Timekeeping and meeting deadlines
Adaptability/flexibility
Resilience
Persuading and influencing

11. Achievements – Skills and Strengths
When learning to drive I was passed from instructor to instructor and had countless lessons and tests. After 8 years of trying I passed my driving test.
Shows:
Commitment
Motivation
Adaptability/flexibility
Resilience

12. Transferable Skills
Transferable skills are things that you can do that can be applied in different situations and circumstances.
Showing motivation to achieve your personal goal of learning to drive shows an employer that you have a positive attitude and can set and achieve goals.

13. How can we Improve Confidence?
Identifying strengths and weaknesses
Focusing on using strengths and improving weaknesses (recall your achievements)
Learning something new
Using criticism as encouragement
Practising
Focusing on the positives
Focusing on yourself, not others’ achievements
Using confident body language
All these slides will be activities for the learners to complete

14. Work and Learning Opportunities
Full time employment
Part time employment
Volunteering
Full time education
Part time courses
Apprenticeships
Traineeships

15. Searching for a Job Job centre Employment agencies Internet Newspapers
Local area

16. Developing Personal Confidence – Unit 431 and Searching for a Job Unit 308