1. BTEC First Business Unit 4 Activity

2. BTEC First Business Skills audit: what can you do? Communicate well (speaking, listening, reading writing)? Be a good team member (support, help others)? Solve problems? Use and understand numbers? Use I.T. effectively?

3. BTEC First Business Skills audit How can you evidence the skills that you have?

4. BTEC First Business Skills audit = An interesting ‘you’! Hobbies, visits, trips School or college experiences Work experience

5. BTEC First Business Personal development plan Qualifications I would like to achieve and skills I need to gain Job experiences I want to get (team working, people skills, telephone, IT) Extra things to make me stand out (voluntary working, local community, youth parliaments etc.)

6. BTEC First Business Personal development What can you do now? What can you do to get better at important things? Research job opportunities (local press, web). Match your skills with available jobs. Create an action plan to improve your skills.

7. BTEC First Business Criteria P5 Match current knowledge and skills to possible job opportunities, using appropriate sources of information and knowledge P6 Produce a career development plan Task Prepare your own skills audit and draft a personal development plan. In pairs: Describe your own audit and plan to each other and make constructive suggestions about how to improve each others’ skills so that you are ‘job ready’.

8. BTEC First Business Task Use magazines, pictures, text or images to create your own self portrait showing others where you are now in terms of skills and abilities. Present your own self-development plan.