Employment Workshops For Adults on The Autistic Spectrum Session :8 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Employment Workshops For Adults on The Autistic Spectrum

Session :8 DEVELOPING YOUR CAREER PLAN

• Introductions
• Ground Rules
• Where Am I Now
• Where Do I Want To Be
• How Do I Get There
• Who Can Help Me
• Practice Plan Creation
• Evaluation Of Workshop

Ground Rules

WHERE AM I NOW?

LET’S REVIEW THE COURSE

SESSION 1 FINDING THE RIGHT JOB FOR YOU

• We Looked At A Variety Of Jobs
• We Looked At The Skills You Had
• We Looked At The Experience You Had
• We Used This To Create A Personal Grid

PERSONAL SKILLS GRID

NAME :__________________________________ SKILL

LET’S REVIEW THE COURSE

SESSION 2 CREATING CV COVERING LETTER

• We Looked At Sample Cv’s
• We Looked At Sample Covering Letters
• We Used The Skills Grid To Create A Cv

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SESSION 3 JOB SEARCH

• We Looked At Ways To Find Jobs
• We Looked At Universal Job Match
• We Looked At How To Create A Profile On

Universal Job Match Using The Cv And The Skills Grid

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SESSION 4 APPLICATIONS

• We Looked At How Jobs Are Advertised
• We Looked At Sample Adverts
• We Learned How To Read Adverts
• We Matched Our Skills To The Advert

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SESSION 5 DISCLOSURE

• We Looked At The Law
• We Looked At Reasons To Disclose
• We Looked At Reasonable Adjustments
• We Looked At Ways To Disclose

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SESSION 6 INTERVIEWS

• We Looked At How To Prepare
• We Looked At What To Wear
• We Looked At Common Questions
• We Looked At Linking Your Answers To The Job

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SESSION 7 SOCIAL SKILLS

• We Looked At Interview Social Skills
• We Looked At Work Place Skills
• We Looked At Body Language
• We Looked At Conversation

WHAT IS MY NEXT STEP?

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

HOW DO YOU GET THERE? WE MAKE A PLAN

CREATE A CAREER PLAN

My Plan

What I have What I need Who can help me? Action Plan The Job I want is……

CREATE A CAREER PLAN

A Career Plan Is A Visual Picture Of

What You Want To Do And How You Plan On Doing It You Have Thought About It And Know What To Do

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Let’s Create

A Career Plan Together We Will Take Accounts Clerk Just As A Sample

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My Plan

The Job I want is…… Accounts Clerk

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Transfer Skills From The Sample Personal Grid To The Sample Plan

This Is A Sample Personal Grid

MY PERSONAL SKILLS GRID NAME :_not a real person_________________________________ SKILL Honest Methodical Attention to detail Analysing information Good ICT skills Good Time management Self motivated

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Transfer Qualifications From The Sample CV To The Sample Plan

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These are the qualifications on the CV Education Pemborough Secondary School (1996 – 2000)

• 3 GCSEs passes (Grade C or above in English,

Maths and Food Technology)

• RSA 1 and 2 in Customer Service

ADD SLIDE PLUS QUALS

WHAT DOES AN ACCOUNTS CLERK DO? LET’S LOOK AT OUR PACK OF JOBS AND SKILLS

Accounts Clerk

Accounts Clerk

also known as - payroll clerk, accounts assistant Your job is to make sure that people get paid correctly and on time. You will keep financial records, and help to prepare accounts. You need good general office skills, good IT skills. You need to be an organised person and good at time management. You need to pay close attention to detail and to very accurate in your work. Useful past jobs - book keeping, working in accounts, other types of office work.

Possible Tasks for this role

Checking how many hours employees have worked Creating / maintaining records for staff Calculating pay / managing expense claims Processing holiday, sick, maternity/paternity pay and expenses

What skills does an Accounts Clerk need?

Accounts Clerk skills grid

Administrative Writing Skills These are the skills needed to write things like letters, agendas and minutes Analysing Information You will need to look at information and draw conclusions Attention to Detail Office work requires attention to detail and accuracy Data Entry Skills To quickly and accurately enter data (words or numbers or both) onto a computer Financial Software Financial information is handled using specialist software such as SAGE, training is available General Math Skills Office work often involves basic maths such as adding up a bill and calculating VAT Honesty The job needs to rely on you to be honest as you will be trusted with valuable items. Methodical being able to carry out all of a task, not leaving bits unfinished, checking at the end that everything has been done.

Let’s highlight some of the skills missing from the sample grid

Accounts Clerk skills grid

Administrative Writing Skills These are the skills needed to write things like letters, agendas and minutes Analysing Information You will need to look at information and draw conclusions Attention to Detail Office work requires attention to detail and accuracy Data Entry Skills To quickly and accurately enter data (words or numbers or both) onto a computer Financial Software Financial information is handled using specialist software such as SAGE, training is available General Math Skills Office work often involves basic maths such as adding up a bill and calculating VAT Honesty The job needs to rely on you to be honest as you will be trusted with valuable items. Methodical being able to carry out all of a task, not leaving bits unfinished, checking at the end that everything has been done.

SO TRANSFER THE HIGHLIGHTED SKILLS THAT YOU WERE MISSING ONTO THE PLAN WHAT I NEED

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SOME JOBS LIKE YOU TO HAVE QUALIFCATIONS AS WELL HOW DO YOU FIND OUT WHAT QUALIFICATIONS HELP.

The Careers wales Web Site http://www.careerswales.com/en/ Or the National Careers web site can help https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk

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Searching via Careers Wales

Enter the name of the job you want and you will find a full page of information

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Searching via Careers Wales

Entering the name of the job you want provides information including courses a

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Searching via National Careers

Click on careers advice and select Job Profile

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Enter the name of the job you want and you will find a full page of information

So what do the National sites suggest. five GCSEs (grade A-C), including maths and English. A levels in business studies, maths, economics or equivalent qualifications could also be useful.

Experience of using computers, particularly spreadsheets, would also give you an advantage when looking for work. You could take a recognised accounts or bookkeeping qualification while looking for

• work. These are widely available.

SO WE NOW RETURN TO THE PLAN AND ADD THESE QUALIFICATIONS SKILLS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET ONTO THE PLAN

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Who Can help me?

Job Centre, Job Centre online, Careers Wales Library, Local job club, Local College for qualifications and funding , National Careers web site Trade organisations e.g Institute of Accountants

SO WE NOW RETURN TO THE PLAN AND ADD THESE ONTO THE PLAN

So, where did we get to?

We have decided on a job, Accounts Clerk We know what skills & qualifications we have We have compared with the job We know what the gaps are We know who can help us fill the gap Now we need an Action Plan ………….

ACTION PLAN

Look at what you need to get Look at who can help you. You need some qualifications in business You need some more GCSE’s Where do you get qualifications ?

A College

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Look in the college prospectus Find some suitable qualifications Hint :- It might not be called bookkeeping or accountancy How about Business Studies.

ACTION PLAN

So we found some qualifications Are they the right ones ? Back to the plan Who can help Try asking the College Try asking the Job Centre

ACTION PLAN

Let’s add these in. 1 Look up some qualifications 2 Ask for advice at the College 3 Ask the Job Centre

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So, I’ve found a business course that looks good. BUT it doesn’t start for 9 months What should I do? You could find some short fill in courses You could volunteer You could find a part time job

ACTION PLAN

Let’s add these in. 4 Find some short courses 5 Find a Volunteer position 6 Find a part time job

My Plan

What I have Honest, Methodical, Attention to detail, Analysing information, Good ICT skills ,

Good Time management, Self motivated, 3 GCSEs English, maths Food tech, RSA1&2 customer care

What I need

Administrative Writing Skills, Data Entry Skills, Financial Software, General Math Skills Bookkeeping Qualification,

Who can help me?

Job Centre, Job Centre online, National Careers web site, Local College for qualifications and funding , Library, Local job club, Careers Wales, Trade organisations e.g Institute of Accountants

Action Plan

1. Look up some qualifications 2. Ask for advice at the college 3. Ask the job centre 4. Find some short courses 5. Find a volunteer position 6. Find a part time job

The Job I want is……ACCOUNTS CLERK

ACTION PLAN

So, we now have a sample plan. You can have more than one plan Your plan should change as you add things Skills, qualifications, experiences Find more help Decide to change

ACTION PLAN Now you have some of the tools you need to help you find a job. Finding a job is a job, treat it as such Work Hard, use all your gifts and you will succeed.

Evaluation

How has this session gone for you ? Did you contribute ? Were you listened to ? Did you feel comfortable ? Have you found out anything new ? Is there anything we need to change for next time?