Employability Skills Training
This course gets participants Job Ready and exposes them to local employers who are currently recruiting people for positions they have available. The training involves Self-awareness and Marketing, Communication, Technology, Job searching, Career skills, Skills mapping, Writing Resumes and Cover letters.
2. 1: Self-Awareness
Self-Awareness
Developing self-awareness is a great way of learning more about what makes you tick, and what you are capable of. There are some great ways you can work on your selfawareness; but what you do next – is entirely up to you!
Self-awareness is really just about being aware of who we are. It can relate to knowing your own values, your beliefs, personal preferences and tendencies. This is valuable to understand, as it can be helpful to start thinking about how you work best and interact with others.
This section of the workbook will focus on self-awareness aspects that relate to finding and retaining employment and will look at:
• How you learn best
• Your talents and abilities
• Personality traits
• Values
It is also a great exercise if you:
• Want to know more about yourself
• Don’t understand other people’s reactions to stuff you’re doing
• Feel like you’re weird or different
• Want to be more confident
• Want better self-esteem
You know how famous people always say, “Stay true to yourself”? This is actually really important advice, but it’s not easy to stay true to yourself if you don’t know who you are!
By becoming self-aware and understanding your strengths and limitations, you open up opportunities that just aren’t available if you don’t know yourself. You’re also able to have more honest and genuine relationships because the people that you’re attracted to will be attracted to you for who you actually are.
Floating the Boat or Sinking the Ship
A big part of self awareness is understanding how and why we react to situations and people. We all have things in our lives that either lift our spirits up or bring them down.
Sometimes when we start focusing on the negative things in our lives we can neglect the
things that build us up. This is perhaps the exact opposite of what we should be doing.
Simply identifying and focusing on the things that build us up can often bring us out of a
downward spiral. Identifying the things that bring us down can also be beneficial in the
sense of ‘knowing our enemy.’ If you know what you’re up against you are better
equipped to either avoid or fight the things that would make your life less enjoyable.