ASDAN
Level 1
QN: 600/8005/X
Curriculum Active
ASDAN Level 1 Certificate in Employability
Official qualification regulated by Ofqual, awarded by ASDAN. Classified as a Other Vocational Qualification. Total guided learning hours: 919 hours.
Qualification Level
Level 1
Awarding Body
ASDAN
Syllabus Units
60 Units
Guided Hours
919 hrs
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Course Syllabus & Study Modules
Complete breakdown of verified curriculum topics and learning objectives.
1
Applying for a job
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Know how to locate job opportunities and why it is important to tailor applications to particular situations
- Be able to carry out activities to apply for a job
- Be able to prepare for and take part in an interview and learn from the experience
2
Career exploration
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to compare career pathways in a chosen occupational sector
- Understand the skills and qualities needed to be succesful in a specific career
- Be able to produce a plan to improve skills and qualities needed to be successful in a career
3
Communicating with others at work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how communication takes place in own organisation
- Be able to communicate appropriately with others at work
4
Customer service
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand why good customer service is important and how to maintain customer satisfaction
- Understand customer needs and how own organisation tries to meet them
- Understand own organisation’s customer service procedures and good practice standards
- Be able to provide good customer service
5
Enterprise skills
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs and how these are important in business situations
- Understand own strengths as an enterprising person and ways to develop own enterprising characteristics
6
Exploring business and enterprise
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how organisations differ in the way that they provide goods and services
- Understand how businesses/enterprises impact on society
- Be able to describe the features of a successful business/enterprise
7
Exploring job opportunities
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to identify suitable job opportunities
8
Health and safety in the workplace
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand rights and responsibilities relating to workplace health and safety
- Know about a range of hazards in the workplace and about safety signs and protective equipment
- Know what to do in the event of accidents and emergencies
- Be able to complete tasks safely
9
Introduction to health and safety for people at work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance of health, safety and welfare standards in the workplace
- Know how hazards and risks are controlled in the workplace, Be aware of the main causes and effects of poor health and safety at work
- Understand how health and safety information is communicated in the workplace
10
Learning through work experience
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to prepare for learning in the workplace
- Be able to carry out activities in the workplace
- Be able to identify what they learnt from the workplace experience
11
Maintaining work standards
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand why employees are expected to comply with workplace standards and codes of conduct
- Know what standards are required in own organisation
- Be able to plan for, and meet, timekeeping and attendance requirements of own organisation
- Be able to complete activities to specified work standards
12
Managing personal finance as an employee
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand financial terms associated with being an employee
- Understand why it is important to manage own income and expenditure effectively
- Know about sources of information and advice to help with management of own finances
- Be able to monitor income and expenditure over time and manage income within means
13
Meetings in the workplace
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the way meetings are planned and managed in their organisation
- Be able to prepare for meetings
- Be able to participate in meetings
- Be able to fulfil commitments agreed at meetings
14
Opportunities for learning and work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand ways to maximise life long learning opportunities
- Understand a range of opportunities for learning
- Understand a range of opportunities for working
- Be able to explore options for learning and work
- Understand the factors that influence the achievement of career goals
15
Overcoming barriers to work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the factors that enable an individual to be successful in accessing and staying in work
- Be able to identify barriers to accessing work and identify how to get support to help overcome them
- Be able to plan to deal with money issues associated with becoming an employee
16
Participating in an enterprise activity
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to explore options and ideas for an enterprise activity
- Be able to plan an enterprise activity with others
- Be able to meet own responsibilities for an enterprise activity
- Be able to review the enterprise activity
- Be able to review own contribution to the enterprise activity
17
Planning and reviewing learning
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand how setting targets can help improve their learning and performance
- Be able to develop a plan to improve their learning and performance
- Be able to carry out their plan
- Be able to review how they have improved their learning and performance
18
Research skills
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to plan research
- Be able to carry out research
- Be able to present the findings of the research and review research skills
19
Rights and responsibilities in the workplace
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand that employees have rights in the workplace
- Understand that employees have responsibilities in the workplace
20
Tackling problems
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand a problem and different ways of tackling it
- Be able to develop and follow a plan to tackle the problem
- Be able to review the effectiveness of how they tackled the problem
21
Tackling problems at work
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to recognise workplace problems
- Be able to follow a given procedure in response to a problem
22
Team working
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand what helps teams to work effectively
- Be able to plan to work in a team
- Be able to work co-operatively with others to achieve team objectives
- Be able to review the work of the team and own contribution, and agree how to improve own skills
23
Using advice and guidance
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the benefits of advice and guidance in achieving learning and work related goals
- Understand how to access advice and guidance relevant to learning and work related goals
- Be able to use advice and guidance to help make decisions about achieving own learning or work related goals
24
Using ICT in the workplace
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand policies, procedures and practices that are relevant to the use of ICT in own role within the organisation
- Be able to use ICT systems to locate and select information for a work based task
- Be able to use ICT systems to develop and present information for a work based task
25
Working to good practice standards
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand why legislation is needed to regulate what happens in the workplace
- Know about policies/procedures in own organisation/workplace and understand how they impact on own situation
- Be able to apply good practice standards in own organisation
26
Working with numbers
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand ways in which numbers are used in the workplace
- Be able to tackle straightforward practical number problems
27
Working with others
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Be able to plan their work with others
- Be able to carry out work with others
- Be able to review work with others
28
Workplace Hazard Awareness
Verified
Key Learning Objectives:
- Understand the meaning of the terms hazard and risk in health and safety
- Know ways of keeping people healthy and safe at work
- Be able to identify hazards in the workplace
- Understand how hazards in the workplace may ca
Regulatory & Verification Details
- Qualification Number (QN)
- 600/8005/X
- Regulated Status
- Available to learners
- Awarding Body
- ASDAN
- Qualification Type
- Other Vocational Qualification
- Operational Start
- Mar 2013