Hire Learning: Preparing for Job Search Success - Module 1

Module 1 - Skills and Qualities

2 Skills and Qualities - Model Activity

Purpose

To think about the process your learner will be using to get ready to look for a job

Materials

Scenario: Mark and Angela (p. 12), one for each tutor

Directions

Divide the tutors into small groups. Explain that you are going to model a case study/scenario approach that a tutor could use with a learner. This approach would enable a learner to pick out the steps to choosing a job independently (or with a little prompting from the tutor).

Now is a good opportunity to show the tutors how they might introduce this topic to their learners. Hand out the Mark and Angela case study. Explain that this is how you would introduce the topic to a group of learners.

Model Approach

Some people rush into job search without any clear idea of what they want to do and how it matches their skills. They say to themselves, “I’ll know the right job when I see it¸ or “It doesn’t matter what kind of job I want. I’ll take whatever I can get” These people often don’t get the jobs they want.

When Mark talks to Angela she asks him questions about his qualities, his likes and dislikes and how he likes to spend his time. She also asks him about his work experience. Mark’s answers help him to realize what is important to him in a job. They also give him some ideas about the qualities and skills he could offer an employer.

Let’s read the article and then list the steps that Mark needs to go through himself, to look for a job.

Suggest they always think of the learner or learners they know when doing an activity or developing resources.
Ask them to take turns to read the story in the group.
Ask tutors to:
- think of how they would approach this reading activity with their learner – ask them to review During Reading Activities on page 6-5 of Handbook for Literacy Tutors.
- identify any words they think may be new to a learner.
- identify strategies to find out what words the learner did/did not know.
- identify strategies that could help the learner decode and learn new words.
- consider this question - Are there some words that are more important for the
  learner to know than others?


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