Our courses are designed to help young people learn useful new transferable skills and discover insightful information about a specific industries and jobs. Our Ready for Work Programme is offered for free to all community members to help obtain the life skills to thrive in the workplace.
A course to show employers you are ready for the workplace by learning skills in five key areas – Financial Wellbeing, Mental Wellbeing, Physical Wellbeing, Nutritional Wellbeing, and Life Skills. Upon completion, you will then be awarded the Ready for Work scheme City & Guilds verified badge.
Individuals completing this course will be:
All these factors make you a better employee not only for yourself, but the businesses you join.
During the course, you will learn how to structure a Coaching Conversation using the TGROW model. Examples of questions to use when coaching and their purpose. Supporting others to come up with their own ideas and solutions. The importance of listening skills and how to be an active listener to engage better with others. Recognising self-limiting beliefs and being able to challenge these in a positive way. Identifying communication styles in others and adjusting your coaching style to accommodate. Recognising where workplace coaching fits in an organisation in terms of results for individuals and teams and career development. You will be prompted to keep a Learning Journal and reflect on the techniques you try out maintaining a Personal Development Plan to record of your progress.
During the course you will learn about different writing techniques used by industry standards, developing a strong subject to your body of work. You will build on your research skills to strengthen your work and credibility as a writer, creating strong arguments and source material to add depth to a professional level. You will also develop an understanding of your brand and design of your work, building your own audience in a competitive world, targeting your work for the correct audience. Whilst, learning the importance of digital marketing, promoting your own work and presence in a digital world. Building a strong backbone for your work and brand to increase employability and credibility for your own work.
The marketing course will develop your skills and knowledge for the marketing industry. Understanding the key roles for the industry, you will apply your skills and develop research to critically evaluate different subject matters, in understanding the importance to communicate to an audience to get the desired reaction for a company. You will complete exercises that involve current campaigns, breaking down how they work and how audiences engage.
In this course, you will get to learn all that there is to understand the theory behind music notation. This course is simplified to fit solo learning; if you’re new to Music, this course will be the best guide to understanding how Music works in the book and how it is translated from written notes to audible Music.
If you are a musician who learned to play-by-ear, and you want to learn how to sight-play on your instrument; this course is for you as the ability to sight-play gives you a better and stronger understanding of how music works and how you will begin to picture the music you make. As a professional musician (with the ability to sight-play), you stand a better possibility of getting employed in different sectors of the music industry. Note reading (sight-playing) is not restricted to classical music alone, many genres of music can write down music in many ways, and we’re going to be looking at the most popular way of writing music in this course.
During the course, you will learn about HTML and the base structure and tags to create a functional web page using basic coding. You will learn about coding structure and formatting techniques to change the content style and highlight selected text on your web page. You will create a practical business webpage, with key data for their customers. Understanding how we would structure this in code and highlight key data. This course gives you an understanding of how to code using HTML to create a basic webpage.
In the investment analyst course, you will gain basic knowledge of financial statements, types of investment analysis, and portfolio theories. You will gain an in-depth understanding of the ways of investment analysis. And learn skills for making good investment decisions.
This course will guide you through musical techniques that have been found to ease stress, lift the mood, and enhance motivation and self-confidence. The course is suitable for music teachers wishing to incorporate such techniques into their teaching and for individuals who are interested in taking advantage of music’s healing properties.
This course will guide you through musical techniques that have been found to ease stress, lift the mood, and enhance motivation and self-confidence. The course is suitable for music teachers wishing to incorporate such techniques into their teaching and for individuals who are interested in taking advantage of music’s healing properties.
During this course, you will develop your understanding of basic photography skills and equipment. You will learn manual camera functions and gain an insight into the industry. You will learn how to operate a DSLR camera using manual functions and learn about what it’s like to go into photography as a career.
The Resume and Interview course will teach you techniques for understanding your career path. Helping you to understand the industry and how to build a resume to apply for jobs in that sector. Providing useful advice to optimise your resume and approach an interview in a professional manner. Helping you build confidence and gather feedback for future development.o photography as a career.
The Screenplay course will teach you everything to create the perfect screenplay for both television and film.
This course will provide different industry techniques to add depth to your work. Starting out with an idea, character development, to the creation of your plot and building your story.
You will learn different aspects of screenwriting.
This course assumes a basic interest/skill/commitment to writing creative content, either in the form of poetry, short fiction or nonfiction. The three stages of this course concern preparation of your work, submission to publishers, and what to do next.
This course takes you through the process of preparation, submitting your creative writing, and building your platform as an author.
The Web Developer Course will introduce you to the skillset needed to begin your career within this field. You will learn the terminology, skills, and tools to start building your own portfolio of work to allow you to gain access to a competitive and evolving industry.
Our exclusive online community for young people, aged 16-24, is free for all users and includes CV writing tips, interview preparation, career advice, wellbeing advice, accredited courses, and training resources dedicated to getting Ready for Work.
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