VU23723 - Prepare for employment

Unit code: VU23723 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours
30
Location
Footscray Nicholson
St Albans
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to prepare for employment.

It focuses on developing knowledge of Australian workplaces, their work practices, how they are changing and potential employment opportunities to assist participants in making decisions about possible career paths.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • source and examine information about one industry.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • purpose of workplace expectations
  • sources to locate information about an industry and its workplace operations
  • basic workplace policies and procedures of a workplace to identify operating requirements
  • resources to identify employment opportunities within an industry
  • how work has changed over time and how this has affected employment.
  • common employer expectations of an employee for an industry

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate I in Work Education
22706VIC | Certificate i | Duration:

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