Employability Crash Course is presented as a self-directed, self-paced course to guide students in learning how to look for work, write a resume and interview for a job. The material is designed to allow students to follow their curiosity and percieved needs while holding them accountable for their learning.Instructors can use the material to prompt discussion and provide content for role-plays.

Being able to conduct productive job searches is key to finding employment opportunities. Digital literacy is also a necessity for gaining employment. That’s why this course aims to provide adult basic education participants the ability to self-navigate the internet to search for relevant, reliable search results. Participants will be able to demonstrate how this increased digital literacy related to internet searching can help them successfully find relevant job opportunities.

This course is intended to help you showcase your personality, strengths, interests, and abilities to potential employers through the interview process.

Learn to impress with the preparation and communication skills that will lead to a job offer

This unit of job search readiness instruction will guide students through the process of building a professional resume, cover letter, practice interview questions, and the creation of a professional eportfolio using Google Sites.

Learn the latest methods for finding a job including searching online, networking and using social media.

This lesson is designed to benefit adult learners who are studying at a 6th to 8th grade level. The lesson would be most useful for English Language Learners but could also be useful to native English speakers who are finishing up their formal education. The lesson reviews how to use affirmative and negative present perfect, such as “I have (not) done”. It is assumed that learners have already studied and can recognize the formation of the present perfect, but the grammar will be reviewed briefly. Learners will practice forming the present perfect with vocabulary in the context of work and finding work. They will work in pairs, reading excerpts from job ads and writing present perfect sentences that indicate that they have done that job/task. Finally, learners will practice creating present perfect sentences with relation to their own work experience. This lesson is designed to take 30 minutes.

This course will help you effectively develop employment application materials for todayĺÎĺs job market by honing your resume writing skills, providing you with tools to create an impressive resume (or to improve the one you already have), and giving suggestions on developing an effective cover letter

This book is a practical discussion of six actionable steps that students can take to land a job regardless of the market. Whether the estimate is 25% unemployment or single-digit unemployment, that number doesn't apply to any one student. For any individual, the unemployment rate is 0% or 100%. One either has a job or doesn't. When any one person is looking for a job and there is 10% unemployment, that person just wants to be one of the nine people that has a job.

Adult job seekers will learn plenty of tips from finding the job posting that best suits them to following up the application appropriately.