Flowers School of Technology and Management

Making the Move to Work

Making the transition from a study or non-work environment to work is exciting but potentially daunting. This short course has been designed to make you more aware of what employers are currently looking for when they recruit new staff and how you can make the most of the technical qualifications, skills, experience and personal qualities that you have when presenting yourself for employment.

The unit is aimed at jobseekers who are actively seeking employment, either to go into their first role after leaving school or college, or as someone returning to work after a period of absence. The unit considers a range of generic skills and capabilities that employers look for, over and above technical qualifications and experience, which have been shown to make new employees more successful within a role. Employability skills include a range of behavioural and interpersonal skills that you can use to demonstrate you are able to interact and work effectively with others at work. These employability skills enable you to be more successful at job applications and interviews.

Gain Practical Employability Skills

As well as reviewing a range of practical employability skills, the unit enables you to assess your own skillset in terms of employability and to develop your own personal development plan. The course concludes with a requirement for you to develop your personal curriculum vitae (CV) and prepare for an appropriate job application and interview.

These skills are essential for all jobseekers in the modern working world and will help improve the chances of employment for all those completing this qualification.

What You'll Learn

Element 1 - What employers are looking for in prospective employees
Element 2 – What I have to offer
Element 3 – Presenting what I have to offer

Pathways & Progression

After completing Level 2 qualification you can progress onto higher level qualifications in business management. ABE’s framework of business management qualifications run from Level 3, right through to Level 6, enabling you to accumulate the credits needed for a university top-up, or you can enter onto the framework at any point depending on your prior qualifications. Click on the Entry Requirement tab for more details.

ABE offers you a full framework of qualifications that have been designed for you to be able to progress right from Level 2 all the way up to Level 6. Each qualification builds from the one before, taking you from introductory units through to strategic ones.

On completion of the ABE Level 2 Award in Employability Skills you will be able to progress to another qualification in the ABE suite, such as ABE level 3 Certificate in Business Essentials, or use what you have learned to seek employment.

ABE Level 3 Certificate in Business Essentials

Number of Units: 1

Gain an introductory understanding of how businesses are run and develop contemporary workplace skills which will enable you to add value to your organisation or future employer.

ABE Level 4 Foundation in Business Management

Number of Units: 4

A good general grounding in core aspects of business, designed for those who wish to go quickly onto the next ABE Level and into employment. If you wish to progress to a university degree, the eight unit - 120 credit - Diploma provides more favourable progression options.

ABE Level 2 Award in Employability Skills: Making the Move

Number of Units: 1

This short course is ideal if you are seeking employment. It has been designed to make you more aware of what employers are looking for when they recruit new staff. It will show you how to make the most of your qualifications, skills, experience and personal qualities when presenting yourself for employment.

Qualification Title

ABE Level 2 Award in Employability Skills: Making the Move to Work

Qualification Objective

The objectives of the ABE Level 2 Award in Employability Skills are as follows:

Describe what is meant by employability skills and why employers want people with these skills in addition to qualifications and/or experience
Assess your own skillset in terms of employability and provide examples to support your strengths, preferences and areas for development
Complete a job application and prepare for an interview based on your skillset

Knowledge, skills and understanding to be assessed

The Knowledge, Skills and Understanding being assessed in this qualification is as follows:

Be able to explain what is meant by employability skills and explain why employers want people with these skills in addition to qualifications and/or experience
Assess your own skillset in terms of employability and provide examples to support your strengths, weaknesses and preferences
Complete a job application and prepare for an interview based on your skillset.

Entry Guidance and Criteria

There are no formal entry requirements to study an ABE Level 2 Award; however, the admissions office will ensure that you have a reasonable expectation of success on the programme by assessing your previous qualifications and or related work experience. Hence, it is the admissions assessors' responsibility to use their professional and academic judgement when assisting you in making the decision at which level you should enter the ABE programmes.

In order to successfully study for an ABE qualification, you should have an appropriate level of spoken and written English language skills. To ensure success rates are maximised, for all ABE qualifications, we recommend the following standards are met:

IELTS 5.5 | Cambridge ESOL - Preliminary PET or BEC | Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE) 36-41 | Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) B2 | or other English language test equivalent.

Before Qualification Can be Assessed & Awarded

To be awarded the ABE Level 2 Award in Employability Skills learners are required to successfully achieve the one mandatory unit. There are no optional pathways as part of this qualification.

Recognition/Accreditation of Prior Learning RPL/APL

If you hold a qualification from either another professional body or university which is similar in content and level to the ABE Level 4, 5 or 6 qualifications, you might qualify for RPL, APL or an exemption from some ABE examinations or units.

Localisation

It is very important when studying for your ABE qualification that you consider your local business environment and try to apply what you are learning to relevant scenarios in your local business context. Doing this will help you to put your learning into practice and use it in your professional day-to-day activities.

Qualification Structure

ABE Level 2 Award in Employability Skills: Making the Move to Work

The ABE Level 2 Award in Employability Skills consists of one mandatory unit. To be awarded this qualification you must achieve a minimum of a Pass in the mandatory unit.

The credit value is 3

Mandatory Unit

2UMMW Making the Move to Work - 3 Credits

Credits

ABE qualifications also have credits assigned to them. When you achieve a qualification with credits, you can use these credits towards progression to another qualification.

A Recent Survey

With ABE qualification, ABE alumni have been leading organisations in the finance, government, healthcare, industry, NGOs, etc., all over the world. Survey responses came from more than 70 countries with over 1,000 different job titles given. Sixty-five percent of the respondents were working in medium or large organisations, 71% who had achieved a higher ABE qualification (eg Level 6) were in a managerial or professional role and 97% stated ABE had been relevant or beneficial to their profession.

Whatever field takes your interest, an ABE qualification will give you the tools to help you achieve your professional ambitions.

Modes of Study

When studying for your ABE qualification, you will learn both with supervision from your tutors in-class and through your own self-study time.

Range of course delivery methods

Classroom delivery (face to face taught time)
Mentoring and coaching from tutors
E-learning via Flowers Online Learning platform
Formative assessment
Live webinars
Assessment support for assignment writing

Suggested reading and resources

We will provide the following learning materials:

A Study Guide in PDF format. This Study Guide is aimed at learners and will expand on the Unit Syllabus, including case studies and examples, activities, and a glossary of terms.
A Recommended Reading List, Online resources.

Assessment

The ABE Level 2 Award in Employability Skills is assessed by an assignment, which is externally set and marked by ABE.

Assignments

Assignments will be set by ABE in the format of an assignment brief. Sometimes a scenario and/or templates may be provided as well. Level 2 Employability Skills assignments will have a word count of 2000.

Grading

In order to achieve an ABE qualification, you must demonstrate sufficient depth of study and acquisition of knowledge and skills expected for the qualification. You will need to demonstrate your achievement through the assessments set by ABE. On completion of your ABE qualification, you will be awarded an overall qualification grade based on your performance across all of your unit assessments.

Marking and moderation

ABE has a broad and varied external academic team with a breadth of experience across the qualification areas and levels. Our external assessment team is very familiar with ABE students and the format of ABE exams and assignments. ABE has a very robust marking and moderation process: assessments are marked and standardised by our external team. The results are ratified by our senior assessment team, prior to publishing.

QAA Benchmarking

As well as ensuring that each qualification level offers the appropriate credit values for progression to higher education university programmes, ABE has also aligned the qualifications against sections of the QAA Framework, which applies to all degree-awarding organisations, such as universities, in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

ABE Level 2 Award Employability Skills: Making the Move to Work

Award in Employability Skills: Making the Move to Work

Pathways & Progression

Element #2

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