Employability Skills Bundle

Resource Description

Employability skills help students get ready for work and they are essential for students in Life Skills, Transition and Vocational Programs. Your high school students will love using these employability skills activities and work readiness resources to build their knowledge and practical skills before work experience, as part of a job readiness program or to help with career planning for the future.

Many young people wonder how it is that some people seem to find and keep work easily, while others often struggle to land their first job. The answer is often being job ready and developing the employability skills (also known as soft skills) which allow a young person to thrive at work, rather than merely survive.

What are employability skills?

Employability skills are the core competencies that help young people use in a workplace every day. And while we are often very good at teaching the academic and technical, knowledge-based subjects that help prepare a young person for further study and work, sometimes we forget to teach them about how to be employed.

What are the key employability skills to teach?

Employability skills include skills like:

• using digital technology
• communicating with others
• solving problems
• working in teams and groups
• using innovation and creativity
• working effectively with people from diverse backgrounds.

We know that employers deliberately look for young people who can demonstrate good employability skills - often through their work experiences, part time jobs, sporting and recreation groups and community or volunteer work. And far too many employers say that young people who enter their workplace do not have good employability skills when they leave school.

What's included?

This bundle contains 21 employability skills resources that are perfect for teens and young adults. They will help you deliberately and purposely teach employability skills:

• posters
• printables and information pages
• employability skills passport
• digital activities
• classroom activities
• employability skills checklists
• resume writing challenge activity
• job interview sample questions and action plan
• employability skills easy reading case studies
• employability skills information pack for students
• problem solving task cards
• customer service task cards and activities

What to do

Download the resources to your folder or drive. Make a visual display in your classroom to build knowledge of key terms and concepts. Print or share the employability skills information pack and passport with each student. Have students self assess using the checklists, then build application skills with the employability skills printbales. Use the problem solving task cards and printable activities to support workplace skills. Encourage students to build a strong resume with the one hour challenge, then have students find and apply for a job with a focus on using employability skills vocabulary in their application.