Job Skills

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed for advanced learners who are taking part in the Business Internship Program. It is designed to prepare them for the Canadian workplace and to assist them in the interview process to secure a successful internship with a Vancouver company in their preferred field or industry. One major highlight of the program is a video recorded mock interview designed to give the students an opportunity to practice their language skills and to watch themselves as a means to improving their skills for the internship interview.

Students will learn how to write a resume, cover letter construction, business reading, interview skills, meeting-negotiation skills, writing and speaking skills, vocabulary enhancement, and telephoning skills. As part of this course students will take the Serving It Right® program, which is required by most licensed establishments for employment in Canada.

Objectives

• Create a winning resume
• Learn about format, rules, reframing skills
• Enhance descriptive vocabulary of self (action words, adjectives)
• Create a winning cover letter
• Identify and express career objectives
• Develop strategies for passing interviews
• Increase vocabulary for meetings
• Develop negotiation tactics
• Understand Canadian office culture
• Develop telephoning skills
• Dramatise real life situations through role play

Pre-requisite Level: 10+

Course Evaluation: NO ABSENCES PERMITTED

Attendance & Participation 30%
Class Assingments 70%

Course Materials: VEC Text, Internet resources and current news articles

AM Elelctive: 60 hours

OUTLINE

WEEK 1

Resumes & cover letters
Personal Strengths/ Action Words
Reframing Marketable Skills
Job application forms

WEEK 2

Interview Qs/ skills
Recorded Student Interviews
VEC marketing project

WEEK 3

Objectives/ Vocabulary for Meetings
Tricks and Tactics for Negotiations
Business Ethics
Business Efficiency Analysis

WEEK 4

Telephoning skills
Talk about success/failure
Final project
Serving It Right® Test

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