Education for Employability - CCEA GCSE - Learning for Life & Work

Summary:
Education for Employability is one of three texts that have been written specifically to support CCEA's GCSE specification - Learning for Life and Work. Each book in the series covers a specific area in depth, ensuring your students have everything they need to know. Including:



- Up-to-date case studies that encourage students to engage with relevant issues in Local and Global contexts.

- Stimulating activities that help to develop students' understanding of the issues involved, their personal and interpersonal skills, as well as those qualities and attributes needed to equip them for work.

- Accessible narratives that invite students to actively explore the values and needs of their own and other communities, and to develop independent thinking and decision-making skills as well as entrepreneurial attitudes.

• Written by an experienced Head of Business and a Careers Adviser in Northern Ireland.
• Follows closely the statutory GCSE short course qualification entitled Learning for Life and Work.
• An essential resource for all those studying the course.
• Endorsed by CCEA.

Table of Contents:
1 Work in the local and global economy
1 Changes in the local and global economy
2 Consumer choices and the environment
3 Financial constraints
2 Personal career planning
4 Key transferable skills
5 Lifelong learning
6 The career planning process
7 The job application process
3 Enterprise and entrepreneurship
8 What is enterprise?
9 Characteristics of an entrepreneur
10 Building a business
11 Skills and qualities
Glossary
Index

About the Author(s):
Verona Hassan is BOARD OFFICER - BUSINESS / CAREERS (NEELB).

Readership:
Students of the CCEA GCSE in Citizenship, age 14-16