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Featured eBooks
- Develop your interpersonal skills at work eBook - Establishing professional relationships is an important part of building a career. With this enlightening resource, readers will be ready to wow their boss and peers with their commitment to teamwork. This insightful read will clearly explain how to communicate in an effective manner, all while being assertive, influential, and cooperative. Readers will find step-by-step guides on how to negotiate and how to handle conflict in a professional, respectful, and direct manner. Teens will be empowered to speak up at work, make friends, and take their career to the next level.
- Job coaches for adults with disabilities : a practical guide eBook - Defining the role of a job coach, this book sets out EU-wide training standards for helping people with disabilities gain and maintain meaningful employment. The book includes the perspectives of both people with disabilities and their job coaches, offering first-hand experience of the specific issues faced by those who want to enter the competitive open jobs market. It describes how to provide bespoke support for people with an intellectual disability, physical disability, as well as for autistic people and individuals with mental health conditions. Guidance on functional assessment, task analysis, collaborating with employers and training for new and student job coaches is also included.
Featured Study Guides
Featured Streaming Video
- Are You Job Ready? Streaming video - The programme takes you through the requisite skills and knowledge a senior secondary school student or tertiary student needs to be aware of to be able to perform successfully and comfortably in the workforce. The material in the programme can be used to help prepare for casual, part-time or full-time position. The programme can also be useful as a source for Work Experience education. The programme aims to help a student be organised for and meet the exciting challenges of the world of work.
- Communication in the Workplace Streaming videos that look at the Nature of Workplace Communication and conflict management
- Success at Work: online video series ClickView streaming videos covering a wide range of workplace skills including first impressions, communication, teamwork, and interview skills.
- My New Job (Adult) Streaming video - Whether it's your first serious job, or just the first day at a new job, settling in and finding your way around a new workplace can be daunting. New employees can be reticent and feel uncomfortable about finding out the information they want and need to know on day one. But this should not be the case. Most workplaces will have formal or informal strategies relating to the induction of new staff and appropriate personnel to oversee it. This programme explores a range of areas relevant to starting at a new workplace, including what a new employee should consider and prepare for and ways in which workplaces are typically set up to ensure a smooth induction for new staff. It also covers preparation by the employee, inductions, getting to know your workmates, troubleshooting and surviving the first week.
- Worksite Communication Skills Streaming video - This video comprises of basic communication skills as they are applied within industrial or commercial trade settings such as construction sites, engineering or fabrication workshops and manufacturing enterprises. We explore why clear communication is critical in ensuring that the working environment poses minimal or no risk to workers, and work tasks are completed correctly and quality is maintained. Workers can come from a wide range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It is vital that communication in all its forms is appropriate and inclusive for all. Communication with CALD workers is examined as well as using the phone and face-to-face verbal communication. Units of Competency: BSBCMM101A - Apply basic communication skills; CPCPCM2039A - Carry out interactive workplace communication.
- How Will This Help Me Get a Job? Streaming video - Today's teens have a range of employability skills that they may not even know they have. In this fun and funky programme, we see how the skills teens develop in dealing with everyday situations can help them to be successful at work. Our teen friends organise meet-ups and holidays, work on a school assignment, make kit furniture, raise money to help out a mate, plan their career goals, learn to drive, and play video games. All of these activities give them important communication, teamwork, problem solving, initiative, organisation, self-management, learning and technology skills that they can use at work.
Other Helpful Study Guides
Websites
- ADCET- NDCO Resources A collection of the National Disability Coordination Officer Program developed resources including an NDIS & Further Education Pre-planning Toolkit, Pathways to Employability, Disability Awareness. eLearning Training
- Australian Apprenticeships Pathways The Australian Apprenticeships Pathways website is an Australia-wide information hub for students, job hunters, employers, and industry.
- Careers - Good Universities Guide Click on the Careers tab and search for information about different jobs and positions.
- Disability Employment Australia Disability Employment Australia is the peak industry body for Australia's Disability Employment Services (DES).
- Employability Skills Framework (PDF) - Dept Ed Vic PDF. Outlines the skills and attributes required to prepare for employment and further learning. The Employability Skills Framework includes what employers think makes a good employee and skills sheet checklist
- Employment resources (DESE) We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future. Secure jobs are vital for our nation to prosper—driving future economic growth and providing people with certainty. In the midst of fast-paced social, economic and global changes, we focus on equipping Australians who are starting, advancing or changing their career with the relevant skills, knowledge and experience to gain or regain employment. -- website
- Fair Work Fair Work Ombudsman website- useful calculators and details about wages, leave, conditions, workplace problems, and ending employment.
- Government Skills Australia- YouTube Channel GSA is the national Industry Skills Council for government and community safety. It is the pre-eminent body on national skills and workforce development issues for the following industry sectors: Correctional Services, Local Government Public Safety, Defence, Public Sector and Water
- Job Jumpstart "Job Jumpstart offers a range of support for young job seekers and workers and their parents, teachers and advisers. We offer a range of printable workbooks and tip sheets. We also have recruitment insights from Australian employers, as well as information and links to Government resources."
- Lifelong Learning- Libraries Tasmania "Libraries Tasmania is here to support you with your lifelong learning goals. We offer a range of programs and services to help you learn for pleasure, work, study, and everyday life. " -- website
- My Future myfuture provides resources to explore career pathways and tools to develop self-knowledge to help with career decision-making.
- National Standards For Disability Services The revised National Standards for Disability Services which focuses on rights and outcomes for people with disabilities, including participation and inclusion in the workforce.
- Practice Driver Knowledge Test - Tasmania Practice test. To get a learner licence, you must pass the real driver knowledge test at a Service Tasmania shop.
- SkillsOne Videos Hundreds of videos about getting a trade or skill. SkillsOne works with Industry, Educators, Government, and TAFE to engage and promote extensive career opportunities and pathways in traditional trades and emerging skills areas ranging from automotive, construction & mining; to hairdressing, healthcare, and horticulture.
- Your Career "The Your Career website is a platform of the National Careers Institute. It is designed to provide clear and simple careers information and to help people of all ages and circumstances better plan and manage their career."
- Youth Central - 8 job skills you should have As well as skills specific to the job you’re going for, employers are also looking for general job skills. These are sometimes called ‘employability skills’ or ‘soft skills’. These types of skills will make you stand out. Even if you don’t think you have any job skills, you have these employability skills if you’re: dependable easy to get along with open to learning new things.
Connect Links
A great story about how two people with mild intellectual disabilities are succeeding in the workplace.
This video encourages you to examine where you are at and where you want to be.