{"id":2419,"date":"2020-01-10T22:36:02","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T22:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/?page_id=2419"},"modified":"2020-01-10T23:38:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T23:38:24","slug":"assignment-2-employability-skills-due-february-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/career-education-9-magee\/assignment-2-employability-skills-due-february-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment #2 &#8211; Employability Skills &#8211; Due February 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What are \u201cEmployability Skills\u201d????<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Employability skills are skills that everyone needs to succeed at any kind of work. They are *different* from the specific skills you might need for a specific job\/career.<\/p>\n<p>After you complete this assignment, you will better understand what skills are needed in *any* work place AND you will reflect on which of these skills you already possess and which skills you may need to work on improving.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What you need to do for this assignment:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/files\/2020\/01\/Employability-Skills-Conference-Board-of-Canada.pdf\">brochure on Employability Skills<\/a><\/li>\n<li>For *each* of the skill areas &#8211; Fundamental, Personal Management and Teamwork &#8211; choose <strong>one skill<\/strong> that you think is a relative <strong>strength<\/strong> for you <strong>AND<\/strong> <strong>one skill<\/strong> that you think you can <strong>improve<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Write a reflection which includes 3 paragraphs, 1 paragraph for each skill area. In each paragraph, you will talk about:\n<ol>\n<li>What skill you think is a strength for you and what skill you think you can improve on<\/li>\n<li>Why you think these skills are important in the workplace (you should ask a few adults close to you who work)<\/li>\n<li>*Specific* things that you will do in order to improve the skills or, if it is a strength, what you can do to continue to build on that strength<\/li>\n<li>Each paragraph should be 100-150 words for a total of 300-450 words for the entire assignment.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Please hand in a <u>printed<\/u> copy of your assignment to Room 138 in the tray marked \u201cCareer Education 9&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>Due date: Monday, February 3rd<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click on the link below to get a PDF copy of the assignment sheet<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/files\/2020\/01\/Employability-Skills-Assignment.docx\">Employability Skills Assignment<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are \u201cEmployability Skills\u201d???? Employability skills are skills that everyone needs to succeed at any kind of work. They are *different* from the specific skills you might need for a specific job\/career. After you complete this assignment, you will better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/career-education-9-magee\/assignment-2-employability-skills-due-february-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"parent":1627,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2419","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2421,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2419\/revisions\/2421"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/sjames\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}