Earn and Learn Gap Year

Earn and Learn Gap Year

MS Office Skills
· Keyboard training and speed development
· Commercial document layout (letters, memos, invoices, minutes etc)
· MS Word
· MS PowerPoint
· MS Outlook
· MS Access
· MS Excel
· Audio typing

Practical Skills for Work
· Time management
· Organisational skills
· Diary management and itinerary planning
· Your personal impact upon clients, customers
and senior management
· Improved writing skills for business

Project Management
· Defining different projects
· Planning
· Managing timescales and budgets
· Evaluation

Skills for University
· Producing professional looking course work
· Annotating your documents
· Filing notes and course work
· Using the internet for research
Temping Essentials
· Becoming a successful temp - your role and your responsibilities
· Confidence and attitude
· Understanding the
commercial office environment
· Employment law you need to know

Guide to Temping
· Interview techniques and practice interviews
· Suitable make-up and dress codes
· Professional verbal and non verbal communication skills
· Tax, pay cheques and budgets

Temping Plus
· CV writing and covering letters
· Finding a temping assignment
· Introduction to selected recruitment agencies
· The agency/client relationship
· Practice test
· One-to-one consultations

Office Experience
· Telephone skills
· Using office technology

Gap Year Safety
· Appointed Persons First Aid course
· 'Be Safe' seminar

Workshops
· Creative advertising
· Public relations
· Office finance
· Marketing