How Zavmo makes a course applied
You could take any of these somewhere else and learn the same syllabus. Six things would be different if you did it here.
Taught against the work in front of you
A unit on managing conflict is taught through the conversation you are dreading on Thursday. A unit on budgets is taught through the one you are actually writing. You are not learning the theory now and applying it later, because there is no later.
Your own examples are the case studies
Zavmo asks what you did, what happened, and what you would do differently. That is the material the teaching runs on. It means the answers cannot be looked up, and it means the learning lands on the job rather than beside it.
Feedback on what you actually did
Not a mark out of ten on a hypothetical. You get a read on the real decision you made this week, against the standard the unit is built from, while the situation is still live enough to do something about.
It knows your sector and your job title
The same unit is taught differently to a practice manager and to a site supervisor, because the work is different. Zavmo starts from the role you actually hold, in your own language, at the level you are genuinely at.
The evidence stacks up as you go
Because the practice is your real work, the record of it is real evidence. The report you wrote, the ticket you closed, the grievance you handled: mapped to the units as you do them, not reconstructed from memory in week eleven.
And it builds Future Fluency alongside
The award proves you can do the job as it is defined today. Underneath it Zavmo builds the ten fluencies that hold their value as the work automates. That layer is ours, and it is why two people holding the same certificate are not in the same position.
See the ten fluenciesTwo of those six, on the screen
Captured from the product, never mocked. Tap either one to see it full size.
A unit, taught as a conversation
The thinking ladder on the left is the level the answer is being pitched at. The panel on the right is the assessment criteria that answer has just evidenced.
The evidence, as it stacks up
Each module with the lessons completed against it, the band of thinking it has reached, and the credits it carries.
Three parties, and it matters which is which
- 1 You pick the course. Open the one you are aiming at and you can see the units it is made of, the roles it opens and the level it sits at, before you commit a single evening to it.
- 2 Zavmo coaches you through it. The teaching, the mapping, and a standards-compliant record of what you covered and what you can show for it.
- 3 The awarding body awards it. Assessment and the certificate belong to them. A qualified human assessor makes the decision, which is exactly why the certificate is worth having.
Worth being plain about: Zavmo is not an awarding body and is not an approved centre. Every body named on this page is an organisation that awards these qualifications on the Ofqual register. Naming them says who awards what. It does not say they endorse us. When we hold a centre agreement, this page will say so and name it.
Who awards them
The bodies with the most courses in the catalogue. Open one to see what it awards.
- Pearson Education Ltd 312
- City and Guilds of London Institute 154
- SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards 127
- NOCN 103
- AIM Qualifications 89
- ATHE Ltd 74
- Cambridge OCR 74
- Gateway Qualifications Limited 73
- Excellence, Achievement & Learning Limited 71
- Highfield Qualifications 71
- ProQual Awarding Body 65
- City & Guilds Limited 63
Or start from the level you are at
If you are not sure which level that is, Zavmo works it out with you in the first session rather than asking you to guess.
A few to look at
- RQF Level 5 · Institute of Administrative Management IAM Level 5 Advanced Diploma in Administrative Management
- RQF Level 2 · Institute of Sales Management ISMM Level 2 Certificate in Sales Administration
- RQF Level 2 · Institute of Sales Management ISMM Level 2 Award in Basic Sales Administration
- RQF Level 3 · Pearson Education Ltd Pearson Edexcel Level 3 NVQ in Providing Financial Advice
- RQF Level 3 · Pearson Education Ltd Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Certificate in Business
- RQF Level 3 · Pearson Education Ltd Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Award in Business
- RQF Level 3 · Pearson Education Ltd Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma in Business
- RQF Level 6 · ABE ABE Level 6 Advanced Diploma in Business Management
- RQF Level 5 · ABE ABE Level 5 Diploma in Business Management
- RQF Level 5 · The Market Research Society MRS Level 5 Advanced Certificate in Market and Social Research Practice
- RQF Level 2 · City and Guilds of London Institute City & Guilds Level 2 Certificate in Market and Social Research
- RQF Level 3 · Institute of Leadership & Management ILM Level 3 Award in First Line Management
Ready when you are
Start with the job you already have
Tell Zavmo what you do all day and it will show you which of these your everyday work already points at. Your free first module is Future Fluency; a course begins when you subscribe.
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