NOCN · RQF Level 3
NOCN Level 3 Certificate in Self Employment and Enterprise (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits16
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification31
Awarded by NOCN · on the Ofqual register
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Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units NOCN registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Assess health and safety risks in your businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to carry out health and safety risk assessments in your business
- Understand how to record and communicate workplace health and safety risk assessments
- Understand how to review workplace health and safety risk assessments
Assess your ability to run a businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess the skills and abilities needed for running your business
- Understand how to judge your and other people’s ability to deal with potential changes to the business
- Understand how to set and monitor your own performance targets
Assess your ability to run a businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the skills needed for running your business
- Understand how to judge your ability to deal with potential changes to your business
- Understand how to obtain and use information about your own performance in your business
Build business relationshipsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to establish and improve business relationships to support your business
- Understand how to build and improve your customer relationships
- Understand how to build and maintain your business and customer relationships based on respect and trust
Choose supplies and suppliers for your businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare a schedule of the supplies needed for your business
- Purchase supplies for your business
- Set up stock control of your business supplies
Choose supplies and suppliers for your businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare and monitor a schedule of the supplies needed for your business
- Understand how achieve best value when buying supplies for your business
- Understand how to manage and control business supplies to maximise the profitability of your business
Choose your business premisesReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the choice of business premises can affect your business success
- Understand how to choose and evaluate suitable premises for meeting your business needs
Choose your business premisesReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why premises are important to your business
- Understand how to choose suitable premises for meeting your business needs
Comply with business legal requirementsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to select a suitable legal status for your business
- Understand the legal requirements of setting up your business
Comply with business legal requirementsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess risks when selecting a legal status for your business
- Understand how to comply with legal requirements of setting up and running your business
Create a vision for your businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between the vision and values of your business
- Understand the challenges and opportunities in a business environment
- Understand how to take calculated risks to improve your business
Create your business infrastructureReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to evaluate infrastructure options for your business
- Understand how to implement and review an infrastructure for your business
Create your business infrastructureReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the kind of infrastructure your business needs
- Understand how to create an infrastructure for your business
Develop your business ideaReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop Your business idea
- Understand the market for Your business idea
Develop your business ideaReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate how to evaluate your business idea
- Demonstrate how to assess the market for your business idea
Estimate financial needs for your businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate financial options to fund your business
- Understand how to monitor income and expenditure against your business objectives
- Understand how to monitor profit and loss for your business
Estimate financial needs for your businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to estimate the finances needed to fund your business
- Understand how to estimate income and expenditure for your business
- Understand how to estimate profit and loss for your business
Explore your business motivesReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand your needs and aspirations when setting up and running a business
- Understand how to evaluate your role and personal development needs in your business
Explore your business motivesReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Identify your needs and aspirations when setting up a business
- Be aware of how your own role can affect your personal and business needs
Improve your business skillsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess the benefits of improving your business skills and knowledge
- Understand how to develop and monitor a plan for improving your business skills and knowledge
Improve your business skillsReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how developing your skills and knowledge can help your business
- Understand how to improve your business skills and knowledge
Make a cash flow forecastReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to set cash flow targets in line with financial plans for your business
- Understand how to set up systems to monitor cash flow forecasts for your business
- Understand how to control income and expenditure shortfalls for your business
Negotiate for your businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how negotiating deals can support your business
- Understand how to negotiate a business deal
- Know how and when to close a deal effectively
Plan to sell your product or serviceReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess the market for selling your product or service
- Understand the importance of setting sales targets for your business
Plan to sell your product or serviceReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand methods of selling a product or service
- Understand methods of selling a product or service
Prepare a plan for your businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare a plan for your business
- Understand how to integrate the elements of your business plan
Produce a plan for your businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to produce and present a plan for your business
- Understand how to use the business plan to support the continuing success of your business plan
Recruit people for your businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what factors to consider when recruiting for a possible job vacancy in your business
- Understand how to prepare an advertisement for a possible job vacancy
- Understand how to select an applicant for a possible job vacancy
Recruit people for your businessReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to set recruitment requirements for a possible job vacancy in your business
- Understand how to advertise for a possible job vacancy in your business
- Understand how to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a recruitment process
Sell your product or serviceReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess what customers need from your business
- Understand how to promote and reach agreement to sell your products or services
Sell your product or serviceReal unit · NOCN
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the buying needs and interests of your customers
- Understand how to promote the features and benefits of your products or services to customers
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Create the infrastructure for your business
- Decide how you will sell and market your products and services
- Find business premises
- Manage cash flow in your business
- Monitor borrowing for your business
- Recruit people for your business
- Set and achieve goals for your business enterprise
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for NOCN Level 3 Certificate in Self Employment and Enterprise (QCF)
19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by NOCN.
- Assess health and safety risks in your business
- Assess your ability to run a business
- Build business relationships
- Choose supplies and suppliers for your business
- Choose your business premises
- Comply with business legal requirements
and 13 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.