ProQual Awarding Body · RQF Level 2

ProQual Level 2 Diploma in Business Administration

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 2
  • Total credits45
  • Guided learning229 hours
  • Units in this qualification34

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

These are the units ProQual Awarding Body 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.

Administer financeReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand finance for administrators
  • Administer finance
Administer human resource recordsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit covers the administration of human resource records, including legal and data protection requirements. You'll learn to accurately and securely administer HR information while maintaining confidentiality.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the administration of human resource (HR) records, including legal requirements and data protection.
  • Administer HR information accurately and efficiently, maintaining confidentiality and security.
Administer parking dispensationsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the administration of parking dispensations
  • Process applications for parking dispensations
  • Issue parking dispensations
Administer the recruitment and selection processReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the recruitment and selection process
  • Administer the recruitment process
  • Administer the selection process
Analyse and present business dataReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the analysis and presentation of business data
  • Analyse quantitative and qualitative business data
  • Present the analysis of business data
Archive informationReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand archiving requirements
  • Archive information
Collate and report dataReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to collate and report data
  • Collate data
  • Report data
Communication in a business environmentReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the requirements of written and verbal business communication
  • Produce written business communications
  • Communicate verbally in business environments
Develop working relationships with colleaguesReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
Focuses on the principles of effective teamwork and collabouration within an organisation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of effective team working
  • Maintain effective working relationships
Exploring Social MediaReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the opportunities and threats associated with using social media.
  • Understand the application of social media.
Handle mailReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
Covers the processes of handling incoming and outgoing mail in a business setting.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to deal with mail
  • Deal with incoming mail
Health and safety in a business environmentReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand health and safety responsibilities in a business environment
  • Work in a safe way in a business environment
  • Comply with health and safety requirements in a business environment
Maintain and issue stationery and suppliesReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the maintenance of stationery and supplies
  • Maintain stocks of stationery and supplies
  • Issue stock of stationery and supplies
Manage personal performance and developmentReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
Focusing on managing one's own performance and development in a work environment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Manage personal performance
  • Manage time and workload
  • Identify personal development needs
Monitor information systemsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how information systems are used
  • Monitor information systems
Organise business travel or accommodationReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the organisation of business travel or accommodation for others
  • Research business travel or accommodation options for others
  • Make business travel or accommodation arrangements for others
Payroll ProcessingReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Use HMRC approved tools to calculate income tax
  • Determine national insurance contributions to be deducted from gross pay
  • Determine voluntary deductions and non-standard statutory deductions
  • Produce relevant pay period reports
  • Record and reconcile payments and deductions to employees and external agencies
Prepare text from notes using touch typingReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to create text from notes
  • Produce text using touch typing
Prepare text from recorded audio instructionReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the preparation of text from recorded notes
  • Prepare text from recorded notes
Prepare text from shorthandReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to use shorthand to create text
  • Use shorthand to prepare text
Principles of business document production and information managementReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to prepare business documents
  • Understand the distribution of business documents
  • Understand how information is managed in business organisations
Principles of customer relationshipsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand customers and their needs
  • Understand an organisation’s responses to customer relationships
  • Understand the principles of customer relationship management
Principles of digital marketingReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit provides an understanding of digital marketing principles, including the role and benefits of digital marketing, search engine optimisation (SEO), internet-based marketing research, and the use of digital devices and messages for marketing purposes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of digital marketing in promoting products and services and its importance in modern business.
  • Understand the use of search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques to improve online visibility.
  • Understand the requirements of marketing research using the internet, including data collection and analysis methods.
  • Understand the uses of various digital marketing devices and messages, such as social media, email, and mobile marketing.
  • Understand how to use digital technology effectively for marketing purposes, including website development and online advertising.
Principles of marketing theoryReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
You'll study fundamental marketing theory, focusing on market segmentation, the value of marketing in building customer relationships, and the principles of socially responsible marketing to understand ethical marketing practices.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to segment the market into distinct groups based on various criteria.
  • Understand the value of marketing in creating customer relationships and driving business growth.
  • Understand the principles of socially responsible marketing and its impact on brand reputation.
Principles of providing administrative servicesReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the organisation and administration of meetings
  • Understand the organisation of travel and accommodation
  • Understand how to manage diary systems
  • Understand how to use office equipment
  • Understand the use of mail services in a business context
  • Understand customer service in a business environment
Processing customers’ financial transactionsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Deal with customer transactions and documentation
  • Comply with all codes, laws and regulatory requirements
Produce business documentsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to prepare business documents
  • Prepare business documents
  • Distribute business documents
Produce minutes of meetingsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to take minutes of meetings
  • Take notes of meetings
  • Produce minutes of meetings
Provide administrative support for meetingsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the administration of meetings
  • Make administrative preparations for meetings
  • Support the administration of meetings
Understand employer organisationsReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body
This unit provides an understanding of the different organisational structures and environments of employers.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand organisational structures
  • Understand the organisational environment
Understand the legal context of businessReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the legal framework within which businesses operate
  • Understand the principles of business governance
  • Understand how contract law affects a business
  • Understand the requirements of employment law
Understand the use of research in businessReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the research process
  • Understand how to use research in business
Use a telephone and voicemail systemReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Use a telephone and voicemail system
  • Make telephone calls
  • Receive telephone calls
  • Use voicemail systems
Use and maintain office equipmentReal unit · ProQual Awarding Body

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to use office equipment
  • Use and maintain office equipment

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 2 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.

Administer financeAdminister human resource recordsAdminister parking dispensationsAdminister the recruitment and selection processAnalyse and present business dataArchive informationCollate and report dataCommunication in a business environment

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

The Evidence Evaluator

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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Where this can lead

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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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
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Applied to your work in any of these jobs

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
Your PlanIllustration

Built for ProQual Level 2 Diploma in Business Administration

34 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ProQual Awarding Body.

  1. Administer finance
  2. Administer human resource records
  3. Administer parking dispensations
  4. Administer the recruitment and selection process
  5. Analyse and present business data
  6. Archive information

and 28 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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, free

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