Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade · RQF Level 2
Level 2 Diploma in International Trade and Services
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits57
- Guided learning80 hours
- Units in this qualification14
Awarded by Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade 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 contractsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Administer contracts
- Administer contracts
Employee rights and responsibilities in international tradeReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of organisations and industries in international trade
- Understand employers expectations and employees rights and obligations
Heath and safety procedures in the workplaceReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Know health and safety procedures in the workplace
- Carry out tasks with regards to health and safety in the workplace
Know customs regulations, controls and processesReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Know the purpose of Customs in relation to international trade
- Know how goods are controlled in relation to international trade
- Know the purpose of duties and taxes
- Know the methods used for Customs clearance when trading internationally
- Identify the required documentation for Customs
- Complete the documention for Customs
- Identify problems that can occur when processing documentation for Customs
Know finance and payment when trading internationallyReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Know different finance options available between the seller and the buyer for international trade
- Know freight costs, charges and payments relating to international trade
- Know how ownership and risk transfers
- Know the different financial responsibilities of commercial relationships in international trade
Know how to trade internationallyReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Trade internationally
- Know the roles in international trade
- Understand the trading process
- Complete documentation for trading internationally
Know the movement of goods for international tradeReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Know the characteristics of goods and services that relate to international trade
- Complete official documentation when trading internationally
- Know the financial requirements for the movement of goods in international trade
- Know the legal and regulatory requirements for the movement of goods in international trade
- Obtain information on the movement of goods in international trade
Manage personal performance in international tradeReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Manage personal performance
- Monitor workload
- Identify own development needs
- Complete a personal development plan
Process financial documentation for goodsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Identify required documentation for processing financial information on goods.
- Process financial documentation for goods.
- Identify any problems that can occur when processing financial documentation for the goods.
Process the international movement of goods by airReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Know the requirements for the movement of goods by air in relation to international trade
- Know the documentary requirements for the movement of goods by air in relation to international trade
- Know the role of airports and agents in the movement of goods by air in relation to international trade
- Deal with contingencies for the movement of goods by air when trading internationally
- Cost the movement of goods by air in relation to international trade
- Complete the documenation for the movement of goods by air in relation to international trade
- Mon
Process the international movement of goods by railReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Know the requirements for the movement of goods, by rail in the UK, in relation to international trade
- Know the requirements for the movement of goods by rail in the EU in relation to international trade
- Know the additional international requirements for the movement of goods by rail
- Deal with contingencies when dealing with the movement of goods by rail within international trade
- Complete the documentation for the movement of goods by rail, in the UK, in relation to international trade
Process the international movement of goods by roadReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Know the requirements for the movement of goods by road in the UK in relation to international trade
- Know the requirements for the movement of goods by road in the EU in relation to international trade
- Deal with contingencies when dealing with the movement of goods by road within international trade
- Plan the transportation of goods by road for international trade
- Complete the documentation for the movement of goods, by road in the UK, in relation to international trade
Process the international movement of goods by seaReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Know the requirements for the movement of goods by sea in relation to international trade
- Know the documentary requirements for the movement of goods by sea in relation to international trade
- Know the role of agencies for the movement of goods by sea in relation to international trade
- Know the responsibilities of the Port for the movement of goods by sea, in relation to international trade
- Deal with contingencies for the movement of goods by sea when trading internationally
- Cost the movement of goods by sea in relation to international trade
- Complete th
Work effectively in international tradeReal unit · Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade
What you'll be able to do
- Know the requirements of the customer in relation to international trade
- Provide a quality service when trading internationally
- Communicate with others in the workplace
- Make an effective contribution to a business involved in international trade
The honest bit
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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.
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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.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
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- Analyse
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Built for Level 2 Diploma in International Trade and Services
14 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute of Export & International Trade.
- Administer contracts
- Employee rights and responsibilities in international trade
- Heath and safety procedures in the workplace
- Know customs regulations, controls and processes
- Know finance and payment when trading internationally
- Know how to trade internationally
and 8 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.
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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.
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- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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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.
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