AIM Qualifications · RQF Level 2
AIM Qualifications Level 2 Award in Employability and Development Skills
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 2
- Total credits6
- Guided learning48 hours
- Units in this qualification108
Awarded by AIM Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units AIM Qualifications 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.
Apply Paint by Brush and RollerReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for painting.
- Prepare for painting.
- Apply surface coatings with brushes and rollers.
- Apply water-borne and solvent-borne materials to surfaces with brushes and rollers.
- Clean brushes and rollers after use.
- Maintain brushes and rollers.
- Store paint materials.
- Work in accordance with current regulations.
Balloon Decorations for Parties and ThemesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know a variety of balloon shapes and sizes.
- Create balloon shapes using the twisting method.
- Create air filled balloon design table decorations.
- Create a stand up display balloon character.
- Create a wall display using foil balloons.
Building Working Relationships with ColleaguesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand ways that individuals in the workplace depend on one another.
- Understand how an individual’s behaviour affects other people at work.
- Demonstrate positive behaviours that promote effective working with others.
Building a Personal Career PortfolioReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand own skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and personal qualities.
- Assess the potential of own skills, abilities, experience, knowledge and personal qualities in contributing towards the achievement of personal goals.
- Build a portfolio of information to evidence achievements and qualities.
- Produce a curriculum vitae (CV).
- Identify personal goals and the actions required to achieve these.
- Understand the value of a portfolio in personal, educational and career development.
Candle MakingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Carry out candle making activities safely.
- Record development of ideas for candle making.
- Plan for candle making.
- Use materials and equipment for candle making.
- Use techniques for candle making.
- Review own work.
Carry out Practical Operations in WallpaperingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know what is required to prepare for a range of small scale jobs within the wallpapering area.
- Prepare to carry out a range of small scale jobs within the wallpapering area.
- Calculate quantity and prices for small scale jobs in the wallpapering area.
- Carry out small scale repair jobs.
Chairing MeetingsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand skills needed to be a Chair of an organisation.
- Understand how to organise and facilitate meetings.
- Understand the role of the Chair in facilitating decision making.
- Understand the leadership role of the Chair.
Cleaning, decontamination and waste managementReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to maintain a clean environment to prevent the spread of infection
- Understand the decontamination process
- Understand the importance of good waste management practice in the prevention of the spread of infection
Colour Theory and DesignReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use colour related terminology and concepts.
- Know the elements of the colour spectrum.
- Know how colour is used in different contexts.
- Know the significance of psychological associations related to colour.
- Know the spatial impact of colour.
Combined Arts and CollaborationReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the reasons for combined arts and collabouration.
- Understand what is required for interdisciplinary working in art.
- Know what support is available for collabourative working on arts projects/ between art disciplines.
- Know about the purpose of combined arts and collabouration.
Conducting Peer ResearchReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand peer research.
- Carry out peer research.
- Plan a peer research project.
- Carry out a peer research project.
- Evaluate own research.
Contemporary Flower ArrangementReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely with tools and equipment used for contemporary flower arrangement.
- Know the botanical classification and characteristics of fresh plant material suitable for contemporary flower arrangement.
- Research trends in contemporary flower arrangement.
- Produce designs for a contemporary flower arrangement.
- Plan, prepare and handle materials for a contemporary flower arrangement.
- Construct a contemporary flower arrangement.
- Review own work.
Counselling SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different approaches to using counselling skills.
- Understand cultural influences on approaches to counselling.
- Understand skills and techniques relevant to counselling.
- Use practical counselling skills and techniques.
- Know the importance of boundaries in counselling.
Creative WritingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand litreary styles and genres.
- Understand how to record and use personal experience or anecdotes as a basis for creative writing.
- Understand the importance of choosing a particular reading audience.
- Draft a piece of creative writing.
- Reflect on own work.
Desktop Publishing SoftwareReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select and use appropriate designs and page layouts for publications.
- Input and combine text and other information within publications.
- Use desktop publishing software techniques to edit and format publications.
Developing Garment Construction Skills – Children’s WearReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the design features of the chosen garment.
- Make informed design decisions.
- Construct or adapt a pattern to a specific design.
- Plan and prepare for the garment construction process.
- Develop skills in specific garment construction techniques.
- Make a garment.
- Review own work.
Developing Garment Construction Skills – Contemporary Dress/Jacket/Shirt/Trousers or SkirtReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the design features of the chosen garment.
- Make informed design decisions.
- Construct or adapt a pattern to a specific design.
- Plan and prepare for the garment construction process.
- Develop skills in specific garment construction techniques.
- Make a garment.
- Review own work.
Developing Garment Construction Skills – KameezReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the design features of the chosen garment.
- Make informed design decisions.
- Construct or adapt a pattern to a specific design.
- Plan and prepare for the garment construction process.
- Develop skills in specific garment construction techniques.
- Make a garment.
- Review own work.
Digital Imaging and PrintingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand digital imaging and printing.
- Produce digital images and prints.
- Use safe working practices.
Display Stock to Promote Sales in a SalonReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and factors influencing the effectiveness of a display of stock in a salon environment, including visual appeal and accessibility
- Assemble a display of stock to promote sales in a salon, considering product placement and promotional materials
- Maintain and dismantle the display area, ensuring stock levels are appropriate and the area is clean and tidy
Domestic Plumbing SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the construction and operation of domestic taps.
- Rectify faults identified in domestic taps.
- Understand the construction and operation of float and isolation valves.
- Rectify faults identified in float and isolation valves.
- Understand the construction and operation of a domestic toilet cistern.
- Rectify faults identified in a cistern.
- Understand the need for water storage in a domestic system.
Drawing Application MethodsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Explore a variety of drawing techniques and media.
- Apply skills in specific contexts and for different purposes.
- Understand formal elements and surface qualities.
- Interpret own work.
- Follow Health and Safety procedures and safe studio practice.
Electrical Isolation – Testing and CertificationReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand current electrical regulations.
- Isolate electrical supply.
- Know the correct sequence of tests on a given electrical system.
- Complete relevant electrical certification documentation.
- Know the reporting process covered by Part P electrical installations.
EmbroideryReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use embroidery techniques.
- Know fabrics and threads used for embroidery.
- Know decorative and functional stitches used for embroidery.
- Understand principles of colour in design.
- Know tools and equipment used for embroidery.
- Produce items of embroidery.
- Follow health and safety guidelines when producing embroidery.
- Review own work.
Establishing Plants or Seeds in SoilReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain equipment.
- Select and transport plants and/or seeds.
- Establish plants and /or seeds in soil.
- Work safely and minimise environment damage.
- Know the requirements for establishing healthy plants.
- Deal with damage and pollution.
- Know the types of equipment required to establish plants and seeds and how to maintain them.
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Exploratory Drawing Methods - Using Textile Media and ApplicationsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop visual work through experimentation.
- Combine creative and technical skills in the production of visual work.
- Understand the importance, diversity and integration of drawing work within the specialism of textile design.
- Follow Health and Safety procedures.
Exploring Job OpportunitiesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify suitable job opportunities.
- Investigate job vacancies.
Face PaintingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for face painting.
- Talk to a child when face painting.
- Apply face painting techniques.
Film ProjectReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Research for a film or video project.
- Undertake a film project.
- Reflect on own film produced.
- Follow relevant Health and Safety procedures.
First Aid EssentialsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and responsibilities of a first aider
- Assess an incident
- Manage an unresponsive casualty who is breathing normally
- Manage an unresponsive casualty who is not breathing normally
- Recognise and assist a casualty who is chocking
- Manage a casualty with external bleeding
- Manage a casualty who is in shock
- Manage a casualty with a minor injury
Floral Art SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Work safely when constructing floral designs.
- Develop ideas for creative floral designs.
- Experiment with creative floral design ideas.
- Plan for implantation of own floral design.
- Use materials and equipment within given floral designs.
- Use techniques to create a floral design.
- Review own work.
Funding Strategies and Bid-WritingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by a funding strategy.
- Know the key elements of a funding strategy.
- Know the elements present in a good funding application.
- Apply funding strategies.
Garment Construction SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Make informed decisions when constructing garments.
- Estimate cost of garment to be constructed.
- Produce samples of construction techniques for chosen design.
- Take body measurements and adjust pattern to fit.
- Plan and cut pattern pieces from fabric correctly.
- Construct a well-finished garment.
- Review own work.
Garment Construction: Detail TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Produce decorative seams.
- Produce different types of buttonhole.
- Provide a variety of pleats.
- Use bias or binding.
- Organise samples.
- Produce a fabric swatch reference book.
- Understand health and safety requirements in the work place.
HedgelayingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the health and safety issues in relation to hedge-laying.
- Know a range of hand tools used for hedge-laying and how to care for them.
- Know about the methodology of hedge-laying.
- Lay a hedge.
- Understand the importance of maintaining laid hedges.
- Know how the characteristics of hedge-laying reflect geology.
Identify and Report the Presence of Pests, Diseases and DisorderReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and report the presence of pests, diseases and disorders.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
- Identify and report the presence of pests, diseases and disorders.
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Identifying and using grains, pulses and dairy produce in cookingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nutritive value of grains, pulses and dairy products.
- Recognise different types of pulses and grains.
- Use different types of grains, pulses, and dairy foods.
- Understand principles of health and safety.
Improve Own Performance in a Business EnvironmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to improve own performance.
- Improve own performance using feedback.
- Agree own development needs using a learning plan.
Introduction to Duty of Care in Health, Social Care or Children’s and Young People’s SettingsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of duty of care.
- Understand support available for addressing dilemmas that may arise about the duty of care.
- Respond to complaints.
Introduction to Land Based IndustriesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand land-based industries.
- Know about different types of career opportunities and training available in land-based industries.
- Demonstrate and review an appropriate skill in land-based industries.
Introduction to MentoringReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by ‘mentoring’.
- Understand the need to respect individuality and difference within the mentoring relationship.
Introduction to RetailReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the retail sector.
- Know about different types of career opportunities in the retail sector.
- Demonstrate an appropriate skill in the retail sector.
Jewellery MakingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and apply safe working practices.
- Use essential tools and equipment in jewellery making.
- Know the materials required for simple jewellery making.
- Use basic techniques for making jewellery.
- Develop a design for making a piece of jewellery using own ideas.
- Translate design into making a piece of jewellery.
Lathe TurningReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about lathe tools.
- Care for lathe tools.
- Care for lathe tools.
- Use lathe tools to create engineering items.
- Work safely with lathe tools.
- Review own work.
Leadership SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key characteristics of an effective leader.
- Understand the skills involved in being an effective leader.
- Understand the relationship between leader and team member.
- Lead a team.
LeatherworkReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use a range of tools and materials for simple leather work.
- Shape leather.
- Carry out leatherwork processes.
- Work safely.
Life DrawingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the use of proportion when life drawing.
- Use proportion when drawing from a life model.
- Recognise characteristics of line and tone.
- Understand the importance of keeping a personal sketchbook.
- Use different media when drawing from life.
- Follow guidelines for life drawing.
- Review own work.
Life Processes and Living ThingsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of biological science.
- Know about animal, plant and bacterial cells.
- Understand inheritance.
- Understand how organisms interact with the environment and each other.
- Understand the structure and function of a key plant system.
- Understand the structure and function of a key animal system.
Maintain Moisture Levels for Crops or PlantsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know why it is important to maintain moisture for crops and plants.
- Know the types of equipment required for maintaining moisture levels to crops or plants and how to maintain them.
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Select, use and maintain equipment.
- Maintain moisture levels for crops and plants.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
Maintaining Sexual HealthReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about common Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs)
- Know what individuals can do to reduce the risk of transmitting or contracting STIs
- Know about the issues surrounding disclosure of HIV status
MarketingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of marketing.
- Understand the processes involved in product development and the role of market research in informing these processes.
- Understand the role and components of the marketing mix.
- Manage and implement marketing strategies effectively.
Marketing ResearchReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of marketing research in organisations, including its purpose and benefits
- Use marketing research tools and techniques to gather relevant data
- Use methods of primary research, such as surveys, interviews, and focus groups
- Use techniques for analysing marketing research information to identify trends and insights
- Present marketing research information in a clear and concise manner, using appropriate visual aids
Mask MakingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the processes for preparing plaster.
- Follow processes to prepare plaster.
- Make a solid plaster face-cast.
- Know techniques used to sculpt a mask design.
- Sculpt a mask design.
- Know the papier-mâché process in mask making.
- Use the papier-mâché process in mask making.
- Follow health and safety procedures when making masks.
Materials ExplorationReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Manipulate media and materials.
- Collate and document research in materials for craft.
- Experiment with techniques and materials to develop craft ideas.
- Understand current trends in use of materials for craft.
- Understand Health and Safety procedures and safe workroom practice.
Mentoring SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the stages of the ‘mentoring’ relationship.
- Understand a range of techniques to make mentees feel comfortable and at ease.
- Use communication skills.
- Understand the boundaries of a mentoring relationship.
- Understand when and to whom referrals should be made.
Painting Methods - Mixed MediaReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use mixed media methods.
- Use mixed-media materials, techniques and methods.
- Use supporting research and notation.
- Produce work, which shows choice of form and content.
- Follow Health and Safety procedures and safe studio practice.
Painting Methods - Pictorial LanguageReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand, in visual, pictorial and technical terms, approaches to pictorial language.
- Demonstrate the value of sketchbook methodology for selecting, collecting and using information.
- Produce work which shows choice of form and content.
- Follow Health & Safety procedures and safe studio practice.
Pattern Cutting: Garment Modelling and FittingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Model garment parts.
- Understand standard figure sizes.
- Fit and shape a garment for the front and back of the body.
Pattern Cutting: Pattern Construction BlocksReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Create fashion blocks.
- Adapt a fashion block to produce a dress block.
Pattern Cutting: Pattern DesignReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Create dress patterns.
- Adapt dress patterns.
- Create a pattern and toile for a dress.
- Produce a lay plan.
Personal Learning SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know how learning takes place.
- Know about own learning profile.
- Manage own learning.
- Review own learning management.
Photography - Using A TripodReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a tripod with a camera.
- Use a tripod with a camera.
- Understand relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures.
Photography - Using a Camera and AccessoriesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use a camera and relevant accessories to create images.
- Frame an image.
- Select and transfer images from camera for printing.
- Follow relevant Health and Safety issues and procedures.
Photography: A Creative Approach to Picture MakingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and respond to a photographic assignment.
- Know the value of research for selecting, collecting and using information to influence picture making.
- Apply a negotiated approach to a picture making assignment.
- Put together images for presentation.
- Follow Health and Safety procedures and safe studio practice.
Plant Nomenclature, Terminology and IdentificationReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the terminology used in naming plants.
- Understand how the parts of plants can aid identification.
- Identify and name plants using botanical names.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
Practical Floristry SkillsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about the range of design features for a specified project.
- Make informed design decisions.
- Prepare for the construction process.
- Produce a floral arrangement.
- Review own work.
Practical Skills for Dry Stone WallingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Dismantle a dry stone wall.
- Lay foundations for a dry stone wall.
- Construct a dry stone wall.
Prepare and Cultivate Sites Ready for Planting CropsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain equipment and tools for preparing sites.
- Prepare sites for cultivation and planting.
- Carry out site cultivations.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
- Know the types of equipment required for preparing sites for cultivation and planting crops.
- Know the methods for preparing sites ready for cultivation.
- Understand how to cultivate sites.
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Preparing Ground for Seeding and PlantingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain equipment.
- Prepare ground for seeding and planting.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
- Prepare the ground for seeding and planting.
- Know the types of hazards that may be found when preparing the ground for seeding and planting.
- Know the types of weeds that may be found when preparing the ground for seeding and planting.
- Know the types of equipment and materials required and how to maintain them.
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice when working on the ground.
Principles of Communication in Adult Social Care SettingsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why communication is important in adult social care settings.
- Understand how to meet the communication and language needs, wishes and preferences of an individual.
- Understand how to reduce barriers to communication.
- Understand confidentiality in adult social care settings.
Principles of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in Adult Social Care SettingsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of diversity, equality and inclusion.
- Work in an inclusive way.
- Access information, advice and support about diversity, equality, inclusion and discrimination.
Principles of Ecology and ConservationReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the interaction of plants and animals in a given eco-system.
- Understand plant structures and their purpose.
- Understand the basic principles of species evolution.
- Understand eco-system development.
- Understand the need for plant and animal conservation.
Principles of Safeguarding and Protection in Health and Social CareReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise signs of abuse.
- Respond to suspected or alleged abuse.
- Understand the national and local context of safeguarding and protection from abuse.
- Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of abuse.
- Recognise and report unsafe practices.
Produce Craft WorkReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the production of craft work.
- Produce craft work.
- Evaluate the creative and craft making processes.
Propagate Plants from SeedReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain relevant equipment when propagating plants from seeds.
- Prepare materials and sow seed.
- Provide aftercare for seedlings.
- Maintain accurate records.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
- Prepare materials and sow seeds.
- Provide aftercare for seedlings.
- Know relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Maintain accurate records.
Provide Nutrients to Crops or PlantsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Apply nutrients and how nutrient requirements vary.
- Know the types of equipment required when providing nutrients and how to maintain them.
- Know the current health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
- Provide nutrients to plants or crops.
- Work safely and minimise environmental damage.
- Select, use and maintain equipment when providing nutrients to crops or plants.
Recognising Prejudice and DiscriminationReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how stereotyping people can lead to prejudice and discrimination.
- Understand the impact of discriminatory behaviour on individuals and the workplace.
Role of a SecretaryReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of Secretary to an organisation.
- Understand the importance of Secretary to an organisation.
- Understand skills required to be Secretary to an organisation.
Role of a TreasurerReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the functions of Treasurer to an organisation.
- Understand the roles and responsibilities of Treasurer to an organisation.
- Understand the importance of Treasurer to an organisation.
- Understand skills required to be Treasurer to an organisation.
Running a Community EventReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand types of events that could be run in own organisation.
- Understand tasks involved in running a community event.
- Understand skills required to organise a community event.
SculptureReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know physical properties and characteristics of sculptural materials.
- Plan a sculpture.
- Know tools and techniques for sculpture.
- Use tools and techniques for sculpture.
- Work safely in sculpture.
- Review own work.
Select and Prepare Interior Plant DisplaysReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Select, use and maintain equipment for establishing interior plant displays.
- Establish interior plant displays.
- Work safely, minimising environmental damage.
- Prepare for interior plant displays.
- Set up interior plant displays.
- Know the types of equipment required and how to maintain them.
- Know the relevant health and safety legislation and environmental good practice.
Sharpening and Maintenance of Edged Hand ToolsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know the structure and function of a range of edged hand tools.
- Know the reasons for sharpening and maintaining tools.
- Know a range of sharpening devices.
- Sharpen a range of edged tools.
- Repair a range of edged tools.
- Undertake tool maintenance.
- Carry out a risk assessment for sharpening an edged tool.
Single Entry BookkeepingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of bookkeeping in supporting financial management.
- Understand the principles of coding for bookkeeping.
- Understand the principles of single entry bookkeeping.
- Understand own bookkeeping needs and areas for development.
Soft Furnishing: Cushion MakingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Design a cushion cover.
- Make closures that can be used for cushion covers.
- Calculate measurements for interior cushion pads.
- Produce a cushion cover.
Soft Furnishings for Interior DesignReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know why the purpose for which a fabric is used, influences choice.
- Know about fabric fire retardant treatments.
- Understand the impact of soft furnishings on perception of room proportions.
- Source suppliers and makers of soft-furnishings.
- Understand how to fit curtains.
- Calculate the amount of fabric needed to make curtains.
Stained GlassReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Develop creative ideas for a stained glass panel.
- Design a stained glass panel.
- Translate a design into a stained glass panel.
- Know tools and equipment for stained glass making.
- Follow health and safety procedures for stained glass making.
- Select materials for stained glass production.
- Use techniques in assembling stained glass panels.
- Review own work.
Stress and Stress Management TechniquesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the term stress.
- Recognise signs and symptoms of stress.
- Understand how stress affects health.
- Know about potential causes of stress in everyday life.
- Design a personal plan to manage stress.
Tailored Garment ConstructionReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for tailored garment construction.
- Prepare pattern for cutting.
- Prepare and cut fabric.
- Produce tailored trousers.
- Apply finishing techniques to trousers.
- Review own work.
- Know about health and safety in garment construction.
Textile Techniques and ProcessesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Document material to support textile design and production.
- Produce experimental samples of textile design.
- Understand different ways to solve problems with textiles.
- Follow Health and Safety procedures.
The Economic EnvironmentReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand market forces.
- Understand the concept of elasticity.
- Understand the role of the government in the macro economy.
The Role of the Health and Social Care WorkerReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand working relationships in health and social care.
- Work in ways that are agreed with the employer.
- Work in partnership with others.
Toy MakingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Make toys safely.
- Record development of ideas for making toys.
- Plan for toy making.
- Use materials and equipment for toy making.
- Use toy making techniques.
- Reflect on own work.
Tractor DrivingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to operate a tractor safely.
- Know the controls and instruments relating to the equipment being used.
- Know the daily checks that should be carried out to maintain a tractor.
- Drive a tractor safely and appropriately.
- Know the elements that impact upon an effective field operation.
- Know how the shape and type of fields affect tractor operations.
Understand Health and Safety in Social Care SettingsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different responsibilities relating to health and safety in social care settings.
- Understand the use of risk assessments in relation to health and safety.
- Understand procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness.
- Reduce the spread of infection.
- Move and handle equipment and other objects safely.
- Understand the principles of assisting and moving an individual.
- Handle hazardous substances.
- Know environmental safety procedures in a social care setting.
- Manage stress.
- Understand procedures regarding handling medica
Understand Person-Centred Approaches in Adult Social Care SettingsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand person-centred approaches for care and support.
- Understand how to implement a person-centred approach in an adult social care setting.
- Understand the importance of establishing consent when providing care or support.
- Understand how to encourage active participation in a social care setting.
- Understand how to support an individual’s right to make choices.
- Understand how to promote an individual’s well-being.
Understanding How to Protect CropsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the need for protective structures for crops.
- Understand the design and construction of protective structures for crops.
- Understand the uses of a range of equipment to protect crops.
- Understand a variety of methods for manipulating the environment in a protective structure when protecting crops.
- Propagate and cultivate a range of ornamental and productive plants within a protective cropping environment.
- Understand how to prevent and treat a range of plant problems occurring within a protective cropping environment.
Understanding How to Select PlantsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand plant categories and their uses.
- Understand the importance of appropriate plant selection.
- Select plants to produce particular effects.
- Select plants for a specified location.
Understanding MentoringReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by “mentoring”.
- Understand individual requirements of a mentor.
- Understand the need to respect individuality and difference within the mentoring relationship.
Understanding Techniques Used in FloristryReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about relevant tools and equipment.
- Know about relevant plant material.
- Understand conditioning techniques.
- Understand preservation techniques.
- Know about basic design principles.
- Know about construction techniques.
Understanding the Construction of Water GardensReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the value of water as a garden feature.
- Understand the factors to be considered in siting and constructing a pool.
- Construct a pond.
- Select water plants for a pool.
- Site water plants.
- Plan for the maintenance of a water garden.
Understanding the Language and Communication Development of ChildrenReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sequence of development of language and communication in children.
- Understand the needs and requirements of young children with respect to developing language and communication skills.
- Understand the role of the childcare worker and other professionals in promoting language skills.
- Understand the reasons for children’s language delay and communication difficulties.
- Understand links between language and communication skills and the development of reading and writing.
Urban, Street or Graffiti Art PracticeReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of urban, street or graffiti art practice on a community of interest or local community.
- Generate ideas for site-specific art works.
- Plan for and create site-specific art works.
- Understand issues for the community of interest or local community, in designing and placing site-specific art works.
- Reflect on own art work produced.
- Use Health and Safety procedures for self and general public.
Using Computers in the ArtsReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use computers, software and peripheral systems in the arts.
- Know about computer input and output devices, their characteristics and applications and their relationship to software performance.
- Follow the protocols of shared use of the computer and peripherals.
- Understand the characteristics of a range of software packages used in the arts.
- Use a range of software packages used in the arts.
- Follow Health and Safety procedures when working with computers.
Welcome, Receive and care for Visitors to SitesReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Welcome and receive visitors.
- Care for visitors.
- Welcome and receive visitors.
- Care for visitors.
- Know the relevant health and safety procedures.
WeldingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Know about welding process.
- Care for welding tools.
- Care for welding tools.
- Create engineering items be welding.
- Work safely with welding tools.
- Review own work.
Work ExperienceReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure and purpose of an organisation.
- Understand own work placement role within an organisation.
- Understand the reasons for dress conventions in a workplace.
- Maintain acceptable conventions for behaviour in the workplace.
- Comply with safe working practices in the work environment.
- Carry out tasks during work placement using appropriate work related skills.
WritingReal unit · AIM Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Use appropriate language in response to purpose and audience.
- Organise writing through structure and formatting.
- Plan and draft writing.
- Proof read and revise text.
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.
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.
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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.
- Analyse Marketing Research Data
- Analyse, interpret and synthesise data and research findings to inform social marketing strategies
- Collect and analyse marketing research data
- Collect data on the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of target groups
- Interpret and present marketing research findings
- Receive visitors in health and social care settings
- Secure funding and resources
- Sharpen and Maintain Edged Hand Tools Legacy
Where this can lead
Marketing Research Manager
Your journey here is really what you make of it. We're committed to giving you the tools, opportunities, and support to grow, whether that's becoming a deep technical expert, a strategic advisor, or a leader of people. We'll have regular chats about your career aspirations and help you chart a path that excites you.
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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 work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for AIM Qualifications Level 2 Award in Employability and Development Skills
108 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by AIM Qualifications.
- Apply Paint by Brush and Roller
- Balloon Decorations for Parties and Themes
- Building Working Relationships with Colleagues
- Building a Personal Career Portfolio
- Candle Making
- Carry out Practical Operations in Wallpapering
and 102 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.