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How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer OCN London has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and OCN London awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from OCN London.

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01What it is

The OCNLR Level 1 Award in Skills for Professions in Business, Administration and Finance is designed to provide essential skills and vocational knowledge for progression within business, administration, and finance.

These are the units OCN London 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with OCN London. It does the teaching and the mapping. OCN London sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Business Numeracy Real unit · OCN London
This unit covers essential numeracy skills needed in the business environment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Apply basic numeracy skills in business contexts.
Creating Business Documents Real unit · OCN London
You'll learn how to create various business documents accurately and effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Produce different types of business documents.
Data Handling for Business Real unit · OCN London
This unit teaches learners the skills required for effective data management in business.

What you'll be able to do

  • Interpret and utilise data for business decisions.
Introduction to Study Skills Real unit · OCN London
This unit provides learners with essential study skills that are necessary for effective learning.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of study skills.
  • Develop skills in time management.
Time Management Skills Real unit · OCN London
This unit focuses on developing effective time management skills to enhance personal productivity.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate techniques for effective time management.
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03The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 1 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by OCN London rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Business NumeracyCreating Business DocumentsData Handling for BusinessIntroduction to Study SkillsTime Management Skills

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Practical Builder The Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration
The Practical Builder Paste in the draft you have for “Creating Business Documents”. Not a tidied one, the one you would actually send.
You It is mostly there. The recommendations section is thin.
The Practical Builder Thin is fine, vague is not. Take recommendation two and tell me who does what by when, then we will see if it survives.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Draft the real one Create

    You do “Creating Business Documents” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.

  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Data Handling for Business” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Time Management Skills” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Business Numeracy, one of this qualification's own units.

Business Numeracy Level 1

Applied to your own work

This unit covers essential numeracy skills needed in the business environment.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 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.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for OCN London Level 1 Award in Business Skills

5 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by OCN London.

  1. Business Numeracy
  2. Creating Business Documents
  3. Data Handling for Business
  4. Introduction to Study Skills
  5. Time Management Skills
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.

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The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.