How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Gateway Qualifications Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Gateway Qualifications Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Gateway Qualifications Limited.
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These are the units Gateway Qualifications Limited 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 Gateway Qualifications Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. Gateway Qualifications Limited sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Applying for Jobs Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to complete a job application form accurately.
- Show competence in presenting oneself appropriately for a job interview.
- Understand the importance of providing truthful information when applying for a job.
Applying for a Job Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a job application that meets employer requirements
- Prepare a CV that accurately reflects skills and experience
Career Planning Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Find out about different career options available
- Assess career options based on personal skills and interests
- Plan goals for a future career path
Communication skills for work Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Use written communication methods effectively in a work context.
- Use oral communication methods effectively in a work context.
Completing a workplace task Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm the requirements of a given workplace task
- Complete a workplace task according to the specified requirements
- Review the completed workplace task, identifying areas for improvement
Conduct and personal presentation for work Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Present self appropriately in a work setting, demonstrating professional behaviour.
- Conduct self appropriately in a work setting, adhering to workplace expectations.
Conduct at Work Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct yourself appropriately in a work setting, demonstrating professional behaviour.
- Review and evaluate your own conduct in a work setting, identifying areas for improvement.
Contributing to workplace tasks Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Engage actively and appropriately in workplace activities and tasks
Dealing with work-related problems Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate clearly and effectively about a work-related problem to relevant individuals.
- Seek and obtain appropriate help and support in resolving work-related problems.
- Identify a range of possible solutions to address a specific work-related problem.
- Select the most appropriate solution to a work-related problem, based on a considered evaluation of available options.
Digital skills for work Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Utilise digital skills to locate and manage work-related information effectively.
- Create new digital content and edit existing digital content for specific work-related purposes.
- Use digital skills to communicate effectively with colleagues and other stakeholders in a work context.
- Work online and use digital devices safely, securely and responsibly, adhering to organisational policies and procedures in a work context.
- Identify and respond appropriately to common technical problems encountered when using digital devices and online systems.
Direct own support in the workplace Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and describe own support needs in the workplace.
- Request appropriate support from relevant individuals in the workplace.
- Give clear and concise instructions to individuals providing support in the workplace.
- Make effective use of the support provided in the workplace to complete tasks.
- Request adjustments to the support provided based on changing needs or circumstances.
Exploring Entrepreneurship Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the key characteristics and qualities that contribute to the success of an entrepreneur.
- Recognise the factors that contribute to a successful entrepreneurial venture.
- Evaluate your own skills, qualities, and experience to determine your suitability for enterprise.
- Assess your own strengths and weaknesses in relation to the demands of starting and running a business.
Exploring and presenting enterprise ideas Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Discuss ideas for an enterprise activity, considering their feasibility and potential benefits.
- Select an enterprise idea based on its potential for success and alignment with personal interests.
- Present an idea for an enterprise activity to others, clearly communicating its purpose, benefits, and potential challenges.
Exploring the World of Work Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Describe aspects of working life, including expectations and responsibilities
- Identify different areas of work and associated roles
Finding jobs Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify various sources of information about available job opportunities.
- Demonstrate the ability to search for job vacancies using different methods.
- Recognise the key requirements and responsibilities of different job roles.
- Assess personal skills and interests to determine suitable job options.
Following Instructions Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate the ability to follow instructions accurately
Health and safety in the workplace Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify roles and responsibilities related to health and safety within the workplace
- Recognise common workplace hazards
- Apply methods to control risks associated with identified workplace hazards
- Describe the procedures for responding to accidents in the workplace
- Describe the procedures for responding to incidents in the workplace
Independent Travel Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan a journey using available resources and information
- Travel safely, adhering to relevant safety guidelines and procedures
- Know what to do when a journey does not go according to plan, including seeking assistance and adapting to changes
Interview skills Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare effectively for an interview by researching the organisation and the role.
- Identify appropriate questions to ask the interviewer.
- Plan the logistics of attending the interview, including travel arrangements and timings.
- Plan how to present yourself professionally and appropriately at the interview.
- Present yourself positively and confidently during the interview.
- Communicate your skills, experience, and suitability for the role effectively.
- Review your performance in the interview, identifying areas of strength and areas for improvement.
- Reflect on the feedback received and use it to enhance future interview performance.
Introduction to self-employment Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the key aspects of self-employment
- Plan for self-employment effectively
- Manage income and expenditure in self-employment
Making choices Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the options available to them in a given situation
- Seek support from appropriate sources to help them make a choice
- Take relevant factors into account when making choices, such as personal preferences and potential consequences
- Select the most appropriate option based on their assessment of the available choices
- Recognise the consequences of their choices, both positive and negative
Making the most of work placement Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for a work placement by understanding the organisation, role, and expectations.
- Identify any necessary equipment or resources required for the placement.
- Set specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals for the work placement.
- Monitor progress towards achieving the set goals throughout the placement.
- Review the work placement experience, evaluating the achievement of set goals.
- Reflect on the skills and knowledge gained during the placement and identify areas for further development.
Negotiation Skills Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Communicate your own wants, needs, and views clearly and respectfully to others during a negotiation.
- Express your position confidently and assertively.
- Respond appropriately to the objections or queries raised by others during a negotiation.
- Address concerns and provide reasoned explanations for your position.
- Discuss the wants, needs, and views of others involved in the negotiation process.
- Listen actively and empathetically to understand different perspectives.
- Suggest potential ways forward at the end of a negotiation process, aiming for a mutually acceptable outcome.
- Propose compromises and solutions that address the needs of all parties involved.
Numeracy skills for work Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Select appropriate numeracy skills relevant to a specific task or situation in a work context.
- Identify the required calculations or measurements needed.
- Apply appropriate numeracy skills accurately and efficiently in a work context.
- Perform calculations, measurements, or data analysis using relevant techniques.
- Use the results obtained from applying numeracy skills to inform decision-making in a work context.
- Interpret and present numerical data effectively to colleagues or clients.
Presenting information about self to an employer Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Present information about oneself effectively and appropriately to a potential employer.
Reviewing and reflecting on own progress towards employment Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Review own progress towards pre-defined employment goals
- Respond positively to feedback received from others regarding progress towards employment
- Identify realistic next steps towards achieving own employment goals
Searching for a Job Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and explore various job vacancy sources
- Utilise different methods to find out about job vacancies
- Take a proactive approach to job searching, including networking and direct applications
Setting Work-related targets Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Participate actively in the process of setting work-related targets
- Identify and understand their own specific work-related targets
Setting and Meeting Work-Related Targets Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Set a personal target relating to work, ensuring it is specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART)
- Monitor and review progress towards a personal target, identifying any challenges and adjustments needed
Solving work-related problems Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Select appropriate solutions to a defined work-related problem or issue, justifying the choice based on relevant criteria.
- Apply a chosen strategy to address a work-related problem or issue, monitoring progress and making adjustments as necessary.
Understanding the world of work Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the benefits of working, including personal and financial advantages.
- Identify different ways of working, such as full-time, part-time, and self-employment.
- Identify different areas of work and sectors of employment.
- Identify and utilise sources of information, advice, and guidance about work opportunities and career paths.
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The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 32 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
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This work can lead to a Senior Health and Safety Advisor role, then on to Health and Safety Manager.
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The credits, and who awards them
Entry Level credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Gateway Qualifications Limited 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
Applying for JobsApplying for a JobCareer PlanningCommunication skills for workCompleting a workplace taskConduct and personal presentation for workConduct at WorkContributing to workplace tasks
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 Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Interview skills” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Pitch it Evaluate
“Exploring Entrepreneurship” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Career Planning” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
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 Applying for Jobs, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop skills to complete job application forms accurately, provide clear information, avoid errors, and demonstrate appropriate body language and eye contact during interviews.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Gateway Qualifications Entry level Certificate in Preparation for Employment (Entry 3)
31 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Gateway Qualifications Limited.
- Applying for Jobs
- Applying for a Job
- Career Planning
- Communication skills for work
- Completing a workplace task
- Conduct and personal presentation for work
and 25 more in the full unit list below.
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