ETC Awards Limited · RQF Level 1
ETCAL Level 1 Certificate in Securing Progression
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 1
- Total credits15
- Guided learning130 hours
- Units in this qualification12
Awarded by ETC Awards Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The Level 1 certificate supports learners in securing progression. It includes units on CV production, problem solving, and time management. Learners will develop skills in applying for opportunities and identifying suitable options for their career development.
These are the units ETC Awards 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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Applying for OpportunitiesReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the type of information usually requested in job applications, such as personal details, qualifications, and experience.
- Understand how to complete a straightforward job application form accurately and write an accompanying covering letter that highlights relevant skills and experience.
- Identify and select alternative routes to direct applications, including online job boards and recruitment agencies.
- Apply for opportunities online, following the correct procedures and submitting all required information.
Career Progression OpportunitiesReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the ways available to progress careers.
- Carry out self-assessment for a different type of career pathway.
- Successfully research for a chosen career pathway.
- Make a S.M.A.R.T plan for career progression in a chosen pathway.
Health & SafetyReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the responsibilities of employers for health and safety at work.
- Understand the responsibilities of employees for health and safety at work.
- Understand the causes of accidents at work, including common hazards and risks.
- Identify personal protective equipment (PPE) required to complete a task in the workplace safely.
- Select personal protective equipment (PPE) required to complete a task in the workplace safely.
- Know the importance of working safely at height in the workplace, including the risks and control measures.
- Know the principles of risk assessment and their importance to health and safety at work.
- Understand causes of fire in the workplace.
- Understand when fire extinguishers should be used in the workplace.
- Know the potential risks to health of substances in the working environment, including COSHH regulations.
Identify Suitable OpportunitiesReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know how self-assessment can improve the identification of sought after opportunities.
- Set goals to develop own strengths, skills and qualities for any opportunities.
- Understand where to search for opportunities.
- Understand how to search for opportunities.
- Develop transferable skills needed for any opportunity.
- Develop qualities needed for any opportunity.
- Understand how own experiences affect opportunity choices.
- Understand how own influences affect opportunity choices.
Managing Own FinancesReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Plan personal finances
- Know what is involved and how to save money
- Understand what is involved in borrowing money
Participation Personal Behaviours and StandardsReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the behaviours required for participation.
- Understand the attitudes required for participation.
- Understand the attributes required for participation.
- Understand the emotional impact of self and others.
- Understand the behavioural impact of self and others.
- Recognise areas for personal development.
- Contribute towards team working.
- Contribute towards creating a positive working environment.
- Contribute towards delivering common goals.
Problem SolvingReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify problems
- Understand the impact problems can cause
- Understand why these problems may have occurred
- Understand the benefits of solving problems in a structured way
- Demonstrate the skills required to work with others to solve problems
- Review proposed solutions to problems in a structured way
Produce a CVReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the type of information usually included in a CV, such as personal details, education, work experience, and skills.
- Understand the importance of providing references and how to obtain them.
- Produce a CV that is clear, concise, and tailored to the specific job requirements.
- Understand feedback on a CV and identify areas for improvement.
- Update a CV to meet specific job requirements, ensuring it is relevant and up-to-date.
Succeed at an InterviewReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for an interview by researching the company, understanding the job requirements, and preparing answers to common interview questions.
- Conduct themselves in an appropriate manner during an interview, demonstrating professionalism, confidence, and effective communication skills.
- Review their interview performance, identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
- Evaluate an opportunity before making an informed decision, considering factors such as salary, benefits, and career progression.
Team WorkingReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of working in a team to complete a task successfully.
- Understand the challenges of working in a team to complete a task successfully.
- Understand the need for a team to work to an agreed code of conduct before a task.
- Understand the need for a team to work to agreed rules before a task.
- Understand the need for a team to work to an agreed code of conduct during a task.
- Understand the need for a team to work to agreed rules during a task.
- Recognise different strengths that different people would bring to the team.
- Recognise different skills that different people would bring to the team.
- Recognise different experiences that different people would bring to the team.
- Allocate roles within the team in relation to a given task.
- Allocate responsibilities within the team in relation to a given task.
- Work positively as a member of the team.
- Reflect on the performance of a team.
Time Management and WorkloadReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Manage their own workload more effectively.
- Manage their own time more effectively.
- Manage their own workload more effectively.
- Manage their own time more effectively.
Transferable Skills and QualitiesReal unit · ETC Awards Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to recognise their own qualities and skills that can be transferred into a working environment
- Assess opportunities that can help develop transferable qualities and skills needed for a working environment
- Demonstrate how own transferable qualities and skills can be used when applying for jobs
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 1 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
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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 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.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit enables learners to identify the information required for job applications, complete application forms accurately, write covering letters, and explore alternative online application routes. Learners will develop practical skills for applying effectively for employment opportunities.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ETCAL Level 1 Certificate in Securing Progression
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ETC Awards Limited.
- Applying for Opportunities
- Career Progression Opportunities
- Health & Safety
- Identify Suitable Opportunities
- Managing Own Finances
- Participation Personal Behaviours and Standards
and 6 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.
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