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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 Gateway Qualifications Limited 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 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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01What it is

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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.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Customer service skills Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll understand the principles of good customer service and develop skills to provide effective service. This includes greeting customers professionally, responding to enquiries, resolving complaints, and maintaining service standards.

What you'll be able to do

  • Describe the principles of good customer service
  • Demonstrate the ability to provide effective customer service to customers
  • Perform customer service tasks in a professional manner
Digital Marketing Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit introduces learners to the principles and components of digital marketing, including social media, email campaigns, and online advertisements. You'll develop practical skills to plan and implement digital marketing strategies to promote products effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Recognise and describe the core principles of digital marketing
  • Identify and explain the key aspects of digital marketing via social media platforms
  • Identify and explain the key aspects of digital marketing via email campaigns
  • Identify and explain the key aspects of digital marketing via online advertisements
  • Market a product digitally, utilising appropriate channels and techniques to reach the target audience
Improving Sustainability in the Workplace Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll explore how to identify areas within a business requiring sustainability improvements and select appropriate processes, practices, and resources. The unit also covers developing and presenting a project plan to support sustainable business improvements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify an area of a business that requires improvement in terms of sustainability, justifying your choice with relevant evidence.
  • Identify processes, practices, or resources that can support improvement in terms of sustainability within the chosen area.
  • Develop and present a project plan to support improvement in terms of sustainability, including clear objectives, timelines, and resource allocation.
Introduction to Self-Employment Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit introduces learners to self-employment by exploring opportunities within a sector, understanding income and expenditure principles, and considering key factors for planning self-employment ventures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify and describe self-employment opportunities within a given sector, considering market trends and potential demand
  • Understand the principles of income and expenditure in self-employment, including budgeting and financial management
  • Understand the key considerations when planning for self-employment, including legal requirements, insurance and marketing strategies
Personal Budgeting and Managing Money Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit provides learners with an understanding of personal budgeting concepts, including income, expenditure, and managing a limited budget. You'll gain skills to undertake financial transactions and interpret key financial information on everyday documents.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the meaning of income and expenditure in personal budgeting
  • Understand different ways to deal with living on a limited budget
  • Undertake common financial transactions, such as paying bills and using a bank account
  • Understand key financial information presented on everyday documents, such as bank statements and utility bills
  • Understand what saving means and the different methods available
  • Understand how to create and use a simple budget plan
Understanding social media for business Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll gain knowledge of social media channels available for business use, their features, and how businesses utilise these platforms for marketing, customer service, and brand awareness. The unit also covers recognising potential risks associated with social media use.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify the social media channels available for business use
  • Describe how businesses use social media
  • Identify the risks for businesses when using social media
Using social media for business Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
This unit equips learners with the ability to set up and maintain social media accounts for business purposes. You'll learn to create engaging content, engage with audiences, and implement strategies to grow a business's social media presence.

What you'll be able to do

  • Recognise how a business can utilise social media platforms to engage with its target audience
  • Set up social media accounts for business use, ensuring they are properly configured and maintained
  • Create engaging and relevant content for publication on social media platforms, tailored for business purposes
  • Implement strategies to grow the business's social media presence and engagement
Website Design Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
You'll study the uses and features of websites and develop skills to design, create, test, and review websites tailored to specific audiences and purposes. The unit emphasises user experience and functional website development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the various uses and features of websites
  • Design a website suitable for a specific audience and purpose
  • Create a functional website
  • Test and review a website to ensure it meets requirements
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03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Maintain and promote brand’s online presence

    Standard
04Where it leads

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.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 9 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

Digital Marketing Coordinator

This role can lead to specialist digital marketing work, a strategist role shaping campaigns, or a management role overseeing a team and budget.

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05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 1 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

Customer service skillsDigital MarketingImproving Sustainability in the WorkplaceIntroduction to Self-EmploymentPersonal Budgeting and Managing MoneyUnderstanding social media for businessUsing social media for businessWebsite Design

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 The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Make the case from “Digital Marketing” to me in thirty seconds. I am the person who signs it off and I am already late.
You It would improve engagement and bring us in line with best practice.
The Coach Neither of those costs me anything to say no to. Open with the number that changes if I do nothing.
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.
  • Pitch it Evaluate

    “Digital Marketing” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.

  • Draft the real one Create

    You do “Personal Budgeting and Managing Money” 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.

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 Customer service skills, one of this qualification's own units.

Customer service skills Level 1

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Which job do you mean?
Digital Marketing CoordinatorDigital Marketing AssociateGlobal Digital Marketing CoordinatorJunior Digital Marketing AssistantAssociate Digital Marketing CoordinatorAssociate Marketplace Coordinator

Learners will understand the principles of good customer service and develop skills to provide effective service. This includes greeting customers professionally, responding to enquiries, resolving complaints, and maintaining service standards.

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.

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Your Plan Illustration

Built for Gateway Qualifications Level 1 Award in Preparing for Self-Employment

8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Gateway Qualifications Limited.

  1. Customer service skills
  2. Digital Marketing
  3. Improving Sustainability in the Workplace
  4. Introduction to Self-Employment
  5. Personal Budgeting and Managing Money
  6. Understanding social media for business

and 2 more in the full unit list below.

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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