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, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
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.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Business Project Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a suitable business project, considering its feasibility and alignment with organisational objectives
- Select a specific business project based on identified criteria and available resources
- Conduct thorough research relevant to the chosen business project, utilising appropriate sources and methodologies
- Gather and analyse data to inform the project's development and implementation
- Undertake practical activities to progress and complete the business project, adhering to agreed timelines and specifications
- Manage resources effectively throughout the project lifecycle
- Present the completed business project in a clear and professional manner, using appropriate communication methods
- Communicate project findings and recommendations to relevant stakeholders
- Evaluate the outcomes of the business project against pre-defined objectives and success criteria
- Assess own performance throughout the project, identifying areas for improvement and future development
Creating Business Web-pages Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know the key considerations when creating a website for business purposes
- Understand the terminology commonly used in website development
- Create web pages or a complete website for a business
- Evaluate the website creation process and the final outcome against set criteria
Customer service skills Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of good customer service
- Communicate effectively with customers
- Perform a range of customer service tasks
Digital Marketing Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Describe a range of digital marketing approaches used in different sectors, including social media marketing, search engine optimisation (SEO), and email marketing
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of different digital marketing approaches
- Analyse examples of successful and unsuccessful digital marketing campaigns
- Understand the key components of effective digital marketing campaigns, including target audience, messaging, and channels
- Explain how to measure the success of a digital marketing campaign using key performance indicators (KPIs)
- Create a detailed proposal for a digital marketing campaign to promote a given company, product, or service to a specific audience
- Justify the choice of digital marketing approaches and channels in the proposal
- Outline the budget and timeline for the proposed digital marketing campaign
Improving Sustainability in the Workplace Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify an area of a business that requires improvement in terms of its sustainability practices.
- Identify specific processes, working practices or resources that can be used to support improvements in the identified area of the business, in order to enhance sustainability.
- Develop a detailed project plan designed to support the implementation of improvements in sustainability within the identified area of the business, and present this plan to relevant stakeholders.
Introduction to Self-Employment Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Describe the nature of self-employment in a given sector, including the types of businesses and opportunities available
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of self-employment compared to traditional employment
- Identify the skills and qualifications required to succeed in self-employment in the chosen sector
- Explain how to manage income and expenditure as a self-employed person, including budgeting and financial planning
- Describe the importance of record-keeping and financial management for self-employed individuals
- Identify the responsibilities of a self-employed person, including legal, ethical, and financial obligations
- Explain the importance of complying with relevant regulations and legislation
- Describe the responsibilities of a self-employed person in relation to customer service and quality assurance
Personal Budgeting and Managing Money Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is meant by income and expenditure in relation to personal finances, including different sources of income and types of expenditure
- Know ways to manage a limited budget, including prioritising needs, tracking spending, and identifying areas for savings
- Undertake financial transactions, including using different payment methods and managing bank accounts
- Understand key financial information on everyday documents, such as bank statements, utility bills, and payslips
- Know about saving, investing, and borrowing, including different options and associated risks and benefits
- Produce a budget and review actual performance against it, identifying variances and making adjustments as needed
- Identify sources of help with personal finances, including debt advice and financial planning services
Understanding Online Business Activities Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Know about different types of online business activities
- Understand the various issues related to conducting business online, such as security and data protection
- Know the potential impact of establishing an online business presence
Website Design and Development Real unit · Gateway Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of effective website design
- Produce a detailed design proposal for a website that meets a specific client brief
- Create a functional website according to an agreed design proposal
- Test the completed website against the original client brief to ensure it meets all requirements
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.
- Standard
Manage digital interfaces and platforms in line with direct marketing campaign objectives
- Standard
Manage, evaluate and report on digital marketing campaigns
- Standard
Promote content through social media channels, CRM systems and digital platforms
- Standard
Use analytical tools to evaluate performance of digital marketing activities
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 72 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.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 2 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
Business ProjectCreating Business Web-pagesCustomer service skillsDigital MarketingImproving Sustainability in the WorkplaceIntroduction to Self-EmploymentPersonal Budgeting and Managing MoneyUnderstanding Online Business Activities
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 - 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.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Business Project” 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.
- 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.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Manage digital interfaces and platforms in line with direct marketing campaign objectives
- Manage, evaluate and report on digital marketing campaigns
- Promote content through social media channels, CRM systems and digital platforms
- Use analytical tools to evaluate performance of digital marketing activities
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 Project, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop skills to identify, research, and select a business project aligned with organisational goals. The unit covers undertaking activities to complete the project, presenting outcomes, and evaluating both project results and personal performance.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Gateway Qualifications Level 2 Award in Preparing for Self-Employment
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Gateway Qualifications Limited.
- Business Project
- Creating Business Web-pages
- Customer service skills
- Digital Marketing
- Improving Sustainability in the Workplace
- Introduction to Self-Employment
and 3 more in the full unit list below.
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