Skills for Work: Exploring Career Pathways
Mae disgrifiad y cymhwyster yn Saesneg yn unig, gan ei fod wedi ei gymryd o fanyleb Saesneg Pearson.
Exploring career pathways is a Skills for Work unit in which learners research job roles and longer career pathways, compare their own skills, behaviours, attitudes, knowledge and experience with what employers need, and plan their route into a chosen job. It is one 20 hour unit that learners combine with others into a Pearson Skills for Work Award, Certificate or Diploma, from Entry 1 to Level 2, and it is assessed internally by the centre. Literacy demand is high: learners read and draw information from several sources, describe or explain what they found, reflect on their strengths and development needs, and write a structured plan. Numeracy is light: goal timescales, with salary and training costs only as examples.
- Corff dyfarnu
- Pearson
- Lefel
- Entry Level 1 to Level 2
- Oriau dysgu dan arweiniad
- 20
- Addysgu gyntaf
- Medi 2027
- Faint o waith llythrennedd
- Uchel
- Faint o waith rhifedd
- Isel
- Manyleb
- Agor y fanyleb
Sut mae'r uned hon yn cael ei hasesu
- Entry Level (Entry 1, Entry 2, Entry 3): One assessment criterion at each Entry level: learners state simple information about a job they may be interested in (Entry 1), outline information about a chosen job role or career pathway (Entry 2), or identify information from different sources about an occupational pathway and a career pathway (Entry 3), and give the steps or a basic plan for entry to a chosen job role. Evidence is assessed internally by the centre through a centre-devised assignment, which can be based on Pearson's Authorised Assignment Brief, and is quality assured by Pearson standards verification. 20 guided learning hours.
- Level 1 and Level 2: One assessment criterion at each level: learners describe (Level 1) or explain (Level 2) information from a range of sources about different occupational and career pathways, compare their own skills with the entry requirements, and produce a structured plan (Level 1) or a detailed and realistic plan with strategies for progression (Level 2) for entry to a chosen job role. Evidence is assessed internally by the centre and quality assured by Pearson standards verification. 20 guided learning hours.
Sgiliau sy'n defnyddio Mesur
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Setting goals over short, medium and long timescales
Level 1 learners set short and medium term goals and Level 2 learners set short, medium and long term goals linked to skills development and training, and consider how their career might develop over time. This is required by the assessment guidance, though the number work is limited to ordering steps over time.
Rhifedd: Mesur, Cymhwysedd strategol
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils put six career steps on a timeline from Year 9 to age 21 and work out how many years each stage takes.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils use a calendar to set dates for three short term goals this school year, such as finishing a skills audit by half term.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils build a timeline plan with dated short, medium and long term goals for a chosen career and check that the order and timings are realistic.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit SfW 4, Essential information for assessment decisions, Level 1 and Level 2, page 28
“Their plan will include short- and medium-term goals linked to skills development and training”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy'n gallu defnyddio a dehongli calendrau, amserlenni a rhaglenni i gynllunio digwyddiadau a gweithgareddau, a gwneud cyfrifiadau fel rhan o'r daith gynllunio.
Rwy'n gallu blaenoriaethu a threfnu'r camau perthnasol sydd eu hangen i gwblhau'r dasg neu ddod o hyd i ddatrysiad.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy'n gallu blaenoriaethu a threfnu'r camau perthnasol sydd eu hangen i gwblhau'r dasg neu ddod o hyd i ddatrysiad.
Da gwybod
- The unit is listed as "SfW 4 Exploring career pathways 20", so it is 20 guided learning hours (Unit summary, page 5).
- A unit can be passed only once: "Learners can only achieve each unit once, at a single level" (Rules of Combination, page 6).
- Reading load rises with the level: Level 2 learners explain "information from a range of at least three or four sources" (Essential information for assessment decisions, page 28).
- Evidence can be practical or written: assignments "can include both practical and written tasks" (Assessment of units, page 9), and "there are no mandatory evidence requirements" for this unit (page 27).
- AI may be used only if the work stays the learner's own: "the final submission must be in the learner's own words and reflect their own effort" (Requirements relating to permitted/prohibited resources, page 29).
- Numeracy appears only as examples: starting salary is an "e.g." at Entry 1 and "cost of training" is an example barrier at Level 2 (pages 27 to 28), and content given as "e.g." is not compulsory (Units, page 11).
Cysylltiadau รข chymwysterau eraill
Reading sources and writing structured plans link to GCSE English Language and Literature, and the planning and self-assessment link to the WJEC Skills Suite units Personal development planning, Jobs of the future and Applying for jobs. Compared with the WJEC Exploring career pathways unit, which is also 20 guided learning hours and ends with learners presenting information about a chosen career, the Pearson unit puts more weight on extended written planning: Level 1 learners set short and medium term goals and progression routes, and Level 2 learners also explain barriers to entry and realistic strategies to overcome them.
Ffynhonnell: Pearson Entry Level 1 to Level 2 Skills for Work Award, Certificate and Diploma Qualifications specification, Issue 1, August 2026, Unit SfW 4: Exploring career pathways.