Skills for Work: Understanding the Changing Labour Market
Mae disgrifiad y cymhwyster yn Saesneg yn unig, gan ei fod wedi ei gymryd o fanyleb Saesneg Pearson.
Understanding the Changing Labour Market is a Pearson Skills for Work unit in which learners research local and national jobs, explain what affects the labour market and write a career plan with alternatives if their first choice is not available. It is one 10 hour unit that learners combine with others into a Pearson Skills for Work Award, Certificate or Diploma, from Entry 1 to Level 2, and the centre sets and marks the assignment. Literacy carries the unit: reading labour market and careers information, stating, describing or explaining factors with examples and reasons, and writing a career plan with goals. Numeracy is light: Pearson's mapping mentions interpreting labour market data and comparing trends, but no criterion requires it.
- Corff dyfarnu
- Pearson
- Lefel
- Entry Level 1 to Level 2
- Oriau dysgu dan arweiniad
- 10
- Addysgu gyntaf
- Medi 2027
- Faint o waith llythrennedd
- Canolig
- 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 of Entry 1, Entry 2 and Entry 3: state, outline or identify factors that affect the local and national labour market, suggest alternative job options and the skills needed to adapt, and at Entry 3 produce a simple plan showing how career choice and skills could change. The centre sets and marks its own assignment (Pearson's Authorised Assignment Brief is optional) and there are no mandatory evidence requirements; work is internally verified and quality assured by a Pearson Standards Verifier. 10 guided learning hours, graded Pass or Fail.
- Level 1 and Level 2: One assessment criterion at each level: learners describe (Level 1) or explain (Level 2) a range of factors affecting the labour market and their impact on their own job choices, and produce a realistic (Level 1) or detailed, personalised (Level 2) career plan showing how they will adapt to changing opportunities. The centre sets and marks its own assignment, with no mandatory evidence requirements, internally verified and quality assured by a Pearson Standards Verifier. 10 guided learning hours, graded Pass or Fail.
Sgiliau sy'n defnyddio Dehongli data
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Interpreting labour market data
Pearson's mapping says the unit's numeracy is interpreting labour market information such as supply and demand and sector data, and comparing trends. No assessment criterion or assessment guidance asks learners to read or use numbers, so this sits in the separate teaching content, although learners may use figures as examples in their explanations.
Rhifedd: Dehongli data
Paratoi disgyblion
- Blwyddyn 7
- Pupils read a bar chart of the number of people working in five local sectors and say which is largest and smallest.
- Blwyddyn 8
- Pupils compare vacancy counts for three jobs over two years from a table and describe which is growing fastest.
- Blwyddyn 9
- Pupils interpret a line graph of employment in a Welsh sector over ten years, describe the trend and say whether the graph's scale could mislead.
Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd
Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Annexe C, Unit SfW 16, page 121; Annexe B, page 117
“Interpreting labour market information (supply/demand, sector data); comparing trends”
Cam cynnydd 3
Rwy'n gallu echdynnu a dehongli gwybodaeth o amrywiaeth gynyddol o ddiagramau, amserlenni a graffiau (gan gynnwys siartiau cylch).
Rwy'n gallu dod i gasgliadau o ddata ac rwy'n cydnabod y gall rhai casgliadau fod yn gamarweiniol neu'n ansicr.
Cam cynnydd 4
Rwy'n gallu dehongli graffiau sy'n disgrifio sefyllfaoedd go iawn, gan gynnwys y rhai a ddefnyddir yn y cyfryngau, a chan gydnabod y gall rhai graffiau fod yn gamarweiniol.
Rwy'n gallu archwilio tueddiadau a gwerthoedd eithaf (allanolynnau) ar gyfer setiau data.
Da gwybod
- The unit is SfW 16 and is worth 10 guided learning hours (Section 3, page 5), half the 20 hours of the WJEC unit of the same name.
- A learner achieves the unit once, at one level: "Learners can only achieve each unit once, at a single level." (Rules of Combination, page 6).
- Evidence can be written, spoken or visual: "there are no mandatory evidence requirements and centres can select the type of evidence" (page 83). Pearson's mapping suggests reports, posters or presentations (Annexe C, page 121).
- The teaching content is in a separate document: "This can be found in the Teaching and Learning Support document for this unit" (Unit content, page 83).
- Written work must be the learner's own: "If AI is used, the final submission must be in the learner’s own words and reflect their own effort." (page 85).
- Pearson's own numeracy mapping lists "SMART measurable goals and timelines" alongside interpreting labour market information (Annexe C, page 121), but the assessment criteria ask only for factors, reasons and a plan, so numbers are not assessed.
- The Skills for Work specification says "Every unit in our Skills for Life qualifications includes an Authorised Assessment Brief" (page 8), a leftover reference to the Skills for Life suite.
Cysylltiadau â chymwysterau eraill
The WJEC Skills for Work unit Understanding the Changing Labour Market is a 20 hour unit with three learning outcomes; its Level 2 asks learners to judge bias, accuracy and reliability in labour market sources and it includes reading statistics. Pearson's 10 hour unit puts the literacy into explaining factors and writing a personal career plan with goals, and has no source evaluation criterion. Explaining factors with examples and reasons and writing a structured plan build on GCSE English Language and Literature and GCSE Cymraeg Language and Literature, supply and demand links with GCSE Business, and any work with labour market statistics links lightly with GCSE Mathematics and Numeracy. Within the WJEC Skills Suite, Personal Development Planning and Exploring Career Pathways also ask learners to set goals and plan.
Ffynhonnell: Pearson Entry Level 1 to Level 2 Skills for Work Award, Certificate and Diploma specification, Issue 1, August 2026, Unit SfW 16: Understanding the changing labour market.