Business and Employment Skills for Life

18 lessons · 6 modules

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6 modules · 18 lessons

Learners begin by understanding themselves: their skills, interests, values, career story so far, and the digital tools they will need for modern work or business. This module builds confidence and sets up the personal Career or Business Reality that runs through every later lesson.

Know Yourself: Skills, Interests and Values
Your Career Story: Where Are You Now?
Digital Skills for Work and Business

For learners on the jobseeking path. Build the three things every successful applicant needs: a CV that gets read, interview answers you trust, and an online presence employers can find. Each lesson applies directly to a real role the learner is interested in.

CV That Gets Noticed: Write Your Story
Interview Mastery: Be Ready for Anything
Your Online Presence: Linkedin and Beyond

Move from preparation to action. Find roles, apply with intent, handle rejection without losing momentum, and set yourself up for success in the first weeks of a new job.

Finding Jobs: Where and How to Search
Handling Rejection and Building Resilience
Starting Your New Job: First Steps to Success

For learners considering self-employment, freelancing or starting a small business. Validate the idea, choose the right legal structure, and get the personal finance basics right before spending a euro.

Do I Have a Business Idea? Validation and Testing
Business Fundamentals: Legal Structure and Registration
Personal Finance for Business: Separating Money

Turn a validated idea into a working plan. Build a business plan that guides you and convinces funders, get to know your market and customers, and design a marketing strategy that fits a small budget.

Business Plan: Your Roadmap to Success
Market Research: Know Your Customer
Marketing and Sales: Getting Customers

Once a business is up and running, sustaining and growing it well becomes the new challenge. Get cashflow and bookkeeping under control, hire and lead well when the time comes, and plan growth that does not break what you built.

Cashflow, Accounting and Bookkeeping Basics
People, Culture and Team Management
From Startup to Scale: Growth Strategies

Learners begin by understanding themselves: their skills, interests, values, career story so far, and the digital tools they will need for modern work or business. This module builds confidence and sets up the personal Career or Business Reality that runs through every later lesson.

Know Yourself: Skills, Interests and Values
Your Career Story: Where Are You Now?
Digital Skills for Work and Business

For learners on the jobseeking path. Build the three things every successful applicant needs: a CV that gets read, interview answers you trust, and an online presence employers can find. Each lesson applies directly to a real role the learner is interested in.

CV That Gets Noticed: Write Your Story
Interview Mastery: Be Ready for Anything
Your Online Presence: Linkedin and Beyond

Move from preparation to action. Find roles, apply with intent, handle rejection without losing momentum, and set yourself up for success in the first weeks of a new job.

Finding Jobs: Where and How to Search
Handling Rejection and Building Resilience
Starting Your New Job: First Steps to Success

For learners considering self-employment, freelancing or starting a small business. Validate the idea, choose the right legal structure, and get the personal finance basics right before spending a euro.

Do I Have a Business Idea? Validation and Testing
Business Fundamentals: Legal Structure and Registration
Personal Finance for Business: Separating Money

Turn a validated idea into a working plan. Build a business plan that guides you and convinces funders, get to know your market and customers, and design a marketing strategy that fits a small budget.

Business Plan: Your Roadmap to Success
Market Research: Know Your Customer
Marketing and Sales: Getting Customers

Once a business is up and running, sustaining and growing it well becomes the new challenge. Get cashflow and bookkeeping under control, hire and lead well when the time comes, and plan growth that does not break what you built.

Cashflow, Accounting and Bookkeeping Basics
People, Culture and Team Management
From Startup to Scale: Growth Strategies

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