Know your skills! It’s important to know that you have skills. Employers might talk about them in a different way to how you recognise them.
Identify your skills
You can find out more about yourself and how you can talk and write about your transferable skills with online resources and quizzes:
Improve your skills
Look to improve your skills with a course even if just a short online course or looking for a much bigger career changing program, a course will build knowledge and help you feel that you have taken a small or large step forward. For some free skills courses try looking here: The Skills Toolkit and to search further education courses have a look on the National Careers Service website: Find a course.
You can find more online courses from:
- Alison | Free Online Learning with Certificate & Diploma Courses
- Coursera | Build Skills with Online Courses from Top Institutions
- FutureLearn: Online Courses and Degrees from Top Universities
- Open Learning – OpenLearn – Open University
- Online Courses – Learn Anything, On Your Schedule | Udemy
If you need help finding a job you can find organisations who can support you on the One Front Door directory or contact the One Front Door team and they can help you.
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