60 to 90 hours per semester, depending on disabling condition.
- Lecture
- Lab
- Role-plays
- Audiovisual media
- Composing cover letters, resumes and thank you letters
- Completing online and written job applications
- Participating in full job search process
- Identifying personal and community job search networks
- Preparing and responding to interview questions
- Grooming and hygiene
- Basic computer skills including formatting Word documents and emailing
- Rights and responsibilities around disclosing a disability
Upon completion of this course, the successful student will be able to:
1. Collect all related information to prepare a resume.
2. Identify their personal job search network.
3. Prepare and practice responses to communication skills for interviews.
4. Prepare for an interview.
5. Participate in role plays.
6. Present at job interviews in a professional manner.
7. Respond to interview questions by representing their strengths.
8. Ask relevant questions of potential employers.
9. Conduct a local job market analysis.
10. Identify and outline individual employment support and training needs.
11. Demonstrate effective goal setting and time management skills.
12. Demonstrate an understanding of the strategies needed to start and maintain a job search.
13. Develop appropriate job-targeting cover letters.
14. Develop effective job search techniques.
15. Identify the pros and cons of when and how to disclose one’s disability.
16. Access a computer for word processing.
17. Demonstrate a basic level of skill in using digital resources.
18. Access an email account, compose and reply to messages.
19. Understand and use safe internet protocols.
20. Construct resumes, cover letters and thank you letters.
21. Upload resumes to submit a job application online.
Evaluation will take place in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy. A mastery model of ongoing evaluation will be used. A student will have completed the course when they have demonstrated through satisfactory completion of exercises and assignments that the course objectives have been achieved. Where formal tests are used mastery will be defined as a score of 80% or more.
Progress will be monitored on a regular basis by the instructor in consultation with each student. The student will be expected to maintain regular attendance in accordance to CFCS attendance policy and demonstrate progress, to participate in classroom activities, and to complete assignments as directed.
Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students:
Topic-relevant material will be provided in handout form throughout the course.
CAEP 0201, 0202, 0203, 0205.