Lesson 1: Work Experiences

Reorder the following

• Soft Skills

• The qualities or attributes that enable someone to maintain positive relationships with other people.

• Job Coach

• The people you interact with to exchange information and develop contacts, especially to further one's career.

• Hard Skills

• A specialist who helps someone learn to perform job tasks

• Network

• Learned abilities acquired and enhanced through practice, repetition, and education

Match the following

• Volunteer Work Experience

• Work that is performed on either a full- or part-time basis in which individuals are paid for their work.

• Social Flexibility

• Being able to adapt to different social situations.

• Training Opportunity

• Paid or unpaid work you do through your school to develop your skills and experience

• Competitive Employment

• When you provide a service or work without pay in order to build work skills and experience.

During which of the following work experiences would you develop your work skills and build your network and receive money for your service?

• Competitive Employment

• Training Opportunity

• Volunteer Work Experience

Which of the following is a benefit of working at a training opportunity?

• A training opportunity allows you to work alongside other employees, earn a paycheck, and only schedules you to work after school hours

• Participating in a training opportunity benefits you because you will have a job coach who will help you get the job done, so you’re never behind on your work

• Building your network, developing work skills, and having supporting adults from your school are all benefits of taking part in a training opportunity

True or False. A job coach should help you complete a task at work if you begin to fall behind with your work.

• True

• False

Which of the following students is showing strong social flexibility?

• Randy will only work at a few businesses in town because he’s not interested in working with people much older than him.

• Shasta has never tried French food, but the family-owned french cafe in town is looking for some help, so she’s going to give it a chance

• Only the popular kids at school work at the vintage boutique, so that’s where I need to work.