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The essential work experience handbook / Arlene Douglas and Séamus O\'Neill.

By: Douglas, Arlene.
Contributor(s): O\'Neill, Séamus, 1961-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2006Edition: 2nd ed.Description: 171 p. : ill., charts ; 24 cm. + spiral.ISBN: 0717140334 ; 9780717140336 .Subject(s): Vocational education -- Ireland | Education, Cooperative -- IrelandDDC classification: 331.2592
Contents:
The changing nature of work -- Learner record Part 1: Planning and preparation for work experience -- Learner Record Part 2: Experience in the workplace -- Learner Record Part 3: Work experience review and evaluation -- Skills demonstration -- Industry analysis -- Work-based learning (APEAL) -- Student workbook -- Work experience diary.

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A spiral bound fill-in handbook for students, for use and reference during their work placement

Guides students through the process of building their own Work Experience Portfolio

Provides students with an essential awareness of Interview and Job finding skills employment rights and legislation equality issues global, technological and demographic trends affecting the workplace

The Learner Record chapters directs the student through: planning & preparation experience in the workplace review & evaluation of the work experience

Contains vital student checklists and an example of a students portfolio

Also includes a detachable Student Work Diary and Student Workbook

Suitable for any course with a work experience element

Previous ed. : 2000.

The changing nature of work -- Learner record Part 1: Planning and preparation for work experience -- Learner Record Part 2: Experience in the workplace -- Learner Record Part 3: Work experience review and evaluation -- Skills demonstration -- Industry analysis -- Work-based learning (APEAL) -- Student workbook -- Work experience diary.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Arlene Douglas, B.A., H. Dip. Education, Grad. Dip. Statistics, Dip. Computers; teaches Communications, Media Studies and Business at Limerick Senior College, Limerick College of Further Education, and is also Events Coordinator there. She is an external examiner for FETAC, and is the author of Business Administration, 2nd edition (Gill Education). Seamus O'Neill, B.Sc., H. Dip. Education, MBCS, teaches in the School of IT and Multimedia Design at Crumlin College, Dublin. He has 21 years' teaching experience in second and third level colleges, and is the author of Essential Spreadsheet Skills (Stanley Thornes) and Essential Computer Applications (Gill Education).