

Key areas of focus in their courses include mastering interviews over platforms like Zoom, honing job search skills, and developing effective speaking abilities. These courses offer practical guidance on navigating virtual interviews, strategies for effective job searching, and techniques for clear and confident communication. The curriculum is designed to equip learners

By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the difference between speech and writing and non-words and para-language
- Define and describe communication, meta-communication, and symbols
- Identify the one-way communication model, two-way communication model, and the inferential model of communication
- List the filters of communication and 'Golden Rules for Writing'
- Outline the process to create a checklist for choosing the best words in your writing
- Define content, functional, connotative, abstract, concrete, and obsolete words
- Identify modifiers, parallel form, indefinite starters, and dangling modifiers

Having completed this course the learner will be able to:
- Recognise a full-time job or an internship
- Identify a potential career path
- Discuss how internships can be extremely helpful in your career
- Identify exactly what you want to do and not want to do
- Describe strategies for how to talk about gaps in a truthful and positive way
- Identify how to overcome other potential obstacles relating to employment gaps
- Identify the difference between a career change and a traditional job search
- Discuss strategies for modifying a job search to account for a career change
- Examine what is different when you are looking for a job based in a location other than where you are

Having completed this course you will be able to:
- Describe how to sign up for a free Zoom account and download the necessary software
- Explain how to start and join a Zoom meeting through the Skype for Business or Slack apps
- Describe how to schedule a Zoom meeting from your Google account, Microsoft Outlook or the Zoom web portal
- Describe how to activate and create Zoom Breakout Rooms and schedule meetings using the Zoom Waiting Rooms feature
- Explain how to check the status of Zoom conference rooms and configure your audio and video settings
- Identify the basic in-meeting controls and chat with other participants in a Zoom meeting
- Describe how to record Zoom meetings and review recorded playbacks from your Zoom account
- Describe how to access reports from the Zoom dashboard and apply for a Vanity URL
- Describe how to change sharing preferences and add managed domains in your Zoom account




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