Working for Yourself
This unit is designed to help you develop enterprising attitudes and prepare for possible self employment.
You'll learn to do this by:
- finding out about self employment
- developing your own business idea
- getting to understand the steps you need to take to start a business, keep it going and make it grow in its first year
You’ll learn to do this by being involved in a self employment related project. You may be working on this project on your own or as part of a team.
Your tutor will support and guide you all the way. So that you get the most out of the project it should:
- suit your skills, personal qualities and interests
- be related to your future career plans
The learning outcomes for this unit are (click to expand):
Knowledge and understanding of self employment
For this outcome you will learn about what's involved in working for yourself and be able to:
- identify and describe three skills, three qualities and two attributes required for self-employment
- identify and describe three advantages and three disadvantages of self-employment.
Your tutor will support you to work through this learning outcome.
The online activities to help you are :
- Self employment styles: test your knowledge of different ways of working for yourself
- What's the difference?: a quiz to highlight the differences between being your own boss and working for someone else
- Self employment reality check: an activity to show the possible benefits and drawbacks of working for yourself
- Skills for business success: an activity to show the possible benefits and drawbacks of working for yourself
Review, reflect, record
To show what you have learned you should keep a record, so fill in your Skills Audit form and your Working for yourself form.
Your tutor will discuss these forms with you, give you advice and make comments before you complete them and save to your blog.
Form(s) for this outcome:
If you wish, you can complete the following activity(s) to support your learning and use the blog to record evidence.
Investigating a business idea
For this outcome you will identify and describe an agreed business idea and how you could put it into practice. To do this you will:
- identify a minimum of three resources required for setting up your business
- explain one positive and one negative way in which customer service contributes to maintaining your business.
Your tutor will support you to work through this learning outcome.
The online activities to help you are :
- Starbursts for startups: an activity to introduce the main things you have to think about when preparing to start a business
- First year suvival plan: a quiz to help you work out how you to cope financially when you're starting up a business
Review, record, reflect
Your tutor will discuss these forms with you, give you advice and make comments before you complete them and save them to your blog.
Form(s) for this outcome:
If you wish, you can complete the following activity(s) to support your learning and use the blog to record evidence.
Types of business ownership and the law
For this outcome you will identify and describe different types of business ownership and the legal factors involved in self-employment. You will:
- describe three types of Business Ownership explaining one advantage and one disadvantage of each
- identify the most suitable type of ownership appropriate to your business idea
- identify and describe legal factors relevant to your business idea.
Your tutor will support you to work through this learning outcome.The online activity to help you is:
Review, reflect, record
Your tutor will discuss these forms with you, give you advice and make comments before you complete them and save them to your blog.
Form(s) for this outcome:
If you wish, you can complete the following activity(s) to support your learning and use the blog to record evidence.
Working from home and business premises
In this outcomeyou will investigate the factors you need to consider ehen working from home and choosing business premises.
You will:
- identify two key factors involved in the selection of premises for your business
- identify and describe two advantages and two disadvantages of working from home.
Your tutor will support you to work through this learning outcome.
Review, reflect, record
Your tutor will discuss these forms with you, give you advice and make comments before you complete them and save them to your blog.
No forms added for this outcome:
If you wish, you can complete the following activity(s) to support your learning and use the blog to record evidence.
