Digital Employability Skills
Improving digital skills for employment
Digital is changing our lives, how we apply for jobs, and how work in a new digital era. This means that having the digital skills, motivation, and confidence to use the internet is becoming essential for life and work.
Applying for jobs
Digital skills can help you find and apply for jobs. They make it easier to prepare for an interview and help you succeed. Many jobs are only advertised online. You’ll often need to apply using an online application form or by emailing a CV. The job selection process may also include online tests or a video interview. Knowing how to cope with these will improve your job chances.
We offer tailored pre-employment
support and workshops
How to create a digital CV and cover letter
Learn more about why it is essential to have a digital version of your CV, and how to identify and highlight strengths, skills, and experiences that are relevant to the job you are applying for. Attendees will discover why quality over quantity is important when making job applications.
How to use recruitment agencies and job boards to work on your behalf
Learn how to team up with relevant recruitment agencies that can work on your behalf when seeking employment. This workshop will cover networking both online and offline, and provide tips that will help set you apart from other candidates.
How to use social media to find new job opportunities
Learn how to use social media to identify new job opportunities and how to automate the job searching process. This workshop focuses on the top three social media sites used for employment and covers the importance of having an online social presence to secure a new job.
How to succeed in online and face-to-face interviews
This workshop will help you to prepare for various interview formats and learn more about both verbal and non-verbal communication. The workshop covers online interview formats including pre-recorded interviews, and what you need to consider and do in order to succeed.
Digital Skills Academies
We also offer a range of pre-employment digital skills academies to help you gain the basic digital skills to apply for jobs. These academies cover topics such as:
- How to use the internet
- Setting up an email address
- Composing an email and sending attachments
- Downloading Apps
- Filling in online forms
- Using Microsoft Office Apps ( Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneDrive, Teams)
- Using Video calls
Various levels of support available -
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Getting Started
Changing Careers
Reaching the Top
Bespoke support for your group or organisation
- Fully integrating digital skills into employability programmes, both to fulfil practical requirements (such as uploading a CV, applying for jobs online), and as part of building personal resilience and the ability to adapt in a digital economy.
- Ensuring the journey to employment is joined up, by understanding what employers want and what motivates them, and by engaging and partnering with them as a critical part of the employment and progression pathway.
- Focusing on tackling lack of basic digital skills and confidence as barriers to employment, through working in partnership with existing (national and local) practice and programmes, and maximising new opportunities.