Course Description Essential Fundamentals for Employment

Overview:

The Essential Fundamentals for Employment class was created so that participants could identify, practice, and learn about soft skills in an employment setting as a person who is visually impaired. Participants will work through 4 main categories including communication, decision making, interpersonal interaction, and lifelong learning. Research shows that soft skills are what differentiate candidates when seeking employment and participants will learn how to enhance these skills.

Overall Goal of Essential Fundamentals for Employment:

• To discuss, learn, and practice various communication skills as a person with a visual impairment.
• To learn, practice, and implement creation and implementation of goals.
• To learn, discuss, and practice self-advocacy.
• To learn about, discuss, and practice receiving criticism, providing feedback, and appropriate workplace behavior.
• To learn about how religious, cultural, gender, racial, and other identifiers impact an individual in the workplace and how being visually impaired may play a role in this impact.

Essential Fundamentals for Employment Skill List:

• Conveying ideas through writing
• Listen Actively
• Observe Critically
• Read with Understanding
• Speak Clearly so others can understand
• Planning
• Solve problems and communicate
• Advocate and influence
• Cooperate with others
• Resolve conflict and negotiate
• Reflect and evaluate
• Take responsibility for learning