Unit A (C1): Careers in Sport and Active Leisure Industry

Btec L3 Foundation Diploma in Sport Coaching and Development - Unit A Careers in Sport and Active Leisure Industry.

The powerpoint included covers learning aim C1 - Personal skills audit for a career in the sport and active leisure industry. It is a 35 slide powerpoint and covers the following information:

• Job description:
o duties and responsibilities
o qualities
o qualifications
o skills
o behaviours and experience required
o safeguarding requirements.
• Producing a personal skills audit against a selected career pathway.
• Interests and accomplishments.
• Qualities:
o reliability
o organisational skills
o commitment
o resilience
o empathy.
• Basic skills:
o literacy
o numeracy
o IT.
• Experience, sporting, leadership, employment, job-related employment, volunteer work,
travel.
• Qualifications:
o educational
o sector-specific
o role-specific.
• Generic employability skills:
o teamwork
o cooperation
o communication
o problem solving.
• Specific technical skills, coaching, instructing, leading, working with specific groups.
• SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis.
• Planning personal development towards a specific career in the sports industry.
• Using a personal skills audit to produce an action plan towards a sports and recreation
industry career.
• Identification of key timescales:
o short – next two years
o medium – two to five years
o long term – five to 10 years.
• Identification of training, educational and experiential aims at these key times and
processes to achieve these goals.
• Careers guidance and support available, and education choices.
• Career development action plan (CDAP) – definition:
o higher levels
o specialism and diversification
o aims
o milestones
o measures.
Professional development activities:
o workshops
o training
o job shadowing
o self-reflection.