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Employability skills

Those not in employment are more than twice as likely to lack digital skills needed for work.

Having digital skills is essential for individuals who are seeking employment. Lloyds UK Consumer Digital Index 2023

Many members of the National Digital Inclusion Network support people looking for work and some of these people don't have the digital skills they need to search and apply for work online, as well as those needed in the workplace.

These resources will help that work, aiding your support of jobseekers and enabling partnership work with your local Jobcentre Plus and more.

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  • Session plan: Interview skills

    This plan for a 60 minute session helps learners build confidence and boost readiness for real interviews.

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  • AI and employability

    Guides to help you use AI tools to support people developing their employability skills.

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  • Session plan: CV development

    This plan for a 1 hour session helps learners understand what makes a CV stand out to employers and how to tailor it for different roles.

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  • AbilityNet: 5 ways AI can help disabled people in the workplace

    This article explores the impact of AI on improving inclusivity through its applications in captions and transcriptions, voice assistance, readability, text alternatives, and understanding tone

    • Digital skills
    • Supporting accessibility needs
    • Artificial intelligence
    • Learning & skills
    • Employability skills
    • Artificial Intelligence
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  • National Careers Service: how to write a CV

    Tips for writing a CV

    • Learning & skills
    • Employability skills
    Visit National Careers Service

  • National Careers Service: the skills toolkit

    Free courses to help people learn new skills or change jobs, including general and more specialised skills.

    • Learning & skills
    • Employability skills
    Visit National Careers Service

  • National Careers Service: identifying skills and upskilling

    Helping people learn what skills they have and want to develop, and how to gain the skills needed for jobs they're interested in.

    • Learning & skills
    • Employability skills
    Visit National Careers Service

  • Digital skills for employability using Learn My Way

    This guide will help you to support people looking for help with employability skills and embed Learn My Way into their learning.

    • Digital skills
    • Learn My Way
    • Learning & skills
    • Employability skills
    Digital skills for employability using Learn My Way

  • Learning resources for life and work

    Free courses, tools and templates that you can trust to improve the skills people already have, helping them take a positive step forward in their work.

    • Digital skills
    • Learning & skills
    • Employability skills
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  • Digital employability playbook

    This playbook gives a structure to how we can improve the journey for people, so that they are more likely to gain digital skills and gain employment.

    • Digital skills
    • Learning & skills
    • Employability skills
    Digital employability playbook