JOB SEARCH STRATEGIES #3

Lesson 3: Filling Out A Job Application

By Sandra Motta Muir

 


OUTCOMEEach student will fill out an Application for Employment (using a standard form provided by instructor), taking into consideration the following: neatness, legibility; completeness; use of red flag words; job descriptions; and continuity in work history.Students will apply their knowledge of what they have learned from lessons #1 and #2 of this unit in completing the applications.Students will review each other’s applications to see if all the above standards were met.

CONDITIONS: This lesson should require two class periods.
 

ACTIVITIES

Students discuss and understand the five variables necessary to complete a job
Application:
1.) neatness
2.) legibility
3.) completeness
4.) use of the red flag words
5.) job descriptions
6.) continuity in work history
Item #4 Red vs. Green Flag Words on Applications is given to the students and discussed in detail.
Students fill out applications.

Day Two:

The class is divided into groups of four.All applications that were turned in on day one are now handed out, four per group, paying special attention that no one gets an application that belongs to their group. The group then decides which of the applications are correctly and completely filled out. The students mark, with a red pencil, “incomplete” on the sections that are omitted or inadequate. Problem areas are discussed and the applications are handed back to the original owners. All mistakes are corrected by filling out a new application in its entirety.
MATERIALS Applications for Employment, Red Pencils
MODIFICATIONS/ACCOMMODATIONS Group students with a leader in the group.

METHOD OF ASSESSMENT Academic Rubric, Acquisition of Information and Application of Information.

STANDARDS Language Arts/Reading and Writing, grade 8
(Handout for use with Lesson 3)





Red vs. Green Flag Words on Job Applications
Avoid RED Flag Words 
Use GREEN Flag Words
Fired
Mutual agreement
Quit
Relocation
Personality conflict
Resigned
Dissatisfied
Temporary employment
Terminated
Difference in philosophy
Arrested
Seasonal employment
Did not work out
Career growth/change
Lied to me
Business closed
Fight with coworker
Automation
Fight with supervisor
Job ended
Could not do the work
Reorganization
Did not like the work
Business closed
Could not work the hours
Contract ended
No transportation
Seeking advancement
Personal problems
Job misrepresented
 
Better job

(This is a random list; words are not cross-matched.)

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