Learning Resource Centre
The purpose of the Learning Resource Centre is to provide you with additional skills that are required for a new job or to enhance your existing career opportunities. It can help you improve your productivity and competitiveness by ensuring that you have the right skills to do the best job.
We hope that you are looking forward to your course of study and that you will find these learner resources both stimulating and rewarding.
Study Guide
This section is designed to help you with your study. It will help you to work more efficiently, manage your study time, improve your presentation of work, increase your ability to remember facts and concepts, and get the most out of your chosen course.
Job Interview Skills
Getting the job you want is not about following rules or giving the ‘right’ interview answer. It is about presenting yourself in the most authentic way that takes care of you and the interviewers at the same time. So many people throw their chances away: they do not take enough care and interview preparation time so that the whole process is enjoyable, stimulating and informative for both parties. This section aims to show you how.
The Effective Learner
This section will consider the importance of study skills and how we can identify and enhance our current skill set. We will then take a closer look at different learning styles and how knowledge of our own preferences in this area can make our learning more effective. Finally we will look at some basic time management techniques to enable you to plan and organize your studies and stay motivated.
Goal Setting and Time Management
To know what your goals are, you need to know what your priorities are and these are to a large degree influenced by motivation factors. The goal priority will go further and determine or, at least, influence how much time will be spent on pursuing and attaining the specified goal. This section will cover these topics in detail.
Ten Tips to Complete a Good Test Paper
With these tips you will be able to assess your learning style and study skills and, if necessary, develop new techniques that you will need to be a successful student.
Tips on how to address gaps on your resume
No matter how positive your attitude, being unemployed is frustrating, especially when it goes on for longer than you planned. Employers know that. So when you’re writing a cover letter or going in for an interview, they don’t expect you to pretend unemployment has been a walk in the park. But they don’t want to hear you complain, either. As clichéd as it sounds, that’s when they want to see that you’ve made the most of a bad situation.