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Life Skills - Get Ready for Work

What is Life Skills?

  • Life Skills is a programme that aims to help young people aged 16-18 to be better prepared to move on to: Get Ready for Work, a job, training or college.
  • It’s designed to be especially flexible, and meet the needs of each trainee.
  • It helps you to focus on the things that are making it difficult for you to move into the world of work.
  • This might be almost anything – maybe you just lack confidence, or find it difficult to  meet new people; or
  • you have to deal with a situation in your personal life that is holding you back – being homeless, an addiction or health problems.
  • Life Skills aims to give you the support you need to develop the life skills and confidence to move into the world of work.

What’s involved?

Programmes can last from a few weeks up to 26 weeks – or more subject to your progress - it all depends on your needs and what you want to get out of your training.

You can start off attending part time.

Your programme might include:

  • activities – social, creative, outdoor or practical
  • communication skills
  • work-related skills – like teamwork and problem solving
  • confidence-building activities
  • job hunting skills – in preparing a CV or dealing with interviews
  • working on your reading, writing, number or IT skills
  • preparation for work experience.

Will I get paid?

  • You’ll get a training allowance of £55 a week if you attend full time and £40 if you attend part time.
  • You might also get help with travel costs and other expenses.

How do I get started?

Call Careers Scotland on 0845 8 502 502 for more information or get in touch with your local Careers Scotland centre.

Your adviser will help you to decide if Life Skills is right for you.

If it is, they’ll help you to think about :

  • the sort of support you might need
  • what you want to do in the future
  • the skills you need to develop.

They’ll draw up an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) setting out what you hope to achieve; and help you to find the most suitable training provider and programme.