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  • Banqer High | Financial education made easy for secondary schools

    Learning Intentions 

    After completing this lesson plan, and through regular engagement with Careers in Banqer High students will be able to:

    • Build a CV for employment purposes.

    • Evaluate and select an appropriate career path.

    • Understand the financial responsibilities and consequences of a student loan.

    • Demonstrate the responsibility and commitment required to advance in a career.

    • Review a payslip to understand income-related calculations.

    • Actively assess other employment options over time.


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    Task: Class Discussion 
    Start the class thinking about careers by asking students the following
    • What are some jobs that students can think of?
    • Does anyone know what job they might like to do in the future?
    • If students are looking for a job, where might they look?
    Task: Careers Vocabulary Builder Fill in as many words you can on this Employment Vocabulary Builder before jumping online to find the ones they didn’t know.


     Go to the Careers expansion and click “Do the Careers Quiz.” 

    The careers quiz is a 6 question multi-choice quiz. All of the answers are provided to the students alongside the question. 

    Task: Quiz 
    Read and interpret information to select the correct answer.
    Topics covered include
    • CVs,
    • Skills & Education,
    • Work Experience,
    • and References.
    Create a CV
    Fill out a CV via the Careers expansion. 

    Task: Video viewing
    To understand the purpose of a CV, watch the ‘Writing a CV’ video (1 min 20) as a class or individually. This video can be found under the careers section on your dashboard. 

    Task: CV templates
    Look at the two example CVs, questions and templates in the What to put on a CV worksheet and the CV Review worksheets. These provide you with a ‘good’ CV example and a ‘bad’ CV analyse these and get a better idea of what to put in your own CVs.

    Task: Fill in your details
    • Fill in their CVs on Banqer High. 
    • Click ‘View and edit your CV’, 
    • Enter information such as ‘Skills’, ‘Education’
    • Select someone to be a referee - possibly the person youa re doing Work Experience with next week.
    • When finished CV, they can close the screen.