STIC - Accounting:
The Workplace
 Self-Employment
ACTIVITY: Lecturette, followed by individual activity.
TIME: 1 hour
LEARNING OUTCOME:
Participants will know whether self-employment
is a viable option in their field, will have conducted a brief assessment
of their own attributes with respect to self-employment and will have
practised marketing skills in writing.
DESCRIPTION:
- Use the lecture notes
 provided
to give a brief overview of self-employment, and contract work.
- Explain that self-employment is not for everyone. It
entails a great deal of risk but the rewards can be higher pay and
more flexibility in your work life.
- Instruct participants to complete the exercises on page
40 of
their workbook (no answer key).
- Choose a few participants to read their advertisement
aloud and encourage the class to provide constructive criticism.
- Instruct participants to complete the exercises on page
42 of
their workbook.
- Take the answers up as a class (answer key provided).
 Downloads
All downloads are in Adobe Acrobat PDF.
Download a print version of the above lesson plan and related handouts
and overheads.
Self-Employment [90
KB, 5 pages]
- Lesson Plan
- Lecture Notes
- Answer Key
- Participant Workbook pages 40 - 42
Download the complete Facilitator's Guide and Participant's Workbook.
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