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Top 20 soft skills and "Good Employee" behaviors:

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about arriving on time
 * 1. **** Arriving on time ** – come to work and start a job exactly at the appointed time

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about working well with others
 * 2. **** Working well with others ** – get along with coworkers, be a team player, be respectful and friendly.

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about questioning for understanding
 * 3. **** Questioning for understanding ** – ask questions and check that people understand you

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about following directions
 * 4. **** Following directions ** – listen to instructions and do your job exactly as it has been explained

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about showing initiative
 * 5. **** Showing initiative ** – offer to do extra work

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about asking questions about tasks
 * 6. **** Asking questions about tasks ** – ask questions when you do not understand how to do something

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about completing work on time
 * 7. ** **Completing work on time** - finish work before the appointed time or a deadline

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about making suggestions
 * 8. **** Making suggestions ** – recommend something, or give advice

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about volunteering for a difficult job
 * 9. **** Volunteering for difficult jobs ** – offer to do a hard task without anybody asking you to do it

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about managing time efficiently
 * 10. **** Managing time efficiently – ** use time wisely

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about being flexible
 * 11.** **Being flexible**- be ready to work all shifts

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about being responsible and reliable . Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about being able to solve problems on your own
 * 12.** **Being responsible and reliable**- take a full responsibility for your work
 * 13.** **Being able to solve problems on your own -** be ready to understand what the problem is and how to fix it

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about having a positive attitude
 * 14.** **Having a positive attitude** - be friendly, do not complain

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about being a fast learner
 * 15.** **Being a fast learner** - learn how to do something new at work or use a new tool fast

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about doing a good job and being attentive to details
 * 16.** **Doing a good job and being attentive to details** - know your job and smallest details about it

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about having a good attendance
 * 17.** **Having a good attendance**- do not miss a lot of days at work

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about expressing yourself well
 * 18.** **Expressing yourself well**- improve your communication skills

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about keeping up-to-date and taking classes
 * 19.** **Keeping up-to-date and taking classes** - learn new things about you job, learn new methods and new ways of doing it

Find more infromation, useful advice, and interesting facts about making yourself noticeable = Welcome to the "Find a Job" webpage!!!!! =
 * 20.** **Making yourself noticeable** - let your supervisoe know that you do a good job

Dear NOCCCD SCE/ESL instructors and students, here you can find useful videos for the El Civics lessons (Objective 33.7- Find a Job). Just click on the links. = Most of the videos are for the Intermediate-Advanced students. = Instructors, please, watch the videos and decide if you like them or not before you show these videos to your students. For additional examples of job interview questions and answers, soft skills, cover letters, thank-you letters, resumes, soft skills quizes, please, go to http://softskills.wikispaces.com __ ** Task 1 ** __ Lesson 1 1. How to find a job This is a short (2:06 min), but very informative video that describes different job search strategies. []

Lesson 2 1. Preparing for a future job market (2:54min) This video shows job growth in major fields by 2018. [] 2. The worst jobs in the world (1:35) This is a funny video about some difficult and unpleasant jobs. Great for a discussion. []

Lesson 4 How to fill out a job application

This is a great video (about 6 min.) for the beginning level. The first part is about filling out a job application, and the second part is about talking about work history. []

This is a short video (1:28 min). It's fun to watch. It gives great examples and tips. []

Lesson 5: How to write a resume (2:17min) This is a fun video. It covers main points and lists 10 steps of writing a resume. []

Lesson 6: How to write a cover letter (2:12min) This is a fun video, but it demonstrates all steps of writing a cover letter. Great! []

__ ** Task 2 ** __

Lesson 1 This video is about body language during a job interview. It is great for a listening exersice for Beginning-High- Advanced students. It gives statistics and examples from research. Very interesting! [] Lesson 2 1. Interview tips: Tell me about yourself (2:50 min)It's funny, not serious, but can be great for a class discussion.[]2.This video gives some tips on how to answer "Can you tell me about yourself?" question (1:04 min). It's good for Intermediate-Advanced students. [] 3. Tell me about yourself (about 2:52 min).This video gives two examples of answers: bad and good. It's fun to watch. []
 * 1.Video: How to Ace a Job Interview (about 3:39 min) **

Lesson 3 1.This video shows how to demonstrate your work skills (Intermediate- Advanced) (1:06 min)[]2. This video gives suggestions on how to answer a question about your work experience. (Inter-Advanced)(1:57 min) []

Lesson 4 1. Why do you want to leave your job? There are some general tips and 6 examples of good answers. (5:41 min) [] 2. This video shows sample answers to different questions (4:29 min) [] 3. This video is about the question "Tell me about your strengths" (2:17 min). This is fun to watch. []

Lesson 5 1. This video demonstrates how to answer the question about your weaknesses. Very informative and interesting to watch. (2:06 min) []

Lesson 6 1. This is a great video with good tips about what questions to ask during the interview. (2:28 min) [] 2.This is a short video with general tips on how to close a job interview (1:14min) [] 3. This video is a little longer and also gives great suggestions and tips on how to close a job interview. (2:05 min) []

Lesson 7 1 . This video is about a Thank-you letter after a job interview (1:34 min). []

Study guide 1.Interview Do and Don'ts (4min) This is great for a review.

[] This video gives some general tips about a job interview. It's good for Intermediate-Low Advanced students (It includes tips about handshakes, appropriate clothes, cell phones, examples of good and bad answers. It's fun to watch!