Discover Your Work Skills - Mansfield Central Library - Adult Learning

Mansfield Central Library, Mansfield

Date	27 February 2027
Time	10am - 3pm
Venue	Mansfield Central Library, Mansfield View venue details
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	Free

About this course

Unlock the skills you already have with Discover Your Work Skills. This friendly, practical course will help you identify strengths gained through work, family life, volunteering, learning and hobbies, before showing you how those strengths can transfer into new opportunities. You will complete a personal skills audit, explore job-related and transferable skills, practise describing your abilities using real evidence and create a personal skills profile. By the end of the session, you will be able to identify at least 10 skills, match your strengths to a suitable role or course, produce convincing STAR examples and set a SMART goal for your next step.

By the end of the 4.5-hour course, you will be able to:

Identify at least 10 skills, strengths or positive work behaviours gained through employment, education, caring, volunteering, hobbies or everyday responsibilities.
Classify at least eight examples as technical, transferable, personal or work-readiness skills, explaining where a skill could fit into more than one category.
Complete a structured skills audit, rating at least 15 skills and providing evidence for five of the ratings.
Produce three evidence statements using a structured example such as Situation, Task, Action and Result.
Compare your skills with the requirements of one suitable job, course or volunteering opportunity, identifying at least five matches and two possible gaps.
Create a personal skills profile containing at least five priority skills supported by specific evidence.
Write one SMART skills-development goal and identify at least two actions or sources of support.

Please bring:

Pen & paper

Booking your place and fee information

Funding and Fees

If you receive certain benefits, you may be able to take the course for free.
If money is stopping you from enrolling, please visit our funding page to see what help is available.

Living in England

To book and join one of our courses, you must live in England permanently and either:

Live inside the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) area (Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire)

Live outside the devolved areas listed below

You cannot enrol if you live in these devolved areas:

Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA)
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority
Greater London Authority
North East Combined Authority
South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
Tees Valley Combined Authority
West Midlands Combined Authority
West of England Combined Authority
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority
York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority
Hull and East Yorkshire
Greater Lincolnshire
Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority
Cornwall Council
Lancashire Combined County Authority
Buckinghamshire
Warwickshire
Surrey

Residency Requirements (Additional Information)

If you live in the UK on a visa, we’ll need evidence of your visa to confirm funding. You can upload this when applying, and you’ll need to complete a short questionnaire.

Some exceptions include:

Your visa must last until after your course ends.
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for at least 6 months while their claim is being processed.
You are supported by your local authority under Section 23C or 23CA of the Children Act 1989, or under the Care Act 2014.

Anyone who does not meet the funding criteria would need to pay full course fees.