Employment 101 Course and Certificate Overview

Thank you for choosing to explore the use of workNet’s Employment 101 course and certificate for learners in your program. This is an excellent opportunity to explore meaningful career exploration and employment skills training through our partners at workNet. We have compiled materials to help you successfully facilitate this course and help you and your learners utilize it in the best way possible.

Thank you to Dee Reinhardt of Illinois workNet (mailto:dreinhardt@Illinoisworknet.com)for helping us to create and compile these resources!

Click here to watch an overview of Employment 101 and how to use it in your classroom(s).

You are able to set up classes and monitor your students’ progress in this class through the attainment of the certificate, which is already available in DAISI under each career pathway. In order to do so, you will need to make sure that you and your program are in the system as “partners”. This is easy to do and the people at workNet are there to support you. Click here to view and download more information about how to become a partner.

Students will need to have a workNet account to be assigned to classes and access the course and tools available through Employment 101. You can help them walk through this by simply clicking “sign up” on the main Illinois workNet page.

When all is set up, you can begin using this course in the way that works best for your learners with combinations of group, individual, asynchronous, and synchronous work. Use the Employment 101 Instructor Guide for lesson plans, standards alignment information, various tools, instructions, and more. **Dee also made a new guide with instructions for creating groups: Personal Groups for E101.pd

Please let us know if you have any questions. Please also share feedback with us as you begin to use this course and certificate in your programs.