Ladder Level A

Beginner positions. These jobs have few educational requirements and require minimal to no work experience. Level A jobs are a great way to build a foundation of transferable skills.

Skill Legend

On each level of the Ladder of Employment students will develop skills from each of these categories. Reference the abbreviations to see what type of skills each level builds.

• Clerical Skills (CL)
• Communication Skills (CM)
• Creative Skills (CR)
• Financial Skills (F)
• Human Relation Skills (HR)
• Management Skills (M)
• Public Relations Skills (PR)
• Problem Solving Skills (PS)
• Research Skills (R)
• Mechanical Skills (MS)
• Training Skills (TR)
• Computing Skills (CS)

Typical Skills Built at Level A

• adjusting (MS)
• aligning (MS)
• assembling (MS)
• assisting (HR)
• collecting (CL/R)
• communicating (M/TR)
• explaining (CM/TR)
• filing (CL)
• informing (PR)
• Internet/Intranet/E-mail (CS)
• listening (CM/HR)
• Microsoft Access-Beginner (CS)
• Microsoft Excel-Beginner (CS)
• Microsoft Word-Beginner (CS)
• Novell/Groupwise (CS)
• observing (MS)
• organizing (CL)
• reasoning (PS)
• recognizing (PS)
• repairing (MS)
• representing (HR/PR)
• responding (PR)
• serving (HR)
• speaking (CM)
• Windows XP (CS)
• word processing (CL/CS)