6.2 Fielding Offers
This National FFA lesson, “Fielding Job Offers,” teaches students how to collect information about a job offer, negotiate terms, and develop appropriate questions to ask when receiving an offer. Through reading an article, watching a video, completing worksheets, and role-playing a telephone job offer, students practice professional skills tied to the National FFA Employment Skills Leadership Development Event. It includes worksheets, a crossword, a sample written job offer, a telephone job offer rubric, and answer keys.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Collect information about a job offer.
- Negotiate a job offer.
- Develop questions to ask based on a written job offer.
- Identify FFA activities and opportunities related to the National FFA Employment Skills Leadership Development Event.
- Time required
- 120 minutes
- Materials
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- Internet access for the article “40 Questions to Ask Before You Accept a Job Offer.”
- Internet access to watch the video or embed it in a PowerPoint prior to class.
- Copies of the “What to Ask Before Accepting a Job Offer” worksheet
- Copies of the “What to Do Before Accepting a Job Offer Crossword” worksheet
- Copies of the “Negotiating a Job Offer” worksheet
- Copies of the “Written Job Offer” worksheet
- Copies of the “Telephone Job Offer Rubric” worksheet
- Resources
- FFA.org; Article: “40 Questions to Ask Before You Accept a Job Offer,” https://www.theladders.com/career-advice/job-offer-questions; Video: “5 Tips to Negotiating Benefits,” https://youtu.be/7M23KSvGWNs; National FFA Employment Skills LDE, https://www.ffa.org/participate/ldes/employment-skills
- Partnership for 21st Century Skills
- Communication; Critical Thinking and Problem Solving; Financial, Economic, Business, and Entrepreneurial Literacy; Technology Literacy; Think Creatively
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Aligned Standards
AFNR Career Ready Practices
- CRP.02Apply appropriate academic and technical skills. Career-ready individuals readily access and use the knowledge and skills acquired through experience and education to be more productive.
- CRP.04Communicate clearly, effectively, and with reason. Career-ready individuals communicate thoughts, ideas and action plans with clarity, whether using written, verbal and/or visual methods.
Common Core – Literacy in Science & Technical Subjects: Writing
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.6Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking advantage of technology's capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
Common Core – Speaking and Listening
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.1Initiate and participate effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher-led) with diverse partners on grades 9-10 topics, texts, and issues, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
- CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.9-10.4Present information, findings, and supporting evidence clearly, concisely, and logically such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, substance, and style are appropriate to purpose, audience, and task.
FFA Precept
- FFA-CS-M.CommunicationEffectively interact with others in personal and professional settings.
- FFA.PG-J.Mental GrowthEmbrace cognitive and intellectual development relative to reasoning, thinking and coping.
- FFA.PL-A.ActionAssume responsibility and take the necessary steps to achieve the desired results, no matter what the goal or task at hand.
- FFA.PL-E.AwarenessUnderstand personal vision, mission and goals.
FFA Precepts
- FFA.CS-N.Decision MakingAnalyze a situation and execute an appropriate course of action.