APG5968 · Professional enhancement B

Overview

This unit combines theory with practical outcomes to enhance your employability regardless of disciplinary field. Expert guidance in career planning will assist you in developing a roadmap identifying the skills and strategies needed to support your personal career goals. Focus areas include unique career drivers, goal clarification, development of a compelling career narrative, and effective networking and interview technique. You will also undertake modules in topics designed to improve your employability such as communicating for impact and data analytics fundamentals. Taught in a blend of online and face to face elements, the unit combines theory with practical outcomes to enhance your employability regardless of disciplinary field. The unit is especially suited to those who are in the earlier stages of their career development.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Create a professional development and career plan identifying informed goals and action steps
2. Apply sector-relevant transferable skills to your professional development and career plan
3. Communicate acquired experiences and skills through diverse means and in diverse settings
4. Apply interpersonal and reflective skills to your professional practice

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.