ATS2743 · Build your career: Planning and strategies for employability

Overview

In this unit you will build your capacity for lifelong career management through self-awareness, opportunity awareness, and employability skills. Drawing on insights from career development experts, theory and your own research, you'll develop practical strategies for navigating common career challenges — from identifying opportunities and connecting with employers, to setting goals, establishing career resilience strategies, and managing uncertainty. You will develop essential communication and media skills relevant to all professional fields, which will help you with networking, writing and reviewing job applications, pitching prospective employers, responding to selection criteria and behavioural interviews (video and in-person), and achieving success in job interviews

Areas of study: Arts enrichment units

Offerings

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. assess your current career situation and identify areas for further exploration;
2. evaluate and apply career development theories to common career challenges;
3. negotiate employer expectations across the recruitment process;
4. communicate effectively in applications, employer pitches, and interviews;
5. research and evaluate career information from information interviews and published sources;
6. build effective personal career strategies related to goal setting, resilience, networking and managing uncertainty.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester 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.