ATS3743 · Build your career: Planning and strategies for employability

Overview

This unit equips you with the capacity to manage your career lifelong. It contextualises this understanding in the history, sociology, economics and future of work. Work legislation and the role of unions and professional associations also provide a setting for exploration of career concepts and theories and their application to the individual. You will develop a career plan based on an awareness of your skills and aspirations and an understanding of approaches to job search, career decision making and managing change. The unit will be delivered through a mix of seminars and practicals and will draw upon your recent or concurrent experience of work.

Areas of study: Arts enrichment units

Offerings

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Assessment

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Within semester assessment: 100%

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Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. have practical experience and awareness of job search, networking, application and recruitment processes including interviews;
2. have the opportunity to contextualise understand work in terms of its history, politics, economics and sociology;
3. understand career concepts and theories and their application to individuals, focussing on self-assessment, exploring opportunities, decision making and managing transitions;
4. have the opportunity to develop a career strategic plan concentrating on employability skills, opportunity awareness and strategies for implementing career development plans

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.

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