HSC2400 · Career skills for health professionals

Overview

You will capitalise on contemporary career information and materials within the health sector to enhance your employability and career preparedness for graduate-level employment in health-related careers. You will focus on developing key employability skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, professionalism, teamwork and commercial awareness. You will benefit from opportunities to reflect on and articulate these skills for employers through job selection processes, as practised throughout the unit. You will also focus on career management through job searching, networking and an exploration of career pathways.

Offerings

Assessment

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

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

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Explore current, emerging, and non-traditional professional contexts related to health
2. Investigate methods of enhancing career success
3. Formulate a career plan
4. Practice job selection processes
5. Demonstrate key employability skills

Workload

6 hours of teacher directed study per week, including 4 hours of online activities and content and 2 hours of tutorials. 6 hours per week of self-directed study. Total per week = 12 hours

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