In semester two, 2012, the Career Development Centre will start teaching a new subject called ‘Work Ready Skills and Planning Your Career’. This subject will be of interest if you want to:
- learn how to plan your career
- understand how recruiters select staff, so you are better prepared to get a job
- focus on developing your ‘work ready skills’
- work out what you can do with your degree after you graduate
- Subject code - HUM2WRS
- Open to any undergraduate student studying at any campus
- 15 credit points
- Teaching period: 2nd Semester
- Online delivery (self-paced), plus a 2 hour induction workshop on 19 July, 2012
Work Ready Skills & Planning Your Career
This subject will provide you with an opportunity to reflect on how ‘work ready skills’ are developed through part-time employment, volunteer work, and academic studies, and identify how the development of high level employability skills is necessary for managing a career in the global workplace.
The subject will be informed by career development theories including DOTS (self-awareness; opportunity-awareness; decision-making; and transition learning) and the Chaos Theory of Careers. You will be encouraged to use an ePortfolio as part of this subject to record personal reflections, career plans, and the development of employability skills and graduate capabilities.
The subject will consist of the following eight topics:
- Work Ready Skills in the Global Workplace
- Development of employability skills
- Tools used in the selection of staff
- Introduction to networking for career building and maintenance
- Identifying career and labour market information
- Informational interviewing
- Career development theories
- Decision making theories and career planning
Enquiries
Jason Brown
Manager, Career Development Centre
Ph 9479 2459