The content of this course includes the following:

Reflecting upon your career journey to date

Skills audits and self-assessment tools

Discovering your strengths, motivations and values

Exploring possible career paths

How to find opportunities

Graduate Labour Market information

Business challenge or Microplacement

Reflecting on work experience

Using your work experience to sell yourself

CVs, cover letters and applications

Personal branding and networking

Interview skills

The assessment will meet all 3 LOs.

The Skills Audit, LMI research, Journal Entries and career plan meet LO1

The Journal Entries and reflection of business challenge meet LO2

The CV, LinkedIn portfolio and personal branding meet LO3

This module will enable participants to move forward in your graduate career, providing individuals with the tools and knowledge to effective plan your career using Graduate Labour Market information and allowing them to identify their strengths, weakness, interests, values and skills. Participants delve into exploring career options, industries, and job roles, they gain insights into different professions, emerging trends and the graduate labour market as well as the competencies required for specific career paths. This course helps individuals to set achievable and realistic career goals aligned to their aspiration’s, skills, and values. Participants learn to create short- and long-term career plans outlining steps to reach their goals and gain practical experience through a microplacements, volunteering, self-employment or part-time job. They will also develop skills including crafting CVs, cover letters and developing an online professional presence. Individuals learn to highlight their skills and experience relevant to their target careers. Techniques for successful job interviews, networking strategies and effective job searching methods are covered. Understanding the significance of continuous learning and skill development is emphasised to upgrade skills necessary for career advancement.

Students will learn through online learning, utilising technology to enhance their learning experience as a catalyst for collaborative working and sharing of ideas. They will put theory into practice through a business challenge, microplacement, volunteering, self-employment or part-time job activity.

Students are encouraged to use online tools to gain a further understanding of themselves and to learn through reflection, enabling them to have a better understanding of themselves and how they can enhance themselves further.

Students will learn through the application of knowledge in practical activities producing a portfolio that is a form of authentic assessment. Students will also simulate a real-world scenario through a business challenge or a microplacement, enabling them to face a similar situation to one they may face in a graduate market and reflect upon it.

Burnett, B. and Evans, D. Designing Your Life. Knopf, New York.

Prospects Luminate - https://luminate.prospects.ac.uk/

Prospects - https://www.prospects.ac.uk/

Target - https://targetjobs.co.uk/

Career Connect Portal – www.staffs.ac.uk/careers

Career Connect Portal

Blackboard

Access to internet

Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the well-established concepts, principles and their development of career planning.

Evaluate critically the appropriateness of different approaches to solving problems and propose solutions to problems arising from analysis during an employer-led business challenge or microplacement.

Demonstrate qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment or further training including the development of existing skills, and acquisition of new competencies that will require the exercise of personal responsibility and decision-making and will enable students to assume significant responsibility within organisations.