1. Investigate the graduate labour market in your chosen field, including essential criteria and methods of recruitment required for entry.
2. Demonstrate exploration of specific and realistic opportunities which will develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to progress your career
3. Articulate the knowledge, skills and behaviours you have developed previously and identify the CPD which will support you to develop these further in the future.

Mock interview with supporting evidence as appropriate to role (LOs 1-3)

- The future of the graduate labour market
- Preparing for interview
- In dustry standards of application and assessment
- Identifying and planning future CPD
- Navigating the contemporary labour market
- Advanced professional verbal communication skills
- Developing and applying a personal/professional brand
- Professional documents and social media for business

A clear understanding of the graduate recruitment market is essential to inform your career plans. In this module you will explore the labour market in detail, looking at the availability or scarcity of jobs, methods of recruitment, and the skills requirements for entry into graduate employment fields of your choice.

Understanding the power of networking and having the confidence to participate in networking activities will open the door to many career opportunities. This module will support your ability to “sell yourself” in a crowded graduate recruitment market so that you gain new work experience, allowing you to hone your knowledge, understanding, skills and behaviours so that you stand out from the crowd.

The learning strategy adopts a distance learning approach with provision of a structured and comprehensive bank of VLE-delivered learning materials. Subject themes and concepts will be introduced by the provision of asynchronous recorded sessions, which will be followed with recommended activities, such as reading, participation in online discussions, reflections, watching videos, completion of bitesize online courses, quizzes or presentation development.

Students will be encouraged to engage in peer learning by sharing experiences and discussing themes on online discussion forums. This may be in the form of discussion or sharing of prepared reflections, presentations, images or recordings. This encourages students to articulate their learning and builds confidence, teamworking and presentation skills. Feedback can also be given by Academic Mentors and the Careers team, so that students can benefit from professional feedback.

Through mock assessments, reflection and feedback, students will learn through practice how to present themselves and articulate their skills, knowledge and experience supported by a continual professional development plan.

Students will receive regular feedback from the Module Leader to encourage ongoing engagement, in the form of responses to threads on discussion forums, audio recordings summarising reflections on the weeks’ learning, posts from the Module and Course Leader and individual communications such as emails or Teams chats.

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Milliken, S. (2019) From Learner to Earner, Rethink Press
Carnegie, D (2020) How to Win Friends and Influence People. Sanage, London
Bassot, B (2015) The Reflective Practice Guide: An interdisciplinary approach to critical reflection. Routledge, London
Black, A & Black, C (2009) Get that job: CVSs: Hot to Stand out from the Crowd. Bloomsbury, London
McCarthy (2002) Presentation skills: the Essential Guide for Students. SAGE, London.

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Microsoft Teams
Library
LinkedIn Learning
Careers portal