Managing Careers and Employability

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• develop your professional digital presence.
• be equipped with the knowledge of local and global labour markets;
• understand both traditional and contemporary career systems;
• be able to produce strong self-presentation to the labour market;
• realise alternative work arrangements, in particular those influenced by new technology;
• develop your career strategy and plan;

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• to understand what to expect when starting work and getting job(s).
• to gain crucial preparation for job search;
• to enhance understanding of recent and emerging career systems in working life;
• to better understand impact of new competitive markets and technology on people performance and behaviour - at the individual, group, organisational, and cultural level;
• to acquire crucial preparation for planning and managing own career;

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• be prepared for job search;
• proficiency in being interviewee for future job.
• have the tools such as CV;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• gaining long-term employability;
• deep knowledge of career system;
• develop career resilience.

Topics covered in this module will include.

· Employability: What do employers want – what do you need?

· Understanding personal preferences

· Understanding the graduate recruitment market

· Understanding emerging issues in business

· Exploring graduate opportunities

· Making career choices and developing career strategy and plan

· Career Management – organizational perspectives

The teaching processes for this module comprises a combination of traditional lectures, action learning sets, workshop based activities and personal reflection. By channelling the activities into a facilitated personal inquiry you will be encouraged to become active co-creators of the knowledge and insights pertinent to your career.

Learning activities include:

_interviews of mature career people

Seminar participation for identifying personal-job fit, job search activity

CV writing

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.