Career Management in a Digital Age

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• Be able to produce strong self-presentation to the labour market
• Understand both traditional and contemporary career systems from both theoretical and practical perspectives, to ensure career sustainability and employability for the graduates
• Be able to apply critical theories to support and underpin these challenges
• Be equipped with the knowledge of local and global labour markets, which is a complex issue, posing diverse challenges facing individuals and organizations across the globe
• Realise alternative work arrangements, in particular those influenced by new technology

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• identify strengths in yourself and others;
• develop your career plan;
• critically evaluate and develop your professional development objectives;
• develop your professional digital presence.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate independent learning ability to support continuing professional development.

The module provides an opportunity for the ideas to develop and for the reflection to lead into actions that will support professional development.

Topics covered in this module will include.

• Individual careers: Choice, strategy development, Career plan
• Internal, external and organisational careers
• Contemporary career theories and concepts
• Employability
• Organizational career systems
• Global careers
• Careers and diversity and inclusion at the workplace
• Alternative work arrangements
• Career transition from university to the labour market

Teaching and learning methods

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. The assignments are directed in improving intellectual and research skills. The written assignments will help develop your analytical and reflective skills. You will collect, collate and analyse information from a variety of sources as indicated in the two different assignments, and be able to communicate concepts and practices effectively based on your efforts.

Besides more traditional lecture-led sessions, students will be required to work independently to develop their knowledge and understanding of the learning and development required to be successful in the MSc programme. You should check the online timetable regularly for updates to times and places of teaching sessions.

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Y Baruch (2021). Managing Careers and Employability. SAGE.

Harriman House Ltd. Interviews and Assessment Centres.

Lees, L. (2016). How to Get a Job You Love. McGraw-Hill Education.

Maun, R. (2012). Job Hunting 3.0: Secrets and skills to sell yourself effectively in the modern age. Marshall Cavendish International (Asia).

Taylor, D (2010). Now You've Been Shortlisted: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Being Successful at Interviews and Assessment Centres. Harriman House Ltd..

R Bolles (2019). What Colour is Your Parachute?.

Zichy, S (2017). Career Match: Connecting Who You Are with What You’ll Love to Do. AMACON.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

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.