Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- understand both traditional and contemporary career systems;
- be equipped with the knowledge of local and global labour markets;
- develop your career strategy and plan;
- realise alternative work arrangements, in particular those influenced by new technology;
- develop your professional digital presence.
- be able to produce strong self-presentation to the labour market;
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.
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;
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- to acquire crucial preparation for planning and managing own career;
- to gain crucial preparation for job search;
- to better understand impact of new competitive markets and technology on people performance and behaviour - at the individual, group, organisational, and cultural level;
- to understand what to expect when starting work and getting job(s).
- to enhance understanding of recent and emerging career systems in working life;
Syllabus
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
Learning and Teaching
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.
Learning activities include:
_interviews of mature career people
Seminar participation for identifying personal-job fit, job search activity
CV writing
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 126 |
Teaching | 24 |
Total study time | 150 |
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Coursework | 80% |
Group Coursework | 20% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assessment | 100% |
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.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Assessment | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External