Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Brisbane - The Hotel School | ||
| Melbourne - The Hotel School | ||
| Sydney - The Hotel School |
Unit description
Equips students with the skills and capacity to manage and inform their own professional identity in contemporary business careers. Students will explore techniques, tools and processes that will provide the background and context for career choices.
Unit content
Topic 1: Introduction to career management
Topic 2: Self-assessment
Topic 3: Personal branding
Topic 4: Current and future workplace trends
Topic 5: Job search strategies
Topic 6: Future-proofing your career
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | synthesise key theoretical principles, professional skills and individual attributes relating to career planning and development | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 2 | demonstrate the ability to effectively meet the professional requirements of the employment selection process | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 3 | utilise self-assessment tools to develop practical strategies to manage a lifelong career | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 4 | differentiate and apply various techniques for successful lifelong career planning | Lifelong learning | ||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- synthesise key theoretical principles, professional skills and individual attributes relating to career planning and development
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- demonstrate the ability to effectively meet the professional requirements of the employment selection process
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- utilise self-assessment tools to develop practical strategies to manage a lifelong career
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- differentiate and apply various techniques for successful lifelong career planning
- GA5: Lifelong learning
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Reflective essay of career theories and values | 30% |
| Job application | 35% |
| Career Development Plan | 35% |
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Reflective essay of career theories and values | 30% |
| Job application | 35% |
| Career Development Plan | 35% |
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Reflective essay of career theories and values | 30% |
| Job application | 35% |
| Career Development Plan | 35% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
For information regarding Student Contribution Amounts please visit the Student Contribution Amounts.
Fee paying courses
For postgraduate or undergraduate full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees
International
Please check the international course and fee list to determine the relevant fees.