Online employability course
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Learn how to unlock your personal and professional development to maximise your career success.
EMPLOY101x "Unlocking your employability" is a self-paced, online course based on UQ's approach to student employability development. The course provides strategies and techniques to help you to learn from your experiences, identify your unique capabilities and attributes, and effectively communicate your employability in different contexts, such as in the recruitment process and through pitching.
With examples from different industries and environments, and contributions from employers, entrepreneurs, students, graduates and experts, this course will help prepare you to navigate the unpredictability of the world of work, both now and throughout your career.
UQ students can access the full and free version of the course by using their UQ student email to register and enrol and using the voucher code:E21U49M2B38SBV4NInstructions at this link will step you through registration in the course.
If you have any questions regarding accessing the verified version of the course contact employ@uq.edu.au
About this course
The future of work is unpredictable, and navigating this disruption effectively matters to everyone in every industry, including employees, entrepreneurs, and managers.
This course will show you how to take your experiences, extract what you’ve learnt from them and present them in a way that clearly communicates your potential and enables you to apply them in different contexts - such as being employed within organisations or running your own business.
A degree is necessary to secure a graduate role, but to be effective in any context we can do much more. \ You'll hear from:
- Employers discussing what they value when hiring new employees
- Entrepreneurs who discuss the attributes that enhance their entrepreneurial pathways
- Current students who have maximized their university experience
- Graduates who have transitioned successfully into the workplace or their own business
- Experts sharing their perspectives on employability
What you'll learn
On completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Prepare for the future of work and rapidly changing circumstances.
- Recognise the scope of career pathways and the value of working in a diversity of contexts.
- Identify opportunities for employability development throughout your career.
- Relate your employability to a range of work contexts, including entrepreneurial endeavours.
- Apply self-reflective methods to identify development from experience.
- Effectively articulate your unique qualities and capabilities.
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Apply techniques to communicate your potential in a range of situations.
- Employability Award
- Online employability course
- For employers