BUSN19024 - Graduate Employability Skills

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Businesses, industries, and professions are evolving rapidly with new trends emerging on key capabilities required for graduate positions. The rapid change requires graduates with the skills, knowledge and attributes to meet the changing demand of employers. This unit aims to equip students with employability skills focussing on work readiness and career planning by actively engaging in self-awareness exercises and examining employer expectations of graduates in your discipline. You will prepare professional employment applications, practice job interview skills, and develop a personal portfolio that can support your career aspirations. Intelligent use of web based technology will be practiced to search and apply for professional employment. You will also learn about the key requirements, ethical responsibilities, and expectations of both employees and employers.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites Pre-requisite is successful completion of 8 units (48 credit points) at an undergraduate level.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

Term 1 - 2026 Profile
Mixed Mode

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Written Assessment 30%
2. Oral Examination 20%
3. Portfolio 50%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2020 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 87.50% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 22.86% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Student feedback and Unit Coordinator reflections.
Feedback
Informational interviews with professionals take time to arrange and difficulties can arise if they are not arranged in a timely manner.
Recommendation
Students are provided the details of how to organise this part of their final assessment by Week 2.
Action Taken
Students were provided with guidance on how to arrange informal interviews with professionals.
Source: Student feedback. Unit Coordinator reflections.
Feedback
The best aspect of the unit is completion of interviews through video link. Allow recording of online interviews for students' own records.
Recommendation
Continue to use Zoom for interviews and enable students to record the session for later review and reflection.
Action Taken
All interviews for both internal and distance students were conducted via Zoom with the capability to record the session.
Source: Have Your Say and unit coordinator.
Feedback
The current implementation of the selected learning and teaching philosophy works well.
Recommendation
It is recommended that the current unit learning and teaching philosophy and its current unit implementation is continued.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Identify and articulate your skills, abilities, and achievements in relation to your career choice to a potential employer
  2. Evaluate employer expectations of graduates in your discipline and the career options and pathways available
  3. Develop skills for intelligent use of web based technology to search and apply for graduate and other professional employment opportunities
  4. Prepare professional employment applications and confidently participate in recruitment processes including: job interviews, graduate assessment centres, psychometric and other skills testing
  5. Identify appropriate workplace behaviour, rights and responsibilities in the workplace, and various ethical and legal requirements of employers and employees.


Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
1 - Written Assessment • • •
2 - Oral Examination • •
3 - Portfolio • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
1 - Communication • •
2 - Problem Solving • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • •
4 - Information Literacy • •
6 - Information Technology Competence • •
8 - Ethical practice • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Written Assessment • • • •
2 - Oral Examination • • • •
3 - Portfolio • • • •