Unit Synopsis
This unit supports you in your preparation for your professional life beyond graduation. You will learn about contemporary perspectives on professional practice, professionalism, and careers, and you will develop your understanding of how these concepts are related to your future career choices. You will develop awareness of the labour market, as well as the competencies required in the pursuit of various career options. Throughout this unit, you will rely on self-analysis and reflection to establish your own level of competence and personal development needs. Based on understanding the environment, career options, and your current situation, you will strategise for future career success by setting career goals, working towards them, and planning for continued success through lifelong learning and continuous professional development.
Details
| Level | Postgraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 9 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Anti-requisite: MGMT20147 Professional Practice and Career Development 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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2026
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).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Postgraduate 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 | 25% |
| 2. Reflective Practice Assignment | 25% |
| 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%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site.
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: Informal student feedback; self-reflection; students misunderstanding what professional bodies are.
Students often do not understand what professional bodies are and how these can be valuable for their careers.
Invite representatives of various professional bodies (e.g. Engineers Australia, AHRI (Australian HR Institution), Australian Marketing Institute) to deliver small guest speaker sessions about their organisation.
The unit team invited representatives from the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Change Management Institute (CMI), AHRI (Australian HR Institution), Australian Marketing Institute) , to deliver small guest speaker sessions about their organisations in Podcast style recording sessions to make it accessible across campuses.
Source: Student feedback; tutor feedback.
Practical and career-relevant activities are useful and appreciated.
Continue the approach of focusing more on practical activities than theory. Keep involving the Careers team and their resources and tools.
The unit team kept involving the careers team and their resources and tools and continued to add career-relevant activities such as mock interview activities in class and portfolio.
Source: Student informal feedback
Video content to be added
Add an updated set of videos relevant to the topics for updated details and current UC updates.
In Progress
Source: Informal student feedback, self-reflection
Practical and career-relevant activities are useful and appreciated.
Conduct mock networking events and mock interview panels.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Develop an advanced and integrated understanding of contemporary perspectives on careers, professionalism, and professional practice in your cognate field
- Critically analyse and interpret industry conditions and labour market trends
- Enhance self-awareness through application of reflective practice and critical assessment of competencies and competency gaps
- Apply job search and career management strategies to set realistic career goals and identify relevant opportunities for lifelong learning and continuous professional development
- Apply professional communication skills to effectively engage with various audiences in a career transition and progression context.
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| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | |||
| 2 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Communication | • | • | • | • | |
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • | |
| 4 - Research | • | • | • | ||
| 5 - Self-management | • | • | • | ||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | • | |
| 7 - Leadership | • | • | |||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | |