Strategic Career Design - 1800 words (Nanj: 27/07/2021)
Perfect
EmployabilityReport.pdf
Personalised employABILITY profile
1 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Student starter kit: Personalised employABILITY profile Profile prepared for: 90018026 Date: 16/07/2021
Literacies for Life Developing Employability Initiative Curtin University, Australia
Personalised employABILITY profile
2 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Welcome to your personalised employABILITY profile!
Literacies for Life empower people to make informed life and career decisions that align with personal and societal values and goals.
Your personalised employABILITY profile is d e s i g n e d t o h e l p y o u u n d e r s t a n d t h e s i x Literacies for Life that combine to enhance your employability. Use these for your personal and professional development.
Engage with resources like this one on a regular basis. You can revisit your profile at any time using your student number. To access the resources, enter your email address as the access code.
You will have often heard the term employability in relation to careers and jobs. When reading the profile, resist this narrow view and focus instead on what is important to you in your future life and work.
Basic literacy Career thinking; belief in yourself and your abilities.
Rhetorical literacy Interpersonal skills; disciplinary and digital knowledge, skills and practices.
Personal and critical literacy Problem solving, decision making, goal setting and goal achievement.
Emotional literacy Interactions and relationships.
Occupational literacy Career thinking, lifestyle and flexibility.
Ethical, cultural and social literacy Ethically, culturally and socially acceptable behaviours and values.
Personalised employABILITY profile
3 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Student starter kit
The employABILITY student starter kit is an online resource featuring a student-focussed, personalised employABILITY self-assessment tool, and developmental resources - the student employABILITY resources.
The student starter kit has everything you need to enhance your employability.
EmployABILITY self-assessment tool and personalised employABILITY profile
The first step in the student starter kit was to assess your employABILITY using the employABILITY self-assessment tool. This generated the personalised profile you are reading now.
Use your personalised profile to see how you self- assessed against the Literacies for Life. Target areas for development, and access the linked resources whenever you have time.
Student employABILITY resources
Student employABILITY resources are online, developmental resources that help develop and strengthen employability. You will find resource links throughout the profile; you can also access them here.
EmployABILITY is a cyclical process! Return to your profile on a regular basis, and make use of the resources as and when you need them.
Personalised employABILITY profile
4 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
What is employability? When working with your employABILITY profile, remember that employability means to employ your abilities. Our definition of employability is:
The ability to create and sustain meaningful life and work for the benefit of self and others.
Rather than preparing for a single job or career, the Literacies for Life approach helps you to shape work and career into what you need and want as an individual.
Three crucial points to remember
1. Employment and employability aredifferent The term employability is often used to describe s k i l l s a n d a t t r i b u t e s t h a t r e l a t e t o a j o b (employment) in a single profession; however, many people in the developed world have five or more different careers and hold 17 or more different jobs across their working lives. Employability changes over time as people apply and enhance their skills and knowledge in many different settings. You can read more about this in a report by McCrindle Research (2014).
2. The nature of work is changing Many of today’s most in-demand occupations didn’t exist five years ago. Technology in particular is both creating new opportunities and making some occupations redundant. Staying ahead of the trends is a key component of employability (World Economic Forum, 2016).
3. It is far better to plan a life thanto just plan a career Although work is changing rapidly, you will always be you. Many decisions about work and career relate to personal satisfaction and personal circumstances rather than the work itself. Plan a life rather than a career.
Personalised employABILITY profile
5 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
When will I be employable? A better question is, “When will I be able to do the work I want to do?” Use your personalised employABILITY profile to help answer this question.
How am I doing? People strive to be employable—self and career literate—for the whole of their working lives. Being aware of your strengths and weaknesses across the six Literacies for Life can help you target areas in need of development and extend areas of strength, so that you can stay ahead.
Your employABILITY profile may change each time you re-assess your abilities, particularly when your goals and career paths change. It is perfectly normal for people to self-assess lower than before in one or more domains; employability is fluid.
As you reflect on your employABILITY profile, identify areas of concern and target these for development. Use the employABILITY student resources linked with your profile, work with career advisors at your institution, and talk with peers, lecturers and industry practitioners.
Personalised employABILITY profile
6 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
How do I read my results?
To read your results, first look at the model below and explore the interactive Literacies for Life model.
The Literacies for Life combine to enhance employability. When you completed the employABILITY self-assessment tool, you assessed yourself against all six literacies.
Personalised employABILITY profile
7 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
My results
The radar or web chart below illustrates your self- assessment in each of the six Literacies for Life, arranged radially around a central point. The closer the shading comes to the outside of the chart, the higher you self-assessed in that literacy.
Your self-assessment relates to your confidence. It will change according to your circumstances and experiences, so use it as a prompt for analysis and action rather than as a score card.
i
Personalised employABILITY profile
8 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
How do I use this profile? First, explore the interactive Literacies for Life model. Next, use this personalised employABILITY profile to explore each of the Literacies for Life in turn.
Your profile includes reflective questions and links to employABILITY student resources. There is no right or wrong way to use the resources; take your time and focus on what is interesting and important to you right now.
The questions and challenges are designed to help you understand and develop each literacy. Each one refers to a crucial facet of graduate success.
Answer the reflective questions alone or with peers, and use your responses as the basis for discussion with career advisors, lecturers and people in industry.
Make it count!
Each employABILITY student resource includes a section titled Make it count! The Make it count! section prompts you to take what you developed in the resource and transfer it to your studies, everyday activities, career planning, CV or professional portfolio.
Collect evidence at every opportunity and add it to your portfolio and CV so that you can find what you need when it comes to applying for work.
Unsure about professional portfolios?
There are many free portfolio websites and programs, such as Adobe Portfolio. Your institution may also have a commercial portfolio platform which you can access for free. Before you start, make sure that you will be able to access your portfolio once you graduate! For help and advice, click here. For more portfolio ideas, use the resource developed by Manitoba Career Development or seek advice from your institutional career advisors.
Basic literacy
9 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Understanding basic literacy
Basic literacy combines your discipline knowledge, skills and practices with your ability to interact with other people and your digital literacy.
Basic literacy includes three qualities, listed to the right. These qualities will be explored over the following pages.
What is digital literacy?
Digital literacy is the ability to identify and use technology confidently, creatively and critically to meet the demands and challenges of life, learning and work in a digital society. The level of digital literacy fluency within any particular domain will d e p e n d o n t h e c o n t e x t a n d y o u r l e v e l o f e n g a g e m e n t i n t h a t c o n t e x t .
1. Disciplinary skills, practices andknowledge
2. Communicating and interactingwith other people
3. Using digital technologies for workand learning
Basic literacy
10 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Basic literacy 1: Disciplinary skills, practices and knowledge
What are your key strengths? How will you use your strengths in your future life and career? What evidence do you have, or need to create, to show you have these strengths? What can you do to further strengthen these aspects of your employABILITY? To what extent will your university program prepare you for graduate life? What new opportunities can you access through your institution?
EmployABILITY development is a partnership. What are you doing to develop your employability?
Think of something you could do in the next 30 days and commit to it!
How to make yourself more employable!
If you’re unsure about what to do next, follow the advice for students, and advice for people already in industry.
Note the common themes and remember to collect evidence as you go.
Refine and retain great assessment pieces Ask for testimonials and references when you work or volunteer Collect certificates Digitise media releases
And remember, keep the evidence in your portfolio.
Notes
Basic literacy
11 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Basic literacy 2: Communicating and interacting with other people
Language and understanding
How comfortable are you when communicating with people from different cultures and backgrounds, or with people more senior than you? What opportunities can you find to develop your language and understanding? How can you incorporate new opportunities into your daily life?
Can you make clear and concise oral presentations? How can you further develop your presentation skills? What can you do over the next month? Think of something and commit to it!
Networks
Do you have a network of contacts who might help you achieve your goals? If not, how will you build these contacts? How can you engage your networks in your employability development?
Basic literacy
12 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Leadership and teamwork
The following questions relate to leadership and teamwork strengths. Using the questions as a guide, think about whether you have experiences that show your leadership and teamwork strengths. If you do, write an account of these and put them into your portfolio.
How well do you gain the support of others for your recommendations and ideas? How well do you listen to other people's recommendations and ideas? How well do you deal with people's problems and resolve conflicts? What opportunities exist for you to develop your leadership and team work? What evidence can you find or create for your leadership and teamwork abilities, perhaps from volunteering, work, sports or music?
Notes
Basic literacy
13 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Basic literacy 3: Using digital technologies for work and learning
Digital literacy involves finding, using and disseminating information in a digital world.
How confident are you in learning and using the digital technologies associated with your studies? How proficient are you at using digital sources to gather reliable information about career opportunities? How confident are you when interpreting large datasets? How aware are you of your online presence and the messages it gives to others?
Being digitally literate implies having skills and capabilities across a number of domains, including the ability to
use technology; find, use and critically evaluate information; curate data and media sources; communicate, collaborate and participate in online environments; manage your online identity as well as your personal security and privacy; and create online content, not just consume it.
Skills such as flexibility, adaptability and being a life-long learner are essential in order to maintain relevant digital literacy skills over time. Your digital literacy skills and capabilities need to grow and be nurtured, they need to be scaffold through your learning and, ultimately, they need to be fit- for-purpose.
Beside your studies, what are you doing to enhance your employability?
You answered a similar question in the self- assessment tool. This is what you wrote.
If you didn't respond, the text box will be empty. Use the space to answer the question.
The most important person in your employability development is you. Make sure you include actions in the box above, even if these are yet to be implemented. Ask questions and collect evidence whenever you can.
Rhetorical literacy
14 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Understanding rhetorical literacy
Rhetoric is effective or persuasive speaking or writing. This includes speaking or writing within the digital domain.
Rhetorical literacy combines the language, communication and interaction capacities within basic literacy with problem solving, decision making, goal setting and goal achievement.
Rhetorical literacy is one of the attributes employers look for at graduate level. To do well in this aspect of employability you need to be able to articulate and show examples drawn from your experience.
Rhetorical literacy includes two qualities, listed to the right. These qualities will be explored over the following pages.
1. Solving problems and makingdecisions
2. Achieving goals, tasks anddeadlines
Rhetorical literacy
15 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Rhetorical literacy 1: Solving problems and making decisions
Use the following questions to develop ideas and evidence.
How good are you at making informed, quick and clear decisions that motivate other people? How often do you change your work or personal life to make it more satisfying and developmental?
To what extent do you consider cultural, business and economic contexts when approaching a problem or situation? How often do you contribute novel ideas that help resolve a problem or situation? How often do you anticipate problems before they happen?
You as a problem solver
Collecting the evidence! Think of a time when you offered a unique and novel idea that added new knowledge and insights to a problem or situation.
This might have been at school, at work, in a social situation or in a team assignment at university.
Follow the steps below to put together a reflection.
Situation: Describe the situation
Problem: Describe the problem or challenge
Action: Describe what you did about it
Result: Describe how your actions resolved the problem or challenge
Impact: Describe how will think differently about your problem solving and/or decision- making abilities as a result of this experience
Combine the sentences to create a statement and add this to your portfolio. The statement will be useful when you address selection criteria. You could also align it with a graduate attribute, learning outcome or accreditation requirement. In the future, use the above steps or choose from a set of critical reflection strategies and templates.
Rhetorical literacy
16 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Rhetorical literacy 2: Achieving goals, tasks and deadlines
Use the following questions to develop ideas and evidence.
How often do you set realistic goals and deadlines? How often do you achieve the goals and deadlines you set? When goals and deadlines are not achieved, what are the reasons for this?
List your reasons in the notes field below. Add solutions and try to apply these in the future. Then, attempt the 20-minute challenge to the right.
Notes
20-minute challenge!!
Reflect on one instance when you set and achieved realistic goals and deadlines.
What were the factors that led to success? What challenges did you overcome? If you were to coach someone else in the same situation, what five things would you advise them to do or not to do?
List two goals or tasks towards which you can start working now.
Commit to starting one of these within seven days. Put a deadline in your calendar and follow the tips you listed above.
Personal and critical literacy
17 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Understanding personal and critical literacy
Personal and critical literacy relates to your career thinking, your belief in yourself and your confidence that you can complete your studies. The literacy also takes into account how you understand and apply your learning.
Personal and critical literacy includes four qualities, listed to the right. These qualities will be explored over the following pages.
1. Career Commitment
2. Believing in yourself
3. Your ability and willingness tolearn
4. Putting theory into practice
Personal and critical literacy
18 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Personal and critical literacy 1: Career commitment
Few people stay in the same profession for their whole working lives. If you’re unsure about your career thinking, create a career action plan using the resource below.
How did you choose your major?
This is how you responded to the question when you completed the self-assessment tool.
If you didn’t respond, the box will be empty. If this is the case, use the space to answer the question now.
Notes
Personal and critical literacy
19 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
What is your career thinking now?
Do you intend to work in your discipline for the whole of your career?
This is how you responded to the question when you completed the self-assessment tool. Take some time to think about it now, using the questions to the left as a guide.
If you didn’t respond, use this space to answer the question.
Sources of advice
Great sources of advice: The university’s careers service and student support office, program coordinators, counselling services and trusted members of your personal and professional network.
Would it help to read about careers in your field? If so, click here to find career stories. Before you read the career stories, make a note of the things you would like to look out for.
Personal and critical literacy
20 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Personal and critical literacy 2: Believing in yourself
Efficacy is another word for belief. Believing in ourselves means that we are more likely to see challenges as opportunities rather than threats. We are also better able to cope with setbacks. Put simply, people with high self-efficacy tend to learn and achieve more than other people.
How is your self-efficacy?
You might remember answering the following questions when you completed the self- assessment tool. Take some time to think about them now.
Believing in yourself - your self-efficacy
In general, do you feel that you are able to do things as well as most other people? Do you have respect for yourself? Are you proud of your successes?
Believing that you can complete your studies - your academic self-efficacy
Do you have the confidence to ask questions in lectures and tutorials? Do you have the confidence to ask for help when you need it? Do you know the standard required to get good grades? Are you confident that you can pass each study module or unit? Do you understand your study materials?
If you answered no to any of these questions, follow the link below to the resource on positive self-talk. Low self-efficacy can be a major challenge, so seek help and advice if you feel unsure.
Seek help!
If you are struggling with your studies, seek help! Universities have a wide range of help available, so please talk to someone straight away.
Personal and critical literacy
21 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Personal and critical literacy 3: Your ability and willingness to learn
Learning is a constant part of life and career. The following three challenges involve different forms of learning that enhance employability and confidence.
Stay up-to-date with ideas
Follow and read general websites such as Wired or The Conversation. Also, read publications from your discipline: for example, Mining Monthly or Anthropology Today. Your university and public library will subscribe to some pay-to-view industry journals. If they don’t subscribe, make a request!
Milestone tracking
Number of classes to complete
Things I need to develop
Evidence I need in order to get work
Ideas for getting ahead
Personal and critical literacy
22 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Personal and critical literacy 4: Putting the theory into practice
Graduate employers know that you have a degree and the knowledge that comes with it. They want to know whether you can put the theory into practice!
How often do you see the relevance of each study unit (module) to your future career?
If it doesn’t seem relevant, ask the lecturer to help you understand how the learning will be useful as a graduate.
Have you already applied some of the knowledge and skills gained in your studies when in a workplace, as a volunteer or in a placement?
Look for opportunities to do this and write down what you did. The stories will be invaluable when you seek a placement or graduate work.
Notes
The self-assessment tool asked you to consider what you would change or add if you were designing your degree program.The box will be empty if you didn't respond, so take the time to answer the question now.
Take control! What can you do to develop anything you feel is missing?
Take the volunteer challenge
The best way to find out what kind of work you like is to get out there and do some! Whether or not you have paid work at the moment, remember that employers value volunteer work just as highly as paid work. Take the volunteer challenge to find out why.
Emotional literacy
23 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Understanding emotional literacy
Emotional literacy is one of the most important aspects of our work life and personal life because it determines how we interact with people and how our relationships function.
The following questions will help you to gauge your emotional literacy. Answer them honestly – you don’t need to share them with anyone else.
Can you tell how someone is feeling by looking at their facial expression and body language? If someone is upset, can you help them feel better? When making decisions, do you listen to your feelings to see if the decision feels right? Can you handle stressful situations or problems without getting too overwhelmed? Do people come to you when they need help?
If so, what is it about you that makes you approachable?
Watch other people over the next few days and identify people who are emotionally literate.
What do they do, or not do? What could you try in your next conversation?
Notes
Learn More
Read the Emotional Intelligence (EI) Lifehack by career coach Hannah Braime, who shares 7 practical ways to enhance your emotional intelligence.
Occupational literacy
24 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Understanding occupational literacy
Occupational literacy adds to our understanding of career exploration, awareness and flexibility. It requires us to think about career fit, lifestyle and alternative careers. For some people, occupational literacy reveals possibilities they hadn’t previously considered.
Occupational literacy includes two qualities, listed to the right. These qualities will be explored over the following pages.
1. Career awareness and exploration
2. Having a 'Plan B' for your career
Occupational literacy
25 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Occupational literacy 1: Career exploration and awareness
Have you thought about:
Identifying careers that best match your interests and skills? Making a well-informed choice about which career to pursue? Finding work that is meaningful to you?
Careers are rarely linear and they are rarely experienced as we had imagined them. In the career story link to the right,read about a university graduate who decided to create a portfolio career – a career that features several different concurrent roles.
To explore how this thinking might influence your decisions, try one of the resources to the right.
Occupational literacy
26 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Occupational literacy 2: Having a ‘Plan B’ for your career
How will you cope with the disappointment if your first career choice does not work out? Could you create a good back-up plan if your preferred career option does not eventuate? What is your ‘Plan B’? Will you be happy with it? How long are you prepared to wait for your preferred career? Which of your skills, strengths and knowledge could you apply in another profession? Take a look at the 'Writing a cover letter' resource to the right to discover top skills for 2020. In the career story link to the right, read about author Liz Byrski and her career journey of 50 years.
Notes
Ethical, cultural and social literacy
27 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Understanding ethical, cultural and social literacy
Literacies for Life encompass our respectful relationships with other people. To uphold ethically, culturally and socially acceptable behaviours and values in our personal and work lives, we need to know what is acceptable and how to enact it.
Ask yourself the questions below and look for opportunities to work or study with people from different backgrounds, communities and beliefs.
Do you accept responsibility for the results of your work, decisions and actions? Do you always uphold the ethics and values of your profession, community or workplace? Do you uphold and encourage responsible behaviour towards the community and the environment? Do you uphold and encourage responsible behaviour in your digital profile? Do you uphold and encourage ethical behaviour in digital domains?
Personalised employABILITY profile
28 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
Acknowledgments The Literacies for Life model was developed by the Developing Employability Initiative at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia.
Many items within the self-assessment tool are drawn from or informed by extant sources; these are acknowledged to the right.
The six Literacies for Life combine to enhance employability and Inform personal and professional development.
Educators can receive an anonymised, aggregated, cohort-wide profile summary and assistance with the workshop and reflection process. The self-reflection tool and profile is made available without charge.
For more information, please visit developingemployability.edu.au or contact Professor Dawn Bennett at [email protected].
Ethical considerations Equipping and enabling educators to embed employability across higher education has been approved by the Curtin University Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) (number HRE2017-0125). Should you wish to discuss the study with someone not directly involved, in particular, any matters concerning the conduct of the study or your rights as a participant, or you wish to make a confidential complaint, you may contact the Ethics Officer on (08) 9266 9223 or the Manager, Research Integrity on (08) 9266 7093 or email [email protected].
When completing the personalised profile tool, students choose whether or not to include their anonymised responses in the research database. The database is hosted securely and all institutional, program and personal details are removed prior to analysis. The consent and information form can be accessed here.
Brackett, M. A., & Mayer, J. D. (2003). Convergent, discriminant, and incremental validity of competing measures of emotional intelligence. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29, 1147–1158. (Emotional literacy items)
Byrne, M., Flood, B., & Griffin, J. (2014). Measuring the academic self-efficacy of first-year accounting students. Accounting Education, 23(5), 407-423. (Critical literacy items)
Coetzee, M. (2014). Measuring student graduateness: Reliability and construct validity of the Graduate Skills and Attributes Scale. Higher Education Research & Development, 33(5), 887-902. (Basic, Rhetorical and Ethical literacy items)
Lent, R. W., Ezeofor, I., Morrison, A., Penn, L. T., & Ireland, G. W. Applying the social cognitive model of career self-management to career exploration and decision-making. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 93(2016), 47-57. (Occupational literacy items)
Mancini, T., Caricati, L., Panari, C., & Tonarelli, A. (2015). Personal and social aspects of professional identity. An extension of Marcia’s identity status model applied to a sample of university students. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 89(2015), 140-150. (Critical literacy items)
Rosenberg, M. (1965). Society and the adolescent self-image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Critical literacy items)
Smith, C., Ferns, S., & Russell, L. (2014). Conceptualising and measuring ‘employability’: Lessons from a national OLT project. Proceedings of the ACEN National Conference, Gold Coast 2014. (Critical literacy items)
Personalised employABILITY profile
29 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett
student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]
I would like to acknowledge team members and colleagues who provided critical feedback and advice, and technical expertise, during the personalised employABILITY profile’s development: Emily Bennett, Lynne Roberts, Nicoleta Maynard, Sally Male and Karen Burland- Clark, Rosie Halsmith, Kate Farrell, Marina Harvey and Rachel Sheffield. The web design was expertly done by Kelvin Tamzil and Mark Sanders at Cognitia Design Solutions. Heartfelt thanks go to project manager Philippa Munckton, without whom the Initiative’s work would not be possible.
The Developing Employability Initiative is supported by a National Senior Teaching Fellowship awarded by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training.
Dawn Bennett Professor of Higher Education, Curtin University July, 2017
Revised March 2018
- page10_notes:
- page12_notes:
- page13_notes: Work
- page15_notes:
- page16_notes:
- page15_challange:
- page15_notes:
- page18_answer: Make money
- page18_notes:
- page19_answer: 1
- page21_notes1:
- page21_notes2:
- page21_notes3:
- page21_notes4:
- page22_notes1:
- page22_answer: Add
- page23_notes1:
- page26_notes1:
