BUSN19024 - Graduate Employability Skills

General Information

Unit Synopsis

The landscape of business, industry, and professional sectors is swiftly evolving, with emerging trends highlighting the essential capabilities needed for graduate roles. This swift evolution demands that graduates possess the requisite skills, knowledge, and attributes to meet employers' evolving needs. This unit is designed to arm students with the employability skills necessary for work readiness and career planning. It involves engaging in self-awareness activities and exploring what employers expect from graduates in their field. Students will learn to craft professional job applications, hone their interview techniques, and create a personal portfolio to further their career goals. They will also practice using web-based technology intelligently to search for and secure professional employment. Additionally, the unit covers the fundamental requirements, ethical obligations, and mutual expectations of 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

Students must successfully complete BUSN12001 Business Internship prior to commencing this unit.

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 2 - 2025

Term 1 - 2026 Profile
Mixed Mode
Term 2 - 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 50%
2. 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. Critically review and reflect on your skills, abilities, and achievements in relation to your career choice to a potential employer
  2. Appraise your employer's expectations of graduates in your discipline and the career options and pathways available
  3. Construct skills in the ethical use of artificial intelligence and other new technologies that will assist you in your chosen career path
  4. Identify and comply with the appropriate ethical and professional standards expected of your chosen discipline.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Written Assessment • • • •
2 - Portfolio • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
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