Introduction to the Employability Challenge
Broad aims
This employability skills development package is based around the DOTIS model of employability skills development which enables you to develop skills of:
Decision-making
- • Able to recognise your personal decision-making style
- • Able to match opportunities to your own core skills and needs
- • Able to make informed career choices
- • Able to identify and acknowledge constraining factors
Opportunity awareness
- • Able to identify the range of options available to you
- • Able to create and seize opportunities
- • Able to develop a network of contacts for advice, information and vacancies
Transition skills
- • Able to plan and implement an effective course of action or careers action plan
- • Able to identify job opportunities, identify selection criteria and provide evidence of suitability
- • Able to market yourself effectively to employers by producing high quality applications and performing well at interview
- • Able to monitor and evaluate progress and prepare contingency plans
Information skills
- • Able to develop research skills in order to access careers information
- • Able to utilise research skills to identify sources of information and help
Self-awareness
- • Able to assess your skills, values and interests
- • Able to show evidence of abilities
- • Able to seek and respond to feedback from others
- • Able to identify areas for personal, academic and professional development
Methods of delivery
The content is highly interactive using quizzes, questionnaires, tests and a range of other multimedia resources. There a number of highly reflective exercises and activities included in this package and you are encouraged to discuss the results with your tutor so that you will get more out of it and be able to monitor your progress in terms of becoming an effect career manager.
What you will learn
Finding the right job has never been easy. You have to look for something which enables you to use your strengths, satisfy your aspirations and lets you develop to your full potential. This package is designed to help you do this by taking you through the process from start to finish. The skills you will learn will be useful to you throughout your working life as your career progresses.
When you have completed this package you will have:
- • Used online self-assessment tests to create a personal portrait of yourself
- • Looked at how you relate to others in the work environment and evaluated your decision making style
- • Looked at what options you can go into with your degree subject
- • Found out what skills employers look for and evaluated your personal employability skills
- • Gained an understanding about the graduate labour market
- • Improved your job-seeking strategies by looking at pro-active and reactive methods of seeking job vacancies
- • Explored a wide range of options open to you including time out, voluntary work and postgraduate study
- • Enhanced your ability to produce high quality applications and gained insights into how to perform well at interview
- • Learned how to produce a personal careers action plan which you will be able to use to take you to the next step and several steps beyond in your future career
