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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
AQF level
Level of learning
Advanced
Former School/College
Pre-requisites
Completion of 144 credit points or equivalent of admitted course.
Anti-requisites
Unit aim
Provides students with a systematic approach to developing a strategy for entry into the employment marketplace. In particular, attention is focused on understanding the needs of employers in the sport, health and fitness industries and on communicating to secure a job. In this unit students will actively seek and undertake the equivalent of a three-week full-time internship with a public, community, or private enterprise organisation in order to obtain practical on-the-job experiences - while providing a beneficial and worthwhile opportunity for the host organisation.
Unit content
- Introduction - the industry and job market - the internship placement
- Discovering career strengths
- Job search strategies
- Understanding application and selection processes - writing effective job applications and résumés
- The employment interview - interview and selection skills
- Career planning and development
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
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1 | collect information on internship and employment opportunities from a variety of sources | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
2 | evaluate their individual preferences, skills, aptitudes, qualifications and experience | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
3 | make effective enquiries about internship and employment positions | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
4 | prepare a résumé that matches their qualifications to the needs of the position and write effective cover letters and supporting statements for employment applications | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
5 | prepare for the job interview and present themselves professionally in job interview situations | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
6 | discuss some of the major factors contributing to successful career planning and development | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
7 | demonstrate that they have successfully completed a 3-week (120 hours equivalent) internship with a host organisation, and critically appraise their own performance with that organisation. | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- collect information on internship and employment opportunities from a variety of sources
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- evaluate their individual preferences, skills, aptitudes, qualifications and experience
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- make effective enquiries about internship and employment positions
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- prepare a résumé that matches their qualifications to the needs of the position and
write effective cover letters and supporting statements for employment applications
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- prepare for the job interview and present themselves professionally in job interview
situations
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- discuss some of the major factors contributing to successful career planning and development
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- demonstrate that they have successfully completed a 3-week (120 hours equivalent)
internship with a host organisation, and critically appraise their own performance
with that organisation.
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
- No prescribed texts.