MATH20992
General Information
- Title: Career Management Skills
- Unit code: MATH20992
- Credit rating: 10
- Level: 2
- Pre-requisite units:
- Co-requisite units:
- School responsible: Mathematics (Careers Service)
- Member of staff responsible: Maddie Smith (Careers and Employability Division)
Unit specification
- Aims
- The programme unit aims to familiarize students with a range of skills that are required for obtaining (and retaining!) a job.
- Brief description
- The sessions cover self-assessment, presentation skills, negotiating skills, time management, group decision making, communication skills, job-hunting strategies, looking at what employers want, CV preparation, applications and interviews and group selection methods.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this unit successful students will be able to:
- be able to identify and practise key career management skills;
- have the skills and knowledge to succeed in the recruitment process;
- have learned about, and practised, key career management skills, particularly team work, time management and negotiating;
- have improved their group work skills by working in small groups and their presentation skills by planning and delivering a formal presentation;
- have analysed their skills and abilities and developed strategies for improving them.;
- have developed an effective Curriculum Vitae (CV) and practised interviews and group selection.
- Future topics requiring this course unit
- None.
- Syllabus
- The sessions cover self-assessment, presentation skills, negotiating skills, time management, group decision making, communication skills, job-hunting strategies, looking at what employers want, CV preparation, applications and interviews and group selection methods.
- Textbooks
- L. Harvey, Graduates' Work: Organisational Change and Students's Attributes, 1997, Centre for Research into Quality.
- P. Hawkins, Skills for Graduates in the 21st Century, 1995, Association of Graduate Recruiters.
- Learning and teaching processes
- One two-hour session per week. Typically, sessions take the form of short information input, followed by interactive group work. Employers and graduates of the department will participate in some sessions.
- Assessment
- Coursework Weighting within unit 100%
- CV and Covering Letter Weighting within unit 20%
- Team Report Weighting within unit 35%
- Individual Report Weighting within unit 25%
- Group Presentation Weighting within unit 20%