Program Overview

Online Employability Course

The online employability course, EMPLOY101x "Unlocking your employability," is a self-paced, online course based on the University of Queensland's approach to student employability development. This course provides strategies and techniques to help learners extract valuable insights from their experiences, identify unique capabilities and attributes, and effectively communicate their employability in various contexts, such as recruitment processes and pitching.

About this Course

The future of work is unpredictable, and navigating this disruption effectively matters to everyone in every industry, including employees, entrepreneurs, and managers. This course will show learners how to take their experiences, extract what they have learned from them, and present them in a way that clearly communicates their potential and enables them to apply them in different contexts - such as being employed within organizations or running their own business.

Learners will hear from:

• Employers discussing what they value when hiring new employees
• Entrepreneurs who discuss the attributes that enhance their entrepreneurial pathways
• Current students who have maximized their university experience
• Graduates who have transitioned successfully into the workplace or their own business
• Experts sharing their perspectives on employability

What You'll Learn

On completion of this course, learners should be able to:

• Prepare for the future of work and rapidly changing circumstances
• Recognize the scope of career pathways and the value of working in a diversity of contexts
• Identify opportunities for employability development throughout their career
• Relate their employability to a range of work contexts, including entrepreneurial endeavors
• Apply self-reflective methods to identify development from experience
• Effectively articulate their unique qualities and capabilities
• Apply techniques to communicate their potential in a range of situations

Course Details

The course is designed to help learners unlock their personal and professional development to maximize their career success. With examples from different industries and environments, and contributions from employers, entrepreneurs, students, graduates, and experts, this course will help prepare learners to navigate the unpredictability of the world of work, both now and throughout their career.