Author: Developing Employability

This week, employABILITY thinking is focusing on Sessional staff and embedding employABILITY thinking. This is an expert guide from Professor Marina Harvey. Nationally and globally the majority of teaching at universities is undertaken by sessional staff. In the Australian context, reliance on sessional staff has more than doubled over the past 20 years. This means that the teachers who carry the ...

This week’s employABILITY thinking feature helps students to Create a high achieving group. The resource is great for students who need to form teams or undertake group assignments. It helps them to increase their self-awareness and positions teamwork as something we all use as professionals. Creating a high achieving group is most effective if students have first created a personalised employABIL...

This week, the employABILITY thinking focus is Engaging students to optimise practice-based learning . This is an expert guide from Professor Amanda Henderson. Optimal learning in practice situations – meaningful learning experiences and appropriate student engagement – requires collaborative governance across university, industry and student. The focus in this guide is the student. Th...

This week’s employABILITY thinking feature challenges students to get to know their dream work. The resource challenges students to track work opportunities over the course of a semester and develop a plan to achieve their goals. Get to know your dream work is most effective if students have first created a personalised employABILITY profile as part of the 10-step Developing EmployABILITY process ...

This week’s featured Developing EmployABILITY resource as a career story titled Adapting to change, from our Career Story series. This career story comes from a computer science graduate who completed an Honours degree in artificial intelligence. The account is a great resource for understanding uneasiness about future work. When reading the career story, students should reflect on what they have ...

This week’s featured resource is Volunteer challenge. This resource prompts students to think about volunteering work as experience that is highly valued by recruiters as well as an activity that can develop crucial employability strengths. There is no charge for any employABILITY resources and all members of the Developing EmployABILITY community have access. To become a member, register here. To...

This week’s featured Developing EmployABILITY resource, Accomplishing your goals, is from our Career Story series. This career story features an internationally renowned novelist who pursued her passion for writing stories that people would enjoy reading. The account is a great resource to develop students’ understanding of the importance of doing what they love, and finding ways to accomplish the...

This week’s featured resource is Which you do you prefer? The resource uses the names by which students are known to expose their different personas. From these, students begin to create a holistic identity and to consider this in terms of their future lives and work. The resource comes from performance studies, but it is easily adapted for other disciplines. There is no charge for any employABILI...