Featured Resource

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 learn more about the Developing EmployABILITY process, join the conversation at our Community of Practice on LinkedIn.

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 their goals We have also developed an educator guide on how to use career stories with students. If you have other career stories to share, please let us know! Accomplishing your goals is most effective if students have first created a personalised employability profile as part of the 10-step Developing EmployABILITY process. There is no charge for any employABILITY resources and all members of the D...

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 employABILITY resources and all members of the Developing EmployABILITY community have access. To become a member, register here . To learn more about the Developing EmployABILITY process, join the conversation at our Community of Practice on LinkedIn.

This week’s featured resource, Capstone units facilitating the transition from university to employability, is an expert guide from Professor Trevor Cullen at Edith Cowan University. The guide for educators provides top tips, things to avoid, a list of resources and links for further reading. All members of the Developing EmployABILITY community have access to the new resource. To become a member, register here. There is no charge for any of the employABILITY resources. To learn more about the Developing EmployABILITY process, join the conversation at our Community of Practice on LinkedIn.

This week’s featured resource is How to balance life and work. The topic of work-life balance is most often discussed in relation to time management and stress, but in reality it is far more than that. In this resource, students are prompted to consider what is important to them, how their thinking is likely to change over time, and what types of relationship they might have with their paid work. These questions help students to consider what they would like to include, or to avoid, in the future. All members of the Developing EmployABILITY community have access to the new resource. If you haven’t signed up yet, become a member here. There is no charge for any employABILITY resources. To learn more about the Developing EmployABILITY process, join the conversation at our Community of Practi...

This week’s featured resource is an expert guide from Adjunct Professor Margaret Lloyd (QUT), who writes on Embedding and sustaining employABILITY through whole-of-program change. The guide for educators provides top tips, things to avoid, a list of resources and links for further reading. There is no charge for any employABILITY resources and all members of the Developing EmployABILITY community have access to them. To become a member, visit the site. To learn more about the Developing EmployABILITY process, join the conversation at our Community of Practice on LinkedIn.

This week’s featured Developing EmployABILITY thinking resource, Developing your personal brand, is from our Career Story series. This story comes from music graduate and orchestral manager Sue, who emphasises the need to find a “niche” and a personal brand on which to build a career. We have also developed an educator guide on how to use career stories with students. If you have other career stories to share, please let us know! Developing your personal brand is most effective if students have first created a personalised employability profile as part of the 10-step Developing EmployABILITY process. There is no charge for any employABILITY resources and all members of the Developing EmployABILITY community have access to them. To become a member please visit the site. To learn more about ...