ATS2743 Build your career: Planning and strategies for employability
Faculty of Arts
ATS2743 Build your career: Planning and strategies for employability is a level 2, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts, offered in 2025 in Semester 2 at Caulfield and Clayton. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2025
- Semester 2
- Caulfield, Clayton
- Assessment
- No exam
- 5 tasks
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2025 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ATS2743
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After ATS2743
No unit lists ATS2743 as a prerequisite in the 2025 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prohibition: ATS3743, HSC2400, SCI3930
Prerequisite: Twelve credit points of first-year units.
Equivalent units
The same content under another code. Only one of them counts.
Overview
The unit equips you with the capacity to manage your careers lifelong. It contextualises this understanding in the history, sociology, economics and future of work. Work legislation and the role of unions and professional associations also provide a setting for exploration of career concepts and theories and their application to the individual. You will develop a career plan based on an awareness of your skills and aspirations and an understanding of approaches to job search, career decision making and managing change.
The unit will be delivered through a mix of seminars and practicals and will draw upon your recent or concurrent experience of work.
Offerings in 2025
| Teaching period | Campus | Mode |
|---|---|---|
| Second semester | Caulfield | On campus |
| Second semester | Clayton | On campus |
Assessment
- Exercise - career self assessmentExercise5%
- Presentation - career learning report part 1Presentation20%
- Exercise - peer review of job applicationsExercise25%
- Written - career learning report part 2Written40%
- Reflection - career reflection and strategyWritten10%
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
have practical experience and awareness of job search, networking, application and recruitment processes including interviews;
- 2
have the opportunity to understand work in terms of its history, politics, economics and sociology;
- 3
understand career concepts and theories and their application to individuals, focusing on self-assessment, exploring opportunities, decision making and managing transitions;
- 4
have a career strategic plan concentrating on employability skills, opportunity awareness and strategies for implementing career development plans
Workload and teaching
- Tutorials24 hours
- Lectures12 hours
- Teaching approachEnquiry-based learning
- Teaching approachActive learning
- Teaching approachResearch activities
- Teaching approachPeer assisted learning
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
You are expected to engage in enquiry and reflection on career issues relevant to your own situation, guided by the teaching staff and materials. The teaching approach involves active discussion in a workshop environment supported by readings from both academic and professional literature as well career development activities.
You will be actively engaged in researching career opportunities in a field of interest to you, as well as researching responses to career issues.
You will engage with peers in workshops to discuss, provide and receive feedback, particularly on aspects of communicating with employers (through job applications and interviews).
Contacts
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Andrew Johnson
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Andrew Johnson
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS2743?
ATS2743 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS2743 offered?
In 2025, ATS2743 runs in Semester 2 at Caulfield and Clayton.
How much work is ATS2743?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Does ATS2743 have an exam?
No. ATS2743 has 5 assessment tasks and no exam.