ATS3743 Build your career: Planning and strategies for employability
Faculty of Arts
ATS3743 Build your career: Planning and strategies for employability is a level 3, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2026. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2026
- Not offered
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
This is the 2026 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ATS3743
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After ATS3743
No unit lists ATS3743 as a prerequisite in the 2026 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Equivalent units
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Overview
This unit equips you with the capacity to manage your career 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 2026
The 2026 handbook lists no offerings for ATS3743.
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 contextualise understand work in terms of its history, politics, economics and sociology;
- 3
understand career concepts and theories and their application to individuals, focussing on self-assessment, exploring opportunities, decision making and managing transitions;
- 4
have the opportunity to develop a career strategic plan concentrating on employability skills, opportunity awareness and strategies for implementing career development plans
Workload and teaching
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.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Dr Paul Atkinson
- Dr Andrew Johnson
- Unit Coordinators
- Dr Paul Atkinson
- Dr Andrew Johnson
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS3743?
ATS3743 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS3743 offered?
ATS3743 has no offerings listed in the 2026 handbook.
How much work is ATS3743?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.