CDEV2000 Creating Your Career: Employability for the Future - 2025
General Course Information
Course Code : CDEV2000
Year : 2025
Term : Term 1
Teaching Period : T1
Course Details & Outcomes
Course Description
CDEV2000 Creating Your Career: Employability for the Future enables students to critically refect on their current employability trajectory, identifying where they may need to develop or enhance their employability in alignment with their prospective employers, and developing career artefacts in preparation for job applications. In doing so, CDEV2000 covers four key topics:
· Understanding the changing nature of the 21st century workforce and your place within it;
· Understanding yourself to enhance the development of your employability;
· Using career development competencies to create effective career-seeking artefacts; and
· Identifying and communicating your professional point of difference.
To further support these learning expectations, every student in CDEV2000 will be supported by a team of careers coaches from UNSW Careers, with whom they will meet throughout the term to provide direction and support where needed.
Excluded programs:
· 3964 - Information Systems (Co-op) (Honours) (Undergraduate)
· 3587 - Actuarial Studies (Coop) (Undergraduate)
· 3971 - BIS (Co-op) (Undergraduate)
· 3554 - Commerce (Co-op) (Undergraduate)
· 3565 - Commerce (Co-op) (Honours) (Undergraduate) The previous code for this course was CDEV1112.
Course Aims
Creating Your Career: Employability for the Future aims to empower students with the knowledge, skills and capabilities to plan, engage in and critically refect on career opportunities and their career more broadly. It prepares students for the world of work by developing a deeper understanding of recruitment practices, expectations of professionals across a range of industries and the opportunities that exist now and into the future. Students learn about employability skills and their own values and refect on how they can incorporate and articulate these in relation to their own future career vision.
Course Learning Outcomes
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Course Learning Outcomes
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CLO1 : Utilise self-assessment tools to understand and clarify values, interests, strengths and capabilities of employability and refect upon areas for development
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CLO2 : Develop career artefacts that enable you to articulate and pitch strengths, capabilities and ideas in professional language appropriate to the audience, using multiple channels of communication
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CLO3 : Investigate and analyse career opportunities that align with values, interests, strengths and capabilities and refect on the implications for decision making and goal setting
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CLO4 : Apply career competencies by way of formulating future plans centered on personal refections and self assessment for continuous career learning and development
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CLO5 : Identify and build a professional network and employ effective techniques for successfully expanding professional connections
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Course Learning Outcomes
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Assessment Item
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CLO1 : Utilise self-assessment tools to
understand and clarify values, interests,
strengths and capabilities of employability and refect upon areas for development
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• Professional Skill Development
• Tailored Job Application
• Interview Video
• Information Interview and Action Plan
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CLO2 : Develop career artefacts that enable you to articulate and pitch strengths,
capabilities and ideas in professional
language appropriate to the audience, using multiple channels of communication
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• Professional Skill Development
• Tailored Job Application
• Interview Video
• Information Interview and Action Plan
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CLO3 : Investigate and analyse career
opportunities that align with values, interests, strengths and capabilities and refect on the implications for decision making and goal
setting
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• Professional Skill Development
• Tailored Job Application
• Interview Video
• Information Interview and Action Plan
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CLO4 : Apply career competencies by way of formulating future plans centered on personal refections and self assessment for
continuous career learning and development
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• Professional Skill Development
• Tailored Job Application
• Interview Video
• Information Interview and Action Plan
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CLO5 : Identify and build a professional
network and employ effective techniques for successfully expanding professional
connections
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• Professional Skill Development
• Information Interview and Action Plan
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Learning and Teaching Technologies
Moodle - Learning Management System
Learning and Teaching in this course
The overall pedagogical philosophy of this course is based on the belief that learning is an active process requiring engagement and immersion. Accordingly, this course is activity- based requiring students to interact with other students and their course facilitators during both asynchronously and synchronous learning activities.
The course assumes the ability and willingness of students to actively engage in class and to take on an engaged and interactive approach to their learning.