Career development programs
The Career development programs are online modules available on a new blackboard site. Introduction to the Career development modules: Career development programs overview (HTML Video, 2KB) / Text Alternative.
They help students and graduates to:
- make sound course and career choices;
- make successful transitions to, during and after, life as a student at QUT;
- make connections between your course of study and where it might lead;
- and progress your own career pathway.
How to complete them
Go to the blackboard site: Career Development Program (CARDEV)
Option 1: Choose from six different Career development programs (one program = set of six online modules):
- University preparation
- Career preparation
- Work placement preparation
- Career management
- Graduate careers
- Workplace resilience
Option 2: Choose to complete individual modules instead of the full program (Go to All Modules, left hand menu in blackboard):
- Applications for work placements
- Assessing readiness for study
- Branding myself
- Career decision making
- Course exploration and decision making
- Defining my opportunities
- Effective workplace communication
- Information interviewing
- Interviews
- Interviews for work placements
- Life balance
- Managing pressures
- Managing your finances
- Maximising the Student ePortfolio
- Resumes and letters
- Seeking graduate opportunities
- Seeking work placement opportunities
- Selection criteria
- Self understanding 1
- Self understanding 2 (Auditing my strengths)
- Self understanding 3
- Teamwork
- Thriving at university
- Thriving in a workplace
- Using Student ePortfolio
More info
The content in each program is designed to help you at different stages of your life-long career development. All programs contain five core modules and one elective module. The programs are online co-curricular activities alongside your formal curriculum.