UQ’s approach to student employability development is based on experiential learning. The skills and attributes that employers are looking for can be developed and enhanced through your experiences both at university and in your life off campus. Our student employability approach is based on four stages.
Awareness
Employability is more than just getting a job. It is the ongoing development of discipline knowledge and competencies, and personal attributes that enable you to perform effectively within a work environment, and allow you to successfully navigate your career journey.
To help you understand employability better, and to develop your own employability, we have developed a free, self-paced online course.
Experiences
Participating in a range of experiences develops valuable capabilities and attributes which enhance your employability. We promote opportunities and support students to participate in experiences that build professional and personal capabilities that employers value.
The Employability Award provides students with a structure for engaging in extracurricular activities to develop their employability, and allows them to gain recognition for their involvement.
Learning
Just having an experience is not enough to develop your employability. You need to reflect on these experiences to understand what capabilities and attributes you used, and how you can apply them again to best effect in a work context.
We teach students how to self-reflect to translate experience into learning using the SEAL process of self-reflection, and how this experiential learning enhances your employability.
Transfer
Knowing how to communicate your employability effectively in the recruitment process is critical to securing employment, but is it also important that you are able to perform effectively in the workplace.
Using your reflections on your experiences we will help you to understand how to communicate your potential to an employer as well as make a positive contribution through work.
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Enhance your degree, make a difference, and hit the ground running with the Employability Award.