Career Learning: Managing Your Career
UndergraduateMUR-MSP1002025
Figuring what you want to do with your life is one thing. Knowing how to get there is another. Clarify your career aspirations and figure out the skills you need. Self-assess, create career plans, and showcase your abilities in a portfolio.
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 20 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025,
- 28 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,125
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Career Learning: Managing Your Career
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, you should be able to:
- identify and apply key concepts and techniques relating to career planning and management
- demonstrate effective communication skills in written work and oral presentations
- demonstrate the relevance of digital identity and networking in the context of your future career
- develop and mobilise a career plan.
- Explore your career aspirations and goals;
- Clarify your career aspirations through industry engagement; and
- Learn how to drive your career and actively plan to develop the skills you need for future career success.
This subject assists students to clarify their career aspirations and goals and supports them in planning the development of skills they will need for future career success. Students will complete a series of four online modules. Through the subject, students will undertake self-assessment activities, create a future career development plan and learn to use tools which will help them to showcase their capabilities through an online Career Learning e-Portfolio.
Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.
*Career aspirations: Self-assessment and critical reflection*
Students will be required to:
1. evidence their skill capability using the STAR method;
2. compose a coherent critical reflection in which they consider their career aspirations, current skills and how their chosen course at Murdoch is part of their personal, professional and career development.
*Career Enhancement: Designed materials and reflection*
Students will be required to:
1. create a professional profile for use in digital platforms;
2. create a short video of a professional pitch;
3. reflect on how they can use their professional digital profile and pitch to promote their employability to future employers.
*Career Management: Professional Plan*
Students will be required to:
1. write a guided reflection report related to their engagement with industry;
2. determine what skills and Murdoch Attributes they developed or evidence by completing an informational interview;
3. develop a career plan that can be mobilised now.- Self-Assessment (30%)
- Reflective Task (20%)
- Final Plan (35%)
- Quizzes (15%)
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- 0.125 EFTSL
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