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Personalised employABILITY profile

1 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett

student.developingemployability.edu.au | [email protected]

Student starter kit:Personalised employABILITY profileProfile prepared for: Sample student reportDate: 22/03/2018

Literacies for LifeDeveloping Employability InitiativeCurtin University, Australia

Personalised employABILITY profile

2 © Copyright 2017 Dawn Bennett

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Welcome to your personalisedemployABILITY profile!

Literacies for Life empower people to makeinformed life and career decisions that align withpersonal and societal values and goals.

Your personalised employABILITY profile isdesigned to help you understand the sixLiteracies for Life that combine to enhance youremployability. Use these for your personal andprofessional development.

Engage with resources like this one on a regularbasis. You can revisit your profile at any timeusing your student number.

You will have often heard the term employabilityin relation to careers and jobs. When reading theprofile, resist this narrow view and focus insteadon what is important to you in your future life andwork.

Basic literacyCareer thinking; belief in yourself and yourabilities.

Rhetorical literacyInterpersonal skills; disciplinary and digitalknowledge, skills and practices.

Personal and critical literacyProblem solving, decision making, goalsetting and goal achievement.

Emotional literacyInteractions and relationships.

Occupational literacyCareer thinking, lifestyle and flexibility.

Ethical, cultural and social literacyEthically, culturally and socially acceptablebehaviours and values.

Personalised employABILITY profile

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Student starter kit

The employABILITY student starter kit is an onlineresource featuring a student-focussed,personalised employABILITY self-assessment tool,and developmental resources - the studentemployABILITY resources.

The student starter kit has everythingyou need to enhance your employability.

EmployABILITY self-assessment tool andpersonalised employABILITY profile

The first step in the student starter kit was toassess your employABILITY using theemployABILITY self-assessment tool. Thisgenerated the personalised profile you arereading now.

Use your personalised profile to see how you self-assessed against the Literacies for Life. Targetareas for development, and access the linkedresources whenever you have time.

Student employABILITY resources

Student employABILITY resources are online,developmental resources that help develop andstrengthen employability. You will find resourcelinks throughout the profile; you can also accessthem here.

EmployABILITY is a cyclical process! Return toyour profile on a regular basis, and make use ofthe resources as and when you need them.

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What is employability?When working with your employABILITY profile,remember that employability means to employyour abilities. Our definition of employability is:

The ability to create and sustainmeaningful life and work for the benefitof self and others.

Rather than preparing for a single job or career,the Literacies for Life approach helps you to shapework and career into what you need and want asan individual.

Three crucial points toremember

1. Employment and employabilityare different

The term employability is often used to describeski l ls and attr ibutes that relate to a job(employment) in a single profession; however,many people in the developed world have five ormore different careers and hold 17 or moredifferent jobs across their working lives.Employability changes over time as people applyand enhance their skills and knowledge in manydifferent settings. You can read more about this ina report by McCrindle Research (2014).

2. The nature of work is changing

Many of today’s most in-demand occupationsdidn’t exist five years ago. Technology inparticular is both creating new opportunities andmaking some occupations redundant. Stayingahead of the trends is a key component ofemployability (World Economic Forum, 2016).

3. It is far better to plan a life thanto just plan a career

Although work is changing rapidly, you will alwaysbe you. Many decisions about work and careerrelate to personal satisfaction and personalcircumstances rather than the work itself. Plan alife rather than a career.

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When will I be employable?A better question is, “When will I be able to do thework I want to do?” Use your personalisedemployABILITY profile to help answer thisquestion.

How am I doing?People strive to be employable—self and careerliterate—for the whole of their working lives. Beingaware of your strengths and weaknesses acrossthe six Literacies for Life can help you target areasin need of development and extend areas ofstrength, so that you can stay ahead.

Your employABILITY profile may change each timeyou re-assess your abilities, particularly when yourgoals and career paths change. It is perfectlynormal for people to self-assess lower than beforein one or more domains; employability is fluid.

As you reflect on your employABILITY profile,identify areas of concern and target these fordevelopment. Use the employABILITY studentresources linked with your profile, work withcareer advisors at your institution, and talk withpeers, lecturers and industry practitioners.

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How do I read my results?

To read your results, first look at the model belowand explore the interactive Literacies for Lifemodel.

The Literacies for Life combine to enhanceemployability. When you completed theemployABILITY self-assessment tool, you assessedyourself against all six literacies.

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My results

The radar or web chart below illustrates your self-assessment in each of the six Literacies for Life,arranged radially around a central point. Thecloser the shading comes to the outside of thechart, the higher you self-assessed in that literacy.

Your self-assessment relates to your confidence. Itwill change according to your circumstances andexperiences, so use it as a prompt for analysis andaction rather than as a score card.

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How do I use this profile?First, explore the interactive Literacies for Lifemodel. Next, use this personalised employABILITYprofile to explore each of the Literacies for Life inturn.

Your profile includes reflective questions and linksto employABILITY student resources. There is noright or wrong way to use the resources; take yourtime and focus on what is interesting andimportant to you right now.

The questions and challenges are designed tohelp you understand and develop each literacy.Each one refers to a crucial facet of graduatesuccess.

Answer the reflective questions alone or withpeers, and use your responses as the basis fordiscussion with career advisors, lecturers andpeople in industry.

Make it count!

Each employABILITY student resourceincludes a section titled Make it count! TheMake it count! section prompts you to takewhat you developed in the resource andtransfer it to your studies, everydayactivities, career planning, CV orprofessional portfolio.

Collect evidence at every opportunity andadd it to your portfolio and CV so that youcan find what you need when it comes toapplying for work.

Unsure aboutprofessional portfolios?

There are many free portfolio websites andprograms, such as Adobe Portfolio. Yourinstitution may also have a commercialportfolio platform which you can access forfree. Before you start, make sure that youwill be able to access your portfolio onceyou graduate! For help and advice, clickhere. For more portfolio ideas, use theresource developed by Manitoba CareerDevelopment or seek advice from yourinstitutional career advisors.

Basic literacy

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Understanding basic literacy

Basic literacy combines your discipline knowledge,skills and practices with your ability to interactwith other people and your digital literacy.

Basic literacy includes three qualities, listed to theright. These qualities will be explored over thefollowing pages.

What is digital literacy?

Digital literacy is the ability to identify and usetechnology confidently, creatively and critically tomeet the demands and challenges of life, learningand work in a digital society. The level of digitalliteracy fluency within any particular domain willdepend on the context and your level ofengagement in that context.

1. Disciplinary skills, practices andknowledge

2. Communicating and interactingwith other people

3. Using digital technologies forwork and learning

Basic literacy

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Basic literacy 1: Disciplinary skills, practices and knowledge

What are your key strengths?How will you use your strengths in your futurelife and career?What evidence do you have, or need to create,to show you have these strengths?What can you do to further strengthen theseaspects of your employABILITY?To what extent will your university programprepare you for graduate life?What new opportunities can you access throughyour institution?

EmployABILITY development is a partnership.What are you doing to develop youremployability?

Think of something you could do in the next 30days and commit to it!

How to make yourself moreemployable!

If you’re unsure about what to do next,follow the advice for students, and advice forpeople already in industry.

Note the common themes and remember tocollect evidence as you go.

Refine and retain great assessment piecesAsk for testimonials and references whenyou work or volunteerCollect certificatesDigitise media releases

And remember, keep the evidence in yourportfolio.

Notes

These text boxes link to embedded resources

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Basic literacy 2: Communicating and interacting with other people

Language and understanding

How comfortable are you when communicatingwith people from different cultures andbackgrounds, or with people more senior thanyou?What opportunities can you find to develop yourlanguage and understanding?How can you incorporate new opportunities intoyour daily life?

Can you make clear and concise oralpresentations?How can you further develop your presentationskills?What can you do over the next month? Think ofsomething and commit to it!

Networks

Do you have a network of contacts who mighthelp you achieve your goals?If not, how will you build these contacts?How can you engage your networks in youremployability development?

Basic literacy

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Leadership and teamwork

The following questions relate to leadership andteamwork strengths. Using the questions as aguide, think about whether you have experiencesthat show your leadership and teamworkstrengths. If you do, write an account of these andput them into your portfolio.

How well do you gain the support of others foryour recommendations and ideas?How well do you listen to other people'srecommendations and ideas?How well do you deal with people's problemsand resolve conflicts?What opportunities exist for you to develop yourleadership and team work?What evidence can you find or create for yourleadership and teamwork abilities, perhaps fromvolunteering, work, sports or music?

Notes

Basic literacy

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Basic literacy 3: Using digital technologies for work and learning

Digital literacy involves finding, using anddisseminating information in a digital world.

How confident are you in learning and using thedigital technologies associated with yourstudies?How proficient are you at using digital sourcesto gather reliable information about careeropportunities?How confident are you when interpreting largedatasets?How aware are you of your online presence andthe messages it gives to others?

Being digitally literate implies having skills andcapabilities across a number of domains, includingthe ability to

use technology;find, use and critically evaluate information;curate data and media sources;communicate, collaborate and participate inonline environments;manage your online identity as well as yourpersonal security and privacy; andcreate online content, not just consume it.

Skills such as flexibility, adaptability and being alife-long learner are essential in order to maintainrelevant digital literacy skills over time. Yourdigital literacy skills and capabilities need to growand be nurtured, they need to be scaffold throughyour learning and, ultimately, they need to be fit-for-purpose.

Beside your studies, what are youdoing to enhance your employability?

You answered a similar question in the self-assessment tool. This is what you wrote.

If you didn't respond, the text box will beempty. Use the space to answer thequestion.

The most important person in your employabilitydevelopment is you. Make sure you includeactions in the box above, even if these are yet tobe implemented. Ask questions and collectevidence whenever you can.

Rhetorical literacy

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Understanding rhetorical literacy

Rhetoric is effective or persuasive speaking orwriting. This includes speaking or writing withinthe digital domain.

Rhetorical literacy combines the language,communication and interaction capacities withinbasic literacy with problem solving, decisionmaking, goal setting and goal achievement.

Rhetorical literacy is one of the attributesemployers look for at graduate level. To do well inthis aspect of employability you need to be able toarticulate and show examples drawn from yourexperience.

Rhetorical literacy includes two qualities, listed tothe right. These qualities will be explored over thefollowing pages.

1. Solving problems and makingdecisions

2. Achieving goals, tasks anddeadlines

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Rhetorical literacy 1: Solving problems and making decisions

Use the following questions to develop ideas andevidence.

How good are you at making informed, quickand clear decisions that motivate other people?How often do you change your work or personallife to make it more satisfying anddevelopmental?

To what extent do you consider cultural,business and economic contexts whenapproaching a problem or situation?How often do you contribute novel ideas thathelp resolve a problem or situation?How often do you anticipate problems beforethey happen?

You as a problem solver

Collecting the evidence!Think of a time when you offered a unique andnovel idea that added new knowledge andinsights to a problem or situation.

This might have been at school, at work, in asocial situation or in a team assignment atuniversity.

Follow the steps below to put together areflection.

Situation:Describe the situation

Problem:Describe the problem or challenge

Action:Describe what you did about it

Result:Describe how your actions resolved theproblem or challenge

Impact:Describe how will think differently aboutyour problem solving and/or decision-making abilities as a result of thisexperience

Combine the sentences to create a statementand add this to your portfolio. The statementwill be useful when you address selectioncriteria. You could also align it with a graduateattribute, learning outcome or accreditationrequirement.In the future, use the above steps or choosefrom a set of critical reflection strategies andtemplates.

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Rhetorical literacy 2: Achieving goals, tasks and deadlines

Use the following questions to develop ideas andevidence.

How often do you set realistic goals anddeadlines?How often do you achieve the goals anddeadlines you set?When goals and deadlines are not achieved,what are the reasons for this?

List your reasons in the notes field below. Addsolutions and try to apply these in the future.Then, attempt the 20-minute challenge to theright.

Notes

20-minute challenge!!

Reflect on one instance when you set andachieved realistic goals and deadlines.

What were the factors that led to success?What challenges did you overcome?If you were to coach someone else in thesame situation, what five things would youadvise them to do or not to do?

List two goals or tasks towards which you canstart working now.

Commit to starting one of these within sevendays. Put a deadline in your calendar andfollow the tips you listed above.

Personal and critical literacy

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Understanding personal and critical literacy

Personal and critical literacy relates to your careerthinking, your belief in yourself and yourconfidence that you can complete your studies.The literacy also takes into account how youunderstand and apply your learning.

Personal and critical literacy includes fourqualities, listed to the right. These qualities will beexplored over the following pages.

1. Career Commitment

2. Believing in yourself

3. Your ability and willingness tolearn

4. Putting theory into practice

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Personal and critical literacy 1: Career commitment

Few people stay in the same profession for theirwhole working lives. If you’re unsure about yourcareer thinking, create a career action plan usingthe resource below.

How did you choose your major?

This is how you responded to the questionwhen you completed the self-assessment tool.

If you didn’t respond, the box will be empty. Ifthis is the case, use the space to answer thequestion now.

Notes

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What is your career thinking now?

Do you intend to work in your disciplinefor the whole of your career?

This is how you responded to the questionwhen you completed the self-assessment tool.Take some time to think about it now, usingthe questions to the left as a guide.

If you didn’t respond, use this space toanswer the question.

Sources of advice

Great sources of advice: The university’scareers service and student support office,program coordinators, counselling servicesand trusted members of your personal andprofessional network.

Would it help to read about careers in yourfield? If so, click here to find career stories.Before you read the career stories, make anote of the things you would like to look outfor.

Personal and critical literacy

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Personal and critical literacy 2: Believing in yourself

Efficacy is another word for belief. Believing inourselves means that we are more likely to seechallenges as opportunities rather than threats.We are also better able to cope with setbacks. Putsimply, people with high self-efficacy tend to learnand achieve more than other people.

How is your self-efficacy?

You might remember answering the followingquestions when you completed the self-assessment tool. Take some time to think aboutthem now.

Believing in yourself - your self-efficacy

In general, do you feel that you are able to dothings as well as most other people?Do you have respect for yourself?Are you proud of your successes?

Believing that you can complete yourstudies - your academic self-efficacy

Do you have the confidence to ask questions inlectures and tutorials?Do you have the confidence to ask for helpwhen you need it?Do you know the standard required to get goodgrades?Are you confident that you can pass each studymodule or unit?Do you understand your study materials?

If you answered no to any of these questions,follow the link below to the resource on positiveself-talk. Low self-efficacy can be a majorchallenge, so seek help and advice if you feelunsure.

Seek help!

If you are struggling with your studies, seekhelp! Universities have a wide range of helpavailable, so please talk to someone straightaway.

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Personal and critical literacy 3: Your ability and willingness to learn

Learning is a constant part of life and career. Thefollowing three challenges involve different formsof learning that enhance employability andconfidence.

Stay up-to-date with ideas

Follow and read general websites such asWired or The Conversation. Also, readpublications from your discipline: for example,Mining Monthly or Anthropology Today. Youruniversity and public library will subscribe tosome pay-to-view industry journals. If theydon’t subscribe, make a request!

Milestone tracking

Number of classes to complete

Things I need to develop

Evidence I need in order to get work

Ideas for getting ahead

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Personal and critical literacy 4: Putting the theory into practice

Graduate employers know that you have a degreeand the knowledge that comes with it. They wantto know whether you can put the theory intopractice!

How often do you see the relevance of each studyunit (module) to your future career?

If it doesn’t seem relevant, ask the lecturer to helpyou understand how the learning will be useful asa graduate.

Have you already applied some of the knowledgeand skills gained in your studies when in aworkplace, as a volunteer or in a placement?

Look for opportunities to do this and write downwhat you did. The stories will be invaluable whenyou seek a placement or graduate work.

Notes

The self-assessment tool asked you toconsider what you would change or add if youwere designing your degree program.The boxwill be empty if you didn't respond, so takethe time to answer the question now.

Take control! What can you do todevelop anything you feel is missing?

Take the volunteer challenge

The best way to find out what kind of workyou like is to get out there and do some!Whether or not you have paid work at themoment, remember that employers valuevolunteer work just as highly as paid work.Take the volunteer challenge to find out why.

Emotional literacy

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Understanding emotional literacy

Emotional literacy is one of the most importantaspects of our work life and personal life becauseit determines how we interact with people andhow our relationships function.

The following questions will help you to gaugeyour emotional literacy. Answer them honestly –you don’t need to share them with anyone else.

Can you tell how someone is feeling by lookingat their facial expression and body language?If someone is upset, can you help them feelbetter?When making decisions, do you listen to yourfeelings to see if the decision feels right?Can you handle stressful situations or problemswithout getting too overwhelmed?Do people come to you when they need help?

If so, what is it about you that makes youapproachable?

Watch other people over the next few days andidentify people who are emotionally literate.

What do they do, or not do?What could you try in your next conversation?

Notes

Learn More

Read the Emotional Intelligence (EI) Lifehackby career coach Hannah Braime, who shares7 practical ways to enhance your emotionalintelligence.

Occupational literacy

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Understanding occupational literacy

Occupational literacy adds to our understanding ofcareer exploration, awareness and flexibility. Itrequires us to think about career fit, lifestyle andalternative careers. For some people, occupationalliteracy reveals possibilities they hadn’t previouslyconsidered.

Occupational literacy includes two qualities, listedto the right. These qualities will be explored overthe following pages.

1. Career awareness andexploration

2. Having a 'Plan B' for your career

Occupational literacy

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Occupational literacy 1: Career exploration and awareness

Have you thought about:

Identifying careers that best match yourinterests and skills?Making a well-informed choice about whichcareer to pursue?Finding work that is meaningful to you?

Careers are rarely linear and they are rarelyexperienced as we had imagined them. In thecareer story link to the right,read about auniversity graduate who decided to create aportfolio career – a career that features severaldifferent concurrent roles.

To explore how this thinking might influence yourdecisions, try one of the resources to the right.

Occupational literacy

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Occupational literacy 2: Having a ‘Plan B’ for your career

How will you cope with the disappointment if yourfirst career choice does not work out? Could youcreate a good back-up plan if your preferredcareer option does not eventuate?What is your ‘Plan B’? Will you be happy with it?How long are you prepared to wait for yourpreferred career?Which of your skills, strengths and knowledgecould you apply in another profession? Take a lookat the 'Writing a cover letter' resource to the rightto discover top skills for 2020.In the career story link to the right, read aboutauthor Liz Byrski and her career journey of 50years.

Notes

Ethical, cultural and social literacy

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Understanding ethical, cultural and social literacy

Literacies for Life encompass our respectfulrelationships with other people. To upholdethically, culturally and socially acceptablebehaviours and values in our personal and worklives, we need to know what is acceptable andhow to enact it.

Ask yourself the questions below and look foropportunities to work or study with people fromdifferent backgrounds, communities and beliefs.

Do you accept responsibility for the results ofyour work, decisions and actions?Do you always uphold the ethics and values ofyour profession, community or workplace?Do you uphold and encourage responsiblebehaviour towards the community and theenvironment?Do you uphold and encourage responsiblebehaviour in your digital profile?Do you uphold and encourage ethical behaviourin digital domains?

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AcknowledgmentsThe Literacies for Life model was developed bythe Developing Employability Initiative at CurtinUniversity in Perth, Western Australia.

Many items within the self-assessment tool aredrawn from or informed by extant sources; theseare acknowledged to the right.

The six Literacies for Life combine to enhanceemployability and Inform personal andprofessional development.

Educators can receive an anonymised,aggregated, cohort-wide profile summary andassistance with the workshop and reflectionprocess. The self-reflection tool and profile ismade available without charge.

For more information, please visitdevelopingemployability.edu.au or contactProfessor Dawn Bennett [email protected].

Ethical considerationsEquipping and enabling educators to embedemployability across higher education has beenapproved by the Curtin University HumanResearch Ethics Committee (HREC) (numberHRE2017-0125). Should you wish to discuss thestudy with someone not directly involved, inparticular, any matters concerning the conduct ofthe study or your rights as a participant, or youwish to make a confidential complaint, you maycontact the Ethics Officer on (08) 9266 9223 orthe Manager, Research Integrity on (08) 92667093 or email [email protected].

When completing the personalised profile tool,students choose whether or not to include theiranonymised responses in the research database.The database is hosted securely and allinstitutional, program and personal details areremoved prior to analysis. The consent andinformation form can be accessed here.

Brackett, M. A., & Mayer, J. D. (2003). Convergent,discriminant, and incremental validity ofcompeting measures of emotional intelligence.Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29,1147–1158. (Emotional literacy items)

Byrne, M., Flood, B., & Griffin, J. (2014). Measuringthe academic self-efficacy of first-year accountingstudents. Accounting Education, 23(5), 407-423.(Critical literacy items)

Coetzee, M. (2014). Measuring studentgraduateness: Reliability and construct validity ofthe Graduate Skills and Attributes Scale. HigherEducation Research & Development, 33(5),887-902. (Basic, Rhetorical and Ethical literacyitems)

Lent, R. W., Ezeofor, I., Morrison, A., Penn, L. T., &Ireland, G. W. Applying the social cognitive modelof career self-management to career explorationand decision-making. Journal of VocationalBehavior, 93(2016), 47-57. (Occupational literacyitems)

Mancini, T., Caricati, L., Panari, C., & Tonarelli, A.(2015). Personal and social aspects of professionalidentity. An extension of Marcia’s identity statusmodel applied to a sample of university students.Journal of Vocational Behavior, 89(2015), 140-150.(Critical literacy items)

Rosenberg, M. (1965). Society and the adolescentself-image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton UniversityPress. (Critical literacy items)

Smith, C., Ferns, S., & Russell, L. (2014).Conceptualising and measuring ‘employability’:Lessons from a national OLT project. Proceedingsof the ACEN National Conference, Gold Coast2014. (Critical literacy items)

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I would like to acknowledge team members andcolleagues who provided critical feedback andadvice, and technical expertise, during thepersonalised employABILITY profile’sdevelopment: Emily Bennett, Lynne Roberts,Nicoleta Maynard, Sally Male and Karen Burland-Clark, Rosie Halsmith, Kate Farrell, Marina Harveyand Rachel Sheffield. The web design was expertlydone by Kelvin Tamzil and Mark Sanders atCognitia Design Solutions. Heartfelt thanks go toproject manager Philippa Munckton, without whomthe Initiative’s work would not be possible.

The Developing Employability Initiative issupported by a National Senior TeachingFellowship awarded by the Australian GovernmentDepartment of Education and Training.

Dawn BennettProfessor of Higher Education, Curtin UniversityJuly, 2017

Revised March 2018