Accredited Units
- (FSKLRG010) Use routine strategies for career planning
Course Overview
After a long period of unemployment or leave, it can be daunting to return to work. In this workshop, you will learn how to transition back to work after a long absence with the least amount of stress.
You will explore some typical challenges in the workplace, as well as strategies that you can employ to overcome them.
There will be an opportunity to assess your current career options. You will learn about transferrable skills and have an opportunity to assess what your own transferrable skills are. You will evaluate your skill gaps and explore options that can help you close these skill gaps in order to open up more possibilities in your career.
We will teach you about career development planning and by the end of the workshop, you will be given an opportunity to create your first personal career action plan.
This course is part of our Work Ready Program. The MCC Careers Centre can provide you with professional careers guidance and help you jump on the pathway to your next job!
We recommend that you take the first step to becoming work ready and undertake an ERS Career Development Assessment using the Employment Readiness Scale™ (ERS) tool. The ERS is an online self-assessment tool that measures how ready you are for work, identifies gaps in work readiness, creates action plans to move you towards becoming work ready and makes referrals to programs and services to help you find work.
Where to from here? After this course, the next step in the Work Ready Program is to work on the skill gaps that have been identified. Our 1 day job ready workshops are perfect for all abilities and include:
- Career Decision Making – Career Planning
- Job Skills Match
- Skills Profile and Skills in Demand
- CREATE your Personal Brand – LinkedIn
- Write a Winning Resume
- Write a Winning Cover Letter
- Winning Interview Skills
- Mock Interview Superstar
- Reflect on Past Successes
- Self Esteem and Confidence Building
Macquarie Community College operates from a range of venues across Northern and Western Sydney. We have campuses in Blacktown, Carlingford, Chatswood, Epping, Mt Druitt, Richmond, and Ryde. Enrol now!
What you will learn
Course outline
In this workshop you will learn how to:- recognise and use your transferrable skills
- assess your career options
- assess your skills gap
- create a career action plan, and
- find out where to get help when you need it
Course outcome
You will understand your transferrable skills and know your career options. You will have an opportunity to create your first personal career action plan.
At the end of the course, you will be issued a Statement of Attainment for the units where competency has been achieved.
What is involved
Time commitment
This course involves 3-4 hours of delivery face-to-face in a classroom or via livestream video sessions online.
Assessment
Assessment (including recognition of prior learning) must:
- Meet the requirements of the relevant training package or accredited course, and
- be conducted in accordance with the principles of assessment and the rules of evidence, and
- meet workplace and, where relevant, regulatory requirements.
For this course assessment will entail the following:
- You will be assessed throughout the term on the skills and knowledge that you have learned during the course. You will be told when assessments are to take place. You will complete written and oral communication tasks, practical tasks and the assessor will observe your class participation.
What you need to know
Entry requirements
An appropriate level of language, literacy and numeracy (LLN) skills is required to enrol in this course. Macquarie Community College may conduct an LLN assessment as part of the pre enrolment process.
It is advisable that you book in for an ERS career development assessment session prior to enrolling into job ready workshops.
This course requires reading, writing, numeracy, oral communication and learning skills at Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) working Level 3.
What you need to provide
- All workshop material is provided and inclusive with course fees
- Pen and notepad
Fees and government subsidies
The NSW Government’s Adult and Community Education (ACE) Program provides affordable, local training and education to NSW communities. Under the ACE program, participants, employers, delivery partners and providers and the government collaborate to improve learning outcomes for learners and meet community training needs.
The ACE Program will also offer support to small business owners and their staff by providing fully subsidised accredited and non-accredited training in targeted courses in information technology, business services or foundation skills.
*Eligibility criteria apply. This training is fully subsidised by the NSW Government, and as a result your fee is determined through Training Services NSW formal eligibility criteria.
Students will need to supply the required evidence in accord with the requirements of Smart and Skilled eligibility.
- Eligible for Subsidised Training: Fee-Free
- Not Eligible for Subsidised Training: Price on Application
If you're a prospective student, employer or service provider please visit: https://www.macquarie.nsw.edu.au/adult-and-community-education/ for more information where you will find everything you need to know about the ACE program before you enrol.
Contact us today or call on 1300 845 888 to check your eligibility.
What you can do next
Study pathway
After successfully completing this session, the next step in the Work Ready Program is to continue working on the skill gaps that have been identified. Our 1 day job ready workshops are perfect for all abilities and include: