The Successful High School Graduate Course
Course Outline
Duration: 7 hours
Modules: 5
Materials: Text, Videos, Infographics, Quizzes
Focus: Helps years 10-12 students to develop a career mindset, uses the CASVE employment problem solving and decision making model to consider strengths and interests, regional jobs availability, a long list and short list of career options, and job application skills. Students complete the course with a prioritised matrix of career options, further study decisions, resume, job interview skills and much more.
Takeaways: LinkedIn microcredential and Certificate
What is the Successful High School Graduate Course about?
The Successful Graduate High School Graduate Course has been specifically designed to help students make career choices and decisions for life after school. Carefully designed by high school career counsellors, and using our Career Decision Making Model, the Course will help students to research career fields and determine if they should continue with further study, start an apprenticeship, start working, or pursue other fulfilling avenues. The course is designed to be part of a package of online courses that are offered to students through a co-branded employability training platform, custom-built to support the value proposition of your institution.
Brand Engagement
We specialise in the production and delivery of unique employability training websites that comply with client brand guidelines. These sites provide ongoing student engagement with your brand and our award-winning content.
This course complements our other award-winning courses that we deliver to your students under your brand.
Consider your Successful Graduate platform as a plug-in that adds employability to your student value proposition.
Modules 1 - 2
SCHOOL’S OUT – WHAT NEXT?
The first module introduces the need for a student to make some sort of post-secondary decision through our employment problem solving and decision making model. Employment and further study are both included as post-school options to consider.
WHO AM I + WHAT CAN I CONTRIBUTE?
We explore a variety of career fields that students might enjoy by helping students to register with the myfuture website and identifying each student’s interests and potential levels of education and training. Students expand their self-awareness by identifying their hard and soft skills, personality type and work values.
Modules 3 - 4
WHERE ARE THE JOBS?
Here students consider how they will learn to locate and interpret Australian labour market information. We provide some of the latest data sources which outline recently advertised positions in locations around Australia. The second unit explores a variety of formal and informal approaches to job hunting and recruitment techniques that students may come across when using formal job search methods. Together these units will help your students to focus their job search efforts on where the jobs are, using a variety of formal and informal job hunting methods and being prepared for a range of different recruitment strategies.
HOW TO APPLY FOR WORK
By providing an overview of the different recruitment processes used in Australia, we can then introduce job application techniques in context to students. Each student prepares a resume, cover letter and understands how to address selection criteria. We discuss the importance of personal branding and help students to understand how their job applications can be written to help them stand out and be competitive.
Module 5
JOB INTERVIEWS
First impressions count, and it’s estimated three-quarters of interviews are failed within three minutes of entering the room. This means that your students need to prepare well before the interview. Students are taught about the importance of personal grooming, demeanour, researching the organisation, researching and anticipating interview questions, practising their responses, managing non-verbal communication and how to follow up an interview. We have also introduced material about how to properly manage a video-based interview and have prepared video exercises that ensure students verbalise and record their interview responses. At the end of the course, students work through a course checklist, ensuring that they have passed all quizzes, and then proceed to download their course certificate. We provide instructions on how to load their certificate and our LinkedIn microcredential to their LinkedIn profile, signalling to employers that they are job-ready.
Scale
Every intake.
Many customers on-board their future or commencing students to their Successful Graduate platform, introducing employability skills from the start of their student journey.
Every cohort.
You can choose our different courses for different cohorts. We can even customise your training materials to suit industries and faculties.
Every student.
Imagine the power of every student at your institution being taught Successful Graduate employability skills. We are focused on giving you that power through scale.
Robust Course Design
Our course writers are dedicated industry professionals. We only work with course writers who have been there and worked directly with students as international education staff, qualified careers counsellors and academics. You can rest easy, assured that their materials are blended into professional videos, infographics, course workbooks and quizzes that are designed to maximise student learning and outcome. Successful Graduate has been awarded as a global finalist for multiple employability awards. Remember, our mission is to help students enter the world of work faster, while reaching their potential. All courses offer flexible learning frameworks and are WCAG compliant.
Customisation
Would you prefer course content that suits a particular industry? Are your students preparing for a work integrated learning placement? Do you have your own material that you want to be embedded into our course templates? We provide course customisation to suit your needs.
Microcredentials
The education technology industry has spawned some amazing opportunities for education providers. At Successful Graduate, we have focused upon delivering high quality, best practice employability learning materials, and delivering them under the brand of each of our education industry customers. Students are encouraged to upload their course certificates and our Successful Graduate Certifications to their LinkedIn profile. As the edtech industry matures, we remain at the forefront of Microcredentialling recognition and policy development, to the benefit of your students.