• Price

    Free

  • Duration

    10 hours

  • Delivery

    Online

  • Available

    Anytime

About this micro-credential

The employment landscape is dynamic, constantly changing and increasingly competitive. Identifying, understanding, and communicating your skills, experiences and attributes ensures you have the best opportunity for securing employment. On completion of this course, you will have improved your employment opportunities through developing a high impact, job-specific, Curriculum Vitae (CV) and Cover Letter. This course is fully online and self-paced, allowing you to study when it’s convenient for you. As a general guide, we recommend allocating 10 hours to complete this course. Learning materials includes video content, online quizzes, short answers questions and online discussion boards. All participants will receive a Certificate of Completion after completing this course.

Who should do this course?

The course is designed for people interested in developing their CV and cover letter writing skills to increase opportunities to secure employment.

What you will learn

  • To identify and communicate your skills, experiences and attributes

  • To apply tools and techniques to present yourself to prospective employers

  • How to create a high impact CV and cover letter

  • Increase your opportunity to secure employment

  • Earn a digital certificate you can share

  • This course is stackable and can count towards further study

Meet your instructors

This micro-credential has been developed by a team of highly experienced educators, industry experts and skilled professional practitioners including Dr Cherie Hawkins, Dr Ana Lobo, Jennifer Kemp-Smith, Dr Amanda Harper, Associate Professor Andrea Carr, and Netty Gibson. It has been informed by community and industry consultation and draws on contemporary principles and practices.

Cherie Hawkins

Instructor

Dr Cherie Hawkins is the course coordinator of the experiential education team at University College, University of Tasmania. Cherie works across discipline teams, to ensure all programs are practice-based, and include hands-on learning, so there are opportunities for students to develop a range of employability skills. Through the development of these skills, which are highly valued by employers, students are better prepared to follow their personal, academic, and professional goals. Cherie’s main area of expertise is in career development and life aspirations, and she is passionate about programs, projects and activities that enable individuals to build their skills and knowledge through experiential learning. She is currently working with a team on a suite of micro-credentials that enable individuals to develop a range of transferable skills and learn how to apply contemporary approaches and strategies in the workplace.

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