1009IBA Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Australian Federal Police, Austrade, Joseph Moloney
4 May 2018
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L8A. Career Focus
Purpose of the Career Development Activities
• Develop confidence about your career direction
• Help you explore future career options
• Demonstrate practical steps you can do now to make a positive difference to your
employability
• Outline what's involved in the career development assignment
SOAR: A Useful Career Model
• Self Awareness
o Discovering and building your unique identity
• Opportunity Awareness
o Options, occupations and possibilities available
• Aspirations
o Making decisions, setting realistic goals, action planning
• Results
o Self-promotion on paper and in person
o Implementation and review of plans
o Making improvements
Self Awareness
• Refer to Career Direction on our website to assess your strengths and skills
o https://www.griffith.edu.au/careers-employment/for-students/career-direction
• Career Interests
o 'Start the Quiz'
• Values Card Sort
• Personality assessment using the Jung Typology test
• What aspects of these do you want to develop next?
• "Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek first to know themselves." - William Shakespeare
Opportunity Awareness
• What are the career options with this degree?
• Which of these might suit me?
• Who employs graduates in my field?
• What are these employers looking for?
• Resources
o CareerBoard (past and present roles)
o Job descriptions
• E.g. www.myfuture.edu.au
o Job advertisements online
www.joboutlook.gov.au
o Professional associations
Field Research/Informational Interviews
• Requesting information only
• Find out what the job is really like
• Benefit from others experience
• Develop your network
• Build your career confidence
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Employment Outcomes from a Bachelor of Asian Studies
Nick McAlpine
• Policy Research Officer
• Federal Member of Parliament
Hilary Barsby
• Mining Team
• Australian Trade Commission (Austrade)
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