Career Development - Employment Readiness Program - Sydney Course

Whether you are a job seeker or planning a career change, we can help you on your journey to getting the right skills for your next job!

The Macquarie Community College Careers Centre provides a face-to-face professional employment readiness program that is supported by the Employment Readiness Scale™ (ERS) tool. This is an eight week program, with two face to face sessions per week. 

The Employment Readiness Scale™ (ERS) tool is an easy, user friendly online self-assessment tool that measures how ready you are for work, identifies gaps in work readiness and helps you create action plans to bridge the gaps and brings you closer to becoming work ready. Once you are work ready, your chances of finding and keeping a job that you like, are greater than 80%.

This course is suitable for those who:

• are currently unemployed
• recently graduated
• are looking for a job or career change
• are unsure about how to prepare and search for work
• need support with finding services for your individual circumstances
• have barriers and challenges in gaining employment

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!

Course Outline

What is the Career Development - Employment Readiness Program?

By the end of the first session, you will get a detailed employment readiness report of your strengths, job ready gaps, and a personalised action plan to help you improve your career goals and employability. 

Included in this program are the work ready workshops where you will be empowered with the skills and knowledge for your career development and career maintenance.

The job ready workshops included are:

• Career Decision Making - Career Planning
• Job Skills Match
• Skills Profile and Skills in Demand
• Create your Personal Brand - LinkedIn
• Write a Winning Cover Letter
• Winning Interview Skills
• Mock Interview Superstar
• Reflect on Past Successes
• Self Esteem and Confidence Building
• Transition to Work after a Long Absence

The Employment Readiness Scale™ (ERS) tool is used several times throughout the program to measure and capture positive changes in your employment readiness, help you update your action plan, work towards your career goals, help find a job that you like and manage your career.

Course Outcome

By the end of this course, you will the skills and confidence to locate, secure and maintain employment.

A Statement of Attainment will be issued for the units where competency has been achieved.

What to Bring

Please bring a:

• Pen and notepad

All course material is provided and inclusive with course fees

Prerequisite: Essential

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.

Reading, writing, numeracy, oral communication and learning skills at Australian Core Skills Framework (ACSF) exit Level 2 or above is required.
You will be required to complete a short survey as a part of the enrolment process.

Fees and Government Subsidy Opportunities

The NSW Government’s Adult and Community Education (ACE) Program provides additional support to disadvantaged students who have barriers to studying a full qualification. The ACE Program aims to promote access and increase vocational education and training outcomes for those who experience significant barriers to training and employment.

This may include students who are:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
• Living with a disability
• Long-term unemployed
• Commonwealth welfare recipients and their dependants
• Migrants/refugees who are unemployed or underemployed
• Experiencing other barriers to the Smart and Skilled entitlement program
• Living in regional and remote communities where training under the Smart and Skilled entitlement program cannot easily be accessed

If you're a prospective student, please visit: https://www.macquarie.nsw.edu.au/adult-community-education where you will find everything you need to know about the Adult Community Education program before you enrol.

For those that are not eligible for this subsidy please enquire for pricing.

Study Load

This course involves 1.5 hours of classroom delivery.

Credit Transfer and Recognition of Prior Learning

Credit transfer (CT) is defined in the AQF as follows:

• Credit transfer is a process that provides students with agreed and consistent credit outcomes for components of a qualification based on identified equivalence in content and learning outcomes between matched qualifications.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) is defined in the AQF as follows:

• Recognition of prior learning is an assessment process that involves assessment of an individual’s relevant prior learning (including formal, informal and non-formal learning) to determine the credit outcomes of an individual application for credit.

This is underpinned by the AQF definition of credit as follows:

• Credit is the value assigned for the recognition of equivalence in content and learning outcomes between different types of learning and/or qualifications.
• Credit reduces the amount of learning required to achieve a qualification and may be through credit transfer, articulation, recognition of prior learning or advanced standing.

For further CT information visit: www.aqf.edu.au/sites/aqf/files/credit-transfer-explanation.pdf.

For further RPL information visit: https://www.aqf.edu.au/sites/aqf/files/rpl-explanation.pdf.

Units of Competency (14)

• Prepare to participate in a learning environment(FSKLRG001)
• Use short and simple strategies for career planning (FSKLRG003)
• Create texts of limited complexity for personal purposes (VU22391)
• Use routine strategies for career planning (FSKLRG010)
• Use strategies to identify job opportunities (FSKLRG007)
• Undertake a simple investigation of health and wellbeing (VU22402)
• Identify learning objectives (VU22342)
• Write routine workplace texts (FSKWTG009)
• Interact effectively with others at work (FSKOCM007)
• Use oral communication skills for effective workplace presentations (FSKOCM005)
• Engage with texts of limited complexity for employment purposes (VU22388)
• Create texts of limited complexity to participate in the workplace (VU22393)
• Create simple texts for employment purposes (VU22367)
•  Use digital technology for routine and simple workplace tasks(FSKDIG002)

How You Will Be Assessed

Assessment (including recognition of prior learning) must:

• Meet the requirements of the relevant unit of competency, 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:

• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking
• Completing a multiple choice assessment

What Can I Study Next?

After successfully completing the Career Development - Employment Readiness Program  you will be supported with career guidance for up to six months.

Based on your individual needs and skills enhancement requirements, our career mentors will recommend beneficial courses that serve your personal career goals.

Delivery Mode

We offer training in formats that suit you and your workplace in accordance with the unit of competency, training package or accredited course.

This course is available in the following learning modes:

Classroom based: experienced and engaging trainers will take you through the course material face to face with an individual assessment for each unit of competency and a variety of delivery modes to ensure individual learning styles are catered for.

Workplace based: Training is tailored to your organisation and delivered in your workplace.

Logistical Information

Government Covid regulations and recommendations, including appropriate social distancing measures, hand washing and other hygiene protocols will be in place at all times and may result in course delivery changes.

Other areas of delivery assessed on request.

Workplace based training delivered in your workplace.

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!