Reference no: EM133589286

Resume and Job Application Assessment Task

Learning Outcomes

Conduct a job search
Deconstruct a position description to develop a tailored professional resume
Reflect on new learnings and one's own employability in the future
Task Description

find a full-time job advertisement that is relevant to Aquaculture and you could apply for it when you get an undergraduate degree. This advertisement does NOT have to be in Singapore, but it does have to be a current job advertisement.

Then deconstruct your chosen job advertisement to identify the employability skills, knowledge, and experience specified. You will demonstrate how you have met these skills, knowledge, and experiences (by the end of your degree) in a table which will be submitted as a part of your assignment.

Graduate employability is a "set of achievements - skills, understandings and personal attributes - that makes graduates more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupations, which benefits themselves, the workforce, the community, and the economy." (Yorke, 2006, p. 8)

Evidenced by the application of a mix of personal qualities and beliefs, understandings, skillful practices, and the ability to reflect productively on experience (Yorke, 2006), graduate employability goes beyond the simplistic notion of the university providing graduates with skills to get a job. In the context of a rapidly changing and unpredictable future labor market, to remain employable, individuals need "skills, knowledge, resilience, focus, and tenacity to stay marketable and be the equivalent of a desired commodity." (Kinash, et al., 2014, p. 8)