VU22574 - Investigate job opportunities

Unit code: VU22574 | Study level: TAFE

Nominal hours:

Location

Footscray Nicholson

Footscray Park

Prerequisites

N/A

Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge to identify suitable job opportunities and their requirements and employment support services.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

literacy skills to access and interpret relevant information;
planning and organising skills to develop a personal employment support services resource, and;
problem solving skills to: match own existing skills to those required; identify opportunities for skill development; review and adjust job selection where required.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

reliable sources of information on: jobs and their requirements; available employment support services.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Polytechnic and/or via the Polytechnic e-learning system.