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Occupational literacy
Career thinking, lifestyle and flexibility.
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The employABILITY student starter kit is an online EmployABILITY self-assessment tool and
resource featuring a student-focussed, personalised employABILITY profile
personalised employABILITY self-assessment tool,
and developmental resources - the student The first step in the student starter kit was to
employABILITY resources. assess your employABILITY using the
employABILITY self-assessment tool. This
The student starter kit has everything generated the personalised profile you are
you need to enhance your employability. reading now.
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To read your results, first look at the model below The Literacies for Life combine to enhance
and explore the interactive Literacies for Life employability. When you completed the
model. employABILITY self-assessment tool, you assessed
yourself against all six literacies.
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My results
The radar or web chart below illustrates your self- Your self-assessment relates to your confidence. It
assessment in each of the six Literacies for Life, will change according to your circumstances and
arranged radially around a central point. The experiences, so use it as a prompt for analysis and
closer the shading comes to the outside of the action rather than as a score card.
chart, the higher you self-assessed in that literacy.
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Basic literacy
1.
Basic literacy combines your discipline knowledge, Disciplinary skills, practices and
skills and practices with your ability to interact knowledge
with other people and your digital literacy.
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Notes
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Networks
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use technology;
find, use and critically evaluate information;
curate data and media sources;
communicate, collaborate and participate in
online environments;
manage your online identity as well as your
personal security and privacy; and If you didn't respond, the text box will be
empty. Use the space to answer the
create online content, not just consume it.
question.
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Rhetorical literacy
1.
Rhetoric is effective or persuasive speaking or Solving problems and making
writing. This includes speaking or writing within decisions
the digital domain.
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Rhetorical literacy
How good are you at making informed, quick Think of a time when you offered a unique and
and clear decisions that motivate other people? novel idea that added new knowledge and
insights to a problem or situation.
How often do you change your work or personal
life to make it more satisfying and
This might have been at school, at work, in a
developmental?
social situation or in a team assignment at
university.
Problem:
To what extent do you consider cultural,
Describe the problem or challenge
business and economic contexts when
approaching a problem or situation? Action:
How often do you contribute novel ideas that Describe what you did about it
help resolve a problem or situation?
Result:
How often do you anticipate problems before
Describe how your actions resolved the
they happen?
problem or challenge
Impact:
You as a problem solver
Describe how will think differently about
your problem solving and/or decision-
making abilities as a result of this
experience
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List your reasons in the notes field below. Add
solutions and try to apply these in the future.
Then, attempt the 20-minute challenge to the
right.
Notes
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Personal and critical literacy
1.
Personal and critical literacy relates to your career
thinking, your belief in yourself and your Career Commitment
confidence that you can complete your studies.
The literacy also takes into account how you
understand and apply your learning.
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Sources of advice
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Efficacy is another word for belief. Believing in Believing that you can complete your
ourselves means that we are more likely to see studies - your academic self-efficacy
challenges as opportunities rather than threats.
We are also better able to cope with setbacks. Put Do you have the confidence to ask questions in
simply, people with high self-efficacy tend to learn lectures and tutorials?
and achieve more than other people. Do you have the confidence to ask for help
when you need it?
How is your self-efficacy? Do you know the standard required to get good
grades?
You might remember answering the following
Are you confident that you can pass each study
questions when you completed the self-
module or unit?
assessment tool. Take some time to think about
them now. Do you understand your study materials?
Seek help!
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Milestone tracking
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If it doesn’t seem relevant, ask the lecturer to help I would encourage more synergy between
the technology units and the design units so
you understand how the learning will be useful as
that we can practice the skills we learn in
a graduate.
the technology units
Have you already applied some of the knowledge
and skills gained in your studies when in a
workplace, as a volunteer or in a placement?
Notes
Take the volunteer challenge
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Emotional literacy
Emotional literacy is one of the most important Watch other people over the next few days and
aspects of our work life and personal life because identify people who are emotionally literate.
it determines how we interact with people and
how our relationships function. What do they do, or not do?
What could you try in your next conversation?
The following questions will help you to gauge
your emotional literacy. Answer them honestly –
you don’t need to share them with anyone else.
Notes
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Occupational literacy
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Notes
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Ethical, cultural and social literacy
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Acknowledgments
The Literacies for Life model was developed by Brackett, M. A., & Mayer, J. D. (2003). Convergent,
the Developing Employability Initiative at Curtin discriminant, and incremental validity of
University in Perth, Western Australia. competing measures of emotional intelligence.
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 29,
Many items within the self-assessment tool are 1147–1158. (Emotional literacy items)
drawn from or informed by extant sources; these
are acknowledged to the right. Byrne, M., Flood, B., & Griffin, J. (2014). Measuring
the academic self-efficacy of first-year accounting
The six Literacies for Life combine to enhance students. Accounting Education, 23(5), 407-423.
employability and Inform personal and (Critical literacy items)
professional development.
Coetzee, M. (2014). Measuring student
Educators can receive an anonymised, graduateness: Reliability and construct validity of
aggregated, cohort-wide profile summary and the Graduate Skills and Attributes Scale. Higher
assistance with the workshop and reflection Education Research & Development, 33(5),
process. The self-reflection tool and profile is 887-902. (Basic, Rhetorical and Ethical literacy
made available without charge. items)
For more information, please visit Lent, R. W., Ezeofor, I., Morrison, A., Penn, L. T., &
developingemployability.edu.au or contact Ireland, G. W. Applying the social cognitive model
Professor Dawn Bennett at of career self-management to career exploration
d.bennett@curtin.edu.au. and decision-making. Journal of Vocational
Behavior, 93(2016), 47-57. (Occupational literacy
Ethical considerations items)
Equipping and enabling educators to embed Mancini, T., Caricati, L., Panari, C., & Tonarelli, A.
employability across higher education has been (2015). Personal and social aspects of professional
approved by the Curtin University Human identity. An extension of Marcia’s identity status
Research Ethics Committee (HREC) (number model applied to a sample of university students.
HRE2017-0125). Should you wish to discuss the Journal of Vocational Behavior, 89(2015), 140-150.
study with someone not directly involved, in (Critical literacy items)
particular, any matters concerning the conduct of
Rosenberg, M. (1965). Society and the adolescent
the study or your rights as a participant, or you
self-image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
wish to make a confidential complaint, you may
Press. (Critical literacy items)
contact the Ethics Officer on (08) 9266 9223 or
the Manager, Research Integrity on (08) 9266 Smith, C., Ferns, S., & Russell, L. (2014).
7093 or email hrec@curtin.edu.au. Conceptualising and measuring ‘employability’:
Lessons from a national OLT project. Proceedings
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Dawn Bennett
Professor of Higher Education, Curtin University
July, 2017
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