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Professional Skills: Career Management Kickstart (L3132)

15 credits, Level 5

Spring teaching

On this module, you’ll prepare for the job market, improving your professional skills through instruction, practical scenarios and self-reflection.

You’ll cover:

• career exploration
• what you can do with your degree
• academic writing and communication skills
• real world employment scenarios
• professional conduct
• career management essentials (adverts, job titles, CVs, interviewing)
• communication skills for effective oral presentations
• graphical aids for oral presentations
• writing skills for academic and report writing
• professional conduct including codes of professional conduct, artificial intelligence and emerging new technologies.

Contact hours and workload

This module is approximately 150 hours of work. This breaks down into about 23 hours of contact time and about 127 hours of independent study. The University may make minor variations to the contact hours for operational reasons, including timetabling requirements.

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2025/26. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to feedback, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum.

We’ll make sure to let you know of any material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity.

Courses

This module is offered on the following courses:

• Sociology BA