1. Skills and Attributes for Career Success: Developing an Enterprising Mindset
“Equip students with the key skills and attributes needed to be successful in their future career development”

2. Skills and Attributes for Career Success: Developing an Enterprising Mindset
Introduction
With employability high on the agenda for both students and education providers, institutions are increasingly looking beyond skills acquisition and enhancement towards developing key attributes and fostering enterprising mindsets that graduates need to thrive in the workplace.   Skills and Attributes for Career Success: Developing an Enterprising Mindset aims to equip students with the key skills and attributes needed to become enterprising and resourceful graduates who can think creatively and be successful in an ever-changing global work environment.   Through a wide range of examples and scenarios, students learn how to apply these crucial skills in different work contexts and how to demonstrate them to potential employers in order to progress towards a rewarding and valuable career.

3. Head of Swansea Employability Academy, University of Swansea
Skills and Attributes for Career Success: Developing an Enterprising Mindset
Contributing Team
Course Lead Advisors:
Tom Davie
Former Head of Sunderland Futures and the Careers and Employability Service, University of Sunderland
Dr. Jon Howden-Evans
Head of Swansea Employability Academy, University of Swansea

4. Development Group Members
Skills and Attributes for Career Success: Developing an Enterprising Mindset
Development Group Members
Developed in collaboration with:
James Cook University
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University 
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Ulster University
University of West London

5. Skills and Attributes for Career Success: Developing an Enterprising Mindset
About the course
Published: April 2017
Structure:
7.5 hours of core activities
15 hours of additional activities
Who is it for?
Designed to support undergraduates at all levels and recent graduates to find career success.

6. Additional Activities
Skills and Attributes for Career Success: Developing an Enterprising Mindset
Course Overview
Modules
Core Activities
Additional Activities
Module 1: Introduction to key skills and attributes
30 minutes
1 hour
Module 2: Creative and innovative thinking
2 hours
Module 3: Leadership skills
Module 4: Commercial awareness
Module 5: Problem solving and decision making
Module 6: Communication and networking
Module 7: Negotiation skills
Module 8: Effective planning

7. Skills and Attributes for Career Success: Developing an Enterprising Mindset
Course Features
The online courses will:
Offer campus-wide support to help students develop skills for career success such as creative thinking, commercial awareness and leadership
Provide students with a range of examples and scenarios from different sectors
Help students to recognise and articulate their skills and experience to potential employers
Provide significant opportunity for reflective learning and self-efficacy
Create enterprising and resourceful graduates who can think creatively and be innovators in a modern work environment.

8. Skills and Attributes for Career Success: Developing an Enterprising Mindset
What does it look like?

9. Skills and Attributes for Career Success: Developing an Enterprising Mindset
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