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Professional Skills: Career Management Kickstart (L3132)

15 credits, Level 5

Spring teaching

Through instruction, practical employment scenarios and self-reflection, this module will help you improve your work-ready/professional/career management skills and become better prepared for the job market. The module includes:

• career exploration
• what you can do with your degree
• academic writing and communication skills
• real-world employment scenarios
• professional conduct.

Topics include:

• career management essentials (adverts, job titles, CVs and interviewing)
• communication skills: giving effective oral presentations and graphical aids for oral presentations
• writing skills: academic and report writing
• professional conduct: 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:

• Criminology BA
• Criminology and Sociology BA
• Sociology BA