Study UK: Preparing for work (FutureLearn)

This four-week course will equip international graduates with the skills and understanding that they need in order to navigate and enter their local employment market. It will support them to identify their skills, and how to communicate these effectively to potential employers, as well building an understanding of organisational and workplace culture.

Syllabus

Week 1: Getting Ready

Week 2: The job application process

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Identify your strengths and use these to reflect on your career path

- Demonstrate a range of professional skills that can help you succeed in any workplace

- Develop an effective strategy to get the right job for you

- Collaborate, network and communicate more proficiently with people from different cultural backgrounds and in different cultural contexts

Who is the course for?

The course is for international graduates of UK Higher Education entering into, or returning to, the employment market, globally. They can have studied either in the UK, or for a UK HE qualification overseas via TNE.

The course is for all international graduates (undergraduates and postgraduates). To give a sense of scale of the potential audience, there are 12 million international students who have graduated from a UK HEI in the last ten years.