Graduate Qualities
At UniSA, you will be provided with opportunities to develop seven Graduate Qualities through your study. These opportunities are integrated into your program and its courses through teaching and learning activities and assessment tasks. The Graduate Qualities are skills and aptitudes that you gain through studying at university. You will use these in your professional life but they will also develop you personally. In addition, your extra curricular activities will allow you to develop and demonstrate your abilities. By documenting your achievements through your time at UniSA, you can graduate with a detailed portfolio of your achievements and experiences which will contribute to success in your graduate career.
Follow the steps below to track your achievements and build your portfolio.
Getting started:
Familiarise yourself with UniSA's seven Graduate Qualities
Register on
MyCareerPlan
and create your personal profile
1. Select the 'my Education' tab and record your achievements
to date
2. Select the 'my Experiences' tab and link your
achievements to the Graduate Qualities (as below
3. Complete the rest of your Profile to have your downloadable
Resume ready
Continue to add to your Personal Profile as you study
While you are studying:
Each time you complete a project or reach a goal, login to MyCareerPlan and go to 'my Experiences'
Select 'Add an Experience Record'
In the 'Type' drop down menu select the category that applies
Complete the remaining details In the Description field, describe the task you undertook using the STARL method of out lining the (S) situation or background, the (T) task at hand, your (A) approach, the (R) results, and what you have (L) learned .
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In the Reflection field, reflect on which Graduate
Quality or Qualities your actions demonstrate. List the Graduate
Qualities relevant to your experience, and record dot points on how
they improve your employability.
Recording your achievements in your MyCareerPlan profile will allow you to build your portfolio of evidence along the way rather than face a large task of preparation at the end of your degree. You will also have all the information at hand to download into a Microsoft Word template resume through the MyCareerPlan resume builder. Use your profile during your study for resumes for part time work or vacation internships.
For more information or help, email the Career Services team: careers@unisa.edu.au
Achievements and experiences that will contribute to your portfolio include:
Achievements that are related to the development of particular Graduate Qualities and are assessed or verified with documentary evidence.
Experiences that contribute to the development of particular Graduate Qualities but for which there has been no formal assessment.
The experiences and achievements can be:
The task for you is to identify both experiences and achievements relating to the Graduate Qualities and to record them in ways that allow them to be easily retrieved to demonstrate your potential to employers. The way each of your courses focuses on Graduate Qualities is indicated in your course information. You may also find it helpful to discuss with your lecturers how the assessment in a course relates to the Graduate Qualities.
This process provides you with a sense of your own development of the Graduate Qualities, identifying areas of strengths and those areas that need further improvement. You can begin to use MyCareerPlan from your first day of being a student at the University of South Australia and continue to add to and modify your records until you graduate.
