The transition from study to work can feel uncertain and employers are looking for graduates who can confidently demonstrate their skills and experience beyond the classroom.
That’s where La Trobe’s Career Ready Advantage Award comes in!
The Career Ready Advantage Award was developed in consultation with employers. Not only does it help you to develop skills that employers are looking for, the program will help you identify and confidently communicate the skills and experience you’re already building through study, work and life.
This means a clearer picture of your career story, stronger applications and interviews and a better understanding of the Australian employment landscape.
What is the Career Ready Advantage Award?
The Career Ready Advantage Award is La Trobe’s employability award program. The program fits in with your work, study and life commitments to build your employability. It helps you develop, reflect on and confidently communicate your skills through professional learning, practical experience and a career portfolio. It’s never too early in your degree to join!
Why join the Career Ready Advantage Award?
Graduating is a huge achievement, but understanding and being able to explain the skills and experience you build along the way could make all the difference in starting your career.
Employers consistently tell us they’re looking for graduates who:
- Have work, volunteering or extracurricular experience.
- Can confidently articulate their skills in applications and interviews.
- Have thought about their career direction.
The Career Ready Advantage Award helps you to reflect on your experiences and turn them into clear, compelling evidence of your employability.
When you complete each Career Ready Advantage award level, it’s recognised on your official academic transcript.
This gives you a tangible reminder and evidence of how you have shaped your learning, life and work experiences into valuable employment skills.
How the program works
The Career Ready Advantage Award is made up of three key areas:
- Professional learning
Build the knowledge and skills you need to succeed at uni and beyond.
This could include Career Ready webinars and workshops, LinkedIn Learning courses and other professional development opportunities.
- Practical experience
Gain hands on experience that employers value.
Examples include part time or casual work, internships or placements, volunteering, mentoring programs, leadership opportunities or networking events.
- Career portfolio
Create high quality career documents that help you stand out.
This might include your resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile or completing a mock interview.
You can work towards three award levels (Silver, Gold and Platinum), depending on how many activities you complete. You can choose to stop at any level or keep building all the way to Platinum.
Visit The Career Ready Advantage page for information about how it works.
How Career Ready Advantage helps you stand out
There are lots of reasons students participate in the Career Ready Advantage Award. The program:
- Helps you identify how the study, work (paid and unpaid) and life skills and experience you already have can support your career development.
- Boosts your confidence in presenting these skills to employers.
- Builds strong content for your resume and LinkedIn profile and gives you real examples and stories to share in job interviews.
- Develop and showcase your initiative and commitment to employability.
- Helps you develop valuable transferable skills.
- Helps you move from graduate to confident, job ready graduate who can clearly articulate your skills and direction
Ready to get started?
You can learn more and start building your employability by visiting the Career Ready Advantage webpage and logging into Career Hub , or visit our Career Ready FAQs.