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Career and working life skills (2 cr)

Code: 4A00CU22-3002

General information


Enrollment

11.11.2024 - 19.02.2025

Timing

03.03.2025 - 25.05.2025

Credits

2 op

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Bachelor of Business Administration, Library and Information Services

Teachers

  • Sari Mäkinen-Laitila

Student groups

  • KITI22

Objective

Students are able to

identify stages of their own vocational development
Analyse their opportunities of further studies and career development
plan their own job seeking process and use various ways / platforms to tell about their competences
assess their competences
Comply with the rules of working life in all action

Content

Vocational identity and competences and personal branding
The process of job seeking
Vocational portfolio
Lifelong learning
Working life skills
Well being at work
National and international networks of Libraries
Career stories of library professionals

Materials

Will be announced in the beginning of the course.

Teaching methods

Lectures, groupwork and portfolio.

Exam schedules

No exam.

Student workload

Online lessons and groupwork 27 h, independent work 27 h.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

- the student has occasionally been active on the course
- the student has returned the assignments of the course
- the student can tell about some stages of his/her vocational development
- the student can shortly tell about the possibilities of lifelong learning and further studies
- the student can name a few national and international networks of Librarier
- the student knows some ways to improve well being at work
- the student has made a short vocational portfolio

Assessment criteria, good (3)

- the student has been active on the course
- the student has returned assignments in time and most of them are well-done
- the student can tell about stages of his/her vocational development
- the student can tell about the possibilities of lifelong learning and further studies
- the student can name some national and international networks of librarier and explain their meaning and differences
- - the student knows many ways to improve well being at work
- the student has made a diverse vocational portfolio

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

- the student has been active and creative on the course
- the student has returned all well-done assignments in time
- the student can tell widely about the stages of his/her vocational development
- the student can explain and analyze the possibilities of lifelong learning and further studies
- the student can name many national and international networks of Librarier and explain their meaning and differences
- the student knows many ways to improve well being at work
- the student has made a diverse and creative vocational portfolio

Assessment methods and criteria

Portfolio and active participation in online lessons.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Carefully finished portfolio, which includes all demanded parts. Activity at online lessons and groupwork.