Career Confidence and Employability Pathways
Build essential workplace skills, explore career pathways, and gain real work experience through practical simulations.
Duration
Approx 14 weeks2-3 hrs per week
Master career confidence through skills and practical experience
How do you build the confidence and skills to launch a successful career? Early career professionals need more than qualifications - they need practical experience, understanding of different sectors, and essential workplace skills that employers value.
This ExpertTrack combines four courses to give you comprehensive career preparation. You’ll develop core teamwork skills, explore career opportunities across five key sectors, and gain hands-on experience through realistic work simulations.
You’ll practise analysing challenges, thinking critically, creating practical solutions applicable in study and work settings, collaborating in teams, and building strong professional relationships. By the end, you’ll have the confidence, skills, and practical experience to take meaningful steps in your career journey.
Build essential teamwork and communication skills
Develop the foundational skills employers value most: clear communication, effective collaboration, and structured problem-solving. Through insights from leaders at PwC, Meta, and AWS, you’ll learn to express ideas confidently, work productively in teams, and tackle workplace challenges.
These skills prepare you to contribute effectively from day one in any professional environment.
Explore careers across technology, sustainability, and professional services
Discover opportunities in five key sectors: technology, green careers, professional services, entrepreneurship, and law. Through insights from industry leaders at Meta, AWS, Schneider Electric, PwC, and EY, you’ll understand different career pathways and what makes professionals successful.
You’ll connect your interests and strengths to informed career decisions across future-focused sectors.
Gain practical experience through work simulations
Test different roles through realistic simulations in digital marketing, accounting, and green energy customer operations. Working with real companies like Bipolar Factory and Sun King, you’ll complete authentic workplace tasks that build job-ready behaviours.
These practical experiences help you explore career fit whilst developing the confidence employers look for in early career candidates.
Key skills you will learn
- Employability Skills
- Professional Skills
- Personal Development
- Career Development
- Workplace Readiness
- Leadership and Soft Skills
Learning outcomes
By the end of the ExpertTrack, you’ll be able to...
- Develop personal effectiveness and professional confidence
- Apply resilience, agility, and a growth mindset to navigate challenges, adapt to change, and approach opportunities with confidence
- Collaborate effectively in professional teams
- Develop clear communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills to contribute productively in team environments and group projects
- Explore and evaluate career opportunities across industries
- Assess career pathways in sectors such as technology, green careers, professional services, entrepreneurship, and law to better understand opportunities and required skills
- Apply learning into real-world workplace practice
- Apply your knowledge and skills through hands-on work simulations that reflect real professional roles and responsibilities
- Reflect on your strengths and make informed career decisions
- Evaluate your skills, interests, and values to identify career directions that align with your goals and professional aspirations
- Demonstrate career readiness through practical workplace scenarios
- Develop and present solutions to realistic workplace challenges, strengthening your communication, decision-making, and professional problem-solving skills
Experience required
This ExpertTrack is ideal for early career learners aged 18–25 preparing for or entering the workforce, especially students and recent graduates seeking comprehensive career preparation through skills development, sector exploration, and practical experience.
Getting started
No prior knowledge is required. This ExpertTrack introduces learners to foundational skills including agility, confidence, collaboration, communication, problem solving and resilience.
ExpertTrack course overview
Course 1
Personal Effectiveness
Develop confidence, resilience, and essential employability skills to accelerate your career success.
1 test
3 weeks
2 hours per week
Week 1
Resilience
- Welcome to the course
- Resilience is hot for employers
- The power of resilience
- Week 1 wrap up
Week 2
Agility
- Introduction to week 2
- Mindset vs Skills
- Power of "Not yet"
- Fixed mindset
- Decision tools
- Week 2 wrap up
Week 3
Confidence
- Introduction to Week 3
- Back yourself
- Use that imposter adrenaline!
- Assertive communication
- Week 3 wrap up
Course 2
Teamwork Skills
Develop communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills for workplace success.
1 test
3 weeks
2 hours per week
Week 1
Collaboration
- Welcome to the course
- Collaborating effectively
- Three fundamentals of collaboration
- Effective teams
- Your approach to collaboration
- Effective working with differences
- Knowing me knowing you
- Week 1 wrap up
Week 2
Problem solving
- Introduction to Week 2
- Approaching problems
- Problem solving tools
- Bringing your broader horizons to the table
- From university to the real world
- Innovation and creativity
- Applying knowledge
- So where do good ideas come from?
- Week 2 wrap up
Week 3
Communication
- Introduction to week 3
- The good communicator
- Focusing in on subskills
- Finding your voice
- Understanding other cultures
- Week 3 wrap up
Course 3
Career Pathways
Explore technology, sustainability, professional services, entrepreneurship, and law with industry leaders
1 test
5 weeks
3 hours per week
Week 1
Tech pathway
- Welcome to the course
- Tech
- Top skills
- Curiosity
- Vulnerability & Authenticity
- Inspiring words from the experts
- Week 1 wrap up
Week 2
Green career pathway
- Introduction to week 2
- Green careers
- Different paths to Green Careers
- Skills
- Agile Mindset
- Inspiring words from the experts
- Week 2 wrap up
Week 3
Professional services pathway
- Introduction to week 3
- Professional services
- Mindset
- The tools
- Week 3 wrap up
Week 4
Entrepreneurship pathway
- Introduction to week 4
- Entrepreneurship
- Part 1: Context
- Context - The essentials
- Context - The heart of the matter
- Part 2: Mindset
- Mindset - Key ingredients
- Mindset - Practising resilience
- Part 3: Vision - Knowing your 'why'
- Vision - Action
- Part 4: Leadership
- Week 4 wrap up
Week 5
Law pathway
- Introduction to week 5
- Law
- Law is varied
- Know your difference
- Building trust with clients
- Self-Belief and Perseverance
- Week 5 wrap up
Course 4
Work Simulations
Experience real job roles through practical simulations in digital marketing, accounting, and green energy
1 test
3 weeks
2 hours per week
Week 1
Digital Marketing Simulation
- Welcome to the course
- Digital marketing
- Explore digital marketing specialist role
- How to create engaging content
- Prepare for an interview
- Week 1 wrap up
Week 2
Customer Experience Simulation
- Introduction to week 2
- Customer Experience
- Explore the role
- How to relate to the customers
- Prepare for an interview
- Week 2 wrap up
Week 3
Trainee Accountant Work Simulation
- Introduction to week 3
- Trainee Accountant
- Explore the role
- Interview preparation
- Week 3 wrap up
Prove you're job ready
Highlight the new, job-relevant skills you’ve gained and supplement existing qualifications with a hard-earned, industry-specific digital certificate – plus one for every course within your ExpertTrack.
- Learn the latest in your chosen industry or subject.
- Complete each course and pass assessments.
- Receive certificates validated by the educating organisation.
- Impress employers with learning outcomes you can add to your CV.
- Make your career dreams a reality.
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How ExpertTracks work
Join an ExpertTrack to master new skills in your chosen specialist area. Work through a series of topic-focused courses at your own pace, and pass the final assessment to earn a digital certificate award which proves your expertise.
Decide if the ExpertTrack is right for you with free access to the full suite of courses and assessments for a week.
Pay a monthly subscription fee of $39 for as long as it takes you to complete the ExpertTrack. You can learn at your own pace and cancel at any time.
Receive a certificate for every completed course and pass the final assessment to earn a digital certificate.
Use your specialist training to progress further in your career or build expertise in areas you’re passionate about.
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- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate
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ExpertTracks are a series of online courses designed to help you master new skills in specialist areas. You pay a monthly subscription fee which includes access to all courses within the ExpertTrack, as well as assessments and the final digital certificate.
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