The students must consider all their competences in relation to the specific job advertisement. They must identify academic competences acquired during their studies and their experience of the relevance of their academic subject to the job market and see this in relation to their future job application effort.
Including the job market perspective using specific job advertisements, either as a teaching activity or in students’ activities between sessions, will support the students’ ability to discover correlations between their academic training and a future work career. Moreover, the students may use the exercise as inspiration for an application for a future job.
A job advertisement reflecting the core competences of your students, which will enable them to focus directly on their academic skills.
A job advertisement reflecting peripheral competences in your students, which will enable them to focus more on their general skills.
Then each student must specify the competences they possess in relation to the job advertisement. They may use the questions from handout 1 (Awaiting translation) as inspiration (20 minutes).
If there is enough time, the students may consider which tasks or requested qualifications in the job appeal to them in particular. This question may cause the students to consider which type of job they imagine for themselves.
Finally, the students move back in their original pairs and tell each other what they wrote down (ten minutes).
