Making Luck Happen – A Practical Approach to Creating Opportunities

What is Career Ready Advantage? This is a program designed to help La Trobe University Students actively prepare for their life beyond La Trobe. It is structured to make it easy to record and build on your experiences – through part time work, internships, participation in volunteering, international experiences, professional involvement etc.

This is a program designed to help you actively prepare for your life beyond La Trobe. It is structured to make it easy to record and build on your experiences – through part time work, internships, participation in volunteering, international experiences, professional involvement etc.

Who is Career Ready Advantage for?

If you are a student of La Trobe – then Career Ready Advantage is for you! Additionally, we hope that is it is something you will continue to interact with once you leave, this is about your career, not just your first job. We are working on specialised activities for MBA students in collaboration with La Trobe Business School; we are partnering with Research Education and Development (RED) to develop a program for Higher Degree Research students; and we’ll be running tailored programs at each campus.

How was it developed?

We worked with students, and a wide range of employers, to co-develop Career Ready Advantage. Through a consultation process with employers we learned first-hand about what they are recruiting for and what they value in graduates. Students told us what activities they enjoy doing, and how they want to be supported in developing their career. Using those insights, we have built a program of activities that will enable you to build capabilities that will make you more attractive to employers.

How does Career Ready Advantage work?

Career Ready Advantage has a number of components introduced below. Each of these components work together to create an engaging and practical experience for you.

The framework includes the combination of the skills and personal attributes that are valued by employers and which you need to focus on using Career Ready Advantage. You’ll develop these capabilities by ‘learning’, ‘doing’ and ‘reflecting’. Aspire students will receive recognition for your previous volunteering and community engagement activities, and all students can self-assess your baseline skills levels.

Employers told us that students who take control of their career management really stand out. Our Career Ready team will support you as you develop your personalised Career Ready Advantage through consultations, workshops, Masterclasses, Alumni mentoring and connections with employers.

Using your personal dashboard in the MyLaTrobe app you will be able to track your progress and the impact of your chosen activities. As you progress there are opportunities to assess yourself and to gain feedback from employers, to earn digital badges (micro-credentials) and take control of your own growth and development. The Career Ready team will be available to support you with this.

The more you participate, to build your skills and personal attributes and manage your career, the more rewards you will unlock. Examples include priority access to internships, mentoring, LinkedIn workshops and consultations, as well as opportunities to network with employers and receive valuable feedback on your Career Ready progress – it’s all about you and your career. Your progress on each skill ladder and in terms of career management is shown on your dashboard.

When you’re ready to apply for roles you can build your story using a reflection portfolio. This will be a compilation of the various experiential learning activities you’ve undertaken and the skills and attributes you have developed. Together with a professional CV and LinkedIn profile, the Career Ready Portfolio will provide you with evidence and examples of your experience and strengths and the confidence to share these with your future employers.