For most of you, the ultimate aim of undertaking your Master of Learning and Teaching is to gain employment as an educator within your selected field. There are, of course, exceptions to this and other reasons for wanting to gain a qualification as an educator.
Rather than discuss the particular ideas put forward about resumes and interview skills discussed in this presentation, I would like us to talk about being ’employable’ more generally.
What do you think being employable means?
What strategies can you or have you put in place to make yourself more attractive to potential employers?
What are some of the enablers and barriers that you can see to gaining your first teaching position?
How might you either maximise the enablers and minimise the impact of barriers?
I am very happy for the conversation to explore and go beyond these initial questions.