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Human Skills in a Digital World

Build the confidence to recognise, demonstrate and communicate your skills. Across five modules, you’ll reflect on your experiences, map evidence of your skills and practise telling stronger skills stories.

Next Dates: Ongoing
Duration: 20 hours
Delivery mode: Online
Location: -
Price (AUD inc. GST): $0

Spots remaining: AVAILABLE
Digital Credential Badge

Course summary

Identify, articulate and build the skills you need to thrive in work and life

This short course helps you recognise the skills you already have, gather evidence from your experiences and practise communicating your strengths with confidence. Across five modules, you’ll identify your skills profile, build an evidence bank and learn how to shape your skills into stories for study, work and future opportunities.

Who will benefit

Emerging professionals who want to build confidence talking about their skills in interviews, applications, networking conversations or performance discussions.
Professionals reflecting on their next step, exploring a new direction, returning to study or work or looking for language to connect their past experiences with future opportunities.

Course is suitable for

Professionals aiming for career change, promotion or greater responsibility and opportunities.

Experienced professionals reflecting on their skills and career story

Delivered by experts

Professor Stephen Doherty

Professor and Deputy Dean (Education) of the UNSW Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)

An award-winning academic leader with HASS and STEM backgrounds.
Leads the education portfolio across UNSW’s Faculty of Arts, Design, and Architecture to deliver distinctive world-class education to over 18k students across 130 undergraduate, postgraduate, lifelong learning, and professional development programs.
Research has been supported by the Australian Research Council, Department of Defence, Science Foundation Ireland, the European Commission, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters, NSW Health, Enterprise Ireland, and a diverse range of collaborations, including the Australian Federal Police, Facebook, and Microsoft.

About the course

Make your skills visible

This course helps you to recognise the skills you already have, understand how they show up across different parts of your life and collect evidence from real experiences. You’ll identify your skills profile, build your own evidence bank and practise turning your examples into clear, confident skills stories.

Why enrol in this course

Identify your skills

Recognise the skills you already have and understand how they appear across different parts of your life.

Document your impact

Collect evidence from real experiences so you can communicate your skills with greater confidence and clarity.

Shape your future

Use your skills stories to support applications, interviews, career planning and new opportunities.

Key features

Evidence-based skills framework

Explore nine transferable skills and build a shared language for recognising how they show up across study, work, life and future opportunities.

Collect real-world evidence

Draw on study, work, community, relationships and everyday life to gather meaningful evidence of your skills in action.

Craft compelling skills stories

Turn your evidence into confident skills stories you can use in interviews, applications, career conversations and planning for what comes next.

Learning outcomes

Tell your story

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to recognise your skills, connect them to real experiences and explain your strengths with greater confidence. You’ll leave with practical tools, including a completed evidence bank and skills stories, to support interviews, applications, career planning and future opportunities.

What you'll learn

In this course, you will watch short videos, engage with guided reflection prompts and work through a series of practical activities. Each module helps you connect ideas to your own experiences, build evidence of your skills and practise shaping that evidence into clear and compelling stories.

Topics covered

Understanding the skills framework
Recognising skills in your own experiences
Mapping experiences to skills
Gathering evidence of your capabilities
Identifying strengths, patterns and skill combinations
Building an evidence bank
Turning evidence into skills stories
Communicating skills in interviews and applications
Exploring future opportunities and stretch goals.

Course delivery

Format	Commitment	Delivery
100% online; learn at your own pace and around your own schedule	20 hours	Asynchronous and self-paced

Credentials

Gain a recognised credential

On successful completion of this course, you'll receive a digital badge recognising your achievement and the practical skills you've developed. Share your credential with employers and your professional network to showcase your commitment to lifelong learning and your ability to identify, evidence and communicate your strengths with confidence.

Continue your learning journey with UNSW

This course is part of UNSW's commitment to lifelong learning. Whether you're looking to strengthen your professional capabilities, explore emerging topics or take the next step in your career, our range of short courses can help you continue building future-ready skills.

Next steps

Enrol now in Human Skills in a Digital World: Identifying, Articulating and Building the Skills You Need to Thrive in Work and Life via the Navigator portal.

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