Welcome to the College Employability Programme's Understanding & articulating your strengths (UAS) course. UAS will help you to reflect on the range of professional skills and graduate attributes you have developed during your academic, extra-curricular and work-related activities and to communicate these skills to employers. UAS is made up of two separate courses as explained below:

  • UAS - Level 1: This course will help you to reflect on the key academic, extra-curricular and work-related experiences you have participated in during your time at university and identify the skills you developed through these experiences. It will then help you to communicate your skills and experiences to employers through competency-based statements. 
  • UAS - Level 2: This course builds on UAS -Level 1 by aligning your skills and experiences with your future career aspirations and your emerging professional identity. You will produce an online professional development ePortfolio which will communicate the most relevant skills and experiences to employers. [COURSE LAUNCH - SEMESTER 2, 2025.]

In both UAS - level 1 and Level 2, you will receive formative feedback from our Student Experience Team tutors on your work. 

If you complete UAS - Level 1 or Level 2, you will receive a digital badge and certificate to showcase your achievements and professional development to employers. 

Get started: Understanding and Articulating your strengths - Level 1

Want to try out your skills in person and get feedback from our tutor team? Sign up now to our Understanding and articulating your strengths - Skills day! 

How does it work?

UaS is a highly interactive online course facilitated by our team of Student Expertience Team Tutors. By the end of UaS, you will have identified your key skills and experiences and learned how to articulate and evidence these using CAR statements. 

UaS uses a combination of Moodle and an interactive online learning platform called 'Rise 360', which contains engaging interactive content, video and knowledge checks along the way.  

At the end of each unit you will be asked to return to the Moodle to complete the unit's activities. These activities are important as they test the learning that you have gained through each of the units and will help you build your CAR statements. You will receive feedback on each piece of work you submit either within the Moodle or by email and have the oppotunity to meet with one of the tutors for 1:1 feedback.

On completion of this course you will receive a UaS digital badge and certificate and it will be added to your HEAR transcript.