Module manager: Rachel Walls
Email: R.E.Walls@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
LLLC 1381
This module is approved as a discovery module
This module is aimed at you if you are interested in understanding how the world of work is changing, how this might impact upon you as an individual and how to prepare for success in the employment market. The module helps you to reflect on your existing skills and experience and recognise what to build on, with a view to helping you in your studies as well as future employment.
This module will enable students to gain an understanding of the changing world of work, and to reflect on, and start to plan, their own career development.
On successful completion of the module you will have demonstrated the following learning outcomes relevant to the subject:
1. Explain key changes in the changing world of work
2. Relate characteristics of the changing world of work to examples of employing organisations
3. Demonstrate processes of reflection on your own experiences of work
4. Show forward planning for your own employment including analysis of the skills you will need
5. Develop strategies for effective team work
The following skills from the Leeds Skills matrix are incorporated into the above learning outcomes:
Employer awareness: The ability to understand how a business or organisation recruits and supports workers, and an awareness of the wider environment within which employers operate. (Work ready; LOs 1 and 2).
Reflection: the ability to recognise and express knowledge and understanding of work contexts and how this relates to personal experience in order to demonstrate learning and growth from the experience. (Academic; LOs 3 and 4).
Working and communicating with others: generating, sharing and valuing ideas with others, collaborating and networking (Enterprise; LO 5).
The content will cover areas such as:
- Changing patterns of business and employment (e.g. shift to value-led employers and talent agenda; different modes of employment such as social enterprise, entrepreneurship, multiple careers etc.)
- Current issues in employment/ unemployment (e.g. Technology, politics, global influences, economy, pandemic, social issues)
- What employability means and what employers look for
- Ethical issues in the workplace such as job security and flexibility, health and safety, and inclusivity
- Presentation skills and team-work training
- Writing skills – including reflection
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workshop | 10 | 2 | 20 |
| Seminar | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Tutorial | 2 | 0.5 | 1 |
| Independent online learning hours | 50 | ||
| Private study hours | 119 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 31 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
There will be ongoing monitoring of student progress throughout the module via student engagement in each taught session and via the VLE.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Essay | 1,500 words | 40 |
| Coursework | Reflective portfolio and action plan (2000) | 60 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Essay: This will enable the student to explore key changes in the world of work and show their understanding by relating them to examples in specific organisations. It helps them develop key academic skills for research, planning and structuring and will include some collaborative working in class in the formative stages. Reflective portfolio: This comprises of three journals that they complete at different stages of the semester, with formative feedback on the first two. The journals will help them to explore their own career interests, their response to what they are learning on the module, and their transferable skills development. They also will add an action plan to summarise their development and the practical steps they’ll take moving forwards.
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Last updated: 04/08/2025
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