Career profiling is quickly becoming crucial in the career coaching and recruitment industries. It’s an excellent tool to provide career advice and determine candidate suitability for a role. When done right, career profiling benefits the individual and the organisation.
Introduction to Career Profiling is an online professional development course that provides an in-depth introduction to career profiling, offering insights to improve recruitment and employment services outcomes.
In this career profiling course, you will explore the scope, nature, and limits of profiling for employment, recruitment, and candidate selection. You will also learn about profiling tests, including psychometric, personality, cognitive, aptitude, psychomotor and physical ability tests, as well as screening tests.
You will also learn how to develop a profile using the OCEAN technique, create questionnaires (PAQ, F-JAS), prepare resumes, cover letters and interview techniques to support clients in their employment search and conduct job analysis.
On completion of this course, you will have a comprehensive understanding of the role of the career profiler for personal, recruitment or human resources purposes.
Course Structure
Unit - Job Profiling
Unit 1 – Scope and Nature of Profiling for Employment
- Matching the right people to the right role
- The changing nature of work
- Job changes & labour market
- Care responsibilities & work-life balance
- Digital nomads & remote working
- Approaches to job profiling
- Job analysis
- Competency framing
- Psychometric testing
- Interview days
- Work simulations
- Screening tests
- Medical tests
- Where profiling is carried out
- Assessment centres
- Advantages of profiling
- Limitations of profiling
- Retaining staff
- Flexible working
- Staff improvement
- Invest in staff
Unit 2 Profiling in Recruitment and Selection
- Gathering information about jobs and people
- Benefits of profiling in recruitment
- Difficulties with recruitment & selection
- Overwhelming responses
- Applicant shortages
- Bias in testing
- Response biases
- Faking bad (malingering)
- Social desirability or faking good
- Acquiescence bias
- Moderate or extreme response bias
- Indecisiveness
- Test bias
- Construct bias
- Predictive bias
- Lawful issues of testing
- Important considerations in test constructs
- Test reliability
- Internal consistency
- Test-retest reliability
- Interrater reliability
- Parallel test reliability
- Test validity
- Criterion validity & criterion-related validity
- Construct validity
- Face validity
- Content validity
- Using other measures for profiling
Unit 3 – Profiling Tests Available in Recruitment
- New tests are being developed and emerging
- Group 1: Psychometric tests
- Intelligence tests
- Cognitive ability tests
- Aptitude tests
- Tests of emotional intelligence
- Vocational interest inventories
- Tests of psychomotor ability
- Tests of physical ability
- Tests of perceptual ability
- A test battery for recruitment
- Group 2: Assessment centres
- Simulations
- Group 3 – interviews
- Other options to gather information
- Tester day at the organisation
- Training courses
- Pre-screening tests
- Background screening
- Minimum qualification requirements
Unit 4 – Developing a Profile
- Developing an employee profile
- Case Study – Police Officer
- Type a behaviour pattern (TABP) in job profiling
- Ocean – The Big 5
- Competency profiling
- Choosing tests
- Advantages and disadvantages of different test types
- More on designing a questionnaire
- Biographical information
- Designing the layout
- Piloting the questionnaire
- Standardising the questionnaire
Unit 5 – Supporting Clients and Candidates to Find Occupations
- Helping people prepare for jobs – understanding the self
- Commitments
- Skills and personality
- Case study
- SWOT analysis
- Case study example of a swot analysis
- Applying for jobs
- Marketing the self
- Assessing experience
- Organising training
- Preparing resumes
- The cover letter
- Compiling a resume
- Types of resumes
- Preparing for interviews
- General interview preparation
- Specific interview preparation
- Preparing for simulations or work samples
- Preparing for psychometric testing
Unit 6 – Other Issues in Recruitment
- Issues that influence recruitment and selection
- Influences of distinct types of work
- Flexible working
- Job sharing
- Part-time working
- Home and remote working
- Hybrid working
- Case study – hybrid working
- Confidentiality risk
- Learning from exit interviews
- Legal & ethical issues
- Mental and physical health difficulties
- Inclusion and diversity
- Equity & human rights
- Internal & external recruitment
- Confidentiality
- Employee retention
- Strategies for retaining employees
- Work-life balance
- Case study – work/life balance
Unit 7 – Applications – Matching Occupations And People Profiles
- Client or candidate perspectives
- Client’s interests
- Interest inventories
- Values
- Qualitative assessments
- Hiring from inside or outside an organisation
- Profiling internal candidates
- Profiling external candidates
- How to determine whether to advertise the role
Unit 8 Applications – Adjusting Perspectives through Job Analysis
- Job or work analysis
- Approaches to job analysis
- Job and work analysis
- Job analysis methods
- Task-orientated job analysis
- Worker-orientated job analysis
- Gathering Information
- Qualitative data
- Quantitative data
- Position analysis questionnaire (PAQ)
- Fleishman job analysis survey (F-JAS)
- Personality inventories
- Data bases
- Data analysis
- Best practice in using job analysis
- Competency profiling
- Competency profiles
- Competency dictionary
- Critical incident technique
- Using a competency dictionary
- Best practice in competency modelling
Study Hours
Estimated duration 50 hours
Course Delivery and Start
Start anytime, self-paced and 100% online
Assessment
Assessment will be comprised of written exercises, including short-answer questions, reflective tasks, short reports and/or projects. There are no examinations or due dates for assessment. As a result, you can complete training in your own time and at your own pace with the assistance of unlimited tutor support.
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Graduation
A Certificate of Attainment and Statement of Results will be issued upon successful completion of this course.
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Course FAQs
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- Professional development that is widely recognised and respected;
- Improve your employment opportunities;
- Study online, anywhere via our elearning system;
- High-quality professional development programs written by industry experts;
- All course materials provided online – no textbooks to buy;
- Unlimited tutor support via email;
- We offer twelve (12) months’ access, with extensions available upon application (fees apply);
- Course may be tax deductible; see your tax advisor.
Are there any entry requirements or pre-requisites?
There are no course or subject pre-requisites for entry into our programs. However, our professional development programs are generally intended for people over the age of 18. In some circumstances, enrolments from younger people may be considered. Please complete the AOC Parent Guardian Consent Form prior to enrolling and submit here.
Are there any computer requirements?
To study online with Australian Online Courses you will need a computer (desktop PC/laptop) running a current/updated operating system with reliable high-speed internet access. You will need to use the Google Chrome browser to access your course.
When can I start this course?
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How is this course delivered?
This course is delivered online via our easy-to-navigate Learning Management System (LMS), where you will discover interactive online learning/written content, resources and assessment.
Do I need to attend classes or undertake any work placements?
No. All courses are delivered online via our LMS and there are no work placement requirements in this course.
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I am an international student. Can I enrol into this course?
Yes! We accept enrolments from individuals both within Australia and internationally; location is no barrier to entry into our programs.
Career Pathways
Future growth
Strong
Unemployment
Low
Professional Development for:-
- Careers officers and Advisors
- Employment or Recruitment Service Case Managers
- Employers, HR professionals, Managers
- Life coaches, Counsellors, Academics, or anyone with a need to better understand the correlation between personality and occupation
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