Become a career advantage for your students

‘Employability Advantage (EA) is an excellent platform to provide students with the tools and resources necessary to gain employment in their field of study. Gaining employment, post graduation, is a challenge, particularly for international students. Barriers to employment include students’ ability to navigate the recruitment and selection processes. The EA platform provides the students with opportunities to demonstrate and or refine their skill sets in their field of expertise. It also provides a tool for the development of their ability to apply for graduate positions. There is a significant responsibility for education providers to ensure that the students who graduate from their courses are equipped to obtain gainful employment in the are of their study. This EA platform, developed and provided by ECA, goes a long way to ensuring that this responsibility is fulfilled.’

‘More than ever before, in today’s employment market, graduates and students are expected to be employable with all the key skill bases covered. The Employability Advantage toolkit will enable students to develop those skills in a targeted and personalised manner. In my view as an industry partner of ECA Internships program, employability skills are essential skills that degree programs often fail to provide. Graduates with skills can immediately focus on gaining experience by contributing and being productive. Interview skills, along with specific industry related knowledge and skills will set students up for success past the interview stage allowing them to build successful careers.’

The Australian Computer Society (ACS) Foundation was established in 2001 to assist tertiary students make the transition from their studies into the industry.  In this capacity it has a lot to do with assisting students of an international background.  We are always looking for ways to assist those students make that hard step and be successful in their career. We have partnered with ECA to promote the use of Employability Advantage more broadly – both for domestic students and international students as we feel it addresses some of the gaps that students have which holds them back.  The students have engaged with the product very enthusiastically.

‘ECA’s Employability Advantage (EA) is the perfect Toolkit for a job seeker. It has a clear step by step user friendly process to help the job seeker prepare themselves. It identifies areas you may need upskilling. Once the profile is setup it presents an evaluation score and direction for the next steps to enhance your employability.’

‘Integral to the system is the skills gap assessment which my users have completed at the beginning of the EA process. This provides has provided the user with a personalised gap analysis between their current skill base and the expectations of positions. While it is fine to identify the gaps, the EA tool through its partnership with LinkedIn Learning enables the users to address skills gaps both technical skills and soft skills supported by verified certification. Overall, the Employability Advantage program is an awesome tool to enable users to get the job of their dreams.’