Graduates Attributes

The UTS graduate attributes represent what we want our students to become - graduates who will:

1. Be equipped for ongoing learning and inquiry in their personal development and professional practice;
2. Operate effectively with the body of knowledge that underpins professional practice;
3. Commit to the actions and responsibilities of a professional and global citizen and

4. Have knowledge of Indigenous Australian contexts to inform their capability to work effectively for and with Indigenous Australians across their professional discipline.

    

Each faculty has adopted these broader attributes to create faculty graduate attributes.

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one of the ways in which all know that we have achieved our objective

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of inspiring graduate success is that our graduates will be highly valued

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and sought-after by employers so what will it take for that to happen

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when I talk to most people I think it will be the caliber

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academic results that is the most important thing that employers are

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looking for

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but actually academic results come in

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at number four and have done so for the last four years

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in the Graduate Outlook Survey a major survey of employers

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about what they're looking for when they interview graduates

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you be surprised as I was to say that consistently

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for the last four years the number one

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and most important selection criterion

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has been interpersonal and communication skills

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both region and are all coming in at number two

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again for the last four years has been the graduates passion

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knowledge of the industry drive commitment

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and attitude and consistently at number three

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has been the graduates ability to engage in critical reasoning

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how will develop the analytical skills are their ability to solve problems

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engage in natural thinking and their technical skills

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and as said previously the caliber

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of the academic results comes in at number four

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we recently had an opportunity to interview some employers

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and here's what they had to say about what they're looking for

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I'm attend the academic and the GPA is a small pot the candidate's application

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is an important hot I mean if you've got a number fails

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as a recruit I'm gonna be asking the questions why

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and but it is just a small pots and we're looking for

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well-rounded can stick so we're looking to see the constant are involved in

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things outside

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their academic studies to show that they fill other skill

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I'm in terms of skills we look for and with the team work best huge one in

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consultancy

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I mean he's got to work with others across with levels flexibility and

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adaptability is signing

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important I'm actually all site people's interpersonal skills are very important

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we are looking at people's ability to a working attain

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environment with people that I don't know why and

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their ability to put their ideas forward and communicate without necessarily

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taking I did agree

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and and their ability to listen to others and integrate other people's ideas

Graduate framework

Each course at UTS has a graduate profile that describes the intended capabilities of its graduates. It addresses three broad domains: personal, professional and intellectual and details the attributes graduates will develop through the course, including the professional roles for which they will be prepared.

Graduate profiles are developed alongside the UTS Model of Learning so they take into account the over-arching attributes that all UTS graduates will have, and complement these with discipline- and profession-specific qualities. Course curriculum, including subject objectives and assessment criteria, is mapped against graduate profiles, to ensure there is a strong link between the intended attributes of graduates and what is taught. UTS uses a development framework for demonstrating the links between subjects, courses and the UTS Graduate Profile Framework.