Graduate Capabilities
Qualifications for the Future
What are Graduate Capabilities?
Graduate capabilities are the skills and knowledge necessary to demonstrate confidence, competence and innovation in their specific profession and across disciplines.
At ICMS, our 21st Century Graduate Capabilities are the skills that every student needs to have developed by the time they graduate. These capabilities (skills) are what employers ask for.
Graduate capabilities enhance employment opportunities and lead to success in work and life!
Why are Graduate Capabilities important?
Employers have strong and growing expectations that graduates will be work ready and productive. In turn, employees expect to have their skills and capabilities recognised and rewarded with ongoing opportunities for career and personal development. Individuals will need to be able to manage multiple career transitions, and to build their own career paths and business opportunities, through continuous learning and development. Many professions are also refocusing their requirements for professional entry and ongoing accreditation on a broad range of aptitudes and capabilities; their perspective is broadening from the familiar focus on technical and occupational proficiency.
How does ICMS deliver Graduate Capabilities?
- incorporated the graduate capabilities into qualifications
- designed course content to include the capabilities
- considered the ‘innovation-active’ nature of Australian business
- designed the course content so that graduate capabilities enhance the work and life success of our students
What are the ICMS 21st Century Graduate Capabilities?
 | Professional Expertise |
| The skills and knowledge necessary to demonstrate confidence, competence and innovation in their specific profession and across disciplines | |
| - Disciplinary knowledge | |
| - Workplace confidence and competence | |
| - Interdisciplinary capabilities | |
| - Innovative practices | |
| - Transferable skills and knowledge | |
| - Entrepreneurial skills | |
 | Agile Leadership |
| The capability to initiate, embrace and lead innovation and change, as well as engaging and enabling others to do so. | |
| - Authentic leadership | |
| - Resilience and adaptability | |
| - Vision | |
| - Interpersonal skills | |
| - Cross-cultural leadership | |
| - Groups, teams and systems awareness | |
 | Innovative Problem Solving |
| Initiative and enterprise skills that contribute to innovative problem solving of dynamic, real world challenges. | |
| - Integrative intelligence | |
| - Initiative and enterprise | |
| - Effective and creative response to problems | |
| - Collaborative creativity and innovation, and complex problem solving underpinned by transdisciplinarity skills | |
 | Global Citizenship |
| The skills to work productively and collaboratively in diverse global environments and to make ethical and sustainable decisions that consider the impact on others across boundaries. | |
| - Exchange values and perspectives | |
| - Act across cultures and boundaries | |
| - Sustainable practices | |
| - Intercultural awareness | |
| - Personal integrity | |
| - A global outlook | |
| - Ethical decision making | |
| - Inclusivity | |
 | Skilled Collaboration |
| The ability to work effectively within teams from diverse backgrounds, display effective leadership behaviours and effectively communicate knowledge and information to deliver measurable outcomes. | |
| - Human interaction and emotional intelligence | |
| - An ability to listen without judgement | |
| - Effective communication | |
| - Negotiation skills | |
| - Inclusive teamwork | |
 | Independent Self-Management |
| A sense of self-awareness and self-belief to develop a personal culture of continuous self-directed learning, enabling ongoing personal and professional development. | |
| - Lifelong professional learning and relearning | |
| - Reflective skills | |
| - Autonomy | |
| - Self-regulation | |
| - Goal-orientation | |
 | Technology and Information Literacy |
| Up to date technology skills to interact and collaborate with others in a rapidly changing world, with the ability to gather and interpret relevant information in order to develop accurate judgements in an ethical and practical manner. | |
| - Professional digital identity, ethics and wellbeing | |
| - Digital creativity, problem solving and innovation | |
| - Information, media and data literacy | |
| - ICT Proficiency and productivity | |
| - Digital networking capabilities |
Refer to Learning and Teaching for more information.