Graduate Capabilities
Qualifications for the Future
What are Graduate Capabilities?
Graduate capabilities are the essential skills and knowledge that enable students to demonstrate confidence, competence and innovation in their specific profession and across disciplines.
These are the most sought-after employability capabilities that every ICMS student needs to have developed by the time they graduate. Graduate capabilities enhance employment opportunities and lead to success in the future career and life!
Why are Graduate Capabilities important?
Employers have strong and growing expectations that graduates will be work-ready, initiative-taking and capable of undertaking a variety of tasks in different environments. In turn, employees expect to have their skills and capabilities recognised and rewarded with ongoing opportunities for career progress 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 to technical and occupational proficiency.
How does ICMS deliver Graduate Capabilities?
At ICMS we have reviewed the Australian Qualifications Framework general graduate capabilities and:
- incorporated the graduate capabilities into our qualifications
- designed assessments and instructional design to develop the capabilities
- considered the ‘innovation-active’ nature of Australian business
- designed our curricula so that graduate capabilities enhance the work and life success of our students.
Our Graduate Capabilities are:
 | 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 and system thinking | |
| - Initiative, adaptability and entrepreneurial mindset | |
| - Effective and creative responses to problems | |
| - Collaborative creativity and innovation, and complex problem solving underpinned by transdisciplinarity | |
 | 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. | |
| - Sustainable practices | |
| - Intercultural awareness | |
| - Personal integrity | |
| - A global outlook | |
| - Ethical decision making | |
| - Exchange values and cross-cultural perspectives | |
| - Act across cultures and boundaries | |
| - 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. | |
| - Effective communication | |
| - Ability to listen without judgement | |
| - Human interaction and emotional intelligence | |
| - Negotiation skills | |
| - Inclusive teamwork | |
| - Human and machine collaboration | |
 | 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. | |
| - Reflective skills | |
| - Autonomy | |
| - Self-care practices and self-regulation | |
| - Lifelong professional learning and relearning | |
| - Goal-orientation | |
 | Technology and Information Literacy |
| Up to date technological skills to interact and collaborate with others in a rapidly changing world, with the ability to gather, interpret and evaluate relevant information, including through the use of AI tools in order to develop evaluative judgements in an ethical, responsible and practical manner. | |
| - Information, media and data literacy | |
| - Digital creativity, problem solving and innovation | |
| - ICT proficiency and productivity | |
| - AI-augmented data analysis, management and critical evaluation | |
| - Professional digital identity, ethics, AI ethics, responsible technology application and digital wellbeing | |
| - Application of AI affordances in disciplinary and professional practice | |
| - Digital networking capabilities and collaboration with technology |