RMIT Career Ready Award

RMIT Career Ready Award

Turn your uni experience into real career confidence

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Are you Career Ready? The RMIT Career Ready Award is a flexible, student-focused program that helps you build real-world employability skills and experience alongside your degree - so you graduate with more than just a qualification. 

By starting early, you can explore different career experiences, build confidence, grow your professional network, and develop a clear story about who you are - while strengthening your LinkedIn profile and personal brand along the way. 

What is the Career Ready Award?

Think of the Career Ready Award as your roadmap to becoming work-ready, step by step, at your own pace.

It guides you through:

  • Practical career experiences like volunteering, internships, competitions and part-time work
  • Career workshops and events that help you understand the world of work
  • Reflection and skill development so you can confidently talk about what you’ve learned

The award is open to all undergraduate and postgraduate students across all disciplines at both Hanoi and Saigon South campuses. No prior experience is needed, just a willingness to get involved.

Recognition and rewards

All students who complete the full program receive:

  • Certificate of Achievement
  • Digital Badge to showcase on LinkedIn and other platforms
  • Invitation to the end-of-year Award Ceremony

Each tier comes with recognition and exclusive benefits:

Bronze

  • Exclusive Career Ready Award merch pack
  • Bronze digital badge

Silver

  • Exclusive alumni networking opportunity, e.g. invitation to attend the Alumni to Alumni circle (A2A) or similar alumni event to meet alumni in diverse industries
  • Silver digital badge

Gold

  • Professional recommendation letter or LinkedIn recommendation
  • An invite to an exclusive industry engagement experience, such as a professional networking event, industry lunch, business function or similar opportunity to build meaningful connections with employers and industry leaders.
  • Gold digital badge

How it works

The Career Ready Award is hosted on Canvas and is easy to access via self-enrollment. It has three tiers: Bronze, Silver and Gold, and you can complete the award by:

  • Attending career events
  • Completing an activity such as a student competition or volunteering
  • Working part-time or completing an internship

You can log these experiences as evidence and build your progress over time.

In total, the Career Ready Award involves around 100 hours of commitment across your degree, with flexibility to complete activities gradually over time.

BRONZE: Explore & Get Started 

  • Attend five career events 
  • Total of 5 hours 
  • Submit a reflective statement

SILVER: Get Involved & Contribute 

  • Complete at least 1 activity :
    • Volunteer 
    • Join a student competition 
    • Become a student leader at Student Council or Student Clubs 
  • Total of 40 hours 
  • Submit a reflective statement 
  • Submit resume to CV360

GOLD: Apply & Achieve 

  • Complete a work experience 
  • Total of 40 hours 
  • Submit a reflective statement 
  • Submit your Portfolio link 
  • Submit video recording

What you will gain

By completing the Career Ready Award, you’ll learn how to:

  • Build real-world experience while you study
  • Develop key employability skills, such as communication and problem-solving, that are valuable in any work setting
  • Communicate your skills clearly in applications and interviews
  • Develop a LinkedIn profile that genuinely reflects who you are
  • Explore different career paths and develop a career plan

While the award doesn’t guarantee a job, the Award will make job applications, interviews, and networking feel far less intimidating and far more achievable.

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Hung Vu Viet - Final year Digital Marketing student, RMIT SGS

"Go for it! I have always believed that everything is worth a try, so I often step into new opportunities even when I do not feel completely ready. The Career Ready Award showed me that being 'ready' is not a requirement, the modules and guidance help you along the way. The experience strengthened my reflection skills by encouraging me to look back on my achievements and recognise how much I have grown. My advice to other students is simple: enrol, submit your award, and discover the many valuable benefits and opportunities it offers."

Getting started

Support is always available, whether you need help planning your activities, logging evidence, or figuring out what counts.

Drop by or get in touch with the Career, Alumni and Industry Relations team:

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