"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
Real-World Work
Explore Jobs with Multiple Employers in a Simulated Workplace
Multiple Job Roles, Multiple Companies and Multiple Industries
Multidisciplinary Learning
Start Exploring Jobs to Enhance Your Employability
Multidisciplinary learning, which involves drawing knowledge from various fields, expands career opportunities.
It makes you more attractive to employers who seek versatile and innovative employees with diverse perspectives, problem-solving abilities, better adaptability and collaboration traits.
Exploring multiple jobs helps you gain knowledge in multiple fields, enhance employability and expand your career opportunities in the fast-evolving workspace.
Select a job role, explore the nature of work and learn what it means to work in the job role.
Identify key skills required to perform the job effectively and find resources to learn or improve them.
Gain knowledge on how to apply your skills in real-world work, with an idea about the tools and techniques used.
Attract more career opportunities as you start to explore multiple jobs and gain diverse knowledge.
Job Exploration Outcome
If you don't have a job-related educational background, a job exploration program helps you:
- Explore the job and determine if it suits you before you commit
- Apply to a suggested online course if you wish to pursue the job
- Even if you don't pursue the job, you still gain a basic multidisciplinary knowledge that increases your professional value
If you have a relevant educational background, a job exploration program helps you:
- Experience real-world work
- Improve the skills with the resources provided to you
- Apply to a suitable early career opportunity (Internship, apprenticeship, entry-level job, graduate program, etc.)
Explore
Multiple Job Roles
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Experience
Real-World Work
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Enhance
Your Employability
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Expand
Career Opportunities
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How It Works
How You Explore a Job
Here’s a step-by-step guide to exploring a job and enhancing your employability.
Step 1
Select a job role that interests you and explore the nature of work.
Step 2
Test-drive the job as a beginner, identify the key skills and tools used.
Step 3
Learn real-world problem-solving through an interactive case study.
Step 4
Gain career insights through job shadowing and informational interviews.
Step 5
Discover how to apply your learning through practical tasks offered to you.
Step 6
Earn a certificate. Apply for an online course if you wish to pursue it.
Added Benefits
While exploring the job role and working on interesting tasks, you also:
Gain basic
domain knowledge.
Improve
commercial awareness.
Develop
big-picture thinking.
Find
job alignment.
What You Get
Why Employers Look for Multidisciplinary Knowledge
Individuals with a multidisciplinary background can approach problems from multiple perspectives, fostering creativity and collaboration, and are better equipped to navigate complex projects requiring knowledge from various domains. Below are a few traits that employers value in you.
Find Your Ikigai
You are Unique
Everyone is unique with their own strengths and talents.
"If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
- Albert Einstein
A one-size-fits-all approach never works when choosing a career. Explore different career paths by getting work exposure in various job roles and find the one that suits you better.
