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Fit for Work How can the careers service facilitate and add to language students' development of their employability and career choices?. Diane Appleton Careers Adviser Careers & Employability Service Centre for Lifelong Learning University of Liverpool. Fit for Work. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Fit for Work How can the careers service facilitate and add to
language students' development of their employability and career choices?
Diane AppletonCareers Adviser
Careers & Employability ServiceCentre for Lifelong Learning
University of Liverpool
Fit for Work
• Why and how universities in the UK have developed employability strategies
• Delivery of Career Management Skills
• Examples of programmes
Modes of delivering skills for employability• Teaching and learning styles – developing employability
skills through learning • Assessed careers modules in curriculum – compulsory• Assessed careers modules in curriculum – optional• Bolt-on careers modules, may be optional and not
assessed• Centrally delivered career management programme in
Careers Service• Personal Development Planning (PDP)• Service Level Agreements
Additional outcomes
• Students will develop:• business awareness through understanding trends in the
graduate labour market and the attributes and achievements that employers require.
• Oral communication and team working skills through practical group exercises.
• IT skills and information handling skills will be developed through use of the Internet.
• Personal Development Planning abilities through the reflective exercises and forward-looking nature of CMS.
Example of a non-assessed careers programme (University of Liverpool)
• Pre-year abroad• What jobs do Liverpool students do on the year abroad? • Improve your skills! (Gain the Skills Award)• How to get a placement.• Get that job! The Year Abroad Buddies share their tips • Making your year abroad count (employability skills session) • 3 presentations by language employers
Pre-Year abroad compulsory session
• What skills employers want• Identify personal objectives for Year Abroad (Card
Sort/Questionnaire)• Reflect on current skills, identify gaps• Look at application forms and CVs• Introduce Learning Log/PDP• Portsmouth Survey on Residence Abroad and
Employability
www.liverpoolyearabroad.org.uk
Before you go abroad Country Guides The Best and Worst Bits Year Abroad Learning Log Start Planning Your Career Finding Job Vacancies Support Whilst Abroad Keeping in Touch inc e-guidance service
During year abroad
• Email in September• Christmas mailing to overseas addresses:• What do Graduates Do (Modern Languages)• What do Liverpool Modern Languages Graduates do• List of AGCAS careers information booklets• Info on useful websites (prospects)
• Mailing of personal objectives in February• Completion of Learning Logs • E-guidance and CV checks, vacancies etc
• Benefits• Good contact with Careers
Service (c80%)• Students feel included and
not isolated• Tailor made to them and
their needs• Students feel more
confident in the skills they have and the areas they have developed
• Problems• Access to Internet• Compulsory but not
assessed so……• Getting them to use the
career planning part of the site!
Final Year programme (examples)
• Reflection on skills and experiences from year abroad • Careers with languages • How to plan your career• Insights into career paths with languages• Employers - what do they want?• CVs and interview skills • Careers Using Languages Forum/Careers Fair
University of Liverpool – a case study
• School of Cultures, Languages & Area Studies has Learning & Teaching Objectives including: Using alumni contacts to identify skills developed in degree and
in employment to inform curriculum development Strengthening links with employers and ensuring degrees meet
their needs Developing mechanisms for scrutinising employer and student
feedback from vocational placements Embedding innovation and enterprise into the curriculum with
the primary aim of preparing students for future employment New courses – professional bodies, employers and
employability key part of approval process
continued….
• Employability related activities:
• Peer Mentoring Scheme – sponsored by Bloomberg and Deloitte
• Achievements prize sponsored by Aldi • Employer presentations• Employability Officer• Personal Development Planning
• Students have to do a learning log for their year abroad• Skills Award
Conclusion?
• Language students don’t always know why they are employable
• Students want help with career planning when they want help with career planning!!
• Little and often approach seems to work best• Partnership between department and Careers Service is
vital• Employer involvement (especially in the form of
sponsorship) raises the profile of employability and the Careers Service
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