Employability
Careers
You should raise awareness of your services.
Services should be more accessible.
We now provide careers services through a new careers and placement space in the Newton building. We offer 15 minute drop-in sessions with careers staff as well as drop in workshop sessions on CV writing, job applications and other related topics. From January 2013 there will also be new facilities at Clifton campus and very soon at Brackenhurst.
We need more specialist careers advice.
We have recruited more Careers Consultants to enable specialists to be available in every School.
The Careers website can be hard to navigate.
We are developing the content on our website and changes will be made from December 2012. Further developments are also on the way to provide specialist advice and guidance.
You should change the content of your Career Guide so the help you provide is clearer.
We published a new version of the Career Guide in September and distributed copies at Welcome Week and other events.
Employers are doing more telephone interviews and I'm really nervous about them.
We provide specific advice through Careers Advisors and we have also provided facilities for both telephone and video interviews, with help to set them up and assistance with using the technology.
Hive
We need more access to funding.
We have leveraged £50k funding for student and staff Social Enterprise projects and initiatives over the next year.
I didn’t know about the Hive until recently, you should do more to raise awareness.
Awareness of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship as an option is being delivered to an increasing number of students and courses across the university with the intention of doubling exposure in the next 12 months.
Employability Award
The job market is difficult for graduates and we need more help.
We introduced the Employability Award, Acceler8, aimed at second year students. This provides students with a number of seminars and workshops to improve their employability skills, formal recognition for achievements outside of studies and personal feedback from employers.
Other improvements
- As part of the Students in Classrooms initiative we are piloting a new scheme called the Secondary Literacy Scheme with students and have increased the number of places available on the Primary Literacy Scheme.
- We are the first University to launch student membership of the Institute of Directors. We pay the membership fees and now have the largest student membership cohort of any university.
- We launched a mentoring scheme for final year students with recently graduated Alumni who know what it is like to find your first job and start to progress towards a successful career.
- The Hive has increased resources for providing enterprise and entrepreneurship support by 33.3%.
If you have any comments or suggestions for improvements we could make, email the student comms team.
