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Employability & skills for the business world
1.
2. The Workforce of Tomorrow
How we can prepare the
young people of today for their
future employment
3. What we’ll cover
•What employers want
•Why they want it
•How we can help them...and the young people
studying with us
4. Graduate employment
•One third of all jobs require graduate level skills
(CBI)
•Slightly less than that are at graduate level
•Bank of England – last 10 years all employment
growth in graduate jobs, decline in prospects
without higher education
5. Are we doing enough?
“…we believe the current supply of graduates is
broadly acceptable in terms of quantity, there
are question marks over quality – especially
what they’re studying and how they use what
they’ve learnt.”
Richard Lambert, Director-General CBI , Oct 2009
6. What employers are looking for
•Institute of Directors members survey
•IoD has 45,000 members, mostly in the UK
•Incorporated by Royal Charter 1906
•Leading professional body for UK company
directors
•Half of IoD members employ recent graduates
7. Subject vs General Ability
•44% looking for specific technical knowledge,
eg STEM
•48% take degree as indication of all-round
ability
8. Employability skills
•Highly sought-after
•Need to hit the ground running and add value
•Evidence of skills in team-working,
communication, creativity, having a positive
attitude, good work ethic, being punctual,
reliable and able to meet deadlines.
9. IoD Top 10 Skills
1. Honesty and integrity;
2. Basic literacy skills;
3. Basic oral communication skills (e.g. telephone skills);
4. Reliability;
5. Being hardworking and having a good work ethic;
6. Numeracy skills;
7. A positive, ‘can do’ attitude;
8. Punctuality;
9. The ability to meet deadlines; and
10. Team working and co-operation skills
10. Employers most impressed by...
•Honesty and integrity (93%)
•IT skills (85%)
•Reliability (85%)
•Ability to work in teams (82%)
11. ...but less impressed by gaps
•Business acumen (-41%)
•Leadership skills (-41%)
•Decision-making (-42%)
•Negotiating/influencing skills (-42%)
Where evidenced, a big “sell” for employers
12. Net result
•Only 25% of employers believe young people
(graduates and non-graduates) are wellprepared for employment
•Employability skills keenly sought
•90% of directors believe universities should do
more to enhance employability skills
13. Overall
•71% of companies satisfied overall with
standard (12% dissatisfied)
•68% satisfied with technical skills (9%
dissatisfied)
•55% satisfied with wider employability skills
(18% dissatisfied)
14. How universities compare
•51% - quality of university education good or
excellent
•31% - FE good or excellent
•22% - schools good or excellent
15. Recommendations
•No one “right” way, but employability and
enterprise must be central to education
•Embed within programmes – not an optional
extra
16. What Teesside University
Business School is doing
•Full undergraduate review 2008/9 – “live”
October 2009
•Business-led approach
•Designed from the customer in, rather than out
from our interests
17. Three big changes...
•Skills embedded in programmes
– not “do you know how to do it?”, but “have you done it?”
•Leadership and mentoring module
– compulsory part of every programme
•Team working assignments
- having to work with people you don’t like, persuading and
influencing, presentation skills
18. ...and the biggest one of all
•Use of leading-edge business simulation
software
- cross disciplinary problems
- synthesising knowledge
- concentrates on “real world” application
- managing in an uncertain environment
- group dynamics
19. How are we doing?
•Business acumen
•Leadership skills
•Decision-making
•Negotiating/influencing skills
