The document discusses what constitutes a successful application for the UK graduate job market. It covers the state of the UK graduate labor market, how qualifications are viewed, what employers look for in applications, and the components of successful applications. The key components of successful applications include relevant work experience, strong interpersonal skills, customizing materials to the specific employer, and doing well in online applications, interviews, and assessment centers which may include psychometric testing.
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* Elite Professional Programme (EPP)
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Slides from the Mandarin Consultant Presentation on Wednesday 6 February in the Careers and Employability Centre. Aimed at Chinese-speaking students who are looking for internships, work experience or graduate work in the UK, China and internationally.
The entire learning process at SkillZip is focused on inculcating in its participants the sensitivity to the real world issues and an ability to become leaders in their chosen fields. The programme design seeks to inculcate the right attitude, develop the appropriate skills and impart comprehensive and rigorous training for grooming the participants into effective professionals.
* Elite Professional Programme (EPP)
* Elite Expert Programme (EEP)
* Elite Visionary Programme (EVP)
* Elite EdLead Programme (EEDP)
* Scientific & Technical Writing Programme (STW)
Slides from the Mandarin Consultant Presentation on Wednesday 6 February in the Careers and Employability Centre. Aimed at Chinese-speaking students who are looking for internships, work experience or graduate work in the UK, China and internationally.
Regional Employability Survey 2021, Dundalk Institute of Technology. Engagement: Employers, Lecturers, Students, Graduates. See tables separately here on SlideShare.
Applying for an MBA / MS? Let Spanedea guide you.Spanedea - India
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Making a Market for Competency-based Credentials: An Overviewmmabbitt
What is competency based credentialing and why is it important?
What is the current state of play in competency based credentialing?
How do we define "quality" credentials?
What can educators, employers, and public policy makers do to make a market for competency based credentials?
NAC-Tech has been conceived as an industry standard assessment and certification program to ensure the transformation of a "trainable" workforce into an "employable" workforce, hence creating a robust and continuous pipeline of talent for the IT/Engineering Industry. It is targeted at final year and pre-final year students, who will be seeking employment opportunities in the IT / Engineering sector.
The intent behind assessing these students is to identify the level of talent which is available across India, especially in Tier II and Tier III cities and provide feedback to them on areas they need to work on to improve their employ-ability.
Conceptualization of NAC-Tech
In-depth meetings with the large recruiters in the industry were conducted to understand their recruitment practices, cause of attrition desired skills in a candidate, etc. Based on this, a job-skill matrix was developed which formed the basis for the design of this assessment program. Core and Working Committees from the industry were formed and constant interactions were made to make sure that the program was in line with the industry requirements. An evaluation committee was set up to finalize the vendors and decide on the approach to the pilot. Multi-tier evaluation of the vendors happened after the initial interaction. The identified vendors provided the content and technology to run the test. The companies that have helped develop the assessment program are - TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Accenture, Cognizant and HCL.
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If You PLEs ... You'll Thank Me Later - Advance Your Career, Grow Your Busine...Valary Oleinik
This presentation is from the 2014 USDLA National Conference.
In today's rapidly changing world, it is more important than ever that each of us becomes a life-long learner and that we help the learners we work with to follow that path. While some environments still provide active professional development plans, others do not. If an environment does provide an active professional development plan, too often it will focus on keeping skills needed for your current position up-to-date rather than increasing or enhancing your skills to expand your future opportunities. This issue is compounded in the many environments where active development plans are not offered; therefore, much of the development falls to you. One way to prepare yourself for whatever comes your way is by developing and nurturing your own Personal Learning Environment (PLE).
While the definition of a PLE may not be firmly established, at this point the focus is learner-centric and it provides ways for the learners to control and manage their own learning. A PLE is comprised of all of the tools, processes (formal and informal), and methods that individual learners use to expand their knowledge, skills and competencies. This would include, among other things, Web 2.0 applications, LMS, books, and people they connect with personally or professionally.
Regional Employability Survey 2021, Dundalk Institute of Technology. Engagement: Employers, Lecturers, Students, Graduates. See tables separately here on SlideShare.
Applying for an MBA / MS? Let Spanedea guide you.Spanedea - India
Useful information for anyone planning to pursue an MBA or MS program was discussed during this Webinar conducted by Spanedea. A comprehensive routine was proposed and laid out for an aspirant; from how to prepare for MBA /MS right up to securing a seat successfully in a reputed program. Also get familiar with the process, and checkout options like the ISB YLP program and HBS 2+2 program. Of course it all begins with getting a great GRE / GMAT score; Spanedea's online coaching for GMAT and GRE are very effective; we offer high quality online tutoring for these prep programs.
Making a Market for Competency-based Credentials: An Overviewmmabbitt
What is competency based credentialing and why is it important?
What is the current state of play in competency based credentialing?
How do we define "quality" credentials?
What can educators, employers, and public policy makers do to make a market for competency based credentials?
NAC-Tech has been conceived as an industry standard assessment and certification program to ensure the transformation of a "trainable" workforce into an "employable" workforce, hence creating a robust and continuous pipeline of talent for the IT/Engineering Industry. It is targeted at final year and pre-final year students, who will be seeking employment opportunities in the IT / Engineering sector.
The intent behind assessing these students is to identify the level of talent which is available across India, especially in Tier II and Tier III cities and provide feedback to them on areas they need to work on to improve their employ-ability.
Conceptualization of NAC-Tech
In-depth meetings with the large recruiters in the industry were conducted to understand their recruitment practices, cause of attrition desired skills in a candidate, etc. Based on this, a job-skill matrix was developed which formed the basis for the design of this assessment program. Core and Working Committees from the industry were formed and constant interactions were made to make sure that the program was in line with the industry requirements. An evaluation committee was set up to finalize the vendors and decide on the approach to the pilot. Multi-tier evaluation of the vendors happened after the initial interaction. The identified vendors provided the content and technology to run the test. The companies that have helped develop the assessment program are - TCS, Wipro, Infosys, Accenture, Cognizant and HCL.
goFLUENT offers distance business English training solutions combining eLearning, Writing Practice and live trainers. Each year goFLUENT helps over 60.000 business executives in more than 5.000 international corporations to make their company more efficient and profitable when doing business globally and managing intercultural situations. goFLUENT is established in 10 countries, with 560 employees – including 400 teachers - and with the world’s third largest telecom company, NTT Communications (NTT Group) owning 30% of its shares. For more information about goFLUENT, please visit http://www.gofluent.com.
Building the Retail Business-Opportunities and Challengesolu_akanmu
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If You PLEs ... You'll Thank Me Later - Advance Your Career, Grow Your Busine...Valary Oleinik
This presentation is from the 2014 USDLA National Conference.
In today's rapidly changing world, it is more important than ever that each of us becomes a life-long learner and that we help the learners we work with to follow that path. While some environments still provide active professional development plans, others do not. If an environment does provide an active professional development plan, too often it will focus on keeping skills needed for your current position up-to-date rather than increasing or enhancing your skills to expand your future opportunities. This issue is compounded in the many environments where active development plans are not offered; therefore, much of the development falls to you. One way to prepare yourself for whatever comes your way is by developing and nurturing your own Personal Learning Environment (PLE).
While the definition of a PLE may not be firmly established, at this point the focus is learner-centric and it provides ways for the learners to control and manage their own learning. A PLE is comprised of all of the tools, processes (formal and informal), and methods that individual learners use to expand their knowledge, skills and competencies. This would include, among other things, Web 2.0 applications, LMS, books, and people they connect with personally or professionally.
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Engaging all shareholders can make the difference
in achieving important voting benchmarks.
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trends as the proxy season progresses. This first edition for the 2013 season covers the 549 annual meetings held between January 1, and April 23, 2013 and subsequent editions will incorporate May and June meetings. These reports are part of an ongoing commitment to provide valuable benchmarking data to the industry.
The Dreamtek Academy is an extension of Dreamtek Talent and has been developed to provide young, creative and talented individuals a stepping stone into the AV and Production Industry. By adding the Academy to our portfolio of Talent services, we can offer our customers the opportunity to engage with enthusiastic young people who want to grow, learn and excel in their field, creating and fueling innovation for their business. Dreamtek began working with Apprentices in 2013, adopting the National OCR Framework designed for new entrants into the AV and Creative Media Industry. The output of our investment has produced a team of enthusiastic, dynamic and talented individuals who have become an invaluable resource to our business. We have drawn on our experiences in developing and working with Apprentices and now have the expertise and training to extend the Apprentice Programme to our customer base, not only supporting young talent who wish to join the AV and Creative Media Industry but offering our customers an economic talent solution, productivity gain and improved retention.
“Getting into Project Management": presented by Vince Hines, MD, Wellingtone. There are a number of practical ways you can be boosting your employability in project management. The session will look at the current employment market, what organisations are looking for, how to create a CV and profile that gets people talking to you and how to network for success. This session will help you to start taking the right steps to a fulfilling career in project management.
Vince is the Managing Director of Wellingtone, the project management recruitment, training and consulting company. Wellingtone is an APM accredited training company and a Microsoft Gold Partner for Project and Portfolio Management. Vince is an expert Project Management Consultant, having worked with clients across the UK, US and Europe. He retains a number of professional qualifications including MAPM and has extensive real world experience of developing client project management maturity. As MD of Wellingtone Vince has a particular insight into career development and recruitment of project management professionals and recently judged the APM Young Project Professional of the Year Award.
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Introduction to Management
WEEK TEN: THE EXCEPTIONAL MANAGER -STRATEGY
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Every semester, we ask students to give us feedback on what works well and what needs to be improved
It’s called the Course Experience Survey (CES) and it helps us improve teaching, course design and content for you
It takes about 10 minutes to complete online
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The CES matters – it’s part of making sure we’re doing a good job
The CES works – it has delivered a lot of improvements to what we do and you get
It helps you and those who come after you
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Examples of change from student feedback:
Change to group sizes
Updated and more relevant content and examples
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The CES goes online each semester.
Semester 1 2019 CES dates
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What does it take to be an exceptional manager?
Am I really managing if I don’t have a strategy?
Review of best-known classic strategy theories
How does effective execution help managers during the strategic-management process?
Introduction to Management
Functions of Management
Managing emotions at work & employees
The exceptional manager: strategy
Networking to build e-portfolios
Course Review
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Technical skills
– the job-specific knowledge needed to perform well in a specialised field
Conceptual skills
– the ability to think analytically, to visualise an organization as a whole and understand how the parts work together
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– the ability to work well in cooperation with other people to get things done
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In the 1970s researcher Robert Katz identified three skills that are very important to being an exceptional manager: technical, conceptual and human skills.
Ask your students to think of a manager who had one or two of these skills, but not all three. What was the negative impact to the busin.
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
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• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
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What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
2. What we will cover
• UK graduate labour market
• How different levels of qualifications are
viewed
• What are employers looking for?
• Online applications
• The winning CV, key skills & competencies
• Graduate Assessment Process
• Assessment centres & psychometric tests
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
3. UK Graduate Labour Market
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
4. What sectors are they
working in?
• 40% of graduates work in the public sector
• Decline in the recruitment of scientists,
built environment jobs, social care &
advisory type workers
• Financial services, media & publishing are
maintaining their recruitment levels
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
5. Working for major
employers
• Less than 10% of graduates work with
major employers on graduate schemes
• There is confusion between what is a
graduate job & working for a major
employer on a graduate scheme
• A good source on ‘big’ company recruiters
is www.agr.com & www.highfliers.co.uk for
a broader report see ‘What Can
Graduates Do’ www.hecsu.ac.uk
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
6. What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
7. Spain's lost generation of graduates join wave of migrants in search of jobs
Rising unemployment has led to an exodus of young Spaniards looking for better opportunities abroad
on a scale not seen since the 1960s
Journalism graduate Nacho Luna has decided to emigrate
to London. 'I don't want to form part of the lost generation,'
he says. Photograph: Ignacio Luna
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
8. How different levels of
qualifications are viewed
• Unlike most European countries it is
possible to enter professions without
studying a relevant undergraduate degree
• A Masters qualification often has more
value after a graduate has worked for a
number of years
• Most UK graduates enter the labour
market with only a first degree
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
9. What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
10. What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
11. What are employers looking
for?
• Qualifications prior to university still
important for some professions such as
accountancy & law
• Level of degree still important for graduate
recruitment schemes with major employers
less important with other employers
• Willingness to be mobile & live where the
graduate jobs are
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
12. Experience matters
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
13. Top 10 tips
• Internships will make you stand out
• Volunteering
• On campus activities
• The academics isn’t everything!
• Confidence shows
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
14. Top 10 tips
• Have you done your research?
• Professionalism
• Using your initiative
• Networking skills
• Motivation
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
15. Online applications
• Virtually all applications to major
companies will be online
• The scenario ? is very important & is
measuring if you have the appropriate
skills/competencies
• Most important ? is why you have applied
to the company
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
16. The Winning CV
• Personal details
• Education & qualifications
• Work experience
• Skills & achievements
• Interests
• References
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
17. Covering letter
• Sometimes you can include a covering
letter with an online application
• The most important point, in first
paragraph, is why you want to work for
company
• Mention the name of the company at least
3 times in covering letter. It’s the one
company in the world you want to work
for! www.prospects.ac.uk
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
18. Key skills & competencies
• All employers will have a competency
framework which they recruit against
• Competency frameworks will be used in
interviews both face to face & telephone
• are a good example of
how major employers
measure competencies
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
19. Graduate Assessment Process
Competency Takes Demonstrates Turn strategy Demonstrates Learn and Build effective Engage
Personal commercial into results commercial Grow teams people
Responsibility judgement judgement Innovate
Critical Accountability Focus Driving External Challenge Collaboration Respect
Behaviour Performance Perspective
App
Form X X X
Telephone
Interview X X X X
A/C
Interview X X X X
Presentation
X X
Group
Exercise X X
In-tray
exercise X X
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
20. Critical Behaviours - Overview
1
2 Accountability
3
Focus Giving and taking responsibility
Prioritising where time and for our actions
Driving performance
resources are spent
Delivering on our promises
4
5 External perspective
Acting with our customers, 6
Challenge shareholders, and regulators in
Improving the outcome by mind Collaboration
giving and receiving ideas Working together to achieve
7 better results quicker
Respect
Treating colleagues with
integrity and dignity
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
21. Summary of schemes
Engineering /Professional Sciences Bachelors degree (or We do not apply a
(2 years) higher, e.g. MEng) in minimum classification,
Engineering or Science
however, applications’
Sales (2 years) Bachelors degree in any predicted/achieved
subject degree classification will
be taken into
Marketing (2 years) Bachelors degree in any consideration when
subject
assessing their
Customer Operations (2 years) Bachelors degree in any application as a whole
subject
Business Analysis (2 years) Bachelors degree in a
numerate subject
Finance (3 years) Bachelors degree in any
subject
Quantitative Risk Programme (18 Masters degree or higher
months) related to maths finance
(e.g. financial modelling)
Information Systems (2 years) Bachelors degree in an IT
related subject
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
22. What makes a graduate employable (to
npower?)
Unaware of potential
Intellectual Rigour – can demonstrate high level understanding and focus on detail. We
rely on Universities to verify this through award of degree
Aware of potential & ability/skills
Reasonable level of self awareness – able to communicate
what skills /abilities they have (gained through work
experience, extra-curricular activities, Uni award
programmes)
Aware of potential,
ability & skills & what a
particular employer
wants
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
23. Assessment centres
• Assessment centres are used by major
graduate recruiters with graduate schemes
• The elements included are similar to those
on the Npower assessment process
• An additional element is psychometric tests
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
24. Psychometric tests
• The main tests used by graduate
recruiters are numeracy, verbal reasoning
& for certain skill areas spatial
• Occasionally personality tests are also
used
• The main provider is Saville Holdsworth
http://www.shldirect.com/practice_tests.ht
ml
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?
25. You are hired!
What constitutes a successful application
for the UK graduate job market?