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- 1. The Employability Skills Workbook at UoB Jayson Short & KatherineWhittaker University of Brighton Careers Service
- 2. Session content • Where the idea came from • How did we start • Where/how is it used • How its made available to students (and academics) • Challenges encountered • Feedback received • What’s next…
- 3. Where the idea came from • Direct work with students (1-2-1) • Group presentations and workshops • Professional Practice modules • Variation on our Employability Skills Framework
- 5. How did we start • What resources do we already have? • Was it fit for purpose? / student friendly • New ideas
- 6. Where/how is it used • Careers based student work • Students working at UoB e.g. student ambassadors • Widening Participation team • As an online resource/tool • Other teams too…….
- 7. Challenges/Considerations • Resources (staff + time) • Budget • Getting sign off from M&C • Format • Staff buy-in • Gaining feedback
- 8. Feedback received • Students ‘This workbook has helped me to realise even if I haven't had a job in the field I'm applying for, I still have the necessary skills employers are looking for from other life experiences’ ‘I have received an interview offer based off the changes made to my CV as a result of the workbook content and meetings with the careers office’ ‘The workbook has helped me be more articulate when describing skills I have demonstrated in the past.Some skills I hadn’t considered before finding out about them in the booklet and realising that I may have demonstrated those skills in the past’ ‘The workbook has helped me recognise and communicate my skills better and gives me a place to write it all down so I can come back to it if I need to’ ‘The workbook is great. All students should get it!’ ‘It is a useful guide which allowed me to self reflect, also the different sections are well organised and structured which helped me to be focused.’
- 9. Feedback received • Academics • Feedback from a school board ‘The Board endorsed the workbook as a good resource that could be used to structure preparation for professional placements and as a tool in practice modules. Dr Panesar highlighted the professional development week that ran each year in engineering and invited the Careers Service Representative to run a workbook session with students as part of the week’s activities’ • Careers staff ‘When attending planning sessions with course leaders and tutors I would always take a booklet to show them as part of our discussion around content for sessions and how we could us the booklet as a focus for activities.This was received very positively and tutors often asked for a box to distribute which I sometimes used as leverage to get into sessions myself!’ • School Office ‘The Skills Workbook are “selling out like hot cakes”. Can you send me two more boxes ’ ‘They arrived at my desk on Monday, my first day back on Campus. Members of the SMG likes it. I will be circulating these to the course leaders. But I think I will run short. Can I have another box, please, if possible.’
- 10. What’s next… • Reflect on feedback - amend current version (+ reprint) • Embed resource online • Link it to academic modules • Continued promotion via other staff • Employability award
- 11. Thank you Any questions? Jayson Short - j.short2@brighton.ac.uk Katherine Whittaker - K.A.Whittaker@brighton.ac.uk