1. Career Development Learning and Employability in Higher Education: Contexts, Concepts and Challenges Tony Watts

2. Employability Responds to students motivations Responds to students motivations Responds to policy concerns Responds to policy concerns Can reinforce rather than undermine wider academic values Can reinforce rather than undermine wider academic values

3. Definitions Immediate employment Immediate employment Immediate employability Immediate employability Sustainable employability: requires attention to career development learning Sustainable employability: requires attention to career development learning

4. Terminology Career(s) education (e.g. DOTS) Career(s) education (e.g. DOTS) Career management skills (e.g. Hawkins) Career management skills (e.g. Hawkins) Career development learning Career development learning

5. Strategies Specific modules Specific modules - Generic - Generic - Customised - Customised - Bespoke - Bespoke More general cross-curricular integration More general cross-curricular integration Outside the curriculum Outside the curriculum

6. Strategic Directions for HE Careers Services Integrated guidance model Integrated guidance model Integrated placement model Integrated placement model Curriculum model Curriculum model Learning organisation model Learning organisation model Extended-support model Extended-support model Lifelong guidance model Lifelong guidance model Alumni model Alumni model

7. Possible Implications Restructuring careers service as an academic rather than student service? Restructuring careers service as an academic rather than student service? Separate teaching unit for career development learning? Separate teaching unit for career development learning?

8. Delivery Models Specialist Specialist Consultancy Consultancy Parallel delivery Parallel delivery Integrated Integrated

9. Staff Requirements Pedagogic knowledge and skills Pedagogic knowledge and skills Strong grounding in career development theory Strong grounding in career development theory Academic empathy Academic empathy