The University of Kent Careers and Employability Service The Careers Employability Award You can download a copy of this presentation at

Moodle Careers Employability Award

Careers Employability Award  Assessed by a range of quizzes and assignments  Only 2% unemployment rate for students completing the award compared to 5% for other Kent students.  Will greatly improve your career planning and jobhunting skills, giving you strategies to make career choices and will increase your chances of getting a graduate level job.  Takes about 12 hours to complete. Can do it over a weekend or an hour or so a day.  All done online: students have completed it in Spain and Sweden and on placement years off campus.  On completion you get a University of Kent Careers Employability Award to add to your CV  Get 60 Kent Employability points for successful completion of the module.Kent Employability points

Based on the DOTS Model of Career Planning S elf Awareness: analysing your skills, interests, values, personality and strengths; O pportunity Awareness: commercial awareness, researching a career, happiness at work, networking; D ecision Making: choosing a career, Prospects Planner; T aking Action: CVs, covering letters, application forms, interviews, aptitude tests, selection centres, action planning. Careers Website is “Random Access”: access in any order. Careers Award is Sequential: structured, logical, learning pathway.

Content of the Careers Employability Award 12 Quizzes: need 75% to pass but allowed unlimited attempts Complete 3 of the following seven assignments  Employability skills quiz  How to develop the skills employers want?  Test your spelling & grammar!  What makes you happy at work?  How commercially aware are you?  Interview preparation  Practice interview  What are the most common interview questions?  Aptitude tests & assessment centres  CV quiz  Career planning drag & drop quiz  Analyse your skills & learn how to make top quality applications  Do you want to live to work or work to live?  Researching careers  Choosing a career  Submit a CV  Social media  Action planning

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The Careers Employability Award On successful completion you receive the University of Kent Careers Employability Award. You can also add the following to your CV: "On my own initiative I successfully completed the University of Kent Careers Employability Award which covered identification and development of employability skills, self-awareness, identification of relevant career options, researching opportunities, CV preparation and interview skills."

Comments from students who have completed the award You get a really nice certificate! It was so easy, quick and I learned a lot. Without realising, you have finished the course and have already put together a very good CV and covering letter. It really blew my mind with some ideas I’ve never known before, such as portfolio working and working from home. I never thought about obtaining happiness from my work before. It would be mad to apply for a job or attend an interview without doing it! Before the course I had only a vague idea of my career path and opportunities. Now I am applying for summer internships and know how to effectively sell my skills to a prospective employer and have a much more focused plan for my future. The module is very, very useful! I really love how it makes you to think about your personality and helps you to identify your strengths and weaknesses. I found the module to be highly thought- provoking as it really encouraged me to consider how my degree will benefit my future and what I can be doing now to improve my graduate employment prospects. I enjoyed the depth of the module. It went far beyond some general tips on how to write a good CV and prepare for an interview. Rather it went in to detail about the whole process of graduate job search from the beginning to the end. It was very instructive. The amount of time put into this is astounding! I actually spoke to friends from other universities who said they wished they had something like this. It has made me feel a lot more confident when it comes to applications and interviews and has also made me think about skills that I didn't think I had before. I recently had a very successful interview largely because I put the advice on the module into practice.

How to enrol on the Award Go to Enter your Kent login and password Via the search box, search for “Careers” or DP2650. Enrol by clicking on "Enrol me in this Module" If you have a problem, and I will enrol you – I will enrol everyone who has attended this

Other talks this term HOW TO PREPARE A WINNING CV, 1pm, Thursday 26th May, Marlowe Lecture Theatre 2 Advanced tips on how to write a CV and covering letter to get you interviews. All welcome. HOW TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS AT INTERVIEW 1 pm, Thursday 2nd June, Marlowe Lecture Theatre 2 Advanced tips on how to be successful at graduate interviews. All welcome. EXAMS OVER.... WHAT NEXT? 2 pm, Thursday 9th June Marlowe Lecture Theatre 2. Covers job-hunting, vacancy sources, how to get help after you leave the University, postgraduate study, graduate recruitment fairs, recruitment agencies, online information and more. All welcome.

Location of the Careers Service Telephone: Drop-in times (no appointment needed): to & 2 to 4 pm

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The University of Kent Careers and Employability Service The Careers Employability Award You can download a copy of this presentation at