New Partnerships: Careers Workshops & Student Engagement Karen Butterworth Careers Consultant

New Partnership Great for Careers Service AGLC - Extends our reach to - Emphasises AGLC students as a central hub for - Interactive teaching spaceskills support - Knowledge & cross promotion Working in collaboration

Open Training Workshops ‘Preparing for your Career’ CVs & Applications, Interviews, Psychometric tests, Assessment Centres Small group work, use of TurningPoint technology, laptops, video etc. ‘ Getting Started..’ Facilitative, group guidance MBTI - individual Laptops

Statistics 2013/14 Open Training Workshops – Delivered 23 sessions, 314 students attended Focused mainly in October and February – 100% of participants found the workshops ‘extremely useful’ or ‘somewhat useful’ – 100% of participants rated the structure, facilitator and content as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’

Drop-In Career Sessions New initiative 2013/14 Opportunity for students to ‘drop-in’ and ask questions about anything careers related! 2 hour sessions, 2 consultants available, 1 AGLC support Huge success Informal & approachable, In ‘their’ space, well promoted, timing of drop-in 15 sessions, 49 students

What’s Worked Working in familiar student space increases student engagement Flexibility and support from AGLC team to enhance our work Effective marketing Media screens, tannoys, banners, café toblerones Opportunity for cross promotion Cross promote workshops on MLE and CareersLink My FutureFest

Opportunities Train Student Rovers to advise and signpost students Increase the number and variety of sessions Use of space in entrance foyer and Café Develop online resources – My Learning Essentials Achieve HEAR accreditation

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