1. Careers and Employability Centre Ruth Grainger Careers Adviser

2. Why a new programme Confusing offering of activity Career Management Skills Top Graduate Skills Insight into Management Accelerate Your Career Other one-off events, skills sessions Aimed at specific groups of students No provision for first years Application numbers falling Students not completing follow up work

4. Format of sessions Mostly 50-minute sessions at various times of day/evening Focus on weeks 1-6 Key sessions repeated Mix of presentations and workshops Delivered by CAs and Employability Team

5. Themes and content Job Hunting and Skills for Work CVs and Covering Letters, Interviews etc Finding a Graduate Job / Placement Commercial Awareness Enterprise; Setting up Your Own Business International Students’ programme Job Hunting in the UK and Abroad Investigating Careers in... Employability Award

6. Marketing Monsoon banner Pull up banner Postcards Posters Plasma screens Guide to Services brochure Website

8. Employer input Number of sessions Consistency of message across repeated sessions Relevance to mixed cohort Number of staff involved in delivery ‘Off the shelf’ Time restrictions Value for employer Quality

9. Challenges! Initial scheduling of sessions and staff Room availability during teaching times Titles of sessions Booking online – technical issues Attendance and recording attendance Evaluations

10. All Students’ Skills programme Three year programme Aim To motivate students to engage with Career Development early Ensure readiness to engage with employers or course providers First year modules: The Purpose/importance of Employability and Career development All about me! Assessing interests, skills and competencies Personal Branding – Getting ready to secure a job or a placement

11. Careers and Employability Centre www.careers.lboro.ac.uk www.facebook.com/LboroCEC www.twitter.com/lborocareers careers@lboro.ac.uk 01509 222039