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Unlock Your Potential with Warwick Advantage: Skills Development & Employability Enhancement

The Warwick Advantage initiative helps students maximize their university experience through structured personal development planning. This program encourages reflection on learning, promotes student responsibility, and fosters growth in skills essential for future employability. Students engage in non-academic involvement, leading to the Warwick Advantage Award, which provides tangible benefits such as employer endorsements and enhanced CV entries. With support from the Careers Centre and various societies, this initiative aims to create resources that facilitate personal and academic growth.

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Unlock Your Potential with Warwick Advantage: Skills Development & Employability Enhancement

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  1. Warwick Advantage • Sean Russell Director, Student Development & Diversity • Anne WilsonWarwick Advantage Project Officer • Steve RanfordIT Co-ordinator • Lucy ReynoldsSU Societies Officer

  2. Personal & Academic Development Planning • Skills; what skills? • QAA and Personal Development Planning: Personal Development Planningis 'a structured and supported process undertaken by an individual to reflect upon their own learning, performance and / or achievement and to plan for their personal, educational, and career development.‘ (QAA 2000)

  3. Consultation & Marketing • Consultation: Warwick Network – June 2007 • Student buy-in – SU and Societies • Link with Employability – Careers Centre • Using existing channels – CCs • Advisors > Champions: Senior Tutors, Sabbaticals, Learning and Teaching QUESTIONS?

  4. Warwick Advantage Making the most of your time at Warwick Anne Wilson A.E.Wilson@warwick.ac.uk

  5. Warwick Advantage My focus: • To create something students would use • To provide a rationale for the benefits of reflection –to increase graduate employability • To encourage student responsibility for their progression • To develop easy to use resources • To give students choice in the way they reflect To answer the question at all stages “What’s in it for me?”

  6. The process • Consultation with SU Sabbaticals and groups of students through SSLCs to outline ideas and seek input • Discussion with academic staff to explore the new approach • Inputs from some Societies (OWW, WSAF, Warwick Entrepreneurs) to look at skills development

  7. The website www.go.warwick.ac.uk/advantage

  8. Sports Execs Committees SSLC Reps Campaigning Society Execs Volunteering Union Officers The Warwick Advantage Award What we want: What you get: • At least one term of non-academic involvement (or one year for the higher award) • Evidence of a project or event you’ve taken responsibility for • Reflection on your learning and skills development • A certificate signed by Pro-VC Michael Whitby (or the Vice Chancellor for the higher award) • An awards celebration event • Valuable evidence for your CV and applications For commitment, dedication and development

  9. What’s in it for the University? • The Opportunities section- a showcase to the public of all we offer here at Warwick • Graduate employability is enhanced through students’ ability to translate and articulate their skills • Warwick Advantage Award- Recruiter endorsement –further enhancement of students they already rate highly • Motivating students academically

  10. Ongoing Developments Reflection Pods TQEF Project Steve Ranford

  11. Cont…. • Interactive sessions working with individual groups to help students identify and articulate skills they are developing • Departmental Champions who have responsibility for promoting WA website and activities • Resources for students with an offer to access before starting at Warwick

  12. Questions?

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