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Student Led Curriculum for Experiencing Employability

Student Led Curriculum for Experiencing Employability. Julie Prior Dr Karen Fitzgibbon Lesley Long. Session Overview. The Employment Experience module Ensuring all students get some experience Different perspectives of employability Module activities Student feedback Our reflections.

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Student Led Curriculum for Experiencing Employability

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  1. Student Led Curriculum for Experiencing Employability Julie Prior Dr Karen Fitzgibbon Lesley Long

  2. Session Overview • The Employment Experience module • Ensuring all students get some experience • Different perspectives of employability • Module activities • Student feedback • Our reflections

  3. The Employment Experience Module • Context • Revalidation of the Business Management Degree • Employers’ perspective • Competitive advantage • Why level 6? • Link to placement experience • Prepare students for graduate recruitment and selection processes

  4. Work Experience Routes 20 credit module at level 6

  5. Activity What does the word ‘employability’ mean to you?

  6. Student Perspectives

  7. Employer perspective: A graduate in Business and Management typically will: Rees C, Forbes P & Kubler B. (2007) Student Employability Profiles A Guide for Employers. 2nd revised edition. York: HEA.

  8. Module Activities • Exploring employability skills (employability game) • CV critiquing • Deconstructing graduate job adverts. • Identifying key application criteria • essential and desirable • best methods for assessing them • Application sifting • Mock interview questions • Mock interviews • Mock assessment centre activities • In-tray exercises • Problem solving in teams • Negotiation exercises • Psychometric testing • Live discipline based Assessment Centre – run by employers

  9. Problem Solving Activity

  10. Student Feedback • “Feel the module is really effective in helping us understand and prepare for employment.” • “Felt we understand what employers want now, still but need more help in developing some of these skills.” • “Made us think about things that we hadn’t really focussed on before.” • “Keep doing the group work – I liked the groups being mixed up so you didn’t work with your friends, it forced you to work with different people and we liked it.”

  11. Enjoyed the ‘head space’ that such a practical module gives us. • Liked that we put our learning into practice. • It’s a module about you and for you – really good. Module is not assessment driven, you feel valued for attending and there is value for you in attending.

  12. Lessons Learned • Anticipated students would understand the importance of employability • Restructuring of activities • More ‘scene setting’ of each activity • More focus and guidance for students on reflection

  13. Questions?

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