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Empowering Future Graduates: Enhancing Employability Through Placements

Welcome to the Department of Leadership and Management, where former placement students serve as educators, mentors, and inspirations for the next generation. This initiative increases graduates' entry into the competitive job market through work experience integrated into the curriculum. Research shows that taking placements enhances academic performance, boosts chances of securing graduate-level work, and increases earnings. Despite benefits, national uptake of placements has declined, hindered by various factors. The project aims to raise awareness of placements and foster participation using former placement students as influencers. The impact has seen a 50% rise in students securing placements, with a focus on improving the quality of placements and encouraging a wider array of students to engage. References from Allen, Dearing, Education for Engineering, High Fliers, Wilson, and Youngson & Brooks support the project's objectives.

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Empowering Future Graduates: Enhancing Employability Through Placements

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  1. Placements and Employability Ruth Brooks Business Management Course Leader r.brooks@hud.ac.uk Welcome to the Department of Leadership and Management

  2. Former placement students as educators, mentors and inspiration for the next generation

  3. Increased numbers of graduates entering a competitive job market. • Dearing (1997) and Wilson Report (2012) recommended work experience be part of higher education. • Employability

  4. Work experience while studying • Part time work • Voluntary work • Internships • Embedded into the curriculum • Sandwich placements – up to 48 weeks

  5. High Fliers (2013) Among top 100 graduate recruiters: • Third of jobs will be filled by graduates who have already worked for the organisation • 4/5ths of these companies offer paid work experience programmes • Without work experience graduates are unlikely to be successful during the selection process.

  6. Youngson and Brooks (2013) Taking a placement: • Improves academic performance • 50% more likely to obtain graduate level work • Earn £2000 more on average

  7. National uptake declined from 9.5% 2002/3 to 7.2% 2009/10 • (Education for Engineering, 2011)

  8. Why? • Lack of understanding of the long term benefits • Different backgrounds of students • Cost/ Fees • Lack of mobility • Competitive application process – busy studying

  9. HEA Individual Teaching Grant • Project aim: • To improve awareness of placements and their benefits to increase participation

  10. Using former placement students as educators and mentors • Speak from personal experience • Similar age and life position • Powerful influence in addition to tutor • (Allen and Eby, 2010)

  11. Inspire to consider taking a placement • Encourage when receive rejections • Advice

  12. Start at open day

  13. Ongoing mentoring • Classroom sessions • Lunchtime briefing for all students registered for a placement • Email contact • Interview advice

  14. http://ugradplacements.hud.ac.uk

  15. Impact? • The number of students already securing placements is 50% higher than last year • The quality of placement is improving

  16. Future Developments • Increase the number of students taking placements • Wider social and ethnic backgrounds • Better career planning by students throughout their studies

  17. References • Allen, T.D. and Eby, L.T. (2010) The Blackwell handbook of mentoring: a multiple perspectives approach Oxford: Blackwell. • Dearing, R. (Chair) (1997) Higher Education in the learning society: Report of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education. London: HMSO. • Education for Engineering (2011) Sandwich Courses in Higher Education A report on current provision and an analysis of barriers to increasing participation [online]. Available at: http://www.educationforengineering.org.uk/policy/pdfs/Sandwich_course_report.pdf • High Fliers (2013) The Graduate Market in 2013 [online]. Available at: http://www.highfliers.co.uk/download/GMReport13.pdf • Wilson, T. (2012) 'A Review of Business-University Collaboration' [online] available at:https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/32383/12-610-wilson-review-business-university-collaboration.pdf • Youngson, P.L. and Brooks, R. (2013) ‘The perceived benefits of a sandwich work placement year within an undergraduate study programme’ (unpublished)

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