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Course-related part-time jobs - The Leeds Experience

Commercial Awareness. Course-related part-time jobs - The Leeds Experience. Nalayini Thambar, Careers Centre Lou Proctor, Joblink. Outline. Who are we? Why are we here? Background and context Making it work! The Leeds approach Any Questions?. Nalayini Thambar.

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Course-related part-time jobs - The Leeds Experience

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  1. Commercial Awareness Course-related part-time jobs - The Leeds Experience Nalayini Thambar, Careers Centre Lou Proctor, Joblink

  2. Outline • Who are we? Why are we here? • Background and context • Making it work! • The Leeds approach • Any Questions?

  3. Nalayini Thambar • Assistant Director (Business Services) • Graduate Recruitment/Employer Liaison – jobs and placements • Enterprise and Business Start-up activity • IT Infrastructure • Marketing • Previously GraduatesYorkshire Regional Strategic Manager • Careers Adviser • University of Leeds, • FE (Newcastle-Under-Lyme College) • LEA (Workington, Carlisle, Macclesfield)

  4. Lou Proctor

  5. Common Concerns • How can we support graduates who want to stay in Yorkshire? • How can we link graduates to local SMEs and inform them about the opportunities available? • How can we support our students who need to work in order to fund their time at university? • How can we support students from non-traditional backgrounds?

  6. One Answer Fits All……. COLLABORATE!!!

  7. A brief history of GraduatesYorkshire • 1995 Graduate Link established (vacancy handling) • 1998 YorkshireJobshops collaboration established • 2000 Impact established (diversity support) • 2002 GraduatesYorkshire ‘created’ with Yorkshire Forward funding to address regional graduate retention issues • 02/05 GraduatesYorkshire = GraduateLink + YorkshireJobshops + Impact + YETI • 05/08 YF and institutional funding develops GraduatesYorkshire further.Additional developments include graduate guidance and the course-related jobshops opportunity • 2007 GraduatesYorkshire (effectively Graduate Link) is launched as a limited company – see www.graduatesyorkshire.co.uk

  8. Course-Related Opportunities – the rationale • To enable students who have to work to gain experience that will help them with their longer term career plans • To raise student awareness of local opportunities • To give local employers a ‘low risk’ opportunity to engage with students • To establish student/employer links that could generate more graduate opportunities in the region

  9. How it worked (1) Project Set up • Each institution received 15k per annum with a target of 150 opportunities filled per year • Opportunities had to be within the Yorkshire and Humber region • Employers had to confirm that a student was ‘in post’ before the opportunity could be counted • The Jobshop staff met quarterly to discuss their progress and had a telesales training session towards the beginning of the project

  10. How it worked (2) The set up at Leeds • Recruitment of a new member of staff to generate links with employers we previously hadn’t had dealings with • Students who were placed were offered the opportunity for personal development sessions to help them to make the most of the experience and recognise the skills they had gained • The ‘Jobshopping’ resource was produced by GraduatesYorkshire (in conjunction with GIEU) to support this element of the project.

  11. What constitutes a Course-Related Job? What do you think?

  12. What was it like to deliver this project? (1) Challenges • Xxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxxx • xxxxxxxxxxxx

  13. What was it like to deliver this project? (2) Rewards • Xxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxxx • xxxxxxxxxxxx

  14. What was it like to deliver this project? (3) Key Learning Points • Xxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxxx • xxxxxxxxxxxx

  15. What Happens Next • The Careers Centre is giving Joblink additional funding to continue their good work. With some variations.. • Higher targets (!) • Targets specifically linked to International Students • More structured sessions offered by the Careers Centre to students taking up these opportunities

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