Using your Careers Service
Your careers service offers a comprehensive range of services to assist you in meeting the graduate employability agenda.
These services include:
Integrating employability into your curriculum
Careers services are experts in embedding employability into curriculums, often as part of a broader HE agenda.
They can assist you to:
- Evaluate existing provision
- Design and deliver additional skills programmes
In practical terms, this may include:
- Providing skills based training, for example in teamwork, communication or presentation skills
- Assisting in the development of personal development records
- Providing learning support or recognition for work experience programmes
- Assessing and developing key skills in project work
Promoting work based learning
Careers services hold a wealth of information and expertise on how to access work based learning opportunities. Some even have their own accreditation systems in place to recognise the skills students and graduates have developed.
Developing partnerships with employers
Careers services have their finger on the pulse of the graduate labour market. They put considerable time and energy into developing good relationships with employers be it through sector groups or individuals.
Through these relationships, careers services can assist you to:
- Involve employers in the delivery of skills programmes
- Develop opportunities for students in work experience placements
- Showcase case studies
Demonstrating graduate employability
All careers services carry out an annual survey to assess the final destinations of graduates.
This survey tells you where your graduates are placed within the labour market.
The statistics for your HEI and academic discipline are available upon request from your careers service.
