Transcript From degree to work – a quick, successful transition?

Helping our students find jobs
Student Support Forum
Andrew Whitmore
Alison Metcalfe
Careers and Employability Division
June 2013
Strategic Aims of the
University: Manchester 2020
KPI:
By 2020, to achieve a positive graduate
destination rate of 85%(DLHE), ensuring
that the University is ranked in the upper
quartile of the Russell Group
Employability Working Group set up
Strategy: 3 strands
(1) Embedding employability into the
curriculum/academic engagement
(2) Work experience: placements and
internships
(3) Student engagement
Senate approved actions:
• Schools to appoint academic career
leads/champions
• Schools to demonstrate that they are taking
action on employability…audit and action
plan
• Schools to set targets
• New resources to support employability
• Generation of more internships
Help and support
for graduates
from the
Careers Service
What help is there?
• Careers Advice –
book a personal meeting
with a careers consultant
Careers Service - online &
interactive
Particularly helpful for graduates no longer based in the Manchester
area
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Website www.manchester.ac.uk/careers/services
Careers Service Graduate blog
Twitter
Career Facebook groups by subject
CareersLink
Career Kickstart
• Help available via e-mail [email protected]
and the telephone 0161 275 2829
What’s on your website?
www.manchester.ac.uk/careers/students
24 hour access to up-to-date information, advice,
vacancies, facebook, blogs, and details of forthcoming
events…
CareersLink for vacancies & events
www.manchester.ac.uk/careerslink
• Graduates can access for up to 2 years after
graduation
• Search for vacancies sent to the Careers
Service average over 650 per month
• F-T & P-T jobs, graduate internships, Further
Study & Voluntary opportunities
• Find and register for Careers events including
Graduate Recruitment Fair
• Set up e-mail alerts for vacancies and events
Graduate Internships
• Manchester Graduate Internship Programme
(MGIP) www.manchester.ac.uk/careers/mgip
– Paid 4-12 months in Greater Manchester
– Exclusively for our 2013 graduates
• Graduate Internships across the UK
– information on the Careers Service website
under finding work
– Graduate Talent Pool http://graduatetalentpool.direct.gov.uk/
Summer Careers Events
Programme
• Talks & workshops held between 6-19 June
• Includes
– Psychometric Testing & Personality Profiling
– Presentation Skills
– Assessment Centres
– Jobs search for international students
– Staying and working in Manchester
and more ………
www.manchester.ac.uk/careers/summercareerseve
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The Manchester Graduate
Recruitment Fair
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Wed 12 & Thurs 13 June 10:30 – 16:00
Armitage Centre
180 employers from a range of sectors
Different exhibitors each day
16 targeting PhDs on 12 June
www.manchester.ac.uk/graduatefair
What about help with CVs and
interviews?
• Drop in “ Applications Advice “
– for help with CVs, application forms and
interviews
• Mock interviews
• Hand-outs : takeaway from the careers
resource centre or download from our
website
www.manchester.ac.uk/careers/students/
For graduates not sure where to
start?
Career KickStart can help:
www.manchester.ac.uk/careerkickstart
An interactive tool designed to get
graduates
to think about their career and
decide what to do next
• Careers Service “I don’t know what I want to do!” handout available online or from Careers Resource Centre
Where is the
Careers Service?
Crawford House –
Entrance
on Booth Street East
(opposite the Aquatics Centre)
Appointments
Phone : 0161 275 2829
www.manchester.ac.uk/careers/students
Going forward 2013-14:
• Guidance provision remains
• Careers training education:
– Career Management Skills (CMS)
– Manchester Leadership Programme (MLP)
– In schools
• Vacancies and info via the web
• Employers on campus, at fairs etc
Going forward 2013-14
• New centre for guidance services in the Atrium
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Careers info, advice and guidance for students
Money doctor and academic guidance
Study abroad advice
Peer mentoring support
Exhibition area to promote things such as volunteering,
wellbeing, study and work abroad
– pods and small group areas
Going forward 2013-14:
• More delivery in Schools
– Talks to different year groups
– School focussed sessions eg ALC CMS
• More activity at points of high student
footfall, eg Learning Commons
• Use of on-campus screens to advertise
vacancies and events
Going forward 2013-14:
• Establishing a new ‘Placements’ unit
within our Employer Relations team.
• 3 x Grade 6 managers to work with
Schools
• Increased targets for Graduate & Student
Internship Programmes eg 500 new
internship opportunities
• Work experience bursaries: £250-£1,000
Going forward 2013-14:
Student Engagement
• Improve destination outcomes for our graduates
Prof Ivan
Robertson
RobertsonCooper
• Reviewed the literature
• Suggested a “Competency Framework”
– What differentiates those graduates who
make a quick transition into a positive next
step from those who struggle?
Competency framework
• Psychologists interviewed:
– Careers staff – student behaviours we’d seen
– Graduates in good jobs, shortly after graduating
– Graduates in transitional jobs or unemployed
• Behaviours grouped into 5 areas
• Reviewed by careers staff, graduates and Dr Christine
Rogers (School of Psychological Sciences)
Framework for Success
• Connect
• Persevere
• Communicate
• Explore
• Reflect
Next steps
• RobertsonCooper piloting a self-diagnostic
questionnaire
• Challenges:
– Making a diagnostic relevant to students at all
stages
– How to create major behavioural change?