Employability Overview

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Employability Overview

• Val Butcher
• Senior Adviser
• LTSN Generic Centre

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What do we mean by Employability?

• Fit for purpose?
• Trained in application and interview techniques?
• Equipped with Key Skills and Work Experience ?
• a set of achievements ? skills, understandings
  and personal attributes ? that make graduates
  more likely to gain employment and be successful
  in their chosen occupations, which benefits
  themselves, the workforce, the community and the
  economy. ESECT 2002 - 2005

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What do we mean by Work Experience?
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Work Experience Levels of Learning

• Level 1 Experience only
• Level 2 Record and make explicit the
  experience
• Level 3 Reflection on the Learning Experience
• Level 4 Making the Links and Matching the
  learning
• Level 5 Application of Learning to new
  situations
• Level 6 Adapting to the new situation

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What can we learn from Work Experience?
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What needs to be in place for effective
Work-based learning?

• Time for preparation of the students and for
  de-briefing
• Clear Learning Outcomes
• Transparent Assessment procedures
• Involvement/understanding of employers
• Adequate resourcing for staff

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References

• Context Case- studies Professor Pauline Kneale
• http//www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/courses/other/casestud
  ies/
• Research into impact of Work experience
  Professor Lee Harvey
• Harvey, L., Geall, V., and Moon, S. with Aston,
  J., Bowes, L. and Blackwell, A., 1998, Work
  Experience Expanding opportunities for
  undergraduates. Birmingham, Centre for Research
  into Quality. http//www.uce.ac.uk/crq/publication
  s/we/
• Harvey, L., Moon, S. and Geall, V with Bower, R.,
  1997, Graduates Work Organisation change and
  students attributes. Birmingham, Centre for
  Research into Quality (CRQ) and Association of
  Graduate Recruiters (AGR). http//www.uce.ac.uk/cr
  q/publications/gw/
• Enhancing Student Employability
  Co-ordinationTeam/LTSN Generic Centre web-site
• http//www,ltsn.ac.uk/esect