Alternative careers service models

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Alternative careers service models Lancaster
University Paul Blackmore
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• Student body profile
• 8,500 Undergraduates (4k Arts Social Science
  Bachelor degree courses)
• 3,750 Postgraduates
• 250 PhD students
• 1,000 EU 2,000 Overseas (Chinese, Greek, Indian)
• 130 nationalities represented
• 3 Faculties
• Arts and Social Sciences (FASS)
• Science and Technology (FST)
• Management School (LUMS)
• One of only two 6 (internationally-rated) HEIs
  in the UK
• Location
• North West England - Manchester 100 km, Glasgow
  240 km, London 400km
• 50 of graduates remain in region (30 3-4 years
  ago)
• Largest graduate employers within 25mi radius
• NHS (National Health Service)
• Lancaster University!
• 97 of students declare that they expect to
  improve their graduate employment prospects as a
  result of studying at Lancaster University

• profile and marketing to all employers is
  therefore essential!

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About CEEC
Mission To assist students with their career
preparation, identification and creation of
relevant opportunities and successful transition
into graduate-level work and further study upon
graduation

• Careers Education
• central workshops and study programmes (in-
  extra-curricular)
• Careers Information
• vacancies, guides, labour market / employer
  information etc.
• Careers Guidance
• 1-to-1s with Advisers (CV checking, mock
  interviews etc)
• Employer liaison, employer services
  professional networking
• Employer and Alumni presentations, fairs,
  vacancies job creation, develop campus
  brand-awareness, HRD business-support etc.

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Strategic positioning
PVC Student Experience Colleges ________________
_ Director, RES
University Management Group (UMAG)
Graduate Destinations Policy Committee
Graduate Employer Forum
CEEC User Group
CEEC (within Division of Research Enterprise
Services
Employer Services Team (inc. Recruitment Services)
Career Development Guidance Team
Careers Information Administration Team
i.e. 13 full-time equivalent staff (7
professional grades) 2.5 externally funded
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CEEC staffing
Director
Career Development Guidance (CDG) team CDG
Co-ordinator Faculty Careers Consultants X 3.6
FTE CRS Development Advisor x 0.4FTE CV
advisers x 0.2FTE

• Employment Development Employer Services (ED
  ES) Team
• ED ES Co-ordinator
• Graduate Destinations Statistics Manager
• Trainee Enterprise WBL Adviser
• Employer Mentoring Admin Officer
• - TBA (Lent 08)
• Employer Liaison Officers x 2
• Graduate Survey Assistants
• (Term-time only)
• 4 x additional posts (0.3 FTE)
• 2 x Market Researchers (students)
• Sessional tutors delivering high-level /
  professional skills (CECA, Insight etc)

• University funded
• 13.2 full-time equivalent (FTE)
• 6.8 FTE professional grades
• Externally funded
• 2.4 externally funded posts

Careers Information Administration Team
Information Officer Assistant Information
Officer ICT Assistant (0.5 FTE) Departmental
Officer Projects Finance Officer (0.2) Events
Admin. Assistant
Management School - EEC Manager - Careers
Adviser - MBA Careers Adviser
CEEC student faculty reps
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Conveying timescales relevant to employers (not
just the curriculum)

• i.e. Good degree PTS (graduate skills) Career
  Management Skills (CV/application writing,
  interview skills etc.) Work Experience
  Enterprise skills Commercial Awareness
  Graduate Job!

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What we do for employers

• Specific services for employers
• Vacancy distribution services
• HR(D) support services compiling job
  descriptions / specifications, initial screening,
  interviewing, training (Continuing Professional
  Development)
• On-campus interviewing facilities
• Consultancy on recruitment, selection trends and
  LMI
• Employer information and sectoral library (for
  students and employers)
• Programmes to enhance capability of prospective
  candidates and graduate employees
• Placement intermediary between students/graduates
  and employers
• Employer Mentoring Scheme
• (Employer) brand-exposure services
• Indirect services
• Workshops/programmes to enhance transferable
  skills and employability
• Workshops/programmes to improve success in
  recruitment and selection processes
• Workshops/programmes to improve knowledge of
  sector and relevant higher skills

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Vacancy related services

• Graduate Vacancy Partnership
• Graduate jobs posted by 13 North West England
  Universities
• CEEC2Teach
• Work experience in Lancaster district schools
• Employer mentoring scheme (in-train)
• UNITE (SME) Talent Source Development
• Regional student and graduate placements/projects
• HR consultancy service for national /
  multi-national organisations
• Includes employer body support for 26 nuclear
  energy-sector recruiters
• CEEC4jobs
• 3K entries, multiple vacancies

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Employer-led events

• Directions - 110 events arranged during 2006/07
  including
• Careers with a particular recruiter
• Careers in a particular sector
• Skills workshops e.g. CVs, AFs, Assessment
  Centres
• Off-campus events student visits programme to
  companies
• Career Opportunities Fair
• Flagship event October
• 4 events graduate recruiters fair, work
  experience and volunteering fair, Alumni careers
  fairs and career workshop programme and Where
  are they now? Alumni-led evening night before
• 2.5-3.5K students 120 exhibitors
• CECA (Certificate for Enterprise Commercial
  Awareness)
• Intra- entrepreneurship, project management,
  business planning, business finance, marketing,
  leadership and personal effectiveness
• Insight into Business Management, Creative
  Industries etc.

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Brand exposure
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Mentoring opportunities

• Career Mentoring Scheme
• Matches professionals (mentors) with students
  (mentees)
• Email, ad hoc meetings, telephone calls, work
  shadowing
• Provides real-world insight for mentees
• Opportunities for mentors to share their wisdom

• CareerTalk
• A lighter-touch..
• Convenient for overseas students

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UNITE placements

• Benefits to the employer
• Enables projects to be started / completed that
  do not detract from core business activities
• Process is managed by CEEC start to finish
• No employment related paperwork
• Access to enthusiastic people
• Access to expertise and up-to-date commercial
  information (through University databases)
• Can be used as part of recruitment and selection
  process for full-time appointments
• Little or no direct financial cost (Lancaster
  pays the salary!)

• Services to employer
• Assist with the development of the project and
  subsequent vacancy advert
• Match business needs to the roles that students
  can perform
• Advertise and promote vacancy within the
  University
• Short-list candidates and provide an induction
  before students go into the workplace
• Benefits to the student / graduate
• Develop business skills
• Get ahead of the competition by gaining valuable
  work experience
• Prove abilities in the workplace
• Enhance CV
• Gain insight into different careers
• Develop valuable contacts
• Earn some money!

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Services for overseas students

• Regular workshops on work permits, EU regulations
  schemes
• Consolidation of International destination data
• Partnership with our International Office
  recruitment agents to train students returning to
  their home countries
• Linking current students with Alumni and their
  networks
• Developing virtual / webcasting employer
  presentations
• Providing networking opportunities through SME
  new exporters events (inc. student
  international trade fair)
• Extend UNITE to overseas placements
• Possible overseas career fairs with other
  Universities
• Running bespoke employer-led programmes i.e.
  Insight into International Careers, corporate
  presentations, careers education programme

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Insight intoInternational Careers

• Series of events and activities designed to
  support the career planning and job hunting of
  all International EU Students (UG and PG)
  looking to gain work experience and graduate
  employment
• CDL (Career Development Learning) programme for
  International EU Students (run jointly with
  LUMS/CEEC colleagues in the Management School)
• Series of presentations by International
  employers
• SME new exporters and student networking event
  run in conjunction with NW
• Chambers of Commerce, UKTI and the British
  Council in order to promote work experience
  opportunities through the CEEC UNITE placement
  scheme and the British Council BONDscheme
• Case studies of Lancaster University students and
  graduates acquiring placements
• overseas and International Students acquiring
  work experience in the UK
• Work experience fair
• Work permit issues UK work schemes for
  International students (seminars)
• International graduate destinations and overseas
  markets (seminars)

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New Improved Careers Service- It Works!

• Does it work?

• Career Opportunities Fair 2.5-3.5K students
  120 exhibitors
• Students visiting CEEC - up 75 on 2006 (summer)
• Advice appointments - up 50 on 2006 (summer)
• Lancaster graduates in graduate-level jobs - up
  12 (03/404/05)
• Lancaster University - up 21 places in Times
  prospects league table
• AGCAS NCGE Award for Excellence in Enterprise
  Education
• Information enquiries up 200 for Autumn term
  (av. 1k/month)
• Contract winner to provide the official HR
  support to the NDA (Nuclear Decommissioning
  Authority) Nucleargraduates Programme
  (representing Atkins, BAE Systems, Environment
  Agency, MoD, Rolls-Royce, Royal Navy Submarine
  Fleet and 20 other multi-national organisations)
• Overseas students more detailed performance
  indicators needed!!

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Abbreviations used

• ACCA - Association of Chartered Certified
  Accountants
• AGCAS Association of Graduate Careers Advisory
  Services
• AGR Association of Graduate Recruiters
• BNI Business Network International
• FEDORA European Forum for Student Guidance
• HEI Higher Education Institutions
• HR(D) Human Resources (and Development)
• IBA Institute of Business Advisers
• ISBE Institute of Small Businesses
  Entrepreneurship
• NCGE National Council of Graduate
  Entrepreneurship
• RDA Regional Development Agency
• RES Research Enterprise Services
• SME Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (less
  than 250 employees)
• UKTI United Kingdom Trade Investment
  (Governmental department)