Tag Archives: employability

Graduates and the language of jobs

Is getting a job more important than being employable? Martin Edmondson, CEO of Gradcore and Graduates Yorkshire, has found that graduates and employers may be looking at careers from different perspectives. In preparation for the Graduate Employment Conference 2012 (#GEC12), … Continue reading

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How To Make the Most of YOUR Student Experience

Q: What is ‘the student experience’? A: It’s what you make it! This week, I held a workshop at the University of Glamorgan about ‘the student experience’. I’ve mentioned Glamorgan in the past for their brilliant Glam Insight, where students … Continue reading

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The Possible Impossibility of Employability…

Let me guess. If you’re a uni student reading this, am I right in thinking you’d like to be employable once you graduate? It’s probably fair to say the vast majority of students want better job and career choices as … Continue reading

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Edulinks – Week ending 20 May 2011

This week, NUS and CBI jointly launched a guide to employability skills. The publication, Working Towards Your Future, is definitely worth a download. As the NUS/CBI guide was released, engineering consultancy, Atkins, called on universities to help students more with … Continue reading

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Looking Beyond Employability

I found this tucked away near the end of an article in the Independent on Sunday: “Students should learn not how to win arguments but how to ask subversive questions of authority, assess evidence and find the truth. They should … Continue reading

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