New Partnerships: Careers Workshops & Student Engagement

Karen Butterworth

Careers Consultant

New Partnership

Great for Great for Careers Service AGLC

- Extends our reach to - Emphasises AGLC students as a central hub for

- Interactive teaching space skills support - Knowledge & cross promotion

Working in collaboration

Open Training Workshops

• ‘Preparing for your Career’ • CVs & Applications, Interviews, Psychometric tests,

Assessment Centres • Small group work, use of TurningPoint technology,

laptops, video etc.

• ‘Getting Started..’ • Facilitative, group guidance • MBTI - individual Laptops

Statistics 2013/14

• Open Training Workshops– Delivered 23 sessions, 314 students attended

• Focused mainly in October and February

– 100% of participants found the workshops ‘extremely useful’ or ‘somewhat useful’

– 100% of participants rated the structure, facilitator and content as ‘excellent’ or ‘good’

Drop-In Career Sessions• New initiative 2013/14

• Opportunity for students to ‘drop-in’ and ask questions about anything careers related!

• 2 hour sessions, 2 consultants available, 1 AGLC support

• Huge success• Informal & approachable, In ‘their’ space, well

promoted, timing of drop-in• 15 sessions, 49 students

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What’s Worked

• Working in familiar student space increases student engagement

• Flexibility and support from AGLC team to enhance our work

• Effective marketing • Media screens, tannoys, banners, café toblerones

• Opportunity for cross promotion• Cross promote workshops on MLE and CareersLink• My FutureFest

Opportunities

• Train Student Rovers to advise and signpost students

• Increase the number and variety of sessions• Use of space in entrance foyer and Café• Develop online resources – My Learning

Essentials• Achieve HEAR accreditation

Any Questions?