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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. But for women, that number falls to around $61,000.

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Creating the Study Hub with students as consultant partners

Teaching Matters Academic Support

What we did in summer 2018 was employ a student intern to act as a consultant, give us a name for our new product, and design us a brand. Summer 2018 was successful. Fortunately, at The University of Edinburgh, the Careers Service have made it easy to do. Grandidge, 2018) References Careers Service.

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Why placements and fieldwork matter to future employers

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The University of Edinburgh, McEwan Hall, Careers Fair Day, Photo credit: Neil Hanna Photography. We put our money where our mouth is to offer students work experience in a number of areas, including part-time work in the Careers Service, and through coordinating the Employ.Ed Importantly these are all paid.

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PhD Horizons: What opportunities await at the end of a PhD and how to prepare for them

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The PhD Horizons Careers Conference is a great place for PhD students to find out more about their future career options. In early 2018, now officially in the last year of my degree, I applied for the position of PhD Horizons Careers Conference Intern. Jul 31, 2018

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Catching the waves: surfing, enhancement, and student success

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the Careers Service and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. The University avoided the trap of seeing employability as solely a Careers Service responsibility, and instead used this funding to support an institution-wide and collaborative approach.

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Two educators at Stanford University, Dave Evans and Bill Burnett, developed the approach to help students to design their life at university and beyond (Burnett and Evans, 2018). Build the Perfect Career, Step by Step. “Skills for the Future of Work” The University of Edinburgh Careers Service. and Evans, D.

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Insights Programme: Connecting with Alumni to support Widening Participation students’ career trajectories

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Photo credit: unsplash,Alejandro Escamilla, CC0 In this post, Eilidh Steele, Internships Manager at the Careers Service, highlights the Insights Programme, which exemplifies the fourth and final strand of the Widening Participation Strategy: ‘Support to Progress”. She is responsible for the Insights Programme and the Employ.ed

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