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The University of Edinburgh, McEwan Hall, Careers Fair Day, Photo credit: Neil Hanna Photography. This is essential to help students make more informed choices about the kind of work they will really enjoy, and also because employers really value that experience in their recruitment processes. Importantly these are all paid.
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 CareersService have made it easy to do. Grandidge, 2018) References CareersService.
In this month’s issue, Teaching Matters is delighted to be working in close partnership with the CareersService to showcase innovative and interesting teaching practices that focus on Employability and Graduate Attributes. May 1, 2018 Happy reading!
Image credit: Clark Tibbs, unsplash, CC0 Dr Sharon Maguire, a Careers & Employability Manager at The University of Edinburgh , proposes the “creative, iterative, human-centered, problem-solving methodology” of Life Design as an answer to urgent questions of studentemployability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.
CC0 [Pixabay] For a number of years now, the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) has been working closely with the CareersService to help address the question every arts and humanities students faces at some point in their career: ‘So your degree; what are you going to do with that?
Photo credit: unsplash,Alejandro Escamilla, CC0 In this post, Eilidh Steele, Internships Manager at the CareersService, 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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Available at [link] [Last accessed 18/12/17] Walker, C, Gleaves, A and Grey, J (2006): ‘Can Students within Higher Education Learn to be Resilient and, Educationally Speaking, Does it Matter?’ Helen Stringer Helen Stringer is Assistant Director of the CareersService, and has a remit for developing academic partnerships.
May 1, 2018 She is currently a member of the British Academy Steering Group reviewing the skills and attributes developed through Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Gavin is the Careers and Employability Manager from the CareersService and this post forms part of the 20 Years of Enhancement theme. After the Theme this helped give birth to two toolkits on topics essential to student development, employability, and success.
Creative problem solving, risk taking, lateral thinking, communication, project management, amongst the many core design skills this student employed in order to fulfil this unique ‘task’. Sep 13, 2018 We wanted everyone to feel like they could be a designer even if they didn’t or couldn’t draw.
Photo credit: unsplash,Alejandro Escamilla, CC0 In this post, Eilidh Steele, Internships Manager at the CareersService, 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
Clegg (eds) Innovative Assessment in Higher Education London: Routledge pp28-30 Rebecca Valentine Rebecca Valentine is a Careers Consultant in the University of Edinburgh CareersService and works with students in the Business School and School of Informatics.
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May 8, 2018 Andy is currently leading the PTAS project ‘Experiential Learning in communities: developing and testing a framework for evaluation’, and is interested in the broader uptake and promotion of experiential learning.
Tobias Thejll-Madsen Tobias Thejll-Madsen has been working with the University’s Employability Consultancy since graduating in the summer of 2018. Whilst a student, Tobias was involved with Student-Led, Individually-Created Courses , voicing a student’s perspective.
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