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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. 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.

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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 student employability, curriculum transformation, and the future of work.

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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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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. After the Theme this helped give birth to two toolkits on topics essential to student development, employability, and success.

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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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Welcome to the May issue of Teaching Matters: Employability and Graduate Attributes

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this month’s issue, Teaching Matters is delighted to be working in close partnership with the Careers Service to showcase innovative and interesting teaching practices that focus on Employability and Graduate Attributes. May 1, 2018 Happy reading!

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‘So your degree; what are you going to do with that? Do you want to become a teacher?’: Employability in HCA

Teaching Matters Student Employment

CC0 [Pixabay] For a number of years now, the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) has been working closely with the Careers Service 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?