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How the pandemic has changed graduate recruitment: Preparing students for a changed & changing landscape

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Christina Morello Lucy Everett, Employer Engagement manager at the Careers Service, offers an overview of how the COVID-19 pandemic has utterly transformed the relationship between students, employers, and careers services. How have students been responding to this?

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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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Careers by Design: Scottish Government’s Career Review

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Image credit: Alex Green, pexels, CC0 In this post, Shelagh Green, Director of Careers Service at The University of Edinburgh, offers an overview of the Scottish Government’s 2022 review of careers services for young people.

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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 sector-wide Enhancement Themes have often been such waves – they have presented opportunities to harness and build momentum in directions we already wanted to travel as a university.

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Developing employability during a one-year Masters-level programme

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Importantly, it might be that a student reading this piece might need to explore a bit further the array of EDOs at the university and beyond during their studies… Next steps: Find out how the Careers Service can help students find employability development opportunities What does it mean to be a University of Edinburgh Graduate?

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Supporting sustainable careers and preparedness for job automation

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The project, funded by a PTAS grant, brought together academic staff from Moray House School of Education with practitioners in the Careers Service. One of the project aims has been to develop a sustainable career learning intervention which will be integrated within various provisions offered to students by the Careers Service.

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Surfacing and accelerating learning: introducing the Edinburgh Award

Teaching Matters Student Employment

We wanted to engage pro-actively with the HEAR and use it to benefit student learning from co- and extra-curricular activity. The Award was piloted in 2011-12 and the beginning of our work on the Edinburgh Award was prompted in part by the development of Higher Education Achievement Reports (HEARs).