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Symplicity Spotlight: Rebecca Florey

Symplicity

The first half of my career was spent in Alumni Relations, and then I spent the last 7 in Career Services. I also really enjoyed the opportunities I had over those years to attend Symposium and interact with staff and other career services offices around the country.

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Developing students’ career resilience – a university wide approach?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

These in-depth interviews were to reveal attitudes to resilience, the culture across the university and in the workplace, and to explore whether systemic change is required to foster greater resilience amongst students. Before retraining as a careers adviser, Lynsey was Lecturer in French at the University of Nottingham.

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Musical Pathways

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Compounded by the wider pressures facing Gen Z, these curricula developments have given urgency to the need for update links between ECA/Music and the University Careers Service , and also to generate new networks and resources that can better serve both students and academic staff.

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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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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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Excitement grows as The University of Edinburgh students tackle exceptional learning

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

Whether it’s refining technical expertise, developing leadership skills, or fostering entrepreneurial spirit, these projects play a crucial role in preparing students for their future careers.

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What the f**k is Graphic Design?

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

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’. We wanted everyone to feel like they could be a designer even if they didn’t or couldn’t draw.