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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 these stakeholders responded to the rise of virtual recruitment?

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Involving an industry partner in student projects, a win for all parties?

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The top through groups after their successful presentations with industry partner, Sopria Steri. This is a sentiment which I support because while some students will continue with an academic career, most students will go on to work in industry or become an entrepreneur. Image credit: Kit Daniel Searle.

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Why placements and fieldwork matter to future employers

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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. So what is the value of work experience from an employer’s perspective?

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A recap of the 2023-24 MIT Career Exploration Series

CAPD

The CAPD Employer Relations team worked with employers to organize career exploration events. As a part of the Employer Relations team’s events, 434 individual student-employer coffee chats were held with 29 employers during fall 2023 and IAP 2024.

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Universities facing an adapt-or-die moment need to wake up

University Business

However, forward-thinking institutions can boost graduate employability and underscore their contemporary worth by embedding industry-recognized professional certifications within their curricula. Left unchecked, students’ waning confidence threatens universities’ bottom lines.

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Musical Pathways

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In the case of Music, though, students usually identify very strongly with their specialism and expect it to remain central to their lives. And indeed, a profession in the music industry could mean a lot of different things, with many ‘ways in’ and no obvious, prescribed graduate career path.

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What the f**k is Graphic Design?

Teaching Matters Experiential Learning

In recent years, coalface staff have noticed that the level of design-ready applicants recruited to the graphics programme has been limited in quality (not quantity). But that question was what we tried to answer for young learners, their teachers, careers advisors and parents about this misunderstood and often undervalued subject.