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Improve Student Employability: The Great Misalignment Report: Changing Higher Ed podcast 212 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and guests Kathryn Campbell and Zack Mabel

The Change Leader, Inc.

. - Actionable takeaways for university, college, and community college leaders to improve student employability. Insights about student employability from The Great Misalignment report; the mismatch between middle-skills credentials and labor market demand.

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The Class of 2023 feels ready to work, but do managers want to hire them?

University Business

Recent college graduates and hiring managers are far from being on the same page when it comes to Generation Z’s workforce preparedness. However, half of all managers and business leaders surveyed by ResumeBuilder say it’s difficult to work with their generation all or most of the time.

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Data mindfulness: Teaching undergraduates data management skills

Teaching Matters Online Learning

The Undergraduate Data Management Skills Project , funded by the IS Innovation Fund, began with the aim of improving the student experience by providing our UG students with some of the basic data management skills they might need to carry out a dissertation project.

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

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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. This post is part of the Learning & Teaching Enhancement Series: Careers and Employability.

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Life Design: Connecting students to their future

Teaching Matters Student Employment

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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Promoting equity and employability using live briefs

SRHE

However, I believe that the use of a live brief should be the unrivalled method to enhancing students’ employability skills and prospects at university in comparison to these other approaches. Students are often asked to deliver a pitch to the client as part of their assessment with one of the ideas chosen by the client.

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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.