Services Available to Academics

How the Careers Centre can help Academics

The development of employment related skills has become a much higher priority for Higher Education in recent years. Employability has in fact, become a more central and explicit focus of Higher Education provison.

The Careers Centre supports teaching and learning in a variety of ways by:

• Supporting schools/departments in the delivery of employability skills. This may be achieved through advice and guidance on the provision of specific skills and competency related training for students.
  
• Providing information on current market trends and the graduate labour market.
  
• Assisting schools/departments to set up regular effective liaison with the Careers Centre.
  
• Designing and developing specific information on discipline related career programmes - if you feel your class group would benefit from guidance in certain areas, we may be able to organise a presentation/workshop to meet this need.
  
• Surveying our recent graduates about what they do after graduation and publishing the findings this information will be available.
  
• The Careers Centre markets WIT, students and graduates to employers.
  
• We directly contact more than 500 employers each year. Contact with employers includes:
  • Advice on recruitment issues and good practice.
  • Facilitating graduate recruitment by advertising vacancies, setting up presentations and interviews, organising the annual Careers Fair.
  • Encouraging employers to get involved in our courses that have a work experience element.
  • By obtaining sponsorship for student awards.
  • By research links.

Academics can also refer students to the Careers Centre for a variety of reasons, for example

• students finding it difficult to secure graduate employment
• thinking about further studies
• issues that are causing them to consider leaving or changing their course

Career Centre Workshops/Class Talks/Videos

Academic Newsletter - September 2010 edition
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