The University of Kent Careers Employability Award

on Moodle

What does the Careers Employability Award contain?

About the Award

• You complete a number of quizzes and three short assignments;

• Assignments have clear learning outcomes;

• It can all be done on line: students have done it in their year abroad (e.g. in Spain and Sweden) and during their industrial placement year;

• Campus parity: same at Canterbury, Medway, and partner colleges;

• May be suited to some students with disabilities.

Based on the DOTS Model of Career Planning

Self Awareness: analysing your skills, interests, values, personality and strengths;

Opportunity Awareness: commercial awareness, researching a career, happiness at work, networking;

Decision Making: choosing a career, Prospects Planner;

Taking Action: CVs, covering letters, application forms, interviews, aptitude tests, selection centres, action planning.

•Careers Website is “Random Access”: access in any order.•Careers Award is Sequential: structured, logical, learning pathway.

14 Quizzes: need 75% to pass

• Employability skills quiz• Employability skills quiz - drag and drop questions• How can I develop the skills employers want?• Test your spelling and grammar!• What makes you happy at work?• How commercially aware are you?• Special interests topic lesson• Interview preparation• Practice interview• What are the most common interview questions?• Aptitude tests and assessment centres• CV quiz• CVs and covering letters - drag and drop quiz• Career planning drag and drop quiz

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Assignments: complete at least 3 of these

• Analyse your skills and learn how to make top quality applications

• Do you want to live to work or work to live?• Researching careers • Choosing a career• Submit a CV• Social media (new for 2013/14)• Action Planning (new for 2013/14)

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The Careers Employability AwardOn successful completion you receive the University of Kent Careers Employability Award.

You can also add the following to your CV: "On my own initiative I successfully completed the University of Kent Careers Employability Award which covered identification and development of employability skills, self-awareness, identification of relevant career options, researching opportunities, CV preparation and interview skills."

Statistics 2012 - 2013

• Participants 750

• Students completed 293

• Quiz attempts 7,200

• Completed assignments 950

•Satisfaction rating: 98.8 %• 70.5 % of students found it very useful

• 28.3 % found it useful

• Now also English, Arts and Science awards.

Comments from students who have completed the award

You get a really nice certificate!

It was so easy, quick and I learned a lot.

Without realising, you have finished the course and have already put together a very

good CV and covering letter.

It really blew my mind with some ideas I’ve never known before, such

as portfolio working and working from home. I never thought about obtaining happiness from my work

before.

It would be mad to apply for a job or attend an interview

without doing it! Before the course I had only a vague idea of my career path and opportunities. Now I am applying for summer internships and know

how to effectively sell my skills to a prospective employer and have a much more

focused plan for my future.

The module is very, very useful! I really love how it makes you to think

about your personality and helps you to identify your strengths and

weaknesses.I found the module to be highly thought-provoking as it really encouraged me to consider how my degree will benefit my future and what I can be doing now to

improve my graduate employment prospects.

I enjoyed the depth of the module. It went far beyond some general tips on how to write a

good CV and prepare for an interview. Rather it went in to detail about the whole process of graduate job search from the beginning to the

end. It was very instructive .

The amount of time put into this is astounding! I actually spoke to

friends from other universities who said they wished they had

something like this.

It has made me feel a lot more confident when it comes to

applications and interviews and has also made me think about skills that

I didn't think I had before.

I recently had a very successful interview largely because I put the advice on

the module into practice.

How to enrol on the Award

• Go to https://moodle.kent.ac.uk/moodle and enter your Kent login and password

• Via the search box, search for “Careers”.• Enrol by clicking on "Enrol me in this Module"• If you have a problem, email bw@kent.ac.uk and I

will enrol you.

The University of Kent Careers Employability Award

Further Informationwww.kent.ac.uk/careers/moodle.htm