You can download these slides from

www.kent.ac.uk/careers/slides.htm

The University of Kent Careers Employability Awardon Moodle

What does the Careers Employability Award contain?

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 “RAM”: access in any order.

Careers Award is Sequential: structured, logical learning pathway.

Based on the DOTS Model of Career Planning

On successful completion you receivethe University of Kent Careers Employability Award.

You can also add the following to your CV:

"On my own initiative I enrolled for and 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."

The Careers Employability 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 particularly suited to some students with disabilities.

More about the Award

• Students completed to date 293

• Participants 750

• Marked assignments 950

• Quiz attempts 7,200

Satisfaction rating: 98.8 %

• 70.5 % of students found it very useful

• 28.3 % found it useful

Also BA English module and new Science pilot.

Next year it may be compulsory for first year students in the School of Arts. Law also interested.

Statistics 2012 - 2013

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.

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

Then via the search box, search for “Careers”.

The module is called “CEM“ - enter by double clicking on it

• For the Science Award, search for “Science Careers”

• For the English Award, search for “CEM English”

Enrol by clicking on "Enrol me in this Module"

If you have a problem, email me bw@kent.ac.uk and I will enrol you.

How to enrol on the Award

Further Information

www.kent.ac.uk/careers/moodle.htm

You can download these slides from

www.kent.ac.uk/careers/slides.htm

The University of Kent Careers Employability Award

• Greatly improves your chances of getting a graduate level job.

• By completing the module, you are showing the initiative and forward planning that will put you in the top 20% of graduates.

• Help is available from careers staff if you have problems or need to discuss things.

Benefits

Moodle is the University Virtual Learning Environment which uses interactive methods such as forums and quizzes.

What is Moodle?

It would be mad to apply for a job or attend an interview without doing it!

I recently had a very successful interview largely because I put the advice on the module into practice.

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 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.

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.

You get a really nice certificate.

Some comments from students who have completed the award

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.

Comments from students who have completed the award

Teaching· Schools· Colleges· Universities· Teaching English

Abroad

Media· Journalism· Publishing· TV and Radio· Copywriting· Public Relations

Helping· Social work· Youth Work· Probation Work· Nursing· Housing

Careers with a degree in

English

Professions· Law· HR· Banking· Accountancy· Insurance

Influencing· Advertising· Events Management· Marketing· Retail Management· Sales

Information· Librarianship· Archives· Information Officer· Bookseller

Public Sector· Administration· Civil Service· Health Service· Local Government· Police/Armed Forces

Postgraduate Study

MA, PhD, Journalism, Business, Film,,

Computing courses

Bruce Woodcock, bw@kent.ac.uk University of Kent Careers

• Your award is specially designed for School of English students with particularly relevant content.

• English Careers page www.kent.ac.uk/careers/english.htm

Unique to School of English Students