Placement Employability: Challenge & Change in an Evolving Landscape

Roy Sterritt; Edwin Curran; Nicola Ayre; Ian McChesney; Paul Hanna

Placement Employability: Challenge & Change in an Evolving Landscape

Roy Sterritt, Edwin Curran, Nicola Ayre, Ian McChesney, Paul Hanna

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Computing students have enrolled on a four-year course which has a mandatory 'placement' year embedded into it. Previously we have highlighted an approach to embedding employability in the courses through an AWARE Framework. AWARE offers progressive employability refinement; from year 1 Awareness, year 2 Work preparation, year 3 Acquire experience (placement) and final year Reflect/refine/refocus with the graduate aim to be Employed! We also highlighted some practice, in particular in year 2 for Work preparation. Yet many challenges continue to arise in a changing and evolving employability landscape for our students. This poster outlines those challenges and three recent developments: Creation of a Drop-in Employability Clinic; Mid-Year Assessment of Engagement; and Year 1 onwards employability support through Studies Advisors.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Unknown Host Publication
Publisher	Ulster University
Number of pages	1
Publication status	Published - 4 May 2016
Event	Employability Challenge and Change in an Evolving Landscape Conference 2016 - Duration: 4 May 2016 → …

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Conference	Employability Challenge and Change in an Evolving Landscape Conference 2016
Period	4/05/16 → …

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Employability
Teaching & Learning
Pedagogy

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