STUDENT CAREERS SKILLS Student Careers and Skills Supporting
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STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS Student Careers and Skills Supporting your journey Integrating Employability Team, Student Careers & Skills
Why are we talking now? STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS • University is a journey (lots of different experiences and opportunities) – start getting involved from the beginning • Thinking about your goals throughout your degree will help you make the most of time at Warwick • Some routes require forward planning
Student Careers & Skills STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS This is your journey and we can help you make the most of your time: • Develop your skills • Think about your career • Get experience • Tell your story with confidence
Your Skills STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS For help to improve your academic writing, academic or personal skills sign up for one of our workshops or events. • • • Academic writing Organising yourself and your time Critical Thinking Managing your references Working in a team Delivering effective presentations
Exploration Find out about yourself STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS Find out about opportunities 5
Senior Careers Consultants STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS Course Link: Dedicated departmental Consultants: Chris Manley Drop-In Monday 12. 30 – 1. 30 S 1. 65 www. warwick. ac. uk/careers /help/whodoisee WBS – Careers. Plus
Work Experience Not just miniature version of your dream job! Develops – YOU – Your skills – Your understanding of the working world STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS
Work Experience STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS Where to start looking SCS Webpages Experience Pool My. Avantage Create your Own Speculative applications Enterprise Opportunities
Where can you find us? STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS • University House, Learning Grid (Help desk / Drop-In) Mon-Thu 10 am-5 pm, Fri 10 am-5 pm (term time) • Oculus (Drop-In) 10 am-2 pm, Weekdays (term time) • www. warwick. ac. uk/careers_skills • my. Advantage: https: //myadvantage. warwick. ac. uk 9
STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS But you’re the Integrating Employability Team. How does that link with Telling my story? ? 10
Employability – What is it? STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS Employability is not just about students making deposits into a bank of skills, it is a combination of personal qualities, skills of various kinds and subject understanding. It’s about having developed self-awareness and confidence in what you have to offer as an individual. The real focus is on developing critical, reflective abilities, with a view to empowering and enhancing you as a learner. Employment is a by-product of this process. 11
What Employers Say “A degree alone is not enough. STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS Employers…particularly value skills such as communication, team working and problem solving. Applicants who can demonstrate that they have developed these skills will have a real advantage. ” Sir Digby Jones, director-general of the CBI
What Do Employers Want? Good degree from good University Work Experience Active Participant A unique story to tell STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS
Activity: Make a paper plane! STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS Take a piece of paper and fold it to make a plane – 5 mins
Discuss in groups: What did you do [to make your plane]? Why did you do it that way? What went well? What didn’t? What other ways could you have done it? What would you do differently next time? 10 minutes STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS
Reflection STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS ‘It is not sufficient simply to have an experience in order to learn. Without reflecting upon this experience it may quickly be forgotten, or its learning potential lost. It is from the feelings and thoughts emerging from this reflection that generalisations or concepts can be generated. And it is generalisations that allow new situations to be tackled effectively. ’ (Gibbs 1988)
Benefits of Reflection STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS • Deepen your self-knowledge • Provide insights into your actions, reactions and perspectives • Improve critical thinking skills and creative thinking • Help with goal setting • Build self-esteem • Encourages deeper thinking on topics • Encourages problem-solving and self-development • Enables decision-making e. g. choosing modules
Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle (1998) 6. Action Plan If it arose again what would you do? STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS 1. Description What happened? 5. Conclusion What else could you have done? 2. Feelings What were you thinking and feeling? 4. Analysis 3. Evaluation What sense can you make of the situation? What was good and bad about the experience?
Reflect on an activity/experience STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS Think back across your summer to an activity, or experience which had a lot of impact on you, or to which you had a strong response. Follow Gibbs’ model of Structured Debrief to reflect on your experience 10 mins
Discuss in groups: STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS • How did you find the reflective process? • What have you learnt about your skills/strengths? • What have you learnt about yourself? 10 mins
Keeping Track STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS The summer activity/experience you’ve just used. How easy was it to recall ALL of the details? What about things that you did three years ago? ? ?
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Exploration Find out about yourself STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS Find out about opportunities 23
The Value Of Participating Remember, “work experience” is experience for work, not just from work! • Clubs • Societies • Volunteering • In Curriculum Projects e. g. Formula Student, Warwick Sub Study Abroad STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS “Put aside preconceptions: volunteering is work experience with the added possibility that the act of choosing to be a volunteer can show even greater initiative and commitment”. (Senior Manager Executive Education, HSBC) “Graduates who took part in extracurricular activities, and those who were office holders, were less likely to be unemployed, and more likely to be employed in a graduate job. ” (Learning from Futuretrack: The Impact of Work Experiences on HE Student Outcomes, 2013)
You can understand make the most of your Warwick story by drawing together all of your experiences, reflecting on their value and creating your own narrative.
What do we mean by all of your experiences? You learn from everything you do. Eg: Part time work Volunteering Sports Clubs Society Activity Studies Hobbies Internships/Placements Local Community Involvement • Work Experience • •
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Find great resources under the group My Warwick Journey Resources
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STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS Visit: moodle. warwick. ac. uk & Search for: Tell Your Story 33
If you Want to Know More • • • STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS Atkins, S. and Murphy, K. (1994) ‘Reflective practice’. Nursing Standard. Vol. 8, No. 39, June, pp 49 -54. Bolton, G. (2001) Reflective Practice: Writing and Professional Development. London: Paul Chapman Publishing. Boud, D. , Keogh, R. and Walker, D. (1994) Reflection: Turning Experience into Learning. London: Kogan Page. Hilsdon, J. (2006) Re-Thinking Reflection. The Journal of Practice Teaching in Health and Social Work 6(1) pp 57 -70. Moon, J. (2004) A Handbook of Reflective and Experiential Learning: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge. Schön, D. (1991) The Reflective Practitioner. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd.
Finally… Reflections on The Power of Reflection STUDENT CAREERS & SKILLS • Insight into progress, skills gained and challenges overcome. • Acknowledgement of achievements • Understanding yourself / your decisions more deeply - helping to inform future choices • Confidence from seeing how far you have come and all the skills and abilities you have
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