Further to I’m looking for more careers tweeters, after attending the AGCAS Heads of Service Conference last week I’ve found a few more. Coming from a background in learning development and learning technology I’m increasingly finding that I need more careers people in my professional network (it could be just me but there seem to [...]
January 2011 was the first time I attended the AGCAS Heads of Service conference. I was very new to careers stuff then (still am!) and it was a really useful chance to meet people. I’m looking forward to the conference this January, not least because I’m attending an additional day on 4 January for deputies [...]
Keep meaning to mention this… our Director of Careers role is now advertised. If you’re brilliant – please apply. More details here. Please RT, re-post etc. Closing date is 12 September.
I blogged a few weeks ago about the progress on our front pages revamp for www.le.ac.uk/careers and I’m pleased to say that we’ve now completed the main structural changes. Matt and I have been working on it off and on for a few weeks (Matt mostly on, me mostly off) with help from Vic and #Stephaniewhosnotontwitter. We’ve [...]
Having not had chance to post anything for more than 3 weeks now this is partly a post just to get me back into the habit… In a meeting a few months back I recalled a particular section of the University of Leicester’s previous Learning and Teaching Strategy (2006-2009). In the section on ‘Aims of [...]
Richard put a copy of PwC’s employability guide on my desk earlier in the week, it’s titled Being the one with their foot in the door. I was interested in it because I’m trying to think about how to identify employability in the curriculum and wondering whether competencies will help. In the introduction to the guide the Chairman of PwC [...]
Back in July last year I blogged about our new front page for Student Development. At the time Alan made this comment… I understand the problem, but it’s a bit busy for my liking – too much text to scan, too many distractions. [...] If it were me, I’d go for less, but allow people to [...]
Further to the change of name thing I think we’re going to go for I’m sure you’ll all sleep more soundly in your beds knowing that. Thanks for the comments to the original post, especially from Vic and Zara. Now all I need to do is think about how and where to roll out the [...]
Last week Student Development was renamed the Careers Service. Well, it hasn’t actually happened yet (and that’s the reason for this post) but it does have to happen ASAP. I can’t go into the details here of how it came about but I would like to reflect a bit on the best way of pitching [...]
I’ve just been sent a link to a programme that was on BBC 2 last night - Who Gets the Best Jobs? (Broadcast on BBC Two, 9:00 PM Wed, 2 Feb 2011 available until 1:09AM Wed, 16 Feb 2011). I was aware of Alan Milburn’s Unleashing Aspiration report but this programme makes it much more of a [...]
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