Developing a Strategic Commitment to Achieve High Levels of Employability

Here are my slides from the Inside Government event on Enhancing UK Graduate Employability. I've been ask to present a case study on Developing a Strategic Commitment to Achieve High Levels of Employability.

Employability strategy principles

At our Careers Advisory Committee last week Bob and I presented (amongst other things) the latest draft of our Employability Strategy. The feedback was OK but I need to sharpen it up a bit. None of the headline stuff is confidential so I thought I'd try and put down the objective and principles of the strategy here to try and clarify my thinking and hopefully generate some useful comments/discussion. So, as it currently stands...

Objective

To ensure our graduates have the extra dimension in order to make them the stand out choice for employers

Principles

• engage the majority of students as opposed to the current minority
• engage with students as early as possible in their undergraduate careers
• ensure students participate in one main intervention to avoid the current situation of a minority of keen students monopolising the places on the majority of interventions
• ensure that each intervention is accompanied by before and after support to ensure that students are appropriately prepared and effectively followed up
• make access to as many opportunities as possible a competitive process (to identify best candidates and simulate selection processes – those unsuccessful can be signposted to alternatives)

And possibly something about our minimum programme provision in years 1, 2 and 3.

It's a work in progress. Any comments?