Graduate Employability Slides Durham Uni 200110

Graduate Employability:what do employers think and want?

Keith HerrmannDeputy Chief Executive

The Council for Industry and Higher Education

Council for Industry and Higher EducationA strategic leadership network for higher education and business

Accenture • Anglo American plc • AstraZeneca plc • BAE Systems plc • BG Group • BP International plc • British Council • BT plc • Centrica plc • City & Guilds • CITB-Construction

Skills • Committee of University Chairmen • EADS Innovation Works • Financial Times Group • Guild HE • Higher Education Funding Council for England • HSBC Bank plc • i-graduate

• Imperial College • Kaplan International Ltd • Keele University • Kingston University • KPMG LLP • Legal & General • Logica plc • London School of Economics • London South Bank University • Loughborough University • McKinsey & Company • Microsoft Limited • McGraw Hill Companies • National Grid plc • New College Durham • Open University •

Oracle Corporation UK Ltd • Pfi zer UK• PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP • Quality & Curriculum Authority • Royal Bank of Scotland plc • Scottish Power plc • Shell International Ltd • Spencer Stuart • Standard Chartered Bank • The Sutton Trust • Tesco plc • United Utilities • University of Abertay Dundee • University of Bristol • University of Cambridge • University of Glasgow • University of Hertfordshire • University of Manchester • University of Newcastle • University

of Surrey • University of Wales Institute Cardiff • University of Warwick • University of Wolverhampton • Universities UK • WPP Group plc • York St John’s University

ORGANISATIONS SUPPORTING CIHE 2010

Businesses facing the same global challenges - • uncertain demand; a volatile economy, worldwide competition for talent and income, managing uncertainty and risk...

Governments looking to develop innovation-: • graduates, postgraduates and knowledge exchange key to national growth…

The challenging economic climate will require an • entrepreneurial response…

Situating Graduate Employability

Challenges in a time of recession

A fl at interconnected world with peaks of • excellence - universities are central to innovative eco-systems...

A ‘race to the top’ requires the development and • application of high value-adding knowledge…

Structural shifts in economies… convergence • of manufacturing and services… fundamental and applied research... demand-supply side partnerships…

Developing Entrepreneurial GraduatesPutting entrepreneurship at the centre of higher education

September 2008

Helen Connor and Wendy Hirsh

Infl uence through Collaboration:Employer Demand for Higher Learning and Engagement with

Higher Education

Summary Report

Universities, Business and Knowledge Exchange

Maria Abreu, Vadim Grinevich, Alan Hughes, Michael Kitson and Philip Ternouth

Global employers value international experience

“The value of [a student’s] international experience goes beyond purely the acquisition of language – it lies in the ability to see business and personal issues from other than your own cultural perspective.”

Charles Macleod, Head of UK ResourcingPricewaterhouseCoopers

1995 AGR Report on “Skills for Graduates in the • 21st Century” suggested:

Progress made but not enough….

From ToLadders and Escalators BridgesCareer Clarity FogEmployer CustomerJob Adding valueFunctional Identity Project Team RoleCareer PortfolioProgression Personal GrowthRising Income and Security Maintaining EmployabilityEducation and Training Lifelong Learning

Self-reliance skills: • self-management, self-awareness, pro-activity, willingness to learn, self-promotion, networking, planning action.People skills:• team working, inter-personal skills, oral communication, leadership, customer orientation, foreign language skills.Generalist skills:• problem-solving, fl exibility, business acumen, IT skills, numeracy, commitment.Specialist skills:• occupational skills, technical skills, understanding commercial goals, company-related expertise, strategic planning skills.

Source: Hawkins (1999) The Art of Building Windmills

What are employability skills?

Checking what data they have on graduate • prospects; making this available to people.

Checking career prospects beyond fi rst job - • keeping in touch with alumni for more than just money.

Employability is a key factor in shaping university • choice - school leavers make choices based on prospects.

What does this mean for universities?

86% of employers consider good communication • skills to be important… yet many employers are dissatisfi ed.

‘Soft skills’ such as team working are also vital… • but numeracy and literacy essential (70%).

65% of international employers say having • overseas professional work experience makes graduates more employable.

CIHE Report on Graduate Employability


Will Archer and Jess Davison

Graduate Employability:What do employers think and want?

Total number of employees G r a n d

Total“1-99”“ 1 0 0 -

999” “1000+”Communication skills 88% 86% 82% 86%Team-working skills 85% 84% 84% 85%Integrity 81% 86% 82% 83%Intellectual ability 81% 84% 78% 81%Confi dence 80% 81% 78% 80%Character/personality 81% 79% 60% 75%Planning & organisational skills 74% 72% 75% 74%Literacy (good writing skills) 68% 72% 75% 71%Numeracy (good with numbers) 68% 67% 69% 68%Analysis & decision-making skills 64% 67% 73% 67%

Top 10 most important skills for employers




Importance Rank

Satisfaction Rank

Gap

Commercial awareness 13 33 -20Analysis and decision-making skills 10 26 -16Communication skills 1 16 -15Literacy (good writing skills) 8 23 -15Passion 12 25 -13Relevant work experience 17 30 -13Planning and organisational skills 7 17 -10Confi dence 5 13 -8Personal development skills 21 28 -7

Largest importance-satisfaction gap by employers

Competencies evolving: adapting and innovating, • customer facing skills, ethics and integrity, multi-cultural working, self-development.Competencies as stepping stones to comply • with professional standards - technical and behavioural competencies required.Key competencies - fl exibility, resilience, • analytical and cognitive skills, passion and drive, continuous personal development, support for others.

Competencies for competing globally

Global Horizons and the Role of Employers

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Richard Brown with William Archer and Dr Jennifer Barnes

Competencies for competing globally

Employability Competencies Competence ClusterCognitive Skills Analysis, Attention to detail, JudgementGeneric Competencies Infl uencing, Interpersonal sensitivity, Planning

and organisation, Questioning, Teamwork and working with others, Listening, Responding, Written communication

Personal Capabilities Achievement orientation, Adaptability/fl exibility, Creativity, Decisiveness, Initiative, Innovation, Tolerance for stress, Leadership, Lifelong learning and development, Personal development

Technical Ability Technical application, Technical knowledgeBusiness and Organisation Awareness

Commercial awareness, Resource management, Financial awareness, Organisation understanding, Organisational sensitivity

Practical and Professional Elements Image, Process operation, Ethics, Integrity, Professional expertise

Developing Entrepreneurial GraduatesPutting entrepreneurship at the centre of higher education

September 2008

A framework for action:

Top-level leadership by VCs.• Ownership in faculties and departments.• Finding innovative ways to appropriate • entrepreneurship in subject discipline.Involving entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial • organisations.

Developing entrepreneurial graduates for 21st century work

An Implementation Framework for HE…

EnablingEnvironment

EntrepreneurialPracticesEngaging

Stakeholders

SocialEnterprises

CapacityBuilding

ExperientialApproaches

VisibleLeadership

Clarity ofPurpose and

Outcomes

InstitutionalCulture

InstitutionalEmbeddedness

Entrepreneursand

Businesses

AcademicFaculty

Multi-disciplinary

Cross-campusReach

DevelopingEntrepreneurial

Graduates

EntrepreneurshipEducators

ViceChancellors

Student Clubsand Societies

Experimentationand Discovery

Engagementwith Practice

InnovativePedagogies

Provide enhanced central support for improving • the ‘student experience’.

Embed skills development within the programme • of study - accommodate employer needs.

Provide work experience within or external to • programmes of study.

Enable refl ection and recording of skills • development and experience.

What can universities do to enhance graduate employability?

Vice-Chancellors... provide visible leadership.• Academics... enable change in the curriculum and • experiences offered.Business and social entrepreneurs... be • fully involved to enrich the student learning experience.Students... value learning experiences where ever • they arise.Governments... support 21• st century higher education by providing over-arching strategic goals, funding and framework for change.

Stakeholder actions… agents for change

Change as continuous re-engineering for the 21• st century.Building synergies - harnessing internal and • external stakeholders to drive change.Reward and recognition as levers for changing • behaviour.Broadening HE-business interaction informed by • what works and why.Ownership by all is key!•

People driving change…

Links and further information

www.agcas.org.uk• www.agr.org.uk• www.heacademy.ac.uk• www.prospects.ac.uk• www.cihe.co.uk• www.durham.ac.uk/cel• www.durham.ac.uk/careers-advice• www.cbi.org.uk/highereducation•


Using Public Procurement to Stimulate Innovation

Philip Ternouth


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Richard Brown with William Archer and Dr Jennifer Barnes

Universities, Business and Knowledge Exchange

Maria Abreu, Vadim Grinevich, Alan Hughes, Michael Kitson and Philip Ternouth





Global Horizons for UK Universities

John Fielden

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Leadership for Business and Higher EducationThe CIHE is a strategic leadership network of businesses and higher

education executives promoting a system of higher learning that leads to greater market competitiveness and social well-being.

The Council for Industry and Higher EducationKeith Herrmann

Deputy Chief ExecutiveStudio 11, Tiger House, Burton Street

London WC1H [email protected]

www.cihe.co.uk

A Successful Partnership

The Council for Industry and Higher Education 1986 - 2008

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