Insert footer on Slide Master1 Claire Jones &Tania Lyden Careers Education at Reading Sandhya Tanna.

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Claire Jones &Tania Lyden

Careers Education at Reading

Sandhya Tanna


Today’s session• Old and new CMS• Blended learning • Group activities • VLE • Destinations • Assignments • Ways forward


What does CMS aim to achieve?

ETHOS: “We help you get where you want to be…”

1. Identify student's skills, interests and motivations in the context of career decision making

2. Explore options open to student and identify the skills and qualities required

3. Identify/research different sources of vacancy information and recruitment methods used by employers, opportunity and course providers

4. Identify those skills individual student may need to develop further in order to achieve personal career goals

5. Relate student's skills to chosen opportunity6. Evaluate how (student's) personal priorities and constraints may affect

career decisions and to formulate the action needed to achieve career goals.

7. Recognise/demonstrate what makes an effective application8. Identify/perform effectively in recruitment and selection process 9. Recognise purpose and process of interviews and to identify strategies for

self presentation

This is very focused on the traditional DOTS model decision making opportunities, transition, self awareness and is very knowledge based.


CMS aims to be…

• Experiential • Relevant• Diagnostic • Generation Y friendly • Make explicit links to the

curriculum • Tailored• Timely• Reflect the subject teaching

style• Put students in the

employer’s shoes

• Engaging and fun • A shared experience • Encourage students to

create their own agenda (anonymous post-its)

• Visually stimulating • Linked to the outside

world with alumni and employer input

• Tailored with formative and summative assignments


Blended learning

CMS taught sessions

Tailored online work via

BlackboardThree Assignments

5 credits


Examples of group work activities

• Ask students to create their own agenda

• MBTI concepts to help students identify possible jobs

• Fears, hopes and expectations

• Peer presentations • Critique CVs and application

forms • Speed networking events • Careers Anchors linked to job

roles• Research exercises • Mapping your networks

• Negotiation activities • Providing a workshop menu • Graduate case studies

analysing different approaches to career planning

• NLP exercises • Well researched alumni

/employers


Tailored assignments 1. Skills, values and interests linked to occupations e.g. Human

Traces, Your Self Portrait2. Create an advert selling yourself 3. Annotated CV and Covering Letter for work experience 4. Virtual interview 5. How to gain Chartered Status6. Application form for residencies 7. Compare and contrast jobs with explicit references to skills,

motivations and interests8. Primary and oral research job study9. Meet the professionals assignment 10.Mature students to reflect on careers theories reflective questions on MBTI careers dossier


How is CMS performing?THE VAST MAJORITY OF STUDENTS ENGAGE PRODUCTIVELY WITH CMS.

80% thought level of

session was just right

75% said CMS

stimulated their career

thinking

85% thought it provided good value for the time they put

in

Average attendance

72%

Over 60 employers involved in

CMS in 07/08


The 15-20% who don’t...

Confused Cynical Not now Sorted?

“I know whatI want to do”

“I don’t seewhy I’m here”

“What could I possibly findout today?”

“I have no idea what I want to

do”

“I hate talking about myself – this is going to be purgatory”

“I hate the idea of work so I’d rather not talk

about it”

“This is all a bit of a waste of

time – I’ve got a course deadline

to meet”

“My friend told me this was a

pointless module”

“You can’t teach me how to get a

job!”

“I’ll get around to it…eventually”

“All sorted thanks…”

“Someone will sort it out for

me”


Ways forward• Diagnostic tools • Taught sessions e.g. workshops menu, networking sessions • Incorporating coaching techniques i.e. to raise aspirations• Tailor CAS activities around CMS• Assignments – tailored, offer awards for progression • Develop our VLE• Feeding the success of CMS into Destinations e.g. video clips • Meet the needs of mature, disabled and international students • Further work with academics• Roll out CMS and an interactive VLE to all years • Final year and graduate workshops

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