The University of Kent Careers Employability Award on Moodle

What does the Careers Employability Award contain?

About the Award You complete a number of quizzes and three short assignments; Assignments have clear learning outcomes; It can all be done on line: students have done it in their year abroad (e.g. in Spain and Sweden) and during their industrial placement year; Campus parity: same at Canterbury, Medway, and partner colleges; May be suited to some students with disabilities.

Based on the DOTS Model of Career Planning S elf Awareness: analysing your skills, interests, values, personality and strengths; O pportunity Awareness: commercial awareness, researching a career, happiness at work, networking; D ecision Making: choosing a career, Prospects Planner; T aking Action: CVs, covering letters, application forms, interviews, aptitude tests, selection centres, action planning. Careers Website is “Random Access”: access in any order. Careers Award is Sequential: structured, logical, learning pathway.

14 Quizzes: need 75% to pass Employability skills quiz Employability skills quiz - drag and drop questions How can I develop the skills employers want? Test your spelling and grammar! What makes you happy at work? How commercially aware are you? Special interests topic lesson Interview preparation Practice interview What are the most common interview questions? Aptitude tests and assessment centres CV quiz CVs and covering letters - drag and drop quiz Career planning drag and drop quiz View, Master, Slide Master to change this text to the title of your presentationPage 5

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Assignments: complete at least 3 of these Analyse your skills and learn how to make top quality applications Do you want to live to work or work to live? Researching careers Choosing a career Submit a CV Social media (new for 2013/14) Action Planning (new for 2013/14) View, Master, Slide Master to change this text to the title of your presentationPage 7

The Careers Employability Award On successful completion you receive the University of Kent Careers Employability Award. You can also add the following to your CV: "On my own initiative I successfully completed the University of Kent Careers Employability Award which covered identification and development of employability skills, self-awareness, identification of relevant career options, researching opportunities, CV preparation and interview skills."

Statistics Participants 750 Students completed 293 Quiz attempts 7,200 Completed assignments 950 Satisfaction rating: 98.8 % 70.5 % of students found it very useful 28.3 % found it useful Now also English, Arts and Science awards.

Comments from students who have completed the award You get a really nice certificate! It was so easy, quick and I learned a lot. Without realising, you have finished the course and have already put together a very good CV and covering letter. It really blew my mind with some ideas I’ve never known before, such as portfolio working and working from home. I never thought about obtaining happiness from my work before. It would be mad to apply for a job or attend an interview without doing it! Before the course I had only a vague idea of my career path and opportunities. Now I am applying for summer internships and know how to effectively sell my skills to a prospective employer and have a much more focused plan for my future. The module is very, very useful! I really love how it makes you to think about your personality and helps you to identify your strengths and weaknesses. I found the module to be highly thought- provoking as it really encouraged me to consider how my degree will benefit my future and what I can be doing now to improve my graduate employment prospects. I enjoyed the depth of the module. It went far beyond some general tips on how to write a good CV and prepare for an interview. Rather it went in to detail about the whole process of graduate job search from the beginning to the end. It was very instructive. The amount of time put into this is astounding! I actually spoke to friends from other universities who said they wished they had something like this. It has made me feel a lot more confident when it comes to applications and interviews and has also made me think about skills that I didn't think I had before. I recently had a very successful interview largely because I put the advice on the module into practice.

How to enrol on the Award Go to and enter your Kent login and passwordhttps://moodle.kent.ac.uk/moodle Via the search box, search for “Careers”. Enrol by clicking on "Enrol me in this Module" If you have a problem, and I will enrol

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