1. Promoting employability at Hull
Paul Chin, Skills Team Leader, Library and Learning Innovation

2. Overview What we’re doing at Hull to promote employability
Skills Framework
Skills Team
Example of practice
10 July 2012

3. The Employability Jigsaw
Internships
Co-curricular awards
PDP
Skills Development
Volunteering
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Curriculum
10 July 2012

4. Hull engages in a variety of activities to promote employability
Promoting employability in the curriculum - we are reviewing how we promote PDP practice
Recently introduced ePortfolios for students (PebblePad)
Raising the profile of employability through a Staff network
Plus other employability related activities through the careers service, departmental support etc...
Curricular : PDP Review
Staff network
Related activities
ePortfolios
10 July 2012

5. Departmental Skills Audit tool
Skills List
A new Skills Framework has been developed specifically to address skills/employability
Hull Award
ePortfolio
Sustainability (for c.20,000 students)
PDP/Retention links
Departmental Skills Audit tool
Skills list – underpins the ‘distinctive hull graduate’
Hull award (more than a modular co-curricular award)
ePortfolio (currently PebblePad)
Departmental skills audit tool
Student skills ‘audit’
Sustainability (for c.20,000 students)
PDP/retention links
Student Skills Audit
10 July 2012

6. Digital literacy is key to skills development and Library and Learning Innovation staff will do this through 4 tiers:
Tier 1
Helping students to help themselves: Much bigger web presence
Tier 4
Departmental Collaboration
Tier 2
Helping students to help each other: Expansion of PASS and PAL
Tier 3
Face-to-face support:
Workshops and appointments
10 July 2012

7. Students in the Chemistry department get experience as interviewees and interviewers
Group 1
Job A
Group 2
Job B
Group 3
Job C
Group 4
Job D
Group 5 Job E
10 July 2012