1. Maths – your degree, your future

2. Outline of session Developing skills Reflection Over to you
Employability Skills
Developing skills
Reflection
Over to you

3. Knowing what you want to do Being happy in your work
What is Employability?
Getting a job
Finding a job
Being employable
Knowing what you want to do
Being happy in your work

4. Cardiff University’s Definition:
“A set of attributes, skills and knowledge that all labour market participants should possess to ensure they have the capability of being effective in the workplace – to the benefit of themselves, their employer and the wider economy.”

5. Self Management
Teamworking
Business and Customer Awareness
Problem Solving
Communication and Literacy
Application of Numeracy
Application of IT
The University’s promise to you is that by the time you graduate you will have developed many of these skills. Why is this important? Because this is the skills that employers of all sizes and all types say that they want from today’s graduates.

6. Final Year Project Presentations, Technical Skills, Tutorials,
Degree
Final Year Project
Problem solving
Technical Skills,
Analysis
Tutorials,
Collaboration
Presentations,
Exams
Skills audit

7. SO… A degree isn’t enough...
Clubs / Societies
Part-time work/work experience
SVC
Year in Industry
Skills Development Service
Student Mentoring
The Cardiff Award
There are many things available at Cardiff University to help you develop your skills. Here are some of them.
Furthermore, don’t just stick to this. Getting experience and making your CV look good and set you apart from other candidates can be really exciting. Bunac, au-pair, working abroad in any way, jewellery making business (current student), holiday work. It doesn’t matter what you do as much as it matters how you sell what you do. How you articulate it.

8. Are any of these experiences better than the other?
That depends….
The art of reflection????
Articulate it!

9. Why reflect?
WHY?
“We do not learn from experience….we learn from reflecting from experience…”
John Dewey
HOW?

10. Gibbs

11. Rolfe

12. E-portfolio

13. How to Guides

14. Next Sessions
Interviews
CVs
Applications

15. What did maths graduates do last year?
Risk analyst
Actuarial Trainee
OR Consultant
Social gaming analyst
Outreach worker
Trainee teacher

16. Graduate Prospects
78%

17. The top 10 jobs in demand in 2012 did not exist in 2006?
Did You Know?
The top 10 jobs in demand in 2012 did not exist in 2006?
Some undergraduates are being prepared for jobs that don’t even exist yet…….
Source:
Richard Riley,
Former Sec State
Education, USA

18. Today’s student will have 10-14 jobs by the age of 38.
Did You Know?
Today’s student will have jobs by the age of 38.
1 in 4 workers have been with their employer for less than a year
1 in 2 for less than 5 years
Source:
Richard Riley,
Former Sec State
Education, USA

19. And my point is?
“Passion is not something you follow. It is something that will follow you as you put in the hard work to become valuable to the world”
Always told to follow your passion. To a small set of people this makes sense, because they feel passionate about something. For others, its tougher. But your passion will grow as you work. What is important is that you do the thing that takes you onto the next step – not the thing that you are going to be doing for the rest of your life.
Source:
New York Times, “Follow a career passion? Let it follow you” Cal Newport

20. Any questions? www.cf.ac.uk/careers
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