It takes It tak es a w a whole sc hole school to r hool to raise aise a post a post-grad adua uate te stud studen ent: t: Employability and engagement of masters’ students Sadie Lawty, M Sadie Lawt , MSc Car Sc Career eers s Advis dviser er Louise M Louise Must ustchin, hin, MSc Car Sc Career eers s Advis dviser er Bei ei (Xiaobei) (Xiaobei) W Wu, Inter u, Interna national tional Emplo Employer Enga er Engagement gement Of Officer ficer
Management Sc Mana gement School hool – Liv Liver erpool pool campus campus China OSI Rest Home EU Total • of World Liverpool MBA • MBA Thoroughbred Horseracing Industries • MBA Football Industries • Master in Management • 650 133 124 31 938 MSc Marketing • MSc International Business • MSc Human Resource Management • MSc Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management • MSc Sports Business and Management • MSc Digital Business Enterprise Management • MSc Business Analytics and Big Data • MSc Operations & Supply Chain Management • MSc Programme and Project Management • MSc Economics • MSc Finance • MSc Accounting and Finance
Mana Management Sc gement School hool – London campus London campus • MSc Accounting • MSc International Accounting • MSc Finance & Investment Management • MSc Banking & Finance China OSI Rest Home EU Total of World 152 17 11 4 184
Cur Curriculum 2021 riculum 2021 Our teaching staff support our students to develop academic knowledge, skills and understanding alongside the graduate attributes: • Digital fluency • Confidence • Global citizenship Its point of reference is the vision set out in our Strategy 2026 document and Education Strategy, namely that we shall support our students to become ‘creative and culturally rich graduates with the capacity to find employment that will enable them to be agents for change in a connected world’.
Background • Major KPI for the Management School : Create a high profile, sector leading, competitively resourced and globally-focused careers and employability service that meets the needs of all our students. • Explore the feasibility for a Centre for Future Ready Graduates. • Consult with our existing and emerging employer network to identify what their requirements are of graduates and use this to inform our portfolio design. • Provide every on-campus student with the opportunity of a placement or related industrial activity • The Marketing team became aware of the fact that a number of alumni, reflecting on their ULMS experience, stated that they had expected more engagement with and exposure to businesses. • We already provide a wide range of guest speakers on our modules and this obviously was not completely fulfilling students’ needs and expectations and this project was a deliberate attempt to provide real engagement and close working with organisations and potential employers. Graheme Tozer – Canning Dock
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Employability Employability : The state or quality of being employable Employable: Able to be employed. Employed: The state of being an employee From http://en.wiktionary.org
So… Employability is about developing the skills and attitudes to find and keep a job. Employability is a sub-set of career development. Career development is about gaining control of your own journey through life, learning and work. Tristam Hooley, 2013
➢ ULMS MSc Career Development Pre- Arrival Course ➢ Leaders of Tomorrow ➢ WCWIO
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Employability Employment/ Students career progress Admission Programme Destination (career ranking/ School progression) data reputation
• Accommodation • Food • Culture shock Life • …… • Second language • Different educational marking system Study • …… • Different support from home country • Visa restriction Employability • Lack of knowledge of local market • …… Development
Early engagement: pre-arrival course Increase the ULMS MSc offer holders engagement early on with school; Raise offer holders awareness of support available for them for the upcoming academic year (highlighting Career support); Building a community for international MSc students and providing them a safe place to share and bond, encouraging a sense of belonging before the academic programme starts; Introduce some career development management skills and tools, inspire students’ career development journey and benefit the graduate destination.
❖ Platform: blackboard ❖ Lead by: PGT careers staff ❖ Support by: IT technician ❖ Engaged with: Director of Studies, Marketing team, Students Support team, Learning and Teaching Support team, current students, alumni ❖ Invitation has been send to: Chinese unconditional offer holders
CONTENT: 1) Liverpool 1) So, what are 1) Story from 1) Career Service Week One Week Two Week Three Week Four welcomes you employers looking alumni: my first job resource available for? and career journey to you 2) ULMS welcome you 2) Oh, those real 2) Exploring the 2) Career readiness life stories job market, what is test and your 3) Top tips from out there? career action plan current students 3) All right, these skills are 3) Students 3) Letters for important, how experience of future me can I get them? Career Service
Evaluation and Feedback All of participants are “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the course; All of participants were able to list three career projects/ support they can participate in; All of participants’ confidence of plan and approach to their individual career goals have “increased” or “significantly increased”; For the suggested improvements: one student wanted more students to have participated in this course.
• Student A: Thanks for Xiaobei Wu's instructions, Sadie Lawty's effort, Will Moindrot’s technical support as well as every classmates' company. It's very lucky to be one of students in University of Liverpool Management School. • Student B: The university cares about our career, which make me feel good since I’m kind of worry about it myself and I can get a lot of help here. Quotation from participants
• The candidates who complete the course all enrolled into MSc programme. • In the first six weeks of Semester one, each of them has attended between 6 and 10 employability events; which is significantly higher than the average students’ engagement rate. “” Middle Term Impact:
The objectives of the programme can be summarised as: • To provide high achieving and motivated MSc students the best possible chance of securing graduate jobs • To develop their employability skills • To increase labour market awareness and develop career management skills • To provide students with the opportunity to network with employers • To provide students with the opportunity to participate in a career trek to a European employer to develop their globalmindset • Contribute to ULMS rankings submissions
Student feedback ‘I think this programme gives ‘I made it a goal to get the best you a direction as to what to marks I could so I could do after university.’ participate, which was great motivation and clearly worked ‘Opened my mind! After for me !’ visiting Santander in Spain I may apply for jobs aboard.’ ‘ The session done by Ian Lovegrove about leadership skills was by far the best part of the taught seminars. He was really interesting and having an external expert was really valuable. The trip ‘The programme is a life to silicon allee was really good as it was very relevant turning point. You can see to the subjects we were doing concerning Business ’ how academic knowledge apply in the real life .’
Feedback from 2018 programme Did the career trek to Barcelona develop your awareness and knowledge of working within a global context? Strongly Agree (50%) Agree (50%) Disagree (0) Did the Leaders of Tomorrow programme increase your self-confidence? Strongly Agree (41.67%) Agree (58.33%) Disagree (0) Did the Leaders of Tomorrow programme help you to reflect on and/or develop your career plans? Strongly Agree (16.67%) Agree (66.67%) Disagree (16.67%) Do you think that you will be able to draw on the experiences the programme provided you when applying for jobs? Strongly Agree (41.67%) Agree (58.33%) Disagree (0) Do you think the programme raised your aspirations? Strongly Agree (50%) Agree (50%) Disagree (0)
Business engagement Internationalisation • Secured funding from Santander • Career treks to Madrid, Brussels, • Local & national employers (e.g. Shop Direct, JLR and Berlin and Barcelona Bloomberg OSI, Home & EU students • The hidden jobs market • Global mindset • Employer guest lectures, for e.g. Young MCA, local SME on panel and Santander • International employers e.g. VW, Real Madrid, Silican Ally, Torres winery and European Parliament Student recruitment • Marketing/keeping in touch with applicants Alumni • Impacted on students decision to study at ULMS • Networking events held during career trek • Rankings submissions • Collection of employment data for rankings
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