Resources in the Employability community
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Psychology Student Employability Guide
This guide covers traditional, new and emerging psychology careers as well as subject-focused job seeking advice and graduate case studies.
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Employer ownership of skills: Securing a sustainable partnership for the long term
This paper sets out the UK Commission for Employment and Skills' (UKCES) vision for what employer ownership means and how it has the potential to transform skills in England. It outlines why skills matter, the current system, five principles for reform, proposals, benefits and a call to action to employers to come forward with their own propositions for how to step up and take responsibility for employer-based training such as apprenticeships.
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Promoting employability: how to get the most from your alumni
This website hosts an ongoing project, which aims to explore how HE institutions can get the most from their relationship with alumni to help promote employability to current students.
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Diversity Matters
Diversity Matters is targeted primarily at graduate jobseekers but will be useful to anybody interested in employment and diversity, whether as someone directly affected by the issues it addresses or in a professional capacity.
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The Graduate Market in 2012
This study of graduate vacancies and starting salaries at one hundred of the UK's leading employers, conducted by High Fliers Research during December 2011, reveals that despite the uncertain economic outlook, there will be more graduate vacancies available for university-leavers in 2012 - making it the third consecutive year that the number of graduate jobs has increased.
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Occupational change and mobility among employed and unemployed job seekers
This paper examines the occupational mobility of employed and unemployed job seekers.
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A Dynamic Nucleus: Colleges at the Heart of Local Communities
This final report from the Independent Commission on Colleges in their Communities presents a vision of further education colleges as a 'dynamic nucleus' at the centre of their communities, creating links and establishing networks of partnerships.
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Is Graduate Under-employment Persistent? Evidence from the United Kingdom
This discussion paper investigates the persistence of under-employment amongst UK higher education graduates. Data collected by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), from the cohort who graduated in 2002/3, has been used to calculate "non-graduate job" employment six months and 42 months after graduation.
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The impact of higher education for part-time students
This report discusses the findings of a study commissioned by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) to examine the impact of higher education on the labour market experiences of graduates who studied part-time and full-time as undergraduates.
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Careers and Employability Blogs
We've noticed a growing number of blogs covering the graduate labour market and careers and employability topics. Many are aimed at students and some at a wider readership.
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