Articles in the ICT
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2010-06-29
Election for AGCAS Director of ICT
AGCAS Associate Members are invited to vote in an online poll to decide who should be elected to the post of Director of ICT on the AGCAS Board.
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2010-05-12
Crunching DLHE data online
St Mary’s University College (part of The Careers Group, University of London), is one of the first colleges in the UK to use Destinations Interactive, a new online DLHE system, which allows careers professionals and other HE staff to 'crunch' DLHE data easily and effectively.
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2010-04-06
Online recruitment services - are they safe?
Jo Davies, Information Manager at the University of Swansea, has a number of concerns to do with the privacy of online recruitment websites. She would like to hear the views of AGCAS members - and anyone in the industry.
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2010-02-17
Having fun with feeds
Les Waters, a member of the AGCAS ICT Advisory Group, has written a short guide to using RSS feeds. Adding Valuable Content by Having Fun with Feeds outlines the possibilities RSS feeds offer for presenting and selecting tailored web content.
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2010-01-19
Guiding students through the online information maze
Many career services’ websites have a wealth of untapped riches that students don’t always find their way to. So what can we do to help the self-directed user find the resources they need?
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2010-01-18
Technology in careers work: Back to the future
We asked Richard Pethen (University of Sheffield Careers Service 1977-2004) to look back to an earlier era, when technology in careers work was quite different from what it is today.
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2010-01-18
When guidance sounds good
Email guidance helps to offer a more flexible service, but typing a response to a request for a CV review can be difficult within the time allocated to a duty interview. Judith Baines, Careers Adviser at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), has been looking at alternatives to e-guidance.
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2010-01-18
A Sheffield journey into the virtual universe
The University of Sheffield's second Virtual International Careers Fair (VICF) ran in November 2009 as a collaborative venture with Sheffield Hallam University.
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2009-12-03
Chris Phillips' web seminar wins new AGCAS award
Chris Phillips, Publishing Director at Group GTI, has been announced as the winner of a new AGCAS award for his workshop on writing for the web. The John Franks Award, sponsored by Yorkshire and Humberside Heads of Service in memory of their colleague John Franks, who sadly died in service in Spring 2008, is awarded to the best workshop delivered at AGCAS Biennial.
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2009-09-29
AGCAS celebrates awards winners
The winners of the 2009 AGCAS Awards for Excellence were announced at the Biennial Conference, held at Brunel University earlier this month. The number of nominations received for each category is evidence of the high-quality, innovative and collaborative work taking place at AGCAS member services across the country.