ACAP publishes typical employment outcomes, related to its courses on the ACAP website.
There is a range of information available to staff through ECU policies and procedures, resources and professional development opportunities and through the expertise of dedicated staff. In addition to information through curriculum delivery, the Student Transitions and Employability team provide a range of information to students. This includes utilising CareerHub which has a variety of platforms including VolunteerHub, MentorHub and GraduateHub etc. and online career modules, as well as tools such as Career HACKS. ECUlture Conferences have been delivered for the past 11 years and have contributed significantly to the institution-wide information sharing in regard to employability and other significant institutional goals and values.
For examples, ECUlture 2016 Conference employability focus keynote can be found at http://www.edu.edu.au/conferences/2016/eculture/keynote
An overview of the 2018 ECUlture Conference can be found at http://www.ecu.edu.au/conferences/2018/eculture-2018/overview
Associate Professor Andrew Harvey from La Trobe University Equity, keynote speaker, presented on at the end of the student life cycle: strategies for success, completions and graduate outcomes on 5th November, 2018. Professor Harvey informed the ECU community that there is a rising focus on the far end of the student lifecycle – completion, graduate employment, and postgraduate transitions. For universities, new trends and policies raise new institutional questions. How can attrition be prevented, and how can students labelled as ‘drop-outs’ be re-engaged and re-recruited? How might employability strategies support all students to undertake work-integrated learning or extra-curricular activities? Which groups are at risk of poor outcomes, and what tailored strategies are required to support their employability and postgraduate prospects? The presentation addressed these questions with reference to recently conducted research around retention, performance-based funding, employability, and postgraduate equity. The Student Transitions and Employability team and the Schools provide information through Orientation. Corporate marketing provides information through course literature and open days, and through education agents for international students. There is a range of information available to staff through policies and procedures, resources and professional development opportunities and through the expertise of dedicated staff.
In addition to information through curriculum delivery, the Student Transitions and Employability team provide targeted information to students, including:
• Utilising CareerHub, which has a variety of platforms including VolunteerHub, MentorHub and GraduateHub etc.
• Developing resources including online career modules, as well as tools such as Career Hacks, university wide workshops, Videos, Industry/Student engagement events.
• The Student Transitions and Employability team and Schools provide information through Orientation.
• Corporate marketing provides information, for example through course literature and open days, and via agents for international students. Industry updates are provide to the Schools by the Student Transition and Employability Team and presentations are made at the ECUlture Conferences.
There is a range of information available at https://www.griffith.edu.au/employability
regarding employability initiatives offered by Griffith, including links to: Griffith’s Careers and Employment Service; industry experiences (information in internships and the Careers and Employment Service); Unitemps (an employment agency based at the University, providing work opportunities for students and graduates); mentoring; ePortfolios (a tool to build an ePortfolio); professional profiling (career education tools and resources provided by the Careers and Employment Service); global mobility (study abroad opportunities for both inbound and outbound students); ‘go global’ (information on participating in overseas programs); ‘enrich your studies’ (using the ‘Find Your Opportunity’ search tool to explore ways to improve one’s employability); and leadership enrichment and development (the Leadership, Enrichment and Development [L.E.A.D.] program which provides workshops and events designed to enhance personal and professional skills and qualifications). This information and links are designed to provide information to students, staff and employers/industry. There are also tips for students on steps they can take to improve their employability in the form of an employability quiz.
Griffith also has a well-developed list of Griffith Graduate Attributes that are distinctive to the University and which articulate those ‘employability’ attributes students should expect to graduate with from Griffith. The Griffith Graduate Attributes are mapped and assured formally at initial program development, and at periodic 5-year program reviews. Additionally, the Griffith Business School has mapped the Griffith Graduate Attributes to all undergraduate and postgraduate Program Learning Outcomes and they are evaluated each Trimester as part of AACSB assurance of learning processes. The University has produced a range of supporting resources for staff
The university provides data which feeds into a nationally moderated data set called Key Information Set (KIS) which provides information for specific programmes on what opportunities graduates can expect from their chosen qualification and the interpreted cost versus return for that specific career path. This information appears on webpages for Massey programmes with a link that feeds into a site managed by Careers NZ.
SAE publishes typical employment outcomes, related to its programmes via the public website. This information is derived from the Program Statements, which is is informed by annual “industry scans”. This information is also disseminated in the the SAE Program Statements which are under the purview of the SAE Program Committees.
Comprehensive dashboards that summarise the employment outcomes captured in the Graduate outcomes survey are made available to staff. The dashboards summarise key metrics such as undergraduate full time employment rate by Faculty, School, Department and Course. The data includes sector benchmarks presented as both actual values as well as rankings. The benchmark comparison is the Victorian University sector data as employment data tends to have significant state based confounds
The introduction of the Government Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) data allows for comparison between providers over the three pillars of Student Experience, Graduate Satisfaction and Graduate Employment. The Employer Satisfaction National Report and Employer Survey data is reported at Swinburne to the Academic Quality and Standards Committee (now Academic Policy and Quality Committee) for discussion and assists in the formulating strategies as part of the Transforming Learning project. The same committee will over the course of a year, review Retention and Attrition Performance, Academic Performance and Transforming Learning which all directly or indirectly relate to employability.
The Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic) provides update reports to the Academic Senate Committee on the Transforming Learning Strategy 2017-2020, which is accessible by staff to review via the committee papers. Each April the Academic Senate will be provided with a presentation on the Annual Academic Performance Report which includes Attrition, SUT Survey Reports and the Student Experience Survey and Graduate Satisfaction and Employment Survey Results. The Committee at each meeting has included in papers a snapshot report on the Headline Academic Quality Indicators including Graduate Satisfaction. The Academic Senate is also provided with annual report card on the Swinburne Advantage activities.
Students: 1. Faculty-based courses and programs: See attached spreadsheet for faculty-based offerings. This information is found on the UNSW website. 2. General education courses available to all undergraduate students:
• DIPP1112: Creating Your Career: Employability for the Future • DIPP1510: Work Placement • DIPP1111: Leadership and Professional Practice • COMM3030: Social Entrepreneurship Practicum • MGMT2725: Career Management
Information on courses available in the UNSW handbook
3. UNSW Advantage Program Over 450 accredited volunteer and professional development opportunities available at UNSW. A completed experience is listed on students’ AHEGS (The Australian Higher Education Graduation Statement) when they graduate. Information is available on the Advantage website: https://student.unsw.edu.au/advantage
4. Arc The UNSW student union has volunteer, extracurricular, internship and job opportunities for students as well as many professionally focused clubs and societies that students can join to increase their employability:
Educational-based clubs: https://www.arc.unsw.edu.au/clubs/educational
Faculty-based clubs: https://www.arc.unsw.edu.au/clubs/faculty-based
Some examples are Enactus, 180 Degrees Consulting, Women in Engineering and AIESEC.
More information available on the Arc website: https://www.arc.unsw.edu.au
5. UNSW Jobs Board This jobs board run by UNSW Careers and Employment advertises volunteer, part-time, casual, internship, graduate, full-time, scholarships, cadetships, professional, contract, overseas, on-campus roles: www.careers.unsw.edu.au
Staff:
• A WIL portal is currently under construction for UNSW staff. This portal will provide centralised information and resources for all UNSW staff on WIL.
• UNSW Careers and Employment has a “staff” page on its website with information on how UNSW Careers and Employment can collaborate with staff to support students: https://www.careers.unsw.edu.au/staff.aspx
Employers/Industry: • UNSW Careers and Employment is a central point of contact for employers and has a website for employers providing information on engaging with UNSW students and graduates: https://www.careers.unsw.edu.au/employers.aspx
Students:
Careers & Employability team provides a range of information on employability, career development, employment seeking support and information
Provision of employability information to students through a range of channels e.g. social media, events, workflows
USQ website resources, for example: Careers & Employability team: https://www.usq.edu.au/current-students/career-development
Online Careers and employability resources: https://social.usq.edu.au/tags/career
Undertake pitch training to sell yourself and your research - https://www.usq.edu.au/research/events/research-week/pitch-club
Staff:
Careers and Employability team visit School Forums to promote their support for staff and students in embedding and developing student employability
Employers:
Careers & Employability team provide information on employability related activities in conjunction with USQ students: https://accesshub.usq.edu.au/employers/
This information is available through the University’s webpages. See Career Development and Employment, Career Peers/Careers Professionals/Career Educators, Vice-Chancellor’s Leadership Program, CareerConnect, IPrep and LEAP.
Yes. Information on employability is mostly found on the UWA website. The following are public pages: 1. Career Centre 2. Uni mentor 3. Alumni 4. McCusker Centre for Citizenship 5. Co-operative Education for Enterprise Development (CEED) 6. Student Guild / Guild Volunteering 7. UWA Innovation Quarter
Below are the statistics of student engagement with Career Centre for the period 1 January 2018 to 23 November 2018: 1. CareerHub jobs – 530 published in 2018 to date, with 23,668 student views of these jobs 2. CareerHub resources – 12,185 views of CareerHub Resources 3. Careers Drop Ins – 981 students (10 minute appointments – triage) 4. Career Advice appointments – 588 attended; 11 absent; 41 not booked; 18 unspecified (total is 658) 5. Careers Fairs – 1,300 (March fair) 1,200 (August fair) – estimate only 6. Employability workshops (92 workshops; 2,293 attended; 549 absent; 38 waitlist; 2,906 bookings) 7. Employer presentations (54 events; 1,592 bookings; 1,224 attended; 236 absent) 8. Careers and Employability Award – 166 applications; 10 completed (Award commenced as a pilot in 2018 and launched in October 2018). 9. Career Mentor Link – EOI = 662, Matched with mentor – 353 10.Current student logins on CareerHub portal – 110,559 up from 85,189 for 2017. 11. VMock resume checking service: 482 students signed up since July 2018; 668 resumes uploaded (since July 2018)
Similar to Career Centre every other page such as Alumni, McCusker Centre for Citizenship, CEED, Student Guild and UWA Innovation Quarter is accessible by everyone. However, the opportunities may not be equally accessible for everyone. It may depend on the grades that a student achieves to get matched/selected.
Industry is able to contact UWA through various means. One way is being reflected on the website where industries are offered pathways to collaborate. This is being done on the website by indicating contact details of management staff who are responsible for industry engagement in specific faculties. These contact details are situated on one page for the feasibility of access. Alternatively, industry also seeks information on UWA through Alumni, Academics, McCusker Centre for Citizenship, CEED, Placement officers in faculties, Career Centre and Student Guild.
Information regarding employability is disseminated to relevant cohorts as follows:
Staff – VU’s intranet site contains detailed information about the Employability Strategy as well as copies of College Employability Action Plans that have been negotiated with each College. Through the current period of transformation, as degrees are converted to block mode delivery, academic staff have been educated about VU’s employability-related imperatives and how the redesign of their units can incorporate these initiatives to enhance employability in the curriculum.
Students – students have access to employability-related services and information through online portals such as CareerHub and AbIntegro. These platforms allow students to make appointments with careers staff, book into skill development workshops, access a jobs board as well interact with significant career content and resources. Learning Hubs also offer a physical presence at each campus and allow students and staff to interact with Learning Advisors (Careers) to deliver a range of career-related services.
Industry - the VU website directs employers to a range of employability programs that employers can engage in to develop employability skills in students and develop partnerships. Two such programs are the Talent Connect Program and the Industry Mentoring program. Talent Connect aims to enhance employability of final year students through a range of recruitment masterclasses and also match students with industry mentors. The Industry Mentoring program through its strong partnerships with leading organisations such as CBA, offer a structured mentoring scheme for students by matching their own employees with students from a variety of business and IT disciplines.
Employability at Curtin has several prongs. The graduate attributes are promoted widely to both staff and students as a mechanism for embedding employability and ensuring graduates are equipped with relevant skills. The requirement to embed graduate attributes in curriculum design is articulated in policy and procedures and the unit (subject) outline as mentioned in question 1.6. Co curricula activities that promote employability include leadership development opportunities (http://life.curtin.edu.au/leadership-and-community.htm
and support for Curtin students to plan careers and access employment and opportunities
http://life.curtin.edu.au/careers.htm
The careers Fairs and Employer events are hosted by the Careers and Employment Centre. Curtin also supports various programs that build employability.
An example of these programs include Earn While You Learn and Volunteering http://life.curtin.edu.au/careers/opportunities-at-curtin.htm
The Next Step Mentoring program managed the Careers and Employment Centre matches Curtin students with industry mentors (including alumni). Activities and conversations with mentors include:
• Discussing workplace etiquette and employer expectations
• Researching industry and market trends
• Resume & cover letter reviews
• Workplace site visits
• Mock interviews The Next Step Mentoring program allows participants flexibility to accommodate students’ busy schedules.
The program has been on hold for 2018 but will relaunch in 2019. Benefits afforded students through this program include:
• Connections with industry in the final year of study
• Discovering a range of career pathways
• Gaining confidence in applying for positions
• Awareness of what employers are looking for in graduates
• Gaining inside information about industry trends
• Building vital professional networks
• Recognition with a Curtin Extra Certificate Support for staff career development is also available through Careers and Employment. See http://life.curtin.edu.au/staff/support_services_for_staff.htm
Careers and Employability within the Student Experience Portfolio (DVCA) produces annual reports for the Careers Centre, Employer Engagement (including placements in the co-curricular space) and Leadership. An additional annual report is provided with data pertaining to Community Programs (inclusive of volunteering).
Yes, but needs to go beyond the highly successful ICMS Industry Training Program.
Information is available to staff, students and industry on the Industry Training Program. However, employability is being defined in the ICMS context and additional information will be provided that will be consistent with that broader context in future.
From the application process, potential students are made aware of the Industry Training Program being a nine month, full-time placement 'block' that UG students undertake in the middle of their program before returning to campus to complete their program. Likewise, potential PG students are made aware that they undertake a 6 month placement in their final semester. The ICMS industry focus is also widely shared including our industry speakers, industry site visits, industry case studies and industry inspired lecturers that present across all course levels.
Upon entering, all UG students are introduced to the Industry Training Program/ Workplace Culture/ First impressions/Interview techniques via a compulsory non-award subject (ICMS 101).
The term prior to the Industry Training Placement, all students undertake Placement preparation workshops (including mock interviews with WIL staff) via compulsory non-award subjects (i.e. IND200).
As the Industry Training Placement period represents compulsory subjects in all UG and PG courses, all students have access to the subject outlines and the LMS which contains tools and resources students need to help them develop their knowledge before, during and after the Placement period.
An Industry Training handbook is available to all students, staff and employers.
Industry Training progress visits by WIL staff (undertaken with employers at the half way point of a student placement) allows further information to be shared with both the student and employer. On-going contact with both student and employer is also maintained during the placement period via the LMS, phone and email (students) and phone and email (employers).
The Industry Training Placements data (i.e. participating employers) is shared with staff each term. Also, employer / industry feedback is directed to appropriate faculty members and internal governance structures for consideration i.e. to enhance student skill development as needed via subject learning outcomes.
The Macquarie University website provides information about employability on its website: https://www.mq.edu.au/study/why-study-here/employability Other resources providing information on employability include:
• the Learning for the Future, Learning and Teaching Strategic Framework 2015 – 2020 which provides a context and a working definition for employability at Macquarie University (see. 1 1.1).
• Unit and course outlines (in the handbook), PACE and Careers content that include student outcomes in terms of their employability – both explicitly and implicitly.
It may not always be called employability and may not always be recognised as such, however, examples aimed at employers and students include:
Students, Staff and Employers
Students
Staff
Employers/industry
Information on the university's approach to employability can be found on the Careers and Employability Website https://employability.uq.edu.au/
This website outlines the UQ Employability Framework and provides a first point of contact for students to explore and engage with experiences across the university.
In 2016 UQ launched the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) EMPLOY101x - Unlocking your Employability. https://www.edx.org/course/unlocking-employability-uqx-employ101x-1
This course is self-paced and takes learners through 7 modules based on the UQ Employability Framework. The MOOC has had over 46,000 enrolled learners to date globally. The MOOC and it's associated resources are also available internally to UQ staff to enable the integration of employability learning in degree courses and extracurricular activities.
The UQ Employability Framework through the MOOC is publicly available and several high schools are currently using it for senior students.
Over the last three years, the Student Employability Centre has shared the UQ Employability approach and framework through national and international conference presentations, invited presentations to high schools and other interest groups including:
- Tertiary Education Management Conference, Perth
- PwC Diversity and Inclusion Breakfast, Brisbane
- Student Retention and Success Summit, Melbourne
- National Association of Prospective Student Advisors (NAPSA), Fremantle
- Career Development Association of Australia (CDAA), Brisbane
- Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN), Sydney and Brisbane
- Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE), Melbourne
- International Education Association of Australia (IEAA), Melbourne
- National Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services, (NAGCAS) Melbourne
The Embedding Employability staff development course has been run twice a year for staff since 2016 to build staff capacity to integrate employability into the curriculum.
Existing employability resources are currently under review and will be made available on new staff resource webpages from 2019. These pages will include resources on Work Integrated learning, use of enterprise systems to support employability activities and learning, and materials associated with the UQ Employability Framework and approach. These pages will also provide information for employers/industry on employability and how to engage with the institution.
USC provides information on employability to staff, students and employers/industry via the website and the student hub, however there is no coordination or streamlining of this information.
In many cases information is provided to employers and industry when they submit an individual enquiry about hosting a student as an intern or if they have a job opportunity which they wish to promote to students in the relevant discipline area.
Evidence:
1.7a Work Experience for students and employers
1.7b Careers Services for students, industry, employers
1.7c Industry and Business information on web
Information is provided about 'Careers services' and this will soon be focused under a single Employability strategy. There are significant amounts of discipline specific and general career development resources that would be considered 'information on employability' with categories of information relating to clarifying career values, career planning, transition to employment etc. These are available inline and face to face and are used centrally and by Schools for courses and units. As part of the implementation of the strategy, further resources will be created to recognise and validate existing levels of graduate capital in students.
The institution lacks written or online resources which clearly define the institutions definition of employability. At course level students and employers receive information via brochure or handbooks on the employability skills learnt in WIL. Workshops and webinars have been provided to Student Services, Sales and Marketing Departments.
There is no information made available explicitly on employability at an institutional level to either staff, students or employers / industry. Both the Careers Service and the Work Integrated Learning Team do make information on their services and areas of work available to each of these audiences though, particularly through their websites as well through other often more informal channels. The Careers Service have a strong focus on providing employability information to students through a wide range of resources, services, workshops, events and activities.