ECU administers tuition sponsorships that support employability. In addition, ECU administers an Emirates Scholarship that offers financial support to students to undertake a work placement program with Emirates. http://www.ecu.edu.au/scholarships/details/emirates-scholarships. The Department of Education sponsor students to complete the Graduate Certificate in Education and work with the ECU School of Education. Saint John of God Hospital sponsor a student in the Master of Midwifery Practice.
Alumni are engaged where possible for Industry Mentor Recruitment. In 2019 Griffith Careers and Employment and our Development and Alumni will roll out an Alumni to Alumni mentoring model to further enhance employability and engagement.
All engagement activity is funded within the Industry Engagement Discipline budget
The portfolio of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor Corporate Engagement and Advancement leads predominately engagement, rather than incentive, based activities that bring together employers/business and alumni. The following examples do not explicitly support the employability agenda but indirectly contribute to related positive outcomes:
The biggest incentives the portfolio provides are the Alumni Benefits and Events programs. Benefits include free access to the library, MOOCs, journals, etc. As for events, alumni have access to events wherever they are held in the world, free of charge, which focus on the latest research, timely topics (such as changing workforce, AI and automation, etc), and high-profile speakers. The Backpack to Briefcase event series is held in Sydney and select other cities across Australia that is focused on more recently graduated alumni. This series offers practical advice, coaching and mentoring around careers as this demographic is most in need of such workshops and speakers.
The portfolio has, for example, offered such alumni free professional LinkedIn photo sessions, had a LinkedIn speaker, networking coach, and successful alumni answer alumni questions around career success, transition, and growth. There are also alumni chapters/networks in 10 cities worldwide and across Australia that organise networking events and serve as a community for alumni to support each other and their continually develop their employability.
Through the Macquarie Global Alumni Network, alumni can join Chapters and Networks run by our alumni volunteers and participate in thought-leadership and networking events across Australia, the Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. The University's official Young Alumni Network connects students with other young Macquarie alumni across the globe. An exclusive space for under 35's where students can reconnect with fellow alumni, network in the global world and receive targeted content on professional/career development and other opportunities.
Macquarie is also working towards having every course online and available to its alumni, as an entry point for enrolments. The following free courses created by Macquarie University are currently available to our alumni:
Coursera
Open2Study - Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM)
Further, as referenced earlier, the portfolio also supports the Macquarie Incubator that provides a space for students, alumni, researchers, staff, small-medium sized enterprises, entrepreneurs and start-ups who are working on research or an idea that can be commercialised.
Macquarie's Career and Employment Service is also offered to all current students during their studies and up to 12 months after they graduate. This includes access to CareerHub (employment opportunities casual, graduate, international, volunteer, work experience), career events (career planning, interviews, resume writing) and career information (presentations from past employers, sample resumes and fact sheets).
SAE seeks to enter into mutually beneficial arrangements with Industry partners. Currently there is only one partnership that could be considered related to an incentive scheme. In this relationship, SAE pays for students to undertake work integrated learning.
Alumni office has incentive structures around engagement with alumni. These structures support current student engagement through programs such as mentoring programs, engagement with the careers service, returning to speak on industry panels etc.
Yes. UWA has in place a number of alumni engagement initiatives to support career development for both students and graduates. These fall within the broader community of support strategy for lifelong alumni engagement which hinges on a unique and compelling value proposition achieved through personal and meaningful connection.
Initiatives currently underway, in the planning stages or under consideration include the following:
1. alumni engagement to build connections and careers
2. young alumni as mentors for students (transition and early career advice)
3. mentoring through event panels, student clubs/groups, including career introductions and referrals
4. AskUWA Alumni online mentoring channel for students.
5. career-established alumni as mentors, job shadowing, information interviews, classroom participation
6. career-established alumni as prospective employers: (promotion of] internships, work-integrated-learning, hiring [When you hire UWA)
7. alumni leaders as mentors for targeted student cohorts (international in-country/expat/student networks, Faculty, School, Friends, life-stage, interest, scholars)
8. human resources alumni advisory group: consultation on career resources and outreach
Key initiative: Career Cafés
1. for undergraduate and postgraduate students (2017, 13 Cafés for students; average of 15 alumni mentor volunteers, including panellists, and 50 students per event)
2. for graduates: two per year currently, following Graduations; facilitation of mentoring connections post event (average 50 alumni mentor volunteers, including panellists, and 100 recent graduates per event)
Key initiative: Communications
1. panel recordings shared with broader target audience (for example student, young alumni)
2. podcast series featuring alumni career stories and advice
3. alumni profiles (shared in various formats)
4. Words of Wisdom for new graduates (Graduation)
5. career mapping and outcomes communication
Collaborations
1. career symposium for graduating students and young alumni (potential initiative)
2. career bootcamps, fairs, Career Mentor LInk
3. International student mentoring including Centre for English Language Teaching (CELT) English-language training, G'DAY UWA, Australian Awards Australian experience initiative
4. graduate/exchange student connections abroad
5. innovation/entrepreneurship and small business student experience and mentoring
IQ also has initiatives to support Employability of students, including:
1. IQ Academy - a new 6 week pre-incubator for undergraduate students who want to work in teams to progress enterprising ideas will launch in March next year. It has been designed specifically to enhance the employability by helping students develop “enterprise skills. It is also scalable (potential to train 500 students per year)
2. Some UWA departments have a policy of offering WIL placements each semester. For example Innovative and Industry Engagement (IIE) and IQX takes about 6 students every semester. It's based on the insight that we can offer students some rich work experiences right here at UWA
3. Discussions with academics who embed ideation/ pitching into their classrooms and have requested support to coach students on these “soft skills
4. LinkedIn learning is a potential solution
There are always many ways for students to be engaged with industry, whether it be through guest lecturers, career fairs on campus, networking events that are accessible to all students or through invitation only to a select few (for example student boardroom luncheons). All of this supports employability as students get to ask and interact with professionals in their field to gain a better understanding of what to expect and what is expected of them. However, there are also ways that industry supports employability on campus in more practical formats:
1. certain organisations like Visagio run consulting competitions for current students with guaranteed internships or paid work placements for winners as incentives
2. 180 Degrees consulting is also an organisation that encourages entirely multidisciplinary approaches to solving real world problems – teams of students from all over the University work in groups on challenges that real non-profit organisations and small businesses face, along with advice and guidance from professional consulting company.
Innovation & Industry Engagement:
1. Industry Engagement Team (5 people) to help link industry with students for work placements and market UWA generally to business
2. Industry Advisory Boards providing feedback to Executive Deans from industry - including on course structures and content to improve employability of graduates
3. support for student entrepreneurship through partnership with Bloom
4. providing support to student start ups with business networks and training opportunities
VU also has strong industry partnerships that have a positive impact on student employability. For example, the Western Bulldogs accept sport science and exercise physiology cadets exclusively from VU. Each year, VU students also have the opportunity to complete workplace learning with the Bulldogs in wide range of areas such as administration, biomechanics event management, exercise physiology and hospitality. The University also has seventy students actively involved in the Western Bulldogs Community Foundation (external link), a grass-roots initiative that provides those living in the western suburbs with the tools and support they need in order to succeed.
As part of its procurement process, VU encourages suppliers to think beyond their core relationship with VU. For a supplier to be considered a Supplier of Choice as part of the tendering process, suppliers are asked to demonstrate how they may enhance or add value to the student experience. This has led to some suppliers offering placements to VU students.
An industry engagement role is provided as a support/institutional navigator to promote / foster mutually beneficial partnerships. Careers provide some incentives to engage employers/business in Careers events (opportunities to connect with potential talent) and free listing of vacancies on Careerhub. Tailored/bespoke recruitment campaigns are being developed for many industry partners, as part of a strategic partnership.
Within the schools there are a number of events and structures in place to encourage involvement of employer and business partners to be involved in promoting employability within the curriculum. For example: The School of Humanities and Communication Arts maintains a number of social media spaces and online networks with professional associations to link employers and students The School of education runs an annual EDFEST an all-day event involving staff, students, representatives of the peak employment bodies, unions and accrediting bodies. The School of Law hosts a number employer career information session throughout the year culminating in the Alumni dinner to which practitioners and current students are also invited.
The Placements Hub, in its role to foster agreements between the University and placement and work experience providers, is developing a suite of resources to use to engage and inform potential placement providers of the benefits of providing experiences to students and using testimonials from current organisations who provide these positive experiences to students.
Yes, strong employer engagement but with more to do in the alumni area.
Employers:
The WIL Office works with employers across all industries in order to secure WIL Placements (Industry Training) for all eligible students in all UG and PG programs (nine-month UG placements and six-month PG placements). In placing up to 750 UG and PG students per year, the WIL Office directly engages with over 350 industry partners per year. ICMS has an extensive employer / industry database with over 1200 industry partners that have engaged a student for their WIL Placement (Industry Training) over the last 22 years.
Employers also contribute on the subject level in a number of ways including in-class presentations and hosting industry site visits.
Employers benefit from having students on placement who are industry ready and can provide a fresh perspective; employers also benefit from a sense of stewardship of the next generation of leaders and the potential to leverage student placements as a graduate recruitment tool. Annual career expos, campus visits / presentations and employer luncheons allow our industry partners networking opportunities and to maintain on-going contact with students and industry educators. Our professional scholarship program also assists employers to promote themselves as industry leaders.
Alumni:
There is currently no dedicated alumni office but a number of informal approaches to alumni (i.e. facebook groups and industry connected staff) mean that the alumni themselves support employability. This alumni support manifests in numerous ways including alumni generate job and placement opportunities, alumni generated input to course accreditation and subject development activities and alumni involvement in subject level employability activities including in-class speaking and industry site visits. The alumni benefit from industry ready students for their organisations, informal networking activities and from a sense of belonging and 'giving back' to the ICMS community.
The 2019/2020 business plan will also include the launch of a strategic approach to the ICMS alumni network, with a view to further leveraging alumni for greater involvement in employability activities.
For students, incentives are used at a college level aside from those proposed through Kahurei and assessments at programme level which assess employability skills. Sometimes stakeholders visiting will provide food or individual programmes will have activities such as employment days. In regards to incentives for employers there are some relationships and MoUs and contracts at programme level. The College of Science employs a Director of Stakeholder Engagement. The Massey Business School has a highly regarded internship programme which provides extensive support to students and businesses who take part. Post-graduate students who engage with industry are often paid a stipend or scholarship or have their fees covered.
Examples include:
The Advancement Office collaborates with areas across the university to support various initiatives. For example, we have provided alumni business data to Professional Placements and promoted work placements and internships to targeted alumni audiences around the world. Swinburne is working to enhance these collaborations and strengthen connections to successful alumni in business who may be able to offer opportunities to students.
Yes, but this is ad hoc and not coordinated institutionally
Teaching & Learning
Careers and Employability
Research & Innovation
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See response to 3.5
While Alumni actively engage with employers, businesses, and community stakeholders, the engagement does not formally incorporate an employability focus. Informally, Alumni may provide support for employability if opportunities arise. The opportunity to engage with the University is perceived as the incentive.
This is primarily done in an ad hoc manner, as per question 2.4
Currently UQ does not have any incentive structures in place to support employability.
See Development Office Items 1-5 for the business and alumni engagement activities coordinated within the Development Office to support employability. There are no incentive structures coordinated by the Development Office for employability.