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What Students Think

Successes!

Some of this year’s successful Employability Award students (May 2011)

What students think

• (the award) is an integral part of what you are doing at university. It improves your employability and it is using activities to demonstrate your skills to employers.
  
• (the award) gives excellent recognition of your participation in activities outside your degree programme.
  
• The award was beneficial to enable me to see what skills I have gained that employers would be interested in. The award provided a good way to assess these skills and improve on any weaknesses.
• I wanted to let you know I heard last week from a successful placement interview for next year. I found being part of the award not only enhanced my CV but also prepared me to answer competency-based interview questions using my award activities and the skills I gained from them. I'm one of the first on my programme to get a placement so the award clearly makes a difference!

 Preparing you for recruitment

The process you go through to achieve the award is the exact process you will go through when you start to apply for graduate employment: describing how you have improved or acquired your skills, reflecting on your personal development and then providing examples to demonstrate how you have developed and applied those skills, Employers are looking for well developed examples of how you applied your skills, knowledge and experience and the award will help you to do this, preparing you for those application forms and interview questions. Completing the award will demonstrate to a potential employer that you have a positive attitude towards wanting to make the most of your time and to putting in the extra effort required to achieve an award which recognises that commitment.

Don’t forget to mention your participation in the award scheme on your CV and in interviews and be prepared for questions about it.

Don’t forget to let us know if you have any feedback from employers about the award scheme or if you are successful in getting a placement or securing a graduate job!

More successful students

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