NASES Conference Sustaining Student Employment

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• NASES ConferenceSustaining Student Employment
• John Trantom
• 1st July 2008

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Got to have a J-O-B

• You got to have a J-O-B if you wanna be with
  meAin't nothin' goin' on but the rentYou got to
  have a J-O-B if you wanna be with me
• you're silky ways are sweetBut you're only
  wastin' time if your pockets are emptyI've got
  lots of love to giveBut I will have to avoid you
  if you're unemployed
• Gwen Guthrie Nothin Goin on but the Rent

You got to have had a J-O-B if you wanna work
with meAin't nothin' goin' on but good sense You
got to have had a J-O-B if you wanna work with
me you're silky ways are sweetBut you're only
wastin' time if your CV is emptyI've got lots of
love to giveBut I will have to avoid you if
youve always been unemployed
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Got to have a J-O-B

• You got to have a J-O-B if you wanna be with
  meAin't nothin' goin' on but the rentYou got to
  have a J-O-B if you wanna be with me
• you're silky ways are sweetBut you're only
  wastin' time if your pockets are emptyI've got
  lots of love to giveBut I will have to avoid you
  if you're unemployed
• Gwen Guthrie Nothin Goin on but the Rent

You got to do a J-O-B if you wanna work with
meAin't nothin' goin' on but good senseYou got
to do a J-O-B if you wanna work with me you're
student ways are sweetBut you're only wastin'
time if your evidence is emptyI've got lots of
love to giveBut I will have to avoid you if
youre underachieving
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Raison d'être

• HEI-business knowledge exchange in a global
  market
• Dearing, Lambert, Leitch, Sainsbury
• AGR Winter Review 2008 and the CBI
• CIHE 2008
• DIUS 2008

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Why Your Service is Important

• Reputation is still king...Two-thirds of
  under-19s claim league tables were important or
  very important in their choice of course,
  compared to half of over-30s. For overseas
  students this is even more important 76 of
  African and 84 of Far Eastern students
  identified it as of high significance
• (Forum for the Future, BERR)
• Generation Y
• Paying customers
• Demography
• Parents
• Recruitment income

Source Timesonline
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Jesse Green

• Adapted with time
• Producer
• Music teacher
• E-commerce website

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Challenges

• Work related learning / WBL impact
• Vision
• Targets
• Staff buy-in networks and relationships
• Faculty requirements.
• CRM

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Challenges

• Externally
• Saturated market?
• Reluctance to get involved, which may stem from
  
• Scepticism / lack of incentive
• doubts about qualities
• little time
• costs
• Meaningful relationships with organisations
• Simplify, single point of contact
• avoiding one-offs
• the right package

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Challenges
Source CIHE 2008
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Solutions

• Work closely with
• academics and Service Teams
• BDC
• WBL units
• Creative and innovative
• Analysis and evaluation of performance
• NASES
• Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together
  is progress. Working together is success
• Henry Ford

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Solutions
Source Timesonline
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Solutions

• WRL groups and cross-faculty
• Placements, scenarios - problem based learning,
  mentoring, shadowing, company visits, guest
  practitioners (make attendance compulsory).
  Scenarios record and have databank.
• On-campus work
• Club 21 idea from Glasgow University

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Disposition to Fulfil Your Vision

• Proactive with a can do attitude
• Approachable
• Resilience and persistence
• Forward thinking in a realistic timeframe
• Enthusiastic and tenacious if you dont ask

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• Enjoy YOUR conference

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