Courserelated parttime jobs The Leeds Experience

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Course-related part-time jobs - The Leeds
Experience
Commercial Awareness

• Nalayini Thambar, Careers Centre
• Lou Proctor, Joblink

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Outline

• Who are we? Why are we here?
• Background and context
• Making it work!
• The Leeds approach
• Any Questions?

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Nalayini Thambar

• Assistant Director (Business Services)
• Graduate Recruitment/Employer Liaison jobs and
  placements
• Enterprise and Business Start-up activity
• IT Infrastructure
• Marketing
• Previously GraduatesYorkshire Regional Strategic
  Manager
• Careers Adviser
• University of Leeds,
• FE (Newcastle-Under-Lyme College)
• LEA (Workington, Carlisle, Macclesfield)

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Lou Proctor
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Common Concerns

• How can we support graduates who want to stay in
  Yorkshire?
• How can we link graduates to local SMEs and
  inform them about the opportunities available?
• How can we support our students who need to work
  in order to fund their time at university?
• How can we support students from non-traditional
  backgrounds?

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One Answer Fits All.

• COLLABORATE!!!

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A brief history of GraduatesYorkshire

• 1995 Graduate Link established (vacancy
  handling)
• 1998 YorkshireJobshops collaboration
  established
• 2000 Impact established (diversity support)
• 2002 GraduatesYorkshire created with
  Yorkshire Forward funding to address
  regional graduate retention issues
• 02/05 GraduatesYorkshire GraduateLink
  YorkshireJobshops Impact YETI
• 05/08 YF and institutional funding develops
  GraduatesYorkshire further.Additional
  developments include graduate guidance
  and the course-related jobshops opportunity
• 2007 GraduatesYorkshire (effectively Graduate
  Link) is launched as a limited company
  see www.graduatesyorkshire.co.uk

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Course-Related Opportunities the rationale

• To enable students who have to work to gain
  experience that will help them with their longer
  term career plans
• To raise student awareness of local opportunities
• To give local employers a low risk opportunity
  to engage with students
• To establish student/employer links that could
  generate more graduate opportunities in the region

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How it worked (1) Project Set up

• Each institution received 15k per annum with a
  target of 150 opportunities filled per year
• Opportunities had to be within the Yorkshire and
  Humber region
• Employers had to confirm that a student was in
  post before the opportunity could be counted
• The Jobshop staff met quarterly to discuss their
  progress and had a telesales training session
  towards the beginning of the project

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How it worked (2) The set up at Leeds

• Recruitment of a new member of staff to generate
  links with employers we previously hadnt had
  dealings with
• Students who were placed were offered the
  opportunity for personal development sessions to
  help them to make the most of the experience and
  recognise the skills they had gained
• The Jobshopping resource was produced by
  GraduatesYorkshire (in conjunction with GIEU) to
  support this element of the project.

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What constitutes a Course-Related Job?

• What do you think?

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What was it like to deliver this project? (1)
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What was it like to deliver this project? (2)
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What was it like to deliver this project? (3)
Key Learning Points

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What Happens Next

• The Careers Centre is giving Joblink additional
  funding to continue their good work. With some
  variations..
• Higher targets (!)
• Targets specifically linked to International
  Students
• More structured sessions offered by the Careers
  Centre to students taking up these opportunities