Progression through HE into work

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Progression through HE into work
Ian Hodges Director, Careers and Employment
Service
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Content
What do graduates do with their degree? The
current state of the graduate labour
market Employability at Exeter What we do to
help What to tell your students Questions and
discussion
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Guess the course

• REGIONAL SALES ADMINISTRATOR, AIG, CROYDON
  
  
  
  
  ARCHIVE ADMINISTRATOR, THE WELDING INSTITUTE
  LTD, CAMBRIDGE
  
  
  
  PROJECT ENGINEERING MANAGER, LONDON
  UNDERGROUND, RESEARCH ASSISTANT, QUANTUM
  SHIPPING SERVICES LTD, LONDON
  
  
  
  CLIMATE CHANGE AND COMMUNICATIONS
  MANAGER, MET OFFICE, EXETER

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Guess the course

• TRAINEE LIBRARIAN, MANCHESTER MET UNIVERSITY
  
  
  
  TEACHER,
  EXETER SCHOOL, EXETER
  
  
  
  CONSTRUCTION PROJECT MANAGER,
  BRUCE SHAW PARTNERSHIP, LONDON
  
  
  
  FINANCE TECHNICIAN,
  TELEKURS, LONDON
  
  
  
  MARKETING
  ASSISTANT, CARTWHEEL LTD, TOPSHAM
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  PERSONAL ASSISTANT,
  HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, WESTMINSTER
  
  
  
  WITNESS CARE
  OFFICER, CROWN PROSECUTION SERVICE, BLACKPOOL
  
  
  
  PERSONAL
  ASSISTANT, BUCKINGHAM PALACE, LONDON
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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Classics

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What do Exeter Graduates Do?

• Employed 62
• Further Study 23
• Time Out 6
• Unemployed 4
• Other 5

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Graduate Level Work?

• 72 of all Exeter graduates in work or study were
  in graduate level work or study, 6 months after
  leaving
• Times League Table

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State of the Market

• What information can you rely on?
• High Flyers Survey
• Association of Graduate Recruiters

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Change in recruitment (HF)

• 2009 - 0.3
• 2008 - 6.7
• 10.1
• 10.8
• 2005 10.9

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High Flyers Survey
Largest recruiters in 2008 accountancy
professional services firms 3,700 trainees.
2009 recruitment numbers have already been
revised sharply downwards. Employers now expect
to hire almost 3,400 fewer graduates in 2009 than
they planned at the start of the recruitment
season.
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High Flyers Survey

• Number of entry level graduate vacancies up in
  the Public Sector (51) and the Armed Forces
  (17) in 2008 and 2009.
• Only 13 of employers largely in the investment
  banking and engineering
• industrial sectors believe their recruitment
  targets will be cut further in 2010.

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High Flyers Survey

• Research with 1,017 final year university
  students shows that job hunters
• are very pessimistic about their career prospects
  as the economic crisis worsens.
• More than 90 of finalists think that employers
  will cut their vacancies in 2009
• Half of student job hunters have little
  confidence that they will find a graduate
  position

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Vulnerable sectors?

• Banking
• Property / Construction / Surveying
• Advertising / Public Relations
• Management Consultancy
• Retailing
• What will the market be in 2013?

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Do students have what employers want?

• Information from AGR

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Success depends on

• Choice of subject
• Type of course (vocational vs non
  vocational)
• Choice of university
• Class of degree
• A level grades
• Skills and qualities

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What to tell your students

• Vocational courses higher employment rate
• Employers more likely to be interested in
  grade than subject - choose a subject you will
  enjoy
• Develop skills from day 1

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Employability at Exeter

• Comprehensive skills training
• CVs, Interview techniques, Team development,
• Running your own business
• Exeter Award
• Recognition for extra curricular activity

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Employability at Exeter

• Employer links
• Six careers fairs, presentations, graduate
• vacancies and employer led training.
• University and Students Guild work together
• Employability and The Works

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Employability at Exeter

• Placement opportunities in the UK
• Shell STEP (Agency of the Year 2008)
• Exeter University Internship Programme
• Student Associate Scheme
• Graduate Business Partnership
• Placement opportunities abroad
• Erazmus

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Employability at Exeter

• Opportunities for volunteering
• Community Action (CA)
• Part Time / Term time jobs
• The Works

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www.ex.ac.uk/employability

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Questions