Course-related part-time jobs - The Leeds Experience

1. Commercial Awareness Course-related part-time jobs - The Leeds Experience Nalayini Thambar, Careers Centre Lou Proctor, Joblink

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

3. 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)

4. Lou Proctor

5. 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?

6. One Answer Fits All……. COLLABORATE!!!

7. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. How it worked (2) The set up at Leeds • Recruitment of a new member of staff to generate links with employers we previously hadn’t 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.

12. What constitutes a Course-Related Job? What do you think?

13. What was it like to deliver this project? (1) Challenges • Xxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxxx • xxxxxxxxxxxx

14. What was it like to deliver this project? (2) Rewards • Xxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxxx • xxxxxxxxxxxx

15. What was it like to deliver this project? (3) Key Learning Points • Xxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxx • Xxxxxxxxxx • xxxxxxxxxxxx

16. 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