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Student Employability Profiles: Introduction
General Information- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Rationale
- Application
- Employability Skills
- Employers' Criteria
- Reflective Questions
- Glossary
For most higher education students, employability on graduation and over the long term is a major priority. More and more higher education courses provide the means for students to develop their employability skills, to raise their own awareness of these skills and to increase their ability to articulate these skills. Such capabilities can be put into practice in personal development planning, work experience opportunities, job searching, interviews and similar situations and this is of real help when making major career and life changes.
The underlying assumption is that a student's life long learning capability and employability can be enhanced through their higher education experience and that this can be achieved as part and parcel of academic study. The impact of the effects of widening participation in higher education, along with greater diversity in the ways in which students learn, provides a climate where increased numbers of students can and need to benefit from supported development of their employability skills.
Student employability profiles have been created to indicate the skills that typically can be developed through the study of particular subjects. The profiles are for use by Subject Centre staff when working with their academic communities to the ultimate benefit of current and prospective students and employers alike.
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