Project News
New cover letter resource is launched!
At last, the cover letter has been rethought. What do you think? Writing a cover letter
How do you motivate students to accomplish their goals?
How do you motivate students to accomplish their goals? New student Career Story resource now available for students. This career story features an internationally renowned novelist, Anna Jacobs, who told us how she created and now manages her career – from knowing what the market wants, to managing her time and doggedly pursuing her goals. Part of the growing suite of employABILITY career stories Access the resource here.
Whose responsibility is it to develop student employability?
No doubt we would argue that developing employability is everyone’s responsibility! To me, employability is metacognition: understanding why we think what we think. Last month, Dawn was lucky enough to give a lecture at the University of the Arts in Helsinki. If you’re interested in how we might approach employability and careers in the Arts without crushing students’ dreams, please take a look and add your thoughts and strategies on our LinkedIn forum. http://www.uniarts.fi/en/newsroom/whose-responsibility-students-employability-critiquing-role-arts-and-music-academies Show less
Career stories are a powerful tool
Career stories are a powerful tool. This one is in a resource set and is one of several in the site. If you have stories to share, please let us know! Resource Set | Building a Career with Creativity and Resilience
ISPS Conference poster
In Iceland, Dawn presented on the fellowship. She also presented a conference poster from her performance-based research. You can view the conference poster here
Developing Employability in Melbourne
In August, Dawn travelled to visit project partners and colleagues in Melbourne. Whilst there, she gave a presentation to the Australian Council of Deans of Information and Communications Technology on the future of work and the implications for employability development in ICT. The Deans were very receptive and plan to conduct some multi-disciplinary research using the student self-assessment tool. Dawn also met with RMIT colleagues including Fellow Iouri Belski. RMIT is a Fellowship partner and plans to introduce the self-assessment tool into first year Engineering with a view to using it from 2018 alongside their exciting Future Edge initiative. At the University of Melbourne, partners from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music met to discuss embedding employability development alongsid...
Welcome to the Developing Employability website!
Welcome to the new website and community. Pip and I have been working since January to migrate everything from the old TILE site to one that has far more functionality. Over the coming weeks we will add more tools and resources and more readings. Please send out details of the site to your network – we really want to build the network over coming weeks. The new model positions employability as self and career literacy and the measure has been approved as part of the professional placement hours in four engineering programs. The monthly forums start with Professor Margaret Lloyd, who asks: “How do you sustain whole-of-program change?” In other news, almost half the 19 partner institutions have now begun their projects, and over 1,000 students and educators have engaged in workshops.
World summit of the International Federation for national Teaching Fellows
In February, Dawn Bennett attended and presented her work at the 1st world summit of the International Federation for national Teaching Fellows (http://www.ifntf.org) in Birmingham, England.
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