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June 29, 2017 at 3:05 am #1693
Developing Employability
KeymasterLanguage of employability topic for HERDSA17
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June 29, 2017 at 9:39 pm #1708
Dawn Bennett
KeymasterEmployability is the means to create and sustain a meaningful life and work for the benefit of oneself and others
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June 29, 2017 at 11:06 pm #1709
Colin Jevons
ParticipantEmployability is NOT:
– a job
– a piece of paper
– something that arrives magically at graduation
– a destination (it’s a journey) -
June 29, 2017 at 11:11 pm #1710
suzanneknuiman
ParticipantIRU definition of employability by Jess Vanderlelie IRU Research Fellow:
Activities and experiences that support the development of knowledge, professional skills and personal capabilities to enhance a graduate’s lifelong professional success.
This overarching def. draws together all aspects of the student experience at University and facilitates the development of a mutual partnership in the learning journey.
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June 29, 2017 at 11:14 pm #1711
Colin Jevons
ParticipantEmployability is the means to create and sustain meaningful work across the career lifespan and in multiple contexts
Please note these are not my ideas I am taking dictation from Dawn!
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June 29, 2017 at 11:17 pm #1713
Doug Cole
ParticipantI like this. We have previously taken a slightly different angle and chosen to define ’embedding employability’ as providing the opportunities to develop the knowledge, skills, experiences, attitude and behaviours to enable graduates to make successful transitions and contributions, benefitting them, the economy and their communities.
I like that you have added life in the new definition because this is about looking beyond the boundaries of a job, work and career. This should be about developing the whole person. Learning for life ? -
June 29, 2017 at 11:18 pm #1714
Colin Jevons
ParticipantMust be done in partnership between careers professionals and academic staff
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June 29, 2017 at 11:20 pm #1715
Colin Jevons
ParticipantThere is no single answer but we should distil some common threads
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June 29, 2017 at 11:45 pm #1729
Narissa Lewis
ParticipantRegarding partnerships mentioned above, need to ensure that we’re working in partnership with students as the whole person… I’m thnknig about first in family students here, making their families aware of extra/co curricular activities that might enhance students employability and how they might be able to support them to take part in these activities etc
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June 29, 2017 at 11:21 pm #1716
Colin Jevons
ParticipantEmployability is a composite word. Employ and ability. The “ability” part is the more important.
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June 29, 2017 at 11:29 pm #1718
Colin Jevons
Participant“work” is not necessarily “jobs”. entrepreneurs are just one example; the gig economy can often be another.
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June 29, 2017 at 11:32 pm #1719
Colin Jevons
ParticipantVictorian State govt statement – VET-based, and too skills-based as opposed to person-based, (says Dawn, remember, this is not me being clever)
Employability skills
Employability skills are the “key skills and personal attributes you need to enter, operate
and thrive in the new world of work.” These are the transferable skills that we take with us
from one work situation to another, just like a tradesperson carries their toolbox.
Key skills are:
• communication;
• team work;
• problem solving;
• initiative and enterprise;
• planning and organising;
• self-management;
• learning skills; and
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June 29, 2017 at 11:36 pm #1720
Colin Jevons
ParticipantEmployability is also NOT necessarily about good grades at uni.
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June 29, 2017 at 11:40 pm #1723
Dawn Bennett
Keymasterhttp://imgur.com/lt50CDWLiteracies for life Right click to open image
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June 29, 2017 at 11:42 pm #1726
Doug Cole
ParticipantIt is also not just:
About WIL
The responsibility of the Careers service alone
Solely the responsibility of your employability champions or leads
Something you leave until the final year of studies
Not something that conflicts with what all academics would hope to see in good studentsThere is a positive flip side to all of this but we do need to bust some myths to engage people from the outset.
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June 29, 2017 at 11:58 pm #1731
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June 30, 2017 at 12:03 am #1732
suzanneknuiman
Participantemployability is an active partnership between the student and the entire university learning community
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June 30, 2017 at 12:14 am #1735
Colin Jevons
ParticipantI love Doug’s example of the cake recipe, and Dawn’s comment that actual quantities only appeared in recipes until the 1950s (constraining creativity)… here’s the quote from the nauseating song from the 1960s or 70s
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don’t think that I can take it
‘Cause it took so long to bake it
And I’ll never have that recipe again
Oh no!Read more: Richard Harris – Macarthur Park Lyrics | MetroLyrics
(Wikipedia says: “MacArthur Park” has been called the worst song ever written.[2] Its flowery lyrics and metaphors (notoriously likening lost love to a cake left out in the rain) have been described as “bloated” and “loopy.”[1]” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song)
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