The University of Kent
Careers and Employability Service
The Careers Employability Award
You can download a copy of this presentation at
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/slides.htm
Moodle Careers Employability Award
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/moodle.htm
Careers Employability Award
 Assessed by a range of quizzes and assignments
 Only 2% unemployment rate for students completing the award
compared to 5% for other Kent students.
 Will greatly improve your career planning and jobhunting
skills, giving you strategies to make career choices and will
increase your chances of getting a graduate level job.
 Takes about 12 hours to complete. Can do it over a weekend or
an hour or so a day.
 All done online: students have completed it in Spain and
Sweden and on placement years off campus.
 On completion you get a University of Kent Careers
Employability Award to add to your CV
 Get 60 Kent Employability points for successful completion of
the module.
Based on the DOTS Model of Career Planning
Self Awareness: analysing your skills, interests, values,
personality and strengths;
Opportunity Awareness: commercial awareness,
researching a career, happiness at work, networking;
Decision Making: choosing a career, Prospects Planner;
Taking Action: CVs, covering letters, application forms,
interviews, aptitude tests, selection centres, action planning.
• Careers Website is “Random Access”: access in any order.
• Careers Award is Sequential: structured, logical, learning pathway.
Content of the Careers Employability Award
12 Quizzes: need 75% to pass but allowed unlimited
attempts
 Employability skills quiz  Interview preparation
 How to develop the
 Practice interview
skills employers want?  What are the most
 Test your spelling &
common interview
grammar!
questions?
 What makes you happy  Aptitude tests &
at work?
assessment centres
 How commercially
aware are you?
 CV quiz
 Career planning drag &
drop quiz
Complete 3 of the
following seven
assignments
 Analyse your skills &
learn how to make
top quality
applications
 Do you want to live
to work or work to
live?
 Researching careers
 Choosing a career
 Submit a CV
 Social media
 Action planning
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The Careers
Employability Award
On successful completion you
receive the University of Kent
Careers Employability Award.
You can also add the following to your CV:
"On my own initiative I successfully completed the
University of Kent Careers Employability Award
which covered identification and development of
employability skills, self-awareness, identification of
relevant career options, researching opportunities,
CV preparation and interview skills."
https://moodle.kent.ac.uk/2015/my/
I enjoyed the depth of the module. It went far
The amount of time put into this is
beyond some general tips on how to write a
astounding!
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spoke
to
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from
students
who
have
completed
good
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useful!
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friends from other universities who The itmodule
went in to detail about the whole process of
the
award
really love
how it makes you to think
said they wished they had
graduate job search from the beginning to the
personality
helps.
It reallysomething
blew my mind
with some about yourend.
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instructive
like this.
ideas I’ve never known before, such you to identify your strengths and
It was so easy, quick and I
weaknesses.
as portfolio working and working
I found the module to be highly thoughtlearned a lot.
from
home.
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never
thought
about
provoking as it really encouraged me to
obtaining
happiness
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how
my degreefrom
will benefit
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Without realising, you have
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nice now to
future
andget
whatbefore.
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improve certificate!
my graduate employment
prospects.
It would be mad to apply for a
job or attend an interview
without doing it!
I recently had a very
successful interview largely
because I put the advice on
the module into practice.
finished the course and have
already put together a very
It has made me feel a lot more
good
CVwhen
and itcovering
confident
comes to letter.
applications and interviews and has
also made me think about skills that
I didn't think I had before.
Before the course I had only a vague idea of
my career path and opportunities. Now I am
applying for summer internships and know
how to effectively sell my skills to a
prospective employer and have a much more
focused plan for my future.
How to enrol on the Award
• Go to https://moodle.kent.ac.uk
• Enter your Kent login and password
• Via the search box, search for “Careers” or DP2650.
• Enrol by clicking on "Enrol me in this Module"
• If you have a problem, email [email protected] and I
will enrol you – I will enrol everyone who has
attended this session.
Other talks this term
HOW TO PREPARE A WINNING CV, 1pm, Thursday 26th
May, Marlowe Lecture Theatre 2 Advanced tips on how to write
a CV and covering letter to get you interviews. All welcome.
HOW TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS AT INTERVIEW 1 pm,
Thursday 2nd June, Marlowe Lecture Theatre 2 Advanced tips
on how to be successful at graduate interviews. All welcome.
EXAMS OVER .... WHAT NEXT? 2 pm, Thursday 9th June
Marlowe Lecture Theatre 2. Covers job-hunting, vacancy
sources, how to get help after you leave the University,
postgraduate study, graduate recruitment fairs, recruitment
agencies, online information and more. All welcome.
Location of the Careers Service
www.kent.ac.uk/careers Telephone: 01227 823299
Email: [email protected]
Drop-in times (no appointment needed): 10.30 to
12.30 & 2 to 4 pm
Careers Reception
https://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/Nuke%20CES/ass
essmentcentre.html
The University of Kent
Careers and Employability Service
The Careers Employability Award
You can download a copy of this presentation at
www.kent.ac.uk/careers/slides.htm