The Cardiff Global Award 2015 - 2016 Essential Guide

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Welcome to the Cardiff Award! The Cardiff Award provides you with the opportunity to gain recognition for the skills obtained through extra-curricular activities. The Award process will improve your professionalism and employability, increase self-awareness of your skills and enable you to articulate these effectively to future recruiters. The Award will complement your university experience and better equip you for graduate employment. The University has accepted the following definition of employability as articulated in Future Fit: Preparing Graduates for the World of Work, published by Universities UK and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), 2009. “A set of attributes, skills and knowledge that all labour market participants should possess to ensure they have the capability of being effective in the workplace – to the benefit of themselves, their employer and the wider economy.” Put simply: “Employability is about having the capability to gain initial employment, maintain employment and obtain new employment if required.” (The Institute of Employment Studies) Research constantly indicates how competitive the graduate employment market is. It is not enough to just understand employer-relevant knowledge, skills and attitudes, you also need the capability to exploit your assets, to market them and sell them to employers. The Cardiff Award will help you to do this. “As a student of Cardiff University you will develop many marketable, work related skills and attributes through pursuing your degree scheme and the many extra-curricular opportunities offered by the University and Students Union. In a challenging time for graduate recruitment the Cardiff Award will help you achieve your potential, increase your self-awareness, and communicate effectively your strengths to employers. I recommend the Cardiff Award to all our students.” Professor Colin Riordan, Vice Chancellor, Cardiff University In the Education and Skills Survey conducted by the CBI (2011), 70% of employers responded that university students needed to do more to develop their employability skills and prepare to be effective in the workplace. The 2012 High Fliers report revealed as much as a £7,000 salary gap between students with and without work experience. A recent (2013) You Gov survey found 52 per cent of graduate employers felt few graduate recruits were work-ready when they joined, with 17 per cent claiming none were prepared for work. The report also revealed that new recruits lacked basic attributes such as team work, communication, punctuality and the ability to cope under pressure. The Award addresses this and helps you acquire key skills to complement those you may already possess and provides advice and guidance on how you can present these skills to employers. Feedback shows that 100% of Award students feel more prepared for work. 2
The Global Award This year we are piloting a new strand of the Cardiff Award, which focuses on giving participants the opportunity to develop their skills by participating in activities abroad. This will help to develop a set of skills to help you to become a ‘global graduate’; increasing your employability and social mobility. Employers are serious about social mobility. They are increasingly seeking to recruit ‘global graduates’ – graduates who see the world through a wider lens and who can demonstrate both global knowledge and cultural agility. The Global Award is part of the University’s Internationalisation Strategy. It aims to encourage student mobility and to support students who want to spend their professional training year abroad, who want to participate in mobility schemes such as ERASMUS and seek opportunities through the Global Opportunities Centre or independently. Its aim is to enable students to see the value of such activities on their own employability and equip them with the necessary skills to succeed in the global marketplace. How The Global Award Works To pass The Cardiff Award you are required to: • Undertake at least 70 hours of extra-curricular activities or work experience (40 hours must be outside of the UK). • Complete a Skills Audit at the beginning and end of the process (this will help you identify strengths and weaknesses and will aid your reflection as you approach the end of the Award). • Undertake a set number of personal development sessions. • Present a written submission to evidence your learning in the 6 prescribed skill sets, including a career-focussed CV that highlights your key skills, and an employer style application form. • Reflect on your activities (through an on-line blog, a diary or reflection sheets). • Deliver a formal presentation to university staff, followed by a formal question and answers session. The following pages go into more detail about each of these requirements. 3
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