Having Work Experience

What is Employability? Card Sort
Stage 1 Cards: Employability is…

Employability is:

Having work experience

/ Employability is:
Learning about the world of work
Employability is:
Graduates getting jobs in areas cognate to their degree specialism / Employability is:

What employers want

Employability is:
Meeting standards set by professional bodies / Employability is:

The job of the HEI

Employability is:
The responsibility of the individual student / Employability is:
Part of the contract between the HEI and the student
Employability is:
What the paying customers expect / Employability is:
Not related to the academic process
Employability is:
A distraction from the academic agenda / Employability is:
For the less capable students

Employability is:

The responsibility of the Student Union / Employability is:
Extra curricular activity
Employability is:
Benefiting from p/t, casual, voluntary jobs / Employability is:
Encouraging involvement in student clubs and societies
Employability is:
Taking the right course at the right institution / Employability is:
Compensating for disadvantage
Employability is:
About equality of opportunity / Employability is:
Is for undergraduates of all ages
Employability is:
Having the right skills for the market place / Employability is:
Social engineering
Employability is:
The responsibility of the Careers Service / Employability is:
About academics understanding how to help their students become employable
Employability is:
Creating a learning environment which develops students employment related attributes / Employability is:
Creating a learning environment which enhances students skills
Employability is:
Skills for life / Employability is:
Doing a vocational course
Employability is:

Getting a work placement

/ Employability is:

Covering key skills

Employability is:
Meeting the economic requirements of society / Employability is:
Addressing the agenda of the current government
Employability is:
Keeping the graduate employment market buoyant / Employability is:

The latest fad

Employability is:

Helping students recognise and develop their strengths and weaknesses / Employability is:
Initiating CPD activity with students that should continue throughout their working life
Employability is:
The involvement of many groups in the curriculum / Employability is:

About citizenship

Employability is:
A challenge to the traditional concepts of HE / Employability is:
Employability is: / Employability is:
Employability is: / Employability is:
Employability is: / Employability is:

Developed for ESECT by Rose Mortenson, AGCAS Training Manager and Val Butcher, Senior Adviser, LTSN Generic Centre.

Available from: www.ltsn.ac.uk/ESECT > Card Sorts