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Steve Hind, Senior Careers Consultant
Anne Wilson, Head of Careers
Graduate Employability at Warwick
We will cover:
How degrees at Warwick contribute to graduate employability
What do our graduates do?
Enhancing employability through extra-curricular activities
Plan B. What do graduates do when things don’t go according to plan?
Some statistics:
92.3% of Warwick graduates secure either employment or further study 6 months after graduation
Of those in work, 75.7% secure graduate level employment
(Based on 2012 data)
Quick quiz:Which departments achieved the following?
100% employment (graduate level)
97.2% (graduate level )
84.6% (graduate level)
All destinations info is publicly available through GEMS: http://destinations.warwick.ac.uk/
Some sample destinations:English Literature graduates:
Accounts Executive Intern
Equality and Diversity Policy Manager
Social Media Executive
Staff Writer and Conference Coordinator
Researcher
English TeacherN.B. See also ‘What can I do with a degree in…?’ Series
What do graduate recruiters want?
A good degree from a good university
Work experience
Extra-curricular involvement
The ability to ‘tell their unique story’
What students can get from Warwick
Access to thousands of opportunities; work experience, volunteering, research projects
Over 250 Clubs and Societies
Personal and Academic Skills development
Access to qualified and highly skilled careers consultants
Sociology and employability skillsYou will learn:
How to work independently.
How to find information, extract what is important from it and turn it into an argument.
How to work in collaboration with others, but also how to work effectively without close supervision.
Research methods and how to generate new knowledge and information using a wide range of tools - large social surveys interpreted through statistics, to in-depth interviews, analysing the language used in media texts
How to conduct research both with others and on your own
‘There are no graduate jobs.’
93% of millionaires are graduates/professionally qualified (BBC News, May 2014)
Many graduate recruiters do not fill their vacancies
National picture (from HECSU)
Overview of 2013 destinations data (6 months after graduation)
Of the 242,285 graduates who responded to the survey:
Average salaries of graduates employed full-time in the UK ranged from £18,345 to £22,535, depending on their occupation.
Destinations
Employment
Unemployed
Further study/training
Work+ study
67.7%8%
13%
5.9%
Warwick Picture 2012
Graduate Destinations
Employed Unemployed
Further Study Work + Study
Other
52%
25.3%
7.2%
9.9%
5.6%
Average salary:
Mean = £27,900Median = £24,000:
Destination of Leaversfrom Higher Education Institutions
Longitudinal survey of 2008/9 leavers
Aim of survey: to collect information on the activities of graduates approximately three and a half years after leaving Higher Education
Responses were received from c.25,000
Most graduates in employment (80%) were working in occupations that were classified as ‘graduate occupations’
EMPLOYMENT MARKET TRENDS
UP DOWN
IT/ Telecomms + 40.3% Investment banking -1.4%
Public Sector +20.1% Law - 4.2%
Energy/ Utilities + 17.5%
Banking/finance + 15.7%
Accountancy/professional services + 12.2%
Engineering +9.2%
Transport/logistics + 7%
Consulting/business services 5.7%
Retail 2.7%
FMCG + 2%
Graduate vacancy projections: up 10.2% compared to 2012-13Source: AGR
Examples of starting salaries by career area in 2011-2012
Source: AGR
Investment banking £38,250
Legal work £37,000
Consulting £28,500
Actuarial £28,500
Manufacturing engineering £26,500
IT £26,000
Accountancy £25,000
How recruiters select:Degree classification is used as a screening tool by a high proportion of AGR employers (82.1%) when recruiting graduates.
The majority (81.3%) use the 2:1 as a cut off for most of their positions, 15.0% use a 2:2 and a small minority (3.8%) state that it varies by role.
There are a range of other graduate employers including SME’s for whom this is not such a significant factor
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How to Future Proof* our graduates
Know themselves – be able to articulate and build on their strengths, passions, skills, attributes, motivations and values
Get experience –work experience, volunteering, clubs and societies
New ways of working – Portfolio working, Social Enterprise
Entrepreneurial skills
The Luck Factor* – being open to and willing to seek new opportunities
Networking – 50-80% of all job opportunities are not advertised
* Professor Richard Wiseman The Luck Factor Random House, 2003*National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) project http://www2.bcu.ac.uk/futureproof