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The document outlines a workshop aimed at enhancing the employability skills of STEM student ambassadors, focusing on introducing participants to essential skills and effective training methods. It covers objectives, key employability skills, interactive games, and the importance of personal reflection and feedback. The workshop emphasizes self-audit of skills and encourages further volunteering to bridge any skills gaps.
Train the trainers presentation
- 1. HE STEM Employability Skills Train the Trainers Workshop Enhancing the Employability of STEM Student Ambassadors - resources by Enhancing the Employability of STEM Student Ambassadors project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License This activity was undertaken as a part of the National HE STEM Programme, via the South West Spoke. For more information on South West Spoke projects, please see www.hestem-sw.org.uk For more information on the overall national programme, please see www.hestem.ac.uk
- 3. Icebreakers • Participants meet each other • Energises participants • Lowers inhibitions and encourages group work • Useful tool for forming groups • Encourages dialogue
- 4. Objectives • To give participants tips on delivering training • To provide an overview of the employability skills training • Explain to participants their role in the training • Give participants an opportunity to deliver activities • Participants are confident about delivering their parts of the training
- 5. What makes a good training session? • Knowing your audience • Having good objectives - plan • Listening to participants needs • Enabling interaction between participants • Using questions – facilitate not lecture • Anecdotes and case studies • Reflection • Feedback • Evaluation
- 6. Practicalities • Number of attendees • Room Layout and environment • Resources and AV • Breaks • Housekeeping
- 8. Introductions Please introduce yourself and tell us briefly: • what degree you are studying and what year • about the ambassador/work activities you have done so far • About your future job plans – PhD, industry, teaching
- 9. Today’s objectives By the end of today’s session, we hope you will have: • An understanding of what employability skills are • Why they are important • What skills you already have • Ideas on how to evidence these skills in a job application or interview • Ideas about how you can increase your employability skills
- 10. What are Employability Skills? ‘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.’ CBI, 2010
- 11. Employability Skills are • Teamwork • Business and Customer Awareness • Problem Solving and Creativity • Communication and Literacy • Application of Numeracy • IT Skills • Positive Attitude • Entrepreneurship
- 12. Employability Skills Game What do the trainers need to do? • Introduce the game • Encourage discussion and teamwork • Give anecdotes and pose questions • Circulate amongst groups and monitor progress • Timings
- 13. Why do you need them? Employers look for them
- 14. But often potential employees don’t have them Or is it that potential employees aren’t demonstrating that they have them?
- 15. How do we get a job? • Search for jobs • Fill out a job application • Attend assessment centre • Interview • Reference
- 16. Job Applications – Airbus
- 17. Assessment
- 18. Interviews Many of the questions you’ll get asked will be about employability skills 1. Each pick a question from the bag 2. Discuss in your group the following: • What is the interviewer asking? • How would you answer? • What preparation could you do before the interview for that question?
- 19. Interview game • What is the objective of the game? • What is your role? • How might you improve it?
- 20. References • What is the employer looking for? • Who should you choose as a referee? • How can you influence a reference?
- 21. Personal Audit of Employability Skills
- 22. How can being a student Ambassador help you acquire employability skills? • New challenge, different skills • Different audience, improve skills • Working with different people • More experience, more examples
- 23. Next Steps • Do more volunteering to address your skills gap • Re-analyse your skills using the audit sheet • Fill out the case study sheet • Keep a record of examples to use in job applications and interviews
Editor's Notes
- #5: When gone through objectives ask why we have objectives – SpecificMeasurableAchievableRealisticTimely – linked to evaluation
- #12: Ask students to brainstorm what skills they think employability skills include Show them the list, discuss any differences
- #14: Highlight difficult to get job in current climate, these skills even more valuable
- #17: http://www.airbus.com/work/graduates/deg/how-to-apply/
- #21: Buzz words
- #22: Depending on time do interview practice using examples from audit