Embedding a culture of employability

Agenda• Discuss current approaches to employability

skills and careers education• Potential challenges a student may face in

the future• Kloodle’s solution

Competing Challenges

Delivering the syllabus

Exam Grades

Extra Curricular Activities Quality Pastoral Care

Monitoring “Value Added”Organising Work Experience

Student Employability

Mission and ethos

Recording destinations

“The reports in particular highlighted the

importance of students

having access to a wide array of work experience

opportunities, employers and HE

providers working together on curriculum design,

and graduates having the ‘soft skills’

they need to thrive in the work environment.”

TEF Report

Student Journey - current approach

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Usually takes the form of “information” software, careers days, CV writing sessions.Has to be impartial as per OFSTEDSoft Skill development focused on here

Exam Content

Employability Skill Development Extracurricular activities

Work Experience Careers Thinking

Student Priorities

Learning Skill!=

- Struggle to articulate learning in terms of skills- “Tell me about a time…..”

Student’s Mind

What Employers Want

89% of British Firms regard attitudes to work and character as the most important factor when recruiting. They want:

• Good communicators• Students who can solve problems and be analytical

Technical skill and knowledge is considered a low priority - they can train for that.

Lack of Skill• More than half of businesses (57%) said a lack of soft skills,

such as communication and team working, were reasons why young people were not ‘work ready.’

• Association of Graduate Recruiters, found that 43% of employers were unable to fill all of their graduate vacancies last year, because students failed to match academic achievement with leadership, teamwork and communication skills.

• “Students are learning these skills every day. We just need to reframe the purpose of lessons to focus on skill development as opposed to content.” - OFSTED INSPECTOR

Lack of Skill (cont.)

One Further Challenge

• EASY: Recording academic progress via recording grades• HARD: Recording skill development

A Better Model

Academic JourneySkill Development Positive

DestinationCareers Education with Employer Involvement

Destination depends upon the best outcome for that particular student

How Kloodle can Help

Lesson 1 Developing Teamwork Record on Profile

Lesson 2Developing Written Communication Record on Profile

Lesson 3 Developing Analytical Skills Record on Profile

Lesson 4 Developing Numeracy Record on Profile

Communication and input from Employers

• Students progress through content;

• Relate their classroom learning to skill development;

• Record their skill development;

• Can prove their skills to an employer;

“Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is

found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.”

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