1. Career Development Module • “Nearly two-thirds of recruiters caution that graduates who have had no previous work experience are unlikely to be successful during the selection process and have little or no chance of receiving a job offer for their organisations’ graduate programmes.” • Work experience for academic credit! • Three routes: • Student Tutoring in Schools, Colleges and Community • Student Volunteering • Learning from Work • Different, challenging and worthwhile!

2. Student Tutoring in Schools, Colleges, and the Community • Primary, secondary and special school placements (arranged through Careers Service) • Work in a classroom assistant role using personal enterprise and other skills to plan activities and take on more responsibility • Not just for those thinking of teaching career!

3. Student Tutoring Community placements: • Hospital schools, sports clubs, • Teaching English to speakers of other languages, • Working with at risk groups including young offenders/those at risk of offending, • Libraries/Local Councils/Seven Stories/Centre for Life/Tyneside Cinema/Sage Gateshead… • Full details on website

4. Student Volunteeringthrough Students’ Union • President/Secretary/ Treasurer of Club or Society • Work for Courier or Newcastle Student Radio • External placements - Oxfam, National Trust, Barnado’s, St Oswald’s, Success4All; range of other local and national charities. • Info talks (all in Constance Briscoe Room), March: • 6th: 12.00/1.00/5.00 • 8th: 12.00/1.00/2.00/5.00 • 9th: 1.00/2.00 • 13th: 12.00/1.00/5.00 • 14th: 12.00/1.00/2.00/5.00/ • 16th: 1.00/2.00 • Contact Elyse: cdm.union@ncl.ac.uk for more info.

5. Learning from Work • Use part-time term time work you have arranged (paid or unpaid, including running your own business), you will set challenging personal goals and reflect on the skills you are developing through work, building a portfolio of evidence of your achievements. The module will enable you to communicate these skills to prospective employers, and push you to achieve more in the workplace.

6. This year’s Maths students: • Three local primary schools (Student Tutoring) • Two comprehensive schools (Student Tutoring) • One business and enterprise college (Student Tutoring) • Football Club treasurer (Student Volunteering) • Northumbrian Universities Air Squadron (Learn from Work)

7. Skills and Assessment • You will be supported through seminars and tutorials to set personal goals at your placement, carry our appropriate research, reflect on your progress and develop skills of communication, teamworking and personal enterprise (essential in all graduate roles!) • Assessment: • Written work based on goal setting and action planning (25% - formative feedback available during sem 2) • Evaluation from supervisor at end of placement (25%) • Final Assessed Presentation OR Assessed Interview (depending on stage) reflecting on skills you have developed and achievements at your placement (50%)

8. Why do Career Development? • Different from academic modules • Flexible, self-directed learning • Get off campus and away • from the lecture theatre • Different assessment methods • Challenging and personally • rewarding • Promote your subject and, • gain work experience and an • understanding of the skills developed

9. Students said: • “I have gained valuable teaching experience through this module and the methods of assessment are a great way of testing knowledge and skills gained through the module and provide skills valuable in future careers.” • “I think the module is well structured, my module tutor offered excellent support and the interview process was not as daunting as I expected. Most of all I absolutely loved my placement and I'm really grateful for the opportunity.” • “Well organised, highly effective way of direct teaching (seminars, tutorials etc), good advice for organising non-directed learning, overall a very good module in terms of content and teaching”

10. What next? • Check options with your DPD • Select Career Development through S3P in registration week immediately after Easter - must be a first choice module • NCL3007 – Career Development for Final Year students • Student tutors must apply for CRB enhanced disclosure via the Careers Service by June 15th • Volunteering/LFW should ensure they have volunteering/work experience confirmed by this date • Web: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/careers/develop/cdm.php • Contact me: jessica.jung@ncl.ac.uk • Or for Volunteering: cdm.union@ncl.ac.uk