Employability skills

During the course of your Degree Programme, you should develop a range of employability skills. These include skills in written and oral communication, organisation of information, presentation skills, teamwork and leadership.  The unit descriptions outline the employability skills that have been identified for each unit.

Your tutorial unit also aims to help you develop employability skills.  A detailed list of employability skills and how these can be developed through tutorials is provided in your tutorial handbook. As part of the tutorial unit, you will take part in plenary sessions run by the Careers Service that focus specifically on employability (topics such as CV-writing, interview skills and tailoring a CV to a particular application).  Your Academic Tutor will inform you when these tutorials will take place and further information is available in the tutorial handbook and on the tutorial unit on Blackboard.

In the first semester of Year 2, you will be asked to submit a copy of your CV to your Academic Advisor for discussion in one of your one-to-one tutorial meetings.  You will receive guidance on how to write a CV in Year 1 and the Careers Service website also has a large amount of information to help you with this: http://www.careers.manchester.ac.uk/applicationsinterviews/cv/   You should keep your CV updated as you progress through University and as your skills and experience develop.

The School organises a number of events during the year to help you to enhance your employability and you are encouraged to take part in these.  Information about these events will be advertised to you via email.