Resources

Following the national interest in the facilitation of Employability skills within programmes and the introduction of Personal Development Planning (PDP) within HE, careers education is increasingly featuring in HE curricula. Julia Horn from the Centre for Career Management Skills defined careers education as aiming to

‘.. develop understanding of careers in our own lives and in those of others, in different societies and cultures. This includes developing one's own sense of career and acquiring and deploying the skills, knowledge and experiences required to pursue personal aims and to respond to external demands after university' (Careers education and career-informed degree programmes in higher education).

University careers departments are often an excellent source of advice and provide services to academic programmes in addition to those that they offer to students. The QAA Code of practice section 8: career education, information and guidance, sets out the requirements regarding careers education in HE.

For further information see:

The Centre for Careers Management Skills is a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) based at the University of Reading. Their site provides access to a number of research papers and reports in addition to a (chargeable) careers management software programme ‘Destinations' that is suitable for use by students.

The Enhancing Graduate Employability website which was produced as part of a Fund for the Development of Teaching and Learning (FDTL) project provides a range of information on both employability and careers management. There is also a useful curriculum audit tool useful to anyone wishing to review the extent of employability and careers management skills within their programmes.

Graduate Prospects is a key provider of careers information, advice and opportunities to students and graduates. They provide employment and postgraduate study guides and a number of software programmes for use by universities and students. See for example the industry insight reports for the different HLST sectors and the guidance information to support students in compiling CVs and preparing for interviews. They also provide software information.

The Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Service (AGCAS) is the professional association for HE careers practitioners. Extensive resources to support careers education is available from the resources section of their website.

The Higher Education Careers Services Unit (HECSU) researches information about developments in career-related learning and careers guidance in HE. Comprehensive information is available in their research notes and reports.

The Institute of Sport, Parks and Leisure (ISPAL) provides a Guide to Careers in Leisure (167kb .pdf) and a Careers Fact Sheet (32kb .pdf).

The HLST: Adding Value to Employability (HAVE) project was produced in 2003/04 and aims to help hospitality students to reflect on and gain academic credit for their employment experience.

The Global Travel & Tourism Partnership is a multi-country educational program to introduce students to career opportunities in Travel & Tourism.

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