Student employability profiles: a guide for higher education practitioners

This highly regarded publication discusses many aspects of student employability.

It contains 50 discipline profiles and indicates how they can help academics and students in areas including curriculum design, career development learning, learning from work placements, and Personal Development Planning (PDP). As well as summarising the subject coverage of a particular degree discipline, each profiles describes the subject-specific skills that can be developed by students through its study based on the QAA benchmark statements. These are then mapped against the employability skills, competencies and attributes sought by employers in their graduate recruits. Links to the "Skills and attributes maps" within Subject Centre websites are provided. The guide also offers a set of "reflective questions" that students can use to reflect on the whole of their higher education experience, including extra-curricular achievements and work experience, and identify those activities that enable them to articulate their skills. This will have benefit for profile building and PDP and for self-marketing to employers.

Reference: Student employability profiles: a guide for higher education practitioners, 2006, The Higher Education Academy in association with CIHE and Graduate Prospects. York: The Higher Education Academy