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It tak It takes es a w a whole sc hole school to r hool to raise aise a post a post-grad adua uate te stud studen ent: t: Employability and engagement of masters’ students

Mana Management Sc gement School hool – Liv Liver erpool pool campus campus

• Liverpool MBA
• MBA Thoroughbred Horseracing Industries
• MBA Football Industries
• Master in Management
• MSc Marketing
• MSc International Business
• MSc Human Resource Management
• MSc Entrepreneurship & Innovation Management
• MSc Sports Business and Management
• MSc Digital Business Enterprise Management
• MSc Business Analytics and Big Data
• MSc Operations & Supply Chain Management
• MSc Programme and Project Management
• MSc Economics
• MSc Finance
• MSc Accounting and Finance

China OSI Rest

• f World

Home EU Total 650 133 124 31 938

Mana Management Sc gement School hool – London campus London campus

• MSc Accounting
• MSc International Accounting
• MSc Finance & Investment Management
• MSc Banking & Finance

China OSI Rest

• f World

Home EU Total 152 17 11 4 184

Cur Curriculum 2021 riculum 2021

Our teaching staff support our students to develop academic knowledge, skills and understanding alongside the graduate attributes:

• Digital fluency
• Confidence
• Global citizenship

Its point of reference is the vision set out in our Strategy 2026 document and Education Strategy, namely that we shall support our students to become ‘creative and culturally rich graduates with the capacity to find employment that will enable them to be agents for change in a connected world’.

Background

• Major KPI for the Management School : Create a high profile, sector leading, competitively resourced and

globally-focused careers and employability service that meets the needs of all our students.

• Explore the feasibility for a Centre for Future Ready Graduates.
• Consult with our existing and emerging employer network to identify what their requirements are of

graduates and use this to inform our portfolio design.

• Provide every on-campus student with the opportunity of a placement or related industrial activity
• The Marketing team became aware of the fact that a number of alumni, reflecting on their ULMS

experience, stated that they had expected more engagement with and exposure to businesses.

• We already provide a wide range of guest speakers on our modules and this obviously was not

completely fulfilling students’ needs and expectations and this project was a deliberate attempt to provide real engagement and close working with organisations and potential employers.

Graheme Tozer – Canning Dock

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Employability

Employability: The state or quality of being employable Employable: Able to be employed. Employed: The state of being an employee

From http://en.wiktionary.org

So… Employability is about developing the skills and attitudes to find and keep a job. Employability is a sub-set of career development. Career development is about gaining control of your

• wn journey through life, learning and work.

Tristam Hooley, 2013

➢ ULMS MSc Career Development Pre- Arrival Course ➢ Leaders of Tomorrow ➢ WCWIO

ULMS ULMS MSc MSc Car Caree eer r De Develop elopmen ment t Pre re- Ar Arriva rival l Cou Course se

Employability Employment/ career progress Destination (career progression) data Programme ranking/ School reputation Students Admission

Life

• Accommodation
• Food
• Culture shock
• ……

Study

• Second language
• Different educational marking system
• ……

Employability Development

• Different support from home country
• Visa restriction
• Lack of knowledge of local market
• ……

Early engagement: pre-arrival course

Increase the ULMS MSc offer holders engagement early on with school; Raise offer holders awareness of support available for them for the upcoming academic year (highlighting Career support); Building a community for international MSc students and providing them a safe place to share and bond, encouraging a sense of belonging before the academic programme starts; Introduce some career development management skills and tools, inspire students’ career development journey and benefit the graduate destination.

❖Platform: blackboard ❖Lead by: PGT careers staff ❖Support by: IT technician ❖Engaged with: Director of Studies, Marketing team, Students Support team, Learning and Teaching Support team, current students, alumni ❖Invitation has been send to: Chinese unconditional offer holders

CONTENT:

Week One

1) Liverpool welcomes you 2) ULMS welcome you 3) Top tips from current students

Week Two

1) So, what are employers looking for? 2) Oh, those real life stories 3) All right, these skills are important, how can I get them?

Week Three

1) Story from alumni: my first job and career journey 2) Exploring the job market, what is

• ut there?

3) Students experience of Career Service

Week Four

1) Career Service resource available to you 2) Career readiness test and your career action plan 3) Letters for future me

Evaluation and Feedback

All of participants are “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the course; All of participants were able to list three career projects/ support they can participate in; All of participants’ confidence of plan and approach to their individual career goals have “increased” or “significantly increased”; For the suggested improvements: one student wanted more students to have participated in this course.

• Student A: Thanks for Xiaobei Wu's

instructions, Sadie Lawty's effort, Will Moindrot’s technical support as well as every classmates' company. It's very lucky to be one

• f students in University of Liverpool

Management School.

• Student B: The university cares about our

career, which make me feel good since I’m kind of worry about it myself and I can get a lot of help here.

Quotation from participants

• The candidates who complete

the course all enrolled into MSc programme.

• In the first six weeks of Semester
• ne, each of them has attended

between 6 and 10 employability events; which is significantly higher than the average students’ engagement rate.

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Middle Term Impact:

The objectives of the programme can be summarised as:

• To provide high achieving and motivated MSc students the best possible chance
• f securing graduate jobs
• To develop their employability skills
• To increase labour market awareness and develop career management skills
• To provide students with the opportunity to network with employers
• To provide students with the opportunity to participate in a career trek to a

European employer to develop their globalmindset

• Contribute to ULMS rankings submissions

Student feedback

‘I made it a goal to get the best marks I could so I could participate, which was great motivation and clearly worked for me!’

‘I think this programme gives you a direction as to what to do after university.’ ‘The session done by Ian Lovegrove about leadership

skills was by far the best part of the taught

• seminars. He was really interesting and having an

external expert was really valuable. The trip to silicon allee was really good as it was very relevant to the subjects we were doing concerning Business’

‘The programme is a life turning point. You can see how academic knowledge apply in the real life.’ ‘Opened my mind! After visiting Santander in Spain I may apply for jobs aboard.’

Feedback from 2018 programme

Did the career trek to Barcelona develop your awareness and knowledge of working within a global context? Strongly Agree (50%) Agree (50%) Disagree (0) Did the Leaders of Tomorrow programme increase your self-confidence? Strongly Agree (41.67%) Agree (58.33%) Disagree (0) Did the Leaders of Tomorrow programme help you to reflect on and/or develop your career plans? Strongly Agree (16.67%) Agree (66.67%) Disagree (16.67%) Do you think that you will be able to draw on the experiences the programme provided you when applying for jobs? Strongly Agree (41.67%) Agree (58.33%) Disagree (0) Do you think the programme raised your aspirations? Strongly Agree (50%) Agree (50%) Disagree (0)

Internationalisation

• Career treks to Madrid, Brussels,

Berlin and Barcelona OSI, Home & EU students

• Global mindset

Student recruitment

• Marketing/keeping in touch with applicants
• Impacted on students decision to study at ULMS
• Rankings submissions

Business engagement

• Secured funding from Santander
• Local & national employers (e.g. Shop Direct, JLR and

Bloomberg

• The hidden jobs market
• Employer guest lectures, for e.g. Young MCA, local SME
• n panel and Santander
• International employers e.g. VW, Real Madrid, Silican

Ally, Torres winery and European Parliament

Alumni

• Networking events held during career trek
• Collection of employment data for rankings

‘We can work it out’ consultancy challenge – how to engage post-graduate students with SMEs and corporate employers

Louise Mustchin – Careers Consultant – University of Liverpool Management School

Canning half tide dock – Terry Kierney

• We can work it out – think of Liverpool and think of The Beatles

Important to convey a sense of togetherness and locality Other names were considered and rejected!

James Garcia – The Beatles

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• rk?

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• Eventually had a mixture of SMEs and corporate employers – Unilever, Mando ( marketing agency), Airbus,

JigTalk ( start-up), Totem Learning ( L&D gamification developer), Hays, Chester Zoo, PwC, Santander, Management Consultancies, Chinese companies including Decathlon and UoL marketing department.

• Each employer put forward a proposal to be solved by students, in teams
• Work closely with the marketing department and promote the project to the students. Both management

school students and those from the wider faculty are invited to take part.

• 60 students signed up for the project and 140 this year
• They are put into pre-assigned teams- each team is given a proposal to consider. Students specify which

employer they wish to work with

• Students attend a launch event with the employers, where they have the opportunity to gather more

information

• Students had 2 weeks last year and 4 weeks year to consider their solutions to the proposals. They also had

and will have access to a consulting expert during this time, who ran a number of sessions on campus.

• Students presented their solutions to their chosen employer. There were 2 teams per employer. Teams

were competing with each other to win £25 each in Amazon vouchers, for each team member

• https://stream.liv.ac.uk/s/87pepn6n

What next?

• 4 paid placements secured with some of the SMEs and University of

Liverpool marketing department – funded by the school

Farb Ian – staircase

Questions? Questions?