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The Student's Guide to Career Planning and Employability

The Student's Guide to Career Planning and Employability

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Enhance your employability with this essential guide. Acting as your guide throughout your university journey, this book helps with self-understanding, progressing to improving your employability, and finally navigating graduate job searches and applications. Empowering you to reflect on and manage your own employability, this book includes: A strong theoretical underpinning with a wide range of case studies and practical examples to deepen your understanding. A practical approach to assessing your self-understanding, in turn giving you the insight and confidence needed to embark on your dream career. Insights from graduates and employers, demonstrating how to convert academic achievements into employability advantages. Ideal for students across various disciplines, this book is a must-have for those looking to improve their employability and succeed in the job market.

About the Author

Liz George is the Employability Partnership Manager for Arts and Humanities at the University of Southampton, where she leads on embedding employability into the curriculum and advising and working alongside academic teams to support student success and enhance graduate outcomes. Liz is a qualified careers professional and teacher, and has worked in careers and employability for over 25 years with experience of leading the Careers Services at the University of Winchester (2020-23), University of Chichester (2017-20) and Southampton Solent University (2005-2017). She has been involved with online and physical content creation for over 50x resources at these universities, drawn from her experience within HEIs, further education, adult guidance services, as well as working in international contexts such as Hong Kong, Cyprus and Gibraltar. During Liz's time at Winchester, Liz wrote the below resources which we wish to draw to the attention of the Editorial Board at SAGE as example outputs which can be easily rewritten and tailored for this publication. Tom Lowe has researched and innovated in student engagement across diverse settings for over ten years, in areas such as student voice, retention, employability and student-staff partnership. Tom works at the University of Westminster as Assistant Head of School (Student Experience) in Finance and Accounting where he leads on student experience, outcomes and belonging. Tom is also the Chair of RAISE, a network for all stakeholders in higher education for researching, innovating and sharing best practice in student engagement.

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