1. Progress Review
Stuart Johnson
www.le.ac.uk/careers

2. Outline
1. Data
2. Progress
3. Risks
4. Where next?
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3. What our data is telling us
• Levels of engagement
• Destinations performance
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4. Levels of engagement in numbers (2013/14)
2,550
1,929
Appointments (weeks 1-10)
Festival attendance
1,274
94
Leicester Award participants
15 min ads in departments
www.le.ac.uk/careers

5. Destinations performance (2007/08-2011/12)
Caveats
• home, first degree, full-time students only
• measure of employment and further study
• the coding and methodology has changed (2011/12)
• the employment/further study measure is more comparable
Derivation
PI = (working & studying/working & studying + unemployment) x100
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6. Key:
UoL Benchmark

UoL
97
96
% full-time first degree leavers who were employed, studying or both
HESA employment
performance
indicator against
benchmark
(compared to ST30 )
98
95
94
93
92



91

90

89
88
87
86
2007/08
2008/09
2009/10
2010/11
2011/12

7. What our data isn’t telling us
• Stage of career planning or level of work experience
• Conversion rates (patchy)
• Satisfaction with outcome
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8. Career planning and work experience*
US
THEM
Do you know what you
would like to do?
No
Do you have any work
experience?
No
* Understandable for 1st years, a big problem for final years
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9. Collect data via student registration
Career planning stage
Work experience
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
Explore
Plan
Compete

10. Conversion rates
57
50
10
8
2
Application
Online test
Telephone
interview
Assessment
centre
Interview
Offer
Accept
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11. Satisfaction with outcome* (DLHE)
University of Leicester additional questions
Q1
How satisfied are you with your current job?
Very
satisfied
Q2
Satisfied
Not very
satisfied
Not at all
satisfied
Why is that?
* To be asked via telephone survey only (c.60%), to those in work
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12. Outline
1. Data
2. Progress
3. Risks
4. Where next?
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13. Strategy
Done
Not done
 Engaged key
stakeholders
 Annual employers’
dinner
 Offered increased
opportunities
 Event for partner
organisations
 Provided enhanced
support
 Parents’ newsletter

14. Engagement of key stakeholders
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15. Levels of engagement in numbers (2013/14)
2,550
1,929
Appointments (weeks 1-10)
Festival attendance
1,274
94
Leicester Award participants
15 min ads in departments
www.le.ac.uk/careers

16. Comparative levels of engagement
2,044
2012/13
2,550
1,700
2013/14
Appointments (weeks 1-10)
1,054
1,929
2012/13
2013/14
Festival attendance
1,274
84 vs. 94
2012/13
2013/14
Leicester Award participants
15 min ads in departments
www.le.ac.uk/careers

17. Comparative levels of engagement
2,044
2012/13
2,550
1,700
2013/14
Appointments (weeks 1-10)
1,054
1,929
2012/13
2013/14
Festival attendance
1,274
84 vs. 94
2012/13
2013/14
Leicester Award participants
15 min ads in departments
www.le.ac.uk/careers

18. Levels of engagement by college (2012/13)
Appointments (weeks 1-10)
Festival of Careers
Leicester Award
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
AHL
MBSP
S&E
SS
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19. Levels of engagement by college (2013/14)
Appointments (weeks 1-10)
Festival of Careers
Leicester Award
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
AHL
MBSP
S&E
SS
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20. Finalists project
May 2013
Oct 2013
323
247
482
444
396
666
1,201
1,357
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21. HEAR
Nationally
Locally
• Supported by the AGR
• HEAR issued at UoL
since July 2011
• Increasingly recognised
by employers
• Gaining traction with
universities
• Students with 6.1 entry
in 2012 = 400
• Students with 6.1 entry
in 2013 = 1,200
• Plans to expand

22. Numbers engaged is only part of it
Career
Development
Service
Students
Employers
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23. Reputation with employers (Times 100)
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24. Reputation with employers (cont.)
Feeder programmes
SME engagement

25. What employers have said…
Keep up good work, no
prep no entry policy is
We have not attended
great and works. Really
previously as we have not
We’ve been to a few Universities
recruited a successful and it’s great that students keen students with very
now
specific questions. May
number from the uni,
coming to speak to us actually
recommend to other
after today, I am sure we
know who we are. It saves us a lotgreat and
were
will receive great of time, and it feelsStudents timeuniversities to start
like the
so well prepared. Thissimilar process
running
applications
we spend here is a means we feel our time
lot more
valuable
here is a lot more
effective.
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26. Internship promise
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27. Outline
1. Data
2. Progress
3. Risks
4. Where next?
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28. Risks
• Thinking the problem is fixed
• Engaging enough students early
• Thinking we can do everything for our students
• Keeping up the pace
• Engagement translating into positive outcomes
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29. Outline
1. Data
2. Progress
3. Risks
4. Where next?
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30. Where next? – Phase 2 strategy
Preparation of students
Provision to employers
• A better coordinated offer
• A more responsive service
• A more inclusive offer
• A more bespoke service
• A better tailored offer
• A greater focus on
conversion
• A clearly communicated
offer

31. So, we need to…
• Use the data to target effort
• Support early student engagement
• Keep up momentum
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