A Certificate in Career Development: Informal Assessment of Transferable Skills

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A Certificate in Career DevelopmentInformal
Assessment ofTransferable Skills

• Jean K Gowans
• Deputy Director
• Careers Advisory Service
• University of St Andrews
• 29 June 2004

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Outline

• Certificate in Career Development context
• Development
• Collaboration
• Challenges of informal assessment
• Student feedback and reflection

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Certificate in Career Developmentcontext

• Career Education twin programmes
• - Career information talks (occupations)
• - Skills insights
• Employer interest in enhanced profile
• Embedding, employability and lifelong
  learning issues
• Student attendance

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Development

• Workshops, with high levels of participation
• New Title Career Development
• Sponsorship and validation
• Model for mini-module
• Apathy, IT, lures and rewards
• Attendance penultimate and final years

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Collaboration

• Employers
• Academics
• Student Enterprise
• Students

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Informal Assessment

• Attendance credits given
• Flexibility in programmes and student choice
  no compulsory sessions
• Opens the way to new development
• Strengthens partnerships
• Challenges quality/academic engagement/credibili
  ty/faculty needs

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Feedback and Reflection

• Popularity of the Certificate
• A CV item ungraded
• Subjectivity
• Credibility for model/statistics Skills Mapping
  Template
• Reflection self-assessment