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Student Employability Conference 2018 (Event ideas (Mini expo (Re…
Student Employability Conference 2018
Logistics
Venue options
AMDC
ATC
Name tags for students with colour to determine boot camp or breakout sessions?
Manage bookings through SwinEmploy
C&E staff
Caroline DeGuingand - Lead
Shirley Martinow - Support
Sabiha and Katie A - Marketing and Comms
Consulted for experience - Katie E, Rob, Janet
Date: 6 September 2018
We may need to change this if we can't negotiate rooms
Proposed Schedule
Kenote speaker
30 minutes + 10 minutes question time (40 minutes)
Needs to be appropriate for
PAVE/HE
all disiplines
Breakout panels
30 minutes
4-6 total
This will be Dependent on room availability
Welcome
Acknowledgement to country
30 minutes
Glen Bates
House keeping
Professional Purpose
Lunch and passport stations
45 minutes
Different stations
Global opportunities/Study abroad
Keynote on Emerging Leader
Differentiating yourself and reflecting on your employability under the Emerging Leader program
30 minutes
Boot camp
CPA Australia - Accounting/Business
EA - Engineering
Other associations to approach:
AHRI
FINSIA
LIV
APS
Nursing
2 hours approx
Purpose and Aims
Learning objectives and impact measures
4.1.3 Explore how the skills, knowledge and attitudes acquired in one setting (eg, at school, at home, in the workplace and in the community) can be used in other settings.
5.2.7 Explore a variety of work alternatives (eg, volunteering, full-time employment, contracting, consulting, and entrepreneurship).
5.4.8 Create or adapt career goals and aspirations using relevant and accurate career-related information.
7.2.12 Create and engage in new work experiences (eg, at home, at school, at work and/or in the community) that build on your personal qualities and use your transferable skills.
7.4.14 Re-examine your networks and determine the relationships most helpful to your work search strategies.
7.4.4 Update your work search tools and the skills required to seek, obtain/create and maintain work (job application forms, resumes, portfolios, job interviewing, proposals, cover letters, etc).
Student Audience
2nd - penultimate year
all disciplines
Higher Education and Vocational Education
Potential messages to students
Develop your employability while studying
Investigate your professional purpose - what it means for you - not specifically using the words professional purpose, but student language to represent the work that the professional purpose group is undertaking
Define your preferred future.
What you can do while studying to develop your employability
Your future is now - don't leave it till you graduate
Stakeholder engagement
the University
Engagement
Professional Placements
Yuki Kojima, Catherine Thomas, Sev Ulus
Advancement/Alumni
Marketta, Ed
Collaborations and Partnerships
Sarah Cleveland, Janine Shearer?
FHAD
Tom Evershed, Adrian Stanners
PAVE
Patricia Kimtia - PAVE foundation and pathways
FBL
FSET
Organisations who've shown interest
CPA
EA
LXRA - Migrant/refugee programs
Junior Adventurers/OHSClub
Performance Education Group
Teach for Australia
ANZUK Education
PwC
eNett
The Hacker Exchange
Cummins South Pacific
Focus to be on organisations who the University has partnerships with and can accommodate across multi-discipline and different award levels.
Event ideas
What can I do with my degree/qualification in...
Diversity panel - LGBTIQ, Disability, International, ATSI
Rather than stand alone and "come to this session if..." these groups need to be covered in the mainstream activities for all for awareness raising and normalising the conversation
What to do in 1st year, 2nd year - breakouts
#
Mini expo
Employers aren't interested in these, ROI students attending don't actually end up being the candidates hired
Target audience will be there for education and information gathering - not necessarily ready to apply for jobs.
Re-inventing this idea
During lunch
passport/stamp gathering/Employability map with different stations on activities to enhance employability
#
Student Life - Volunteering
Casual/Part-time work
Study Abroad - Global experiences
WIL - 2-3 different stations representing different types of WIL at the University
Professional Placements?
Gather from Clare and Nicola
Professional Associations
Local council business networking groups?
Entrepreneurship
Swinburne professional??
Others??
Prize draw for students filling out their employability map
Key note presenter to open – high profile, engaging to higher and vocational levels, multi-discipline.
#
Boot camp
Learning streams
Networking
Evidenced based and research. Why is employability important and professional purpose
#
second planning meeting ideas
Keynote presentation
Style
panel of presenters
One presenter
Who
Looking back, what do you wish you had done?
A student part-way through study, A student at the end of their studies, a recent graduate
Motivational speaker
Current industry speaker
Boot camps
Key professional associations and discipline specific
Employability passport/Lunch
Professional associations
Breakout sessions