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Prof Abraham Althonayan

Director of International Business

Development and Senior Lecturer in

Strategic Management, BRUNEL

Business School

Employability:

Meeting Employers’

Demands

http://2020education.org/video/shift-happens-2013-v3

What is Business Life? Building your abilities for a better future

A programme of skills based activities which

present our students with the opportunity to

develop essential graduate attributes by:

• working,

• thinking,

• and learning together…

…to meet the challenges of the future

A Distinctive UK Education The UK student experience

High quality educational experience with a personal element to teaching.

Access to high quality learning resources.

Opportunities for work experience.

Attractive, fit-for-purpose facilities – teaching, social and recreational.

Affordable high quality accommodation.

A safe environment with excellent health and welfare support.

Ready to make their contribution to economic growth.

Brunel Graduates are Distinctive

Activity: Student Mobility and Employ(ability) Skills and Attitude

Volunteering, Placements and Internships

Outcome: Work-ready – knowledge/intellectual skills; transferable skills; work experience; rounded, responsible individuals.

Innovators and entrepreneurs.

Good employment outcomes/career prospects.

Employability Skills and Attitude

Key Skills Development

Interpersonal Skills

Workplace & Personal Attributes

Self-Reliance Skills

People Skills

General Skills

Specialist Skills

Commercial Awareness (Company tours)

Basic skills (Literacy & Numeracy)

Communication Skills

Team-working/Interpersonal Skills

Creativity/Innovation

Presentation Skills

Reasoning/Comprehension

Problem-solving/Analytical Thinking

Understanding Others / Culture

Formal Etiquette

Team-working

Diplomacy / Office Politics

Performance/Productivity

Attendance Record Self-Confidence

Time Keeping

Flexibility

Motivation Respect for Authority

Ease with which Fit into Culture Loyalty

Networking

Self-Awareness Proactivity

Self-Promotion

Planning Action Team-Working

Interpersonal Skills

Oral Communication

Leadership

Customer Orientation

Foreign Language

IT/Computer Literacy

Problem-Solving Flexibility

Business Acumen

Numeracy Commitment

Specific Occupational Skills

Technical Skills – SAGE Accounting, SAP, SAS

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How do We Deliver Business Life

Implementation of Training Workshops

Internal Certification External Certification

Mapping of the Graduate Attributes to Training Workshops and Academic Programme

Identification of Graduate Attribute (Skills)

Applied Interpersonal

Market Analysis

Job Market (Work Placement Employers) Professional and Public Institutes

Brunel University London

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Employability Reality: What Employers Want

Source: CBI, 2011


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Recognition

Internal External

The Business Life Journey

EMPLOYABILITY ATTRIBUTES

Team Working: 1, Problem Solving: 2; Organisation, Planning and Time Management: 3; Commercial Awareness, Enterprise and

Entrepreneurship: 4; Digital Literacy and ICT Skills: 5; Language and Communication: 6; Data Analysis and Numeracy Skills: 7;

Personal Resilience and Initiative: 8


18 November 2014

Presentation Title 8

Applying Employability Skills into our Modules


Foundation 1. Teambuilding

2. Leadership and Initiative

3. Understanding International

Business Cultures and Etiquette

4. Professional Communication and

Presentation Skills

5. Working with different personalities

at work (and adopting to those

around you)

6. Conflict resolution

7. Time Management

8. Change Management

9. Introduction to networking

10. Introduction to Coaching

11. Customer Service skills

12. ECDL (Excel, Word PP, DBS, PM)

13. Introduction to Sage Accounting

14. Introduction to Sage Payroll…


Direction

Obtaining External Certification and Accreditation

(ECDL, SAGE, SAS, PMI, PRINCE II)

Participating in Business Tours to leading Companies

Career Coaching with PCC

Making Success Happen - Industry guest motivational talks

Understanding the world of Business through Industry guest lectures

Developing Entrepreneurial Skills by engaging with Experts

Participating in Industry-University Business Challenge Competitions


Application

Consolidating the skills gained in

Foundation and Direction stages

through:

• Placement Student Showcase and

Tutorial Day

• BEST –networking with industry

contacts (14 Jan 2015)

• Assessment Centre Days -

develop your CV and prepare job

applications

• SAS Career Fair (30th Oct 2014)

• Putting Entrepreneurship skills to

practice (Brunel Innovation hub)


The

Employability

Transcript

Job Ready Graduate with a portfolio of

In-Demand Skills

ECDL Certification: BCS The Chartered

Institute of IT

PMI/PRINCE 2 Certification: In Project

Management

SAGE Certification: SAGE Accounting

and Payroll

TAX: Self Assessment and VAT

CIPD Recruitment skills for

Professionals


How the Business Life Programme Relates to your Degree Pathways (UG)

General Marketing Accounting International

Business

ECDL

Extra

Big Data

Skills

SPSS Business Master

classes

Understanding Business Cultures & Etiquette

Introduction to

Networking

Business Tours

Making Success Happen

Series

Sage 50 Payroll SAS Software Training Sage 50 Accounts

Understanding Business

Cultures & Etiquette

CIPD Interview & Recruitment

Training

Business Tours


Series

Business Tours


Series

Business Tours


Series

Team work Leadership

Customer Service

Skills

Communication &

Influence

Dealing with difficult

people

Creative problem

solving

Organizing & chairing a meeting

Presenting to a

Boardroom

Working Environment – Adapting to those around you

Project Management – Prince 2 Practitioner

Strongly Recommended Skills

Desirable Professional & Administrative Skills

Sage 50 Payroll

Sage 50 Payroll SAS Software Training

SAS Software Training Understanding Business

Cultures & Etiquette Understanding Business


Understanding Business



Business Life Ambassadors

Why I should be a Business Life

Ambassador and contribute to the BL

Programme

Exposure

Experience & Events

Skills

Profiles Mentoring

References

Volunteering, Placements and Internships: Support from Brunel

Support for placements:

CV writing

Overseas placements

Assessment Centre Preparation

Placement reflection (on the experience)

Better final year results (often half a degree classification higher)

Higher starting salary for graduate positions (having done a

placement)

Improve confidence and industry awareness (work ethic)

Development of networking skills, contacts and references

Job and sector experience for your CV

A chance to put theory into practice


Our Professional And Industry Collaborations


Challenges Moving Ahead

Students booking events and not showing up

Ensuring that the BL programme caters for diversity

(non-EU students)

How to penalise non-attendees???

Managing expectations of students, a larger cohort of

students across the College & University wide

Academic buy in across the College and University

wide

Scheduling & Space - Best availability slots are limited

due to teaching timetable


Strategy: Moving Forward

Skills and Competency Assessment System

Credit system for workshops (perhaps assessment?)

Strengthen accreditation with professional bodies

Closer collaboration with industry (steering committee / round table discussions)

Mapping Business Life with Academic Programmes

Extending BL to CBASS and University wide

Developing programme of professional skills development across all pathways

Growing the team


Employers of BBS Students

Opportunities to Collaborate with Brunel

Brunel University London is keen to develop long term partnerships

to:

Support Graduate level employability and contribution to economic growth

Create entrepreneurs and support innovation

Enhance graduate level employability through skills and attitude

development

Student and staff exchange programmes

Explore ‘joint’ delivery of academic programmes.

Capacity build in areas supportive of Expo 2017, such as

courses on customer service, healthcare management etc (see

comment below).

Collaborate on joint research projects, such as Newton-Al Farabi,

Marie Currie (EU funding).

Advisory roles in Government and across the education sector.

Student Mobility & (Employ) ability

Maximise chance of successful employment outcome after a degree

Employability Skills and Attitude

Volunteering, Placements and Internships

Programme to promote employability attributes by working, thinking and

learning together…(disciplines working together)

Q&A

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