Careers and Employability

Careers and Employability

Employability at the University of Worcester.

Careers Education, information and advice forms an important part of the University's employability agenda. We have adopted the ESECT definition of employability as ‘a set of achievements – skills, understandings and personal attributes – that make students more likely to gain employment and be more successful in their chosen careers’.

Careers Education can be defined as ‘those formal processes that empower individuals to identify, develop and articulate the skills, qualifications, experiences, attributes and knowledge that will enable them to make an effective transition into their chosen futures and manage their careers as lifelong learners with realistic and positive attitudes.’ (Careers Education Benchmark Statement, AGCAS, 2005).

The careers service can support academic institutes in developing careers and  employability skills in students by helping student to reflect upon the skills and attributes they have developed, make future career plans, and  learn how to promote themselves effectively to future employers.

For further information about Employability, see the Academic Practice and Development Unit employability  pages