Departments: Management, Leadership and Marketing (MLM) and UU Careers & Employability
The Embedded Employability group designed and facilitated a Circular Employability Lifecycle (CEL) within the BSc HRM degree, involving staff, employers as well as Year 2 and Year 4 students. In this framework, students’ experience of embedded employability is at the core, which focuses on continuously developing employment readiness of all students of a BSc HRM degree programme, with students themselves being involved as co-creators of this circular pedagogy, in the design, delivery and assessment of learning outcomes.
This experience is not an accidental phenomenon that is episodic and fragmented; instead, it is continuous, and progressively permeating phenomenon, that spreads across the 4-year programme of study. Third- and fourth-year students continuously support, and engage in the placement preparation activities of, the first- and second-year students, every year and the first- and second-year students, in turn, contributing to the professional development of third and fourth-year students. The placement journey of all students is supported by four key stakeholders, namely, the academic staff at the business school, local employers, professional associations such as the Chartered Institution of Professional Development (CIPD), and careers advisors at the central university administration.