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CareerTools

innovative online career learning resources

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CareerTools promotes innovative online learning resources for Career Development Learning (CDL), Personal Development Planning (PDP) and employability. CareerTools makes available to the wider higher education community the outcomes of projects undertaken by academics, careers staff and the Centre for Career Management Skills (CCMS). This site is managed by the Careers Advisory Service and demonstrates the University of Reading's long track-record of developing and disseminating excellent e-learning resources for employability.

Resources available

  • NEW! Skills Transformer - a tool to help science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) students articulate their skills.
  • Gro and Career Unlocker - two new careers tools available to download for FREE (registration required).
  • Student Stories - Student Stories offers access to hundreds of audio clips providing honest accounts of student and university life from those who have experienced it first hand. Go to the Student Stories website for more information.
  • Destinations ® - Destinations ® is an award-winning career learning website that has been specifically developed for undergraduate and taught postgraduate students which is widely used in the UK and Ireland. Go to the CCMS Destinations ® website for more information.
  • Beyond the PhD - an audio-narrative based resource for Arts and Humanities PhD researchers.
  • This Is Me - exercises, activities and advice to help students reflect on their digital identity available as free pdf downloadable workbooks
  • Sunshine Employment is a free resource for embedding Problem Based Learning (PBL) approaches to employability in the curriculum that is especially suitable for business based programmes.

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What is it?

Skills transformer provides science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) students with a structure to help them recognise, write about and talk about their skills: transforming them from dormant experiences to useful, persuasive evidence. It incorporates:

  • An audio/PowerPoint presentation demonstrating the changing perspectives of STEM graduates to transferable skills.
  • A recruitment readiness tool to test student openness to the recruitment process.
  • An interview impact tool to help assess impact needs and provide advice for improvement.
  • Advice on how to recognise, write about and talk about skills.
  • Real examples of the activities STEM graduates were involved in at University that developed their skills and how they are presented on application forms and at interview.
  • The opportunity for students to input their own activities, practice application form questions and prepare for interview questions.

Skills Transformer provides a great way for STEM students to engage with and anticipate the application process .

Credits

Skills transformer was created by Tania Lyden at The University of Reading as part of a project funded by HEFCE through the National HE STEM programme.

Demo

Skills Transformer.

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What is it?

With the current focus on employability, Gro seeks to help students, at the first stage of their degree, to focus on developing firm foundations to support employability activities.

Gro helps students assess themselves in five different areas: confidence, locus of control, living in the present, managing transition and dealing with uncertainty. It asks students to complete questionnaires, reflect on past experiences and to look at student narratives, all embedded in the University experience. Students get a sense of what their abilities are in these areas and a clear, specific plan to develop should they need to. Gro can be used with individuals or groups. Gro is a teaching and learning resource and, while it might be used by a student independently, it is designed to be deployed as part of a supported PDP/CDL process. Gro is versatile and brings together issues of career choice, student emotions and personality. Career choice demands knowledge and learning and to achieve this you need the right frame of mind to get started and to persevere.

All you need is a limited investment of time required to tailor this tool to your institution.

Demo

University of Reading version.

Downloading

Read the user guides and the terms and conditions of use for each tool and if you would like to download one or both tools (Gro | Career Unlocker) then please register your interest first - start by clicking the Log In | Register button at the top of the page. After registration, an email will be sent to you with a password to access the tools.

When you've got your password, go back to the Log In panel, enter your login details and you will be presented with a link to download these resources.

Use of Images

Please be aware that, due to licensing restrictions, you will need to source the home page images for Gro yourself. We have provided details of the proprietary images that we have used for the version at Reading and information on where you can purchase your own licence if you wish to use the same images. Alternatively, you may wish to find different images from your own sources.

Further information

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What is it?

How many careers practitioners see students everyday who are 'stuck' and don't know how to move forward? Career Unlocker could be the answer. Based on Dr Bill Law's Career Learning Theory (www.hihohiho.com/magazine/mkngtwork/cafgambckp.pdf), Career Unlocker has been designed for current and recent University students and asks them to review the obstacles they could be facing and select the ones they think could be the source of the problem. Barriers are grouped under the headings of information, learning, background, attachment, feelings and purpose. In addition to identifying and prioritising barriers, the tool provides advice and suggests actions that the student can select from in order to move forward and supports basic action planning. Students can print and download reports summarising the work they have done. Career Unlocker can help make the rich and varied careers resources and support within and beyond your institution accessible to the students that need it the most.

All you need is a limited investment of time required to tailor this tool to your institution.

Demo

University of Reading version.

Downloading

Read the user guides and the terms and conditions of use for each tool and if you would like to download one or both tools (Gro | Career Unlocker) then please register your interest first - start by clicking the Log In | Register button at the top of the page. After registration, an email will be sent to you with a password to access the tools.

When you've got your password, go back to the Log In panel, enter your login details and you will be presented with a link to download these resources.

Use of Images

Please be aware that, due to licensing restrictions, you will need to source the home page images for Career Unlocker yourself. We have provided details of the proprietary images that we have used for the version at Reading and information on where you can purchase your own licence if you wish to use the same images. Alternatively, you may wish to find different images from your own sources.

Further information