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Bournemouth, England, Gb

Supporting Dorset’s schools with their careers education, advice and guidance programmes and connecting schools and businesses.

Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the leadership and strategy of the Academies' careers and employability programme. • Liaising with senior leadership team, teaching and pastoral staff to ensure students are helped effectively. • Coaching Year 10 and 11 students to help them reach their full potential.• Management of the Careers Information, Advice and Guidance process. • Coordination of “Careers Champions” across the teaching departments.• Employer and further education liaison.• Event management – careers fairs, on campus events and trips to employers and education institutions

Link Adviser to the Faculty of Science and TechnologyDelivering careers education both centrally and to facultyOne to one appointments focusing on careers guidance, coaching and application adviceResponsible for the co-ordination of the central employability workshop programmeManage the DLHE call centre operation, including recruiting callers and ensuring quality surveys

Southampton, United Kingdom

Hatfield

Providing information, advice and guidance to students and graduates of the University of Hertfordshire through one to one appointments, workshops and events. Linked to the Schools of Law and Humanities

One year, full time postgraduate course in Careers Guidance, verified by the Institute of Careers Guidance.Modules include Guidance Theory and Practice for interviewing and group work, the Context of Guidance and Education Provision in the UK.Alongside theory, we have hosted regular careers days for local schools which include one to one interviews with pupils and self-designed group works. I have also undertaken a range of work-experience placements including schools, FE and HE institutions.This course has given me confidence in working one-to-one with students to complement my HE experience and I am now looking forward to putting my new skills into practice.

Luton, United Kingdom

Work experience placement as a part of my Careers Guidance qualification.Work duties included:Duty interviewing;Workshop delivery;Event support;DLHE analysis

Liaising with companies wishing to employ a placement student and managing the process from job approval to placing a student.Being the first port of call for students (approximately 350 per year) hoping to secure a placement, offering advice, guidance and a job advertising facility. Maintenance of accurate database of students searching for a placement alongside all jobs being advertised from the office.Coaching students in preparing their CVRegularly presenting to students within lectures. Working with all members of the Faculty up to and including the Dean

Hatfield, England, United Kingdom

Two year Professional Administrator career scheme, moving departments every eight months to understand how University departments work together. The departments and roles were:Administrative Officer in the Student Centre: creation and writing of a monthly newsletter; collating the monthly absence and payroll return, assisting with home and international admissions processing and acting as a PA to the Head of the Student Centre. I also coordinated Clearing 2008 for the University.Programme Administrator for the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, working for three Consortium College programmes; upkeep of all student records; the coordination of moderation for both coursework and examination papers and the clerking of committees.Project Administrator for the Equality and Disability Unit: administration of the Equality Impact Assessment project and the assistance of students who needed additional support from the University due to Specific Learning Difficulties.

Performance managed seven administrative assistantsManaged a termly programme of training courses for teachers both on and off site, including advertising and support pre, during and post eventsDesigned and edited bi-annual newsletter for all schoolsPrepared and monitored budget expenditureMaintained accurate databases of course attendance and evaluation information

Managed and improved the internal complaints logging systemAccurate diary management and meeting creationCreation of PowerPoint presentationsGeneral administration duties including typing and call screening

Level 6 Certificate, Careers Leadership

QCF Level 6 units in: Leading and managing career development work in an organisation; Continuously improving career development work.

Pg Dip/Qcg, Careers Guidance, Pass With Merit

Ba (Hons), Retail Management, 2.1

Modules included: Buying and Merchandising; Retail Operations and Law; Financial Accounting; Strategic Information Systems; Decision.

A, Levels; Business And Economics C, Sociology C, French D