Careers Adviser Meeting

We have started a series of meetings just among the advisers to discuss professional topics.

Todays agenda was to talk about the Options 2009 programme. We have over 100 students signed up. The possibility that the rooms would overflow with students was mooted. We wish!

The main discussion was about Careers Education sessions in departments. Everyone wanted to do work in the departments but there was a problem about the imbalance between departments that could accommodate everything we offered and those which had no idea about what they wanted – or else wanted nothing. We decided to devote the next meeting to mapping what we were plannning to do in departments next session.

There was a debate about the ‘How’ to series – which had poor rates of take up: where these a sensible way forward? Or should the How-to series be repositioned into the departmental offer?

One idea was to run a lot of very short – 20 minute talks covering very basic CV / application forms / Interviews. Then there could be specific sessions that were targetted: – UK CV’s for LLM’s or MACCI’s for instance. Becca was going to circulate the QM method of short sessions with a view to proposing the idea to Jenny

Future topics – reviving the preer review process and knowledge sharing.