The document discusses a project called SkillClouds which aims to provide students with information about their skills development. It details user experience testing where students responded positively to a tag cloud approach. It also describes plans to pilot the tool in the autumn term and to incorporate student-generated skills data. Finally, it discusses options for sources of skills data at the university, school, degree, and course levels.

2. SkillClouds: briefing and next steps

5. Students’ ability to articulate their skills I think it’s quite hard to think about yourself in terms of your skills, especially when writing a CV and trying to sell yourself to employers– if someone asks what skills you’ve got - I don’t know! Like I’m friendly and can write an essay !

7. Card sorting exercise

15. “ Woo! It knows things about me – I’m quite amazed !” “ This looks exciting – keywords [..] I can put in all those words you feel stupid for using like ‘team work’ but then you know [that] these are the words they are probably looking for” “ [It] gives me ideas of how I can assert skills better on a CV and mention things I wouldn’t have thought of – [I’d] use it more as a springboard than a copy and paste.” “ I think it’s really useful to have these initial headings and ways you can get across you have these skills and not sell yourself short [..] where it came up with all the synonyms of how to describe a skill I think that is really useful and something I would use as well”

17. University data Student data

19. How SkillClouds and Sussex Plus could be linked Jo writes a reflective piece on her webpage Can view a display of skills derived from SkillClouds skill database Leadership Team-work Interpersonal

20. Two years later…

21. Posted by Jo

22. Options for University sources of skills data