Graduate Employability Toolkit - Brainstorm Session. Careers & Employability, Dundalk Institute of Technology

1. GRADUATE
FUTURES
TOOLKIT
Brainstorm Meeting
January 27 2022

2. BRAINSTORM

5. BUILD ON SUCCESS...

6. Integration
◦ Workshops
◦ Placement
◦ One-to-Ones
◦ Self Assessments/Workbooks
◦ Modular
◦ Dovetail to Elevate Awards
◦ Dovetail to Employability Awards
◦ Yearly Strategy/Grouping Strategy
◦ Where to Catalogue?
◦ Who validates the Catalogue?

7. Directives...
◦ Focus on PCs Graduate Attribute
Framework and Mindsets
◦ Quadrant Content for Practical,
Communicative, Collaborative, Confident
◦ Year on Year Content re Superfoods -
Basic Nutrition
◦ Resources Tab: Collate Employability and
Careers Resources (hyperlinks)
◦ External Resources Tab

8. Directives...
◦ Self-Study Engagement Process (Content): e.g., Creative
Space - Who am I, Directed Activities, Volunteer
Activities, Student Hub/Forum (My network), e.g., Stage-
wise MCQs, Intro to e-Portfolio (Optional), My Star Stories...,
Me and My Star Module, Video… Design Download Tools...
◦ Documenting Achievement... e-Portfolios, E-Certificate
Template/ e-Badge Template
◦ Documenting Engagement... Participant Forms, Entry to
Awards, Employability Certificates Year on Year

9. Actions
◦ Brief – work on operational integration piece
MC
◦ What a Toolkit might look like... Wireframe
◦ See UL Reflective Workbook
◦ Curate Teams – Folders MC
◦ NUI Galway, UCC Meetings - CS