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Getting the Edge
Allison Kavanagh
Library and Career Development Centre Collaboration to Help Students Develop Employability Skills and Find Jobs
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Careers Workshops
Careers Area
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Could We Do More?Contribution of libraries to employability
Libraries’ traditional information literacy role in broader academic skills landscape
Best practice examples
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Digital Literacy: The ability to appropriately and effectively use digital technologies for learning, working and living in a digital age.
JISC & Bonner McHardy, 2014
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What is Digital Literacy?
Why is it Important?
How Can We Incorporate it into Programmes & Modules?
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DIT Graduate AttributesAll DIT programmes aim to provide students with a range of opportunities to develop, practice and be assessed on an agreed range of key employability skills or graduate attributes
Engaged Enquiry-Based
Enterprising Effective Expert
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DIT Graduate AttributesAll DIT programmes aim to provide students with a range of opportunities to develop, practice and be assessed on an agreed range of key employability skills or graduate attributes
Engaged Enquiry-Based
Enterprising Effective Expert
Global CitizenEthicalMotivated self-startersExcellent communicators
InnovatorsCollaborative workersEntrepreneursLeaders
Critical ThinkersProblem Solvers Creators of new knowledgeDecision Makers
Disciplinary KnowledgeWork based/work related learnersReflective Practitioners Digitally LiterateEmotionally Intelligent, Active team
players, Strategic thinkers, Resilient
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ENQUIRY BASED
CRITICAL THINKERS
EXPERT
REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONERS
ENGAGED
ETHICAL
EXPERT
DIGITALLY LITERATE
ENGAGED
EXCELLENT COMMUNICATORS
ENTERPRISING
COLLABORATIVE WORKERS
ENQUIRY BASED
PROBLEM SOLVERS
ENGAGED
MOTIVATED SELF-STARTERS
EFFECTIVE
RESILIENT
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Library Workshop for CDC Team
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Train the Trainers Workshop
Where can I find
information about a company?
How can I research their competitors?
Who’s the best person to
contact in the company?
Library Workshop for CDC Team
Can I set up alerts to keep me up to
date?
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Benefits of Collaboration
Helps students improve their employability skills and find
jobs
Secured role for Library in
developing Graduate
Attributes toolkit
Emphasises transferrable
nature of Digital
LiteracyHelps Careers
Advisors by expanding range of
resources
Opens door to further
collaboration – with CDC and
beyond