Success story: Canterbury Christ Church University

“It has been a phenomenal eights months that has led to real employability benefits for our students. My small team have worked incredibly hard but none of this would be possible without the support and technical know-how of Access Career Development,” says Susan Odev, Head of Employability at Canterbury Christ Church University.

Canterbury Christ Church University has been delighted with how Access Career Development supports their staff in offering the best and most efficient, up-to-date career and employability resources and tools to their students.

Watch this short video to find out how Canterbury Christ Church are benefiting from working in partnership with Access Career Development to enhance student employability:

Discover how you can boost student and graduate employability skills with Access Career Development.

Canterbury Christ Church University use Career Pulse, our capability for measuring employability. By using Career Pulse to support student employability, the university was able to demonstrate a 16% Learning Gain in students’ career confidence within an 8-month period.

In addition to the valuable student employability support gained through using Career Centre, the data insight has been incredibly useful in informing the statistics reported to academics within the institution.

Watch Andrew Lombart and John Hoyle from the Enterprise and Employability team at Canterbury Christ Church University talk about this at our annual Academic Client conference:

• 16% Learning Gain demonstrated in 8-month period through use of Career Pulse;
• Statistics used for Learning Gain measure will be included in future TEF submissions;
• Career Pulse will form the basis of University Framework for ‘Developing Enterprising Professional Graduates 2019 - 2024’.

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