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ERIC Number: EJ1240546
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 28
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1361-4533
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Developing Employability Skills Workshops for Students' Higher Education Achievement Reports
Skoyles, Alison; Bullock, Nicola; Neville, Kathy
New Review of Academic Librarianship, v25 n2-4 p190-217 2019
The Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) is a national initiative to record academic and extra-curricular achievement throughout a student's time at university. The Library and Learning Resources training team's pre-existing employability-focused content included a lecture on social media and digital footprint, and the Microsoft Office Specialist award. In response to London South Bank University's introduction of the HEAR, the training team developed a pilot program of workshops with a focus on employability and social media. The training team created formal assessments, which is a requirement of the HEAR. A literature review revealed a focus on transferable and soft skills. The pilot focused on developing skills that enabled students to create a professional online presence. Linking information literacy and digital literacy training to employability encouraged student participation. A recommendation of this case study is for libraries to consider the development of explicitly linked employability workshops alongside the more traditional bibliographic tools and skills provision.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: United Kingdom (London)
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