Postgraduate employability and achievement award

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Postgraduate Employability and Achievement Award Enterprise Through the Curriculum Events • Experiences • Learning • Support

ENTERPRISE THROUGH THE CURRICULUM

Postgraduate Employability and Achievement Award The Postgraduate Employability and Achievement Award is a framework which accredits your personal and professional development since being at University London.

You will have had the opportunity to participate in a number of events and activities as part of ‘Enterprise Through the Curriculum’.

By recording and reflecting on these experiences you will be able to demonstrate to others how you have grown as an individual since starting your course.

In order to assess, value and articulate your experiences, the skills you have learnt and your achievements, you will need to reflect on: • The opportunities you have engaged in since joining your course • How you have gone above and beyond your academic studies • What you have learnt from your experiences since you have been with Loughborough University London • How this can help you stand out from the crowd and succeed in your future role after graduation On completion of the award you will have recognition from the University of the value you have added to your overall development during your time as a Loughborough University London student.

Your submission for the award will be assessed and awarded based on your ability to show: • Completion of both Skills check: Autumn challenges and Skills check: Spring Challenges’ • An awareness of how you are better prepared to pursue your career goals as a result of taking part in range of activities • How well you are able to reflect and act on your Skills Check feedback • The extent to which you have personally developed and how well you are able to communicate this through your submission

POSTGRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY AND ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Submission You can choose to submit your application for an award in many ways and you can be as creative as you wish. Examples could be:

Video

Online booklet

Infographic

Presentation

Prezi

Storyboard

Elevator pitch

Poster

Written report

All submissions must have an endorsement from a professional. This could be an individual from an organisation with which you have worked, an academic or a member of Loughborough University London or LSU London staff. The endorsement can be written or delivered as a video.

For more details, visit the ETC module on LEARN

ENTERPRISE THROUGH THE CURRICULUM

Your Enterprise Through the Curriculum journey

POSTGRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY AND ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Which of these activities did you take part in

For more details, visit the ETC module on LEARN

ENTERPRISE THROUGH THE CURRICULUM

Timeline Postgraduate Employability and Achievement Award submission timeline.

Attend the Skills Check: Spring challenges in Semester 2.

Ask an appropriate professional to endorse your submission (e.g. an individual from an organisation with which you have worked, an academic or a member of Loughborough University London or LSU London staff)

Attendance is compulsory and an essential element of your submission to the award Talk to a member of the Stakeholder Management and Employability Team if you have any questions about the award London-employability @lboro.ac.uk

NOTE: We may wish to use your submission for future marketing, please let us know if you do not wish to take part.

POSTGRADUATE EMPLOYABILITY AND ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Create your submission Send in your submission via

www.lborolondon.ac.uk/ peaa-submission

Email the Loughborough University London Stakeholder Management and Employability team when you are ready to submit and clarify the method of submission (e.g. video, report, Prezi etc.)

London-employability @lboro.ac.uk

Award ceremony

For more details, visit the ETC module on LEARN

Developed in partnership with Loughborough Students’ Union

Do you know a fellow student who should apply for this award too?

Email us at: London-employability@lboro.ac.uk

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