Keele University Prospectus Undergraduate | 2016

UNDERGRADUATE PROSPECTUS 2016 Employers love Keele 93% of students who graduated in 2013 found full-time employment or continued on to further study within six months; this is a higher percentage than the University of Oxford, Manchester and Warwick. Wha t’s our secret? We offer a range of opportunities to make the most of your time here and to prepare you for life after Keele. With a wealth of co-curricular activities to participate in, such as societies, sports, volunteering, mentoring, enterprise and representation, there is always something to do and we recognise that these activities are an important part of your personal development. Keele also offers a range of learning activities to support your personal and professional development, preparing you for the world of work. You can work towards completing the Keele University Skills Portfolio (KUSP) and gain a free additional accreditation from the Institute of Leadership and Management (iLM). Keele University is the first university in the United Kingdom to offer you the opportunity to gain this accreditation, awarded by a professional body, alongside your degree. Team work Our Careers and Employability team will help you to explore your career options. There are one-to-one guidance drop-ins, career-related events including workshops and employer visits, confidential careers interviews and a resource area where you can carry out careers research to help you make appropriate plans and put them into action. Employers are increasingly demanding and are looking for people with interpersonal skills, team-working abilities, flexibility, adaptability and excellent communication skills. The Careers and Employability team will help you to think through how you have developed these skills and how to present these when you start graduate applications. Our careers advisers will help you identify suitable work experience opportunities, which may include structured internship programmes, work shadowing and volunteer work. You will also be able to meet graduate employers at our careers fair as they visit to recruit Keele graduates. 28 KeeleSU Jobshop Located on the ground floor of KeeleSU, the Jobshop provides a free service to help Keele students find part-time work during both term time and vacations, including work within the Students’ Union and the local area. There are regular Jobs Fairs where you can meet local employers looking for student staff. The Jobshop is a member of the National Association of Student Employment Services (NASES) and provides advice and guidance on a whole range of employment issues. It also serves to reinforce links between Keele and the local community. Forever Keele Keele is well connected professionally. Our Alumni recognise in each other the qualities they value and they know that fellow Keele graduates can make the ideal employees, employers or collaborators. When you graduate, it’ll just be the start of your relationship with Keele. Our students and graduates feel incredibly passionate about Keele, with an intensity that not many other universities can match. That’s why we are in contact with over 40,000 alumni from 156 countries. Your relationship with Keele really is a relationship for life, and it’s why we’re justifiably proud of the phrase, Forever Keele. #foreverkeele Careers advice

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