Mission Employable, who made this event possible, is a Humanities student led initiative that developed by students, for students, last summer 2014.

The initiative aims to make students’s professional development a priority so that we graduate not only with a degree, but also with the ability to on to career success after university.

Mission Employable wants to restructure the Faculty’s employability activity and make it a fundamental aspect of student’s development throughout their degree course.

For the past year, Mission Employable, – which is made up of a team of 4 student interns as well as Dr Eleanor Quince -, have been working together to improve the Employability agenda within the Faculty of Humanities through the development of a zero-credit Employability module, the establishment of a peering mentoring scheme as well as several other exciting new initiatives.

The group’s task was to develop strategies to help students  make the most of the opportunities they have for personal and professional development within, alongside and outside of their degree programme. The goal over the summer was to link together all aspects of employability-related activity for Humanities’ students, providing a framework which enables them to take ownership of their future from the very start of their studies.

They achieved this through the creation of a module, by the embedding of employability awareness into our support systems, such as our new Peer Mentoring Scheme, and through the establishment of an External Advisory Board and a VIP Alumni scheme to provide us with a range of different views on how we take this work forward.