Careers and Employability Weeks
To develop the employability of students
Through practice, students gain exposure to the attributes and behaviours that employers wish to see in their graduate recruits.
These include confidence, negotiation, time management, team work, planning and other competencies. Careers and employability weeks are designed as weeks that focus on "learning by doing".
To engage with local employers
Careers and employability weeks give us and our students the opportunity to work alongside businesses and other organisations in a sustainable programme integrated into the core student experience with benefits for both students and employers.
We are a Business School for business and our community. Here is a video in which we have compressed one such week into three minutes. It will give you a great idea of what we do.
To have been given the chance to apply the theory I have learnt at the University of Bedfordshire into practice, with a big national company like Antifriction, was a tremendous experience.
My favourite project was working with Autism Bedfordshire - we designed a new branding for them and then pitched our ideas to the management of the charity.
When University of Bedfordshire states that employability is instilled in graduates they take it very seriously and to a next level by putting us in real time work place scenarios. Winning the presentation to Cobham PLC was an immersive and challenging task for myself mostly due to the amount of professionalism required when presenting to a defence sector organisation with a turnover in billions.
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