Annual Report 2017-18
Careers Service
www.imperial.ac.uk/careers
Contents 1. Summary 2. Staffing 3. Services for Current Students and Alumni 3.1. Individual work with students 3.2. Centrally delivered Careers Service Events 3.3. Careers Service delivered workshops and seminars 3.4. Careers Service activity in departments 3.5. Support for PhD students 3.6. Support for Post-doctoral research staff 4. Imperial Horizons 5. Information Provision 5.1. Information room developments 5.2. IT systems 5.3. Web developments 6. Work with Employers and Events 6.1. Careers Fairs 6.2. Forums 6.3. Employer-led skills workshops 6.4. Careers talks Programme 6.5. Employer presentations 6.6. Recruiter in Residence and Mock Interviews 6.7. Visits to and from employers 6.8. Vacancy handling 7. Charity Insights 8. Alumni Mentoring Programme 9. Work Shadowing Pilot 10. Service Quality Review 11. Destination of Leavers from Higher Education Review 2016 11.1. Response Rates 11.2. Unemployment Rates 11.3. Destination Data 2016 Leavers 12. Specific Areas of Development/Activity for 2017-18 12.1. Careers Service Staffing 12.2. Student Experience 12.3. External Engagement
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The Careers Service (CS) team has worked hard to ensure that we continue to provide the best possible service to students and recruiters. In 2016-17 Imperial College continued to appear at the top or within the top three for Graduate Prospects in all the major league tables. Times University League Table - 2nd (Behind St Georges), Complete University Guide 2018 - 2nd (Behind St Georges) and The Guardian Guide 2018 - 1st. By maintaining these rankings, the College is well positioned on employability in terms of TEF submissions. The summer 2016 destination data for home & EU undergraduates shows a marginal increase in graduate unemployment of 4.4%, and is still lower than our comparator Institutions. (4.25% in 2015). (See graphs 7 to 18 for details) In 2016-17 the Careers Service ran: 9 careers fairs including three in China; 8 Sector based Forums; three themed weeks as well as twice weekly sector careers talks and weekly employer led skills and business/case study sessions. The events recorded well over 12,000 attendees. This year we continued our one to one appointment slots in departments in addition to those centrally delivered seeing 5908 (5887 in 2015-16) students in total one to one. In the autumn term we carried out very popular ‘pop-up’ CV checking sessions around campus during lunchtimes introducing the Careers Service to over 300 students and offering quick CV reviews. In 2016-17 we extended the number of students being mentored by alumni with 129 benefiting from the initiative. Priority was given to students with a disability, those from our Widening Participation cohort and women on engineering courses. This programme compliments the existing Ask an Alumnus e-mentoring programme. During Summer Term 2017 we ran a series of sessions for students prior to them leaving for the vacation. This covered general career seeking advice as well as preparing them for the Graduate Recruitment round on their return to College in autumn 2017. The Careers Service continued to contribute to the Imperial Horizons programme by delivering Professional Skills for Employability to 1st year students as part of the programme. The course, delivered in small groups of approximately 25 each proved to be one of the most popular options in the Horizons Programme and received outstanding feedback in SOLE. New initiatives in 2016 - 17 included a trial Big Data event which was extremely popular and will be added to our suite of events for 2017–18. A Work shadowing programme was piloted, aimed at 1st year students. This grew over the trial period and will be continued into 2017–18.
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2. Staffing Academic year 2016-17 saw the Careers Service with an established team and this went someway to ensuring the increase in students that were seen in one to one appointments during the year. New team members Duane Rodney (Information Adviser) and Alex Ashbee (Events Assistant) have become established and are valued members of the team. Elspeth Farrar (Director) reduced her hours to 0.6 FTE in 2016-17, with Jason Yarrow (Deputy Director) acting up for 0.4 days to cover the role. This worked effectively, and offered cover in a transitional phase for the Careers Service. During the busy Autumn term, where there is increased demand on the Careers Service, we utilised generated income to employ hourly paid Careers Consultants to assist meeting demand. The Careers Service also engaged a team of student helpers to assist with our events and basic administrative tasks. Table 1: The Careers Service Team 2016-17 Name Role Elspeth Farrar Jason Yarrow Mark Allen Rich Carruthers Katie Dallison Shahida Osman Rachel Power Jane Pooler Robert Carpenter Alex Ashbee Maria Lounes Barnaby Mollett Jessica Noon Richard Marshall Duane Rodney Michelle Swallow Akshay Pharma
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Director (0.6FTE) Deputy Director (Acting Director 0.4FTE) Careers Consultant Careers Consultant Careers Consultant Careers Consultant (0.6FTE) Careers Consultant (0.8FTE) Careers Consultant Employer Liaison Manager Careers Events Assistant Administration Assistant (0.5FTE) Placement & Internship Adviser Placement & Internship Adviser Careers Information Manager Information Adviser Information Adviser Careers Service Intern
e.farrar@imperial.ac.uk j.yarrow@imperial.ac.uk m.allen@imperial.ac.uk r.carruthers@imperial.ac.uk k.dallison@imperial.ac.uk s.osman@imperial.ac.uk r.power@imperial.ac.uk j.pooler@imperial.ac.uk r.j.carpenter@imperial.ac.uk a.ashbee@imperial.ac.uk m.lounes@imperial.ac.uk b.mollett@imperial.ac.uk j.noon@imperial.ac.uk r.l.marshall@imperial.ac.uk d.rodney@imperial.ac.uk m.swallow@imperial.ac.uk a.pharma@imperial.ac.uk
3. Services for Current Students and Alumni 3.1. Individual work with students There continues to be a high demand for one to one appointments. All available daily appointments in the autumn term are booked within 2 minutes of them going live at 7am each day. During this busy period there is an unmet demand. Utilising Google Analytics to roughly calculate this unmet demand during the autumn shows the number of hits on the appointment booking page on a daily basis. This clearly shows a significant spike. This is a rough measure but as there is no other reason for students to hit the page other than to book an appointment it does give an indication of demand. See Graph 1. For those students who are unable to book an appointment in the peak period of October we are continuing to increase the level of self-help support on the website and also introduced a Consultant on Call each day for any urgent need. The Service has continued to use creative ways to try to meet demand including the continued development of ‘pop-up’ CV checking around campus during lunchtime periods and the use of technology such as Skype and Camtasia to improve accessibility. Larger lecture theatres were booked in 2016-17 to run group sessions on key topics of the application process, and these were recorded using Panopto. This new resource is hosted on our webpages for students to access.
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Number of unique views of Appointments booking page
Table 2 below provides details on individual consultations conducted this year by student type. In total 5908 one to one contacts were undertaken, an increase on the previous year. Tracking through our appointment system has indicated that the bulk of the contacts are unique with only a relatively small proportion of repeat booking for those students most in need of support.
Graph 1: Indication of demand for 20 minute appointments in the Autumn Term 2016 (approx. 55 appointments are available each day) 600 500
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Table 2: One to one Student appointments by type. 2016-2017 2015-16 2014-15 2013 -14 2012-13 2011-12 UG YEAR 1 310 274 305 265 251 24 YEAR 2 601 563 1095 832 736 244 YEAR 3 1421 1353 1197 1321 1133 884 YEAR 4 971 945 675 1050 722 662 YEAR 5 31 23 22 23 24 10 YEAR 6 5 18 9 8 15 PGT 1235 1249 1126 1215 1207 889 PGR 712 658 671 658 466 362 Alumni 622 804 511 511 770 653 Total 5908 5887 5611 5875 5317 3743
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Table 3 indicates the spread of service use in relation to funding origin of user. Demand from home students continues while contact with overseas students remains high. Table 3: One to one Appointments by fee status 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-14 2012-13 2011-12 Home 1657 1928 1733 1717 1729 1209 EU 1648 1267 1157 1417 1225 821 Overseas 2547 2485 2331 2232 2067 1575 Not stated 56 207 390 509 296 138 Total 5908 5887 5611 5875 5317 3743 Graph 2 provides a year by year comparison of demand for one to one consultations and the pattern of activity across the year. It is noticeable that demand for assistance during the peak month of October remains high. All penultimate students are emailed during the summer term and encouraged to use the Service during this quiet period in preparation for their final year. Current final year undergraduates and Masters students are emailed shortly before the end of the summer term, and encouraged to make use of the Service if they were not yet fixed up with either work or further study.
Graph 2: Year by Year comparison of Careers Consultations 1600
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3.2. Centrally delivered Careers Service Events During 2016-17 the Careers Service has delivered a record number of events with an encouraging level of attendance throughout 2016-17. Table 4 provides an indication, by type, of the students who have been making use of the extensive programme. However, it should be noted that the figures only include those events and activities where we operated swipe card access. Skills workshops, business games, Recruiter in Residence, employer led mock interviews and company presentations are not included in these figures and account for a further attendance of approximately 1500 students.
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Table 4: Attendance at Careers Events by Year and Level of Course 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013 - 14 2012-13 2011-12 UG YEAR 1 568 521 1089 1173 1075 79 YEAR 2 1042 1228 1808 1718 1444 1151 YEAR 3 2244 2180 1577 1831 1892 2201 YEAR 4 1634 1714 1043 1443 1699 1726 YEAR 5 59 54 46 55 13 32 YEAR 6 8 5 2 5 3 13 PGT 3089 3069 3139 2864 2405 2400 PGR 1711 1604 1466 1467 1142 1291 Alumni 572 491 314 302 257 793 Total 10927 10866 10484 10858 9930 9686 Noticeably during 2016-17 there was a slight increase in EU students attending careers events, and this in part maybe a reaction to the EU referendum of June 2016. Table 5: Attendance at Careers Events by fee status 2016-17 2015-16 2014-15 2013-2014 2012-13 2011-12 Home 3375 3295 3444 3733 3544 3537 EU 2420 2332 1975 2398 2187 2137 Overseas 5100 4962 4780 4391 4106 3868 Not stated 32 277 285 336 93 144 Total 10927 10866 10484 10858 9930 9686
3.3. Careers Service Workshops & Seminars Centrally delivered workshops and seminars have been offered on a daily basis throughout the year on various aspects of career planning and job search skills with more than 190 separate sessions offered. This central programme, is open access to all students, complements sessions delivered within departments and also addresses the needs of recent alumni. 1780 students attended the central seminar programme over the year. In addition to the daily seminars, interactive lunchtime sessions were included offering support for Assessment Centre preparation and our series of seminars on ‘Getting an Internship in…’ which proved to be popular with earlier year groups. During the summer term several intensive half day courses were offered for final year students and Masters students not already holding a job offer. These provided an opportunity to catch up on job hunting skills prior to the end of the academic year. 3.4. Careers Service activity in departments The Careers Consultants and Placement & Internship Advisers have conducted one to one appointment sessions in all departments this year, complementing the appointments available centrally. The programme of departmental specific workshops and seminars has expanded this year and careers consultants and placement officers have continued to work with all departments. This has also included assisting departments with employer events such as alumni panels and speakers. In addition to those sessions delivered at South Kensington careers consultants travelled to a number of campuses to offer workshops and seminars, including the hospital campuses. Members of the careers team also offered support at departmental and College open days, induction events and at
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the Student Union and Medical School careers fairs. Going forward availability and space at White City Campus will be required to provide one to one advice and workshops to students based there. 3.5. Support for PhD students In addition to the support provided by the Careers Service through the Graduate School transferable skills programme the Careers Service also held an annual PhD Careers Fair, PhD Careers Forum, and Developing Your Research Career event. Once again this year the Careers Service held a series of half day employer led workshops for PhD students in May and June including business games and practice case study scenarios. A series of hand outs was also produced specifically for PhD students to support their job hunting process. Two bespoke Careers courses were also devised by Careers Consultants to support the work of CDT’s and their Professional Skills Training 3.6. Support for Post-doctoral research staff The Careers Service, on behalf of the Post-Doctoral Development Unit, delivered 6 full day courses, which ran successfully in the autumn, spring and summer terms. Courses covered: Planning for an Academic Career, and Preparing for an Academic Interview; Planning your Career [offered separately to Medical & Life Scientists and Engineering and Physical Scientists] and Preparing for an Interview Outside Academia. Post-doctoral staff have continued to make good use of the Careers Service for one to one consultations. 4. Imperial Horizons Once again the Careers Service contributed to the Imperial Horizons programme. The Professional skills for Employability course was delivered by the careers consultant team to 1st year undergraduates in the autumn term and again in the spring term. The assessed course, delivered over 8 sessions includes Team Working & Group Dynamics; Communicating and Networking; Presenting with IMPACT; CVs, Cover Letters & Online Tests; Applications & Interviews and Planning for The Future. The final session involves the students working together and presenting to an invited guest employer. The Service was gratified to receive excellent SOLE feedback from the students who took part in the programme last year. The course will be offered again to 1st years in 2017-18. 5. Information Provision 5.1. Information room developments The careers centre open space has encouraged different types of interactions with students including the Careers Consultant on Call sessions and Career Cafes. The Careers Cafes are small group discussion sessions around a given topic and have included ‘Cool, Calm and Collected – how to handle interview nerves’, ‘Career Options in Big Data’ ‘Careers in International Development’ and ‘From a PhD to a Career in Consultancy’. Over 11,100 visits to the Careers Centre were recorded during the 2016-17 period. During 2016-17 we held themed weeks on Careers in the Charity Sector, Careers in the Environmental Sector, Careers in Policy and Lobbying and Careers in Enterprise with relevant talks, themed information resources and Meet the Professional sessions throughout the week. 5.2. IT systems The IT system used by the Careers Service, JobsLive, has proved very successful again this year, holding a database of all company contacts, graduate and internship opportunities as well as the careers events calendar and online booking system. The system user group set up by Imperial has been beneficial in directing the development of the system as well as providing a platform to air and discuss any problems or issues. Currently there are over 13,000 companies registered with the system and Graphs 3, 4 and 5 provide some detail on the size, location and Industry Sector of these companies. 55.8% of the registered companies have less than 100 employees, putting them firmly into the SME category. There is also a good representation among start up and micro companies with 16% having less than 10 employees.
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Graph 3: Company Registrations on JobsLive by Company size Current Total 13211 40.0 35.0 30.0 25.0
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Graph 4: Location of Companies registered with JobsLive (as % of total) 0.0
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Graph 5: Companies on JobsLive by Primary Industry Sector 0.0% 2.0% 4.0% 6.0% 8.0% 10.0% 12.0% 14.0% 16.0% 18.0% Accommodation & Food Service Accountancy & Actuarial Administrative & HR Agriculture Forestry & Fishing Banking Charities Construction & Civil Engineering Creative Arts & Entertainment Education Electricity Gas & Steam Supply Engineering & Technical Consultancy Environment Extraction of Oil & Gas Financial Activities - other Health & Social Work Activities Information Communication & Technology International Development & NGOs Legal - Trademark - Patent Libraries & Cultural Activities Management Management Consultancy Manufacturing - Fast Moving Consumer Goods Manufacturing - Machinery Electronics & Equipment Manufacturing - other Manufacturing - Pharmaceutical Products Media & Marketing Mining & Quarrying Policy & Government Professional Bodies & Trade Associations Public Administration Defence & Security Scientific Research & Development Transportation & Logistics Water & Waste Management Wholesale & Retail
5.3. Website development The Careers Service website has continued to play a central role in the way we communicate and deliver services to students, alumni and employers. During summer 2016 we conducted a staff review of the content and navigation of the website to improve user functionality. We are continuing to increase the section of downloadable audio recordings of careers forums and talks, streamed DVDs covering CV writing, Interview Skills and Assessment Centres and we now have 49 Alumni Case Studies on the website in a mixture of written and audio format, http://www.imperial.ac.uk/careers/resources/case-studies/ The Case Studies help students identify what graduates from their department have gone on to do and also gain a feel for different occupations. Panopto recordings of core careers delivery were also hosted on the website in 2016 – 17. 6. Work with employers and events 6.1. Careers Fairs Academic year 2016-17 started with the annual China and HK Careers Fairs in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. The Shanghai event was organised in conjunction with the Shanghai Regional Government and attracted 50 companies at least half of which were Chinese state owned enterprises. Once again students from MIT, Harvard and Columbia universities were invited to attend the Fairs, which this year saw an increase in the numbers of students attending. Discussions will take place in 2017-18 with a view to expanding the Careers Fair in Shanghai increasing the collaboration with the Shanghai Regional Government. In the autumn term 2016 we held the biggest of our annual Careers Fairs, The Engineering Careers Fair with 82 companies attending and in excess of 2,500 student visiting throughout the day. The Finance & Consulting Fair and the IT & Technology Fair were also held in the autumn term. The
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annual Science Fair was held in January closely followed by the Internship Fair in February. During the summer term the annual PhD Careers Fair was held and we repeated the Summer Recruitment Fair aimed at students seeking immediate internship and graduate vacancies. All the events were well supported by employers and attracted good attendance by student and recent graduates. 6.2. Forums This year we held 8 sector forums: Energy Industry, Consultancy, Manufacturing Sector, FMCG, and Science Careers in the autumn term followed by PhD Careers Forum and the Career Women’s Forum in the spring term. In May we held the Developing your Research Career Forum for PhD students. Also in summer term 2017 we piloted a Big Data forum. This was extremely well received by both students and employers alike. This will run again in academic year 2017-18, and will be expanded to incorporate further Big Data events. A total of 1001 students attended these events during 2016-17. We continue to receive positive support from employers for the forums. Imperial College students were also invited to take part in a collaborative International Organisations Day held at LSE in November 2016. 6.3. Employer Led Skills workshops The Wednesday afternoon employer led skills workshops running throughout the autumn and spring terms have been popular and attendance has been improved by continuing with a deposit system introduced in the previous year. 361 students took part in these highly interactive sessions this year which included case study and business games as well as more traditional skills development sessions. A series of employer led skills workshops aimed solely at PhD students ran in the summer term of 2017. This was well supported and employers and students gave positive feedback about the sessions. Over 300 PhD students from across College took advantage of these sessions to give them a competitive edge in the job market. 6.4. Careers talk programme The Tuesday and Thursday lunchtime careers talks attracted good numbers this year with 1082 students taking advantage of these sessions. The programme is very varied and aims to encourage students to develop an understanding of a wide variety of industry sectors and occupations. Many of the lunchtime talks were recorded using Panopto and placed on the CS website giving students an opportunity to hear the talks again. 6.5. Employer presentations This year approximately 180 employers held presentations for Imperial College students arranged through the Careers Service, 85 of these presentations were held off campus in the organisation’s own premises or in local hotels. We will continue to work to try to encourage employers to spread their presentations out across the calendar to avoid presentation fatigue on the part of students in the busy autumn period. Many companies also included specific presentations and networking events for international students, students with disabilities and women students. 6.6. Recruiter in Residence and Mock Interviews This year 19 employers offered Recruiter in Residence days held during the autumn and spring term. These sessions allow students to meet individually with company members and are particularly helpful for students on the point of completing an application form or preparing for an interview. 120 students accessed these bespoke sessions in 2016-17. We have also been fortunate in having companies willing to provide a day for mock interview sessions. These are invaluable to students and complement the sessions run by careers consultants. 6.7. Visits to and from employers The Director and Employer Liaison Manager have continued to meet regularly with employers visiting the Careers Service to discuss how best to promote their opportunities to Imperial students. We have
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once again been pleased to hold meetings with several companies new to Imperial College and have been particularly focusing on smaller organisations during 2016-17. The Placement & Internship Advisers have additionally been active in developing links with new organisations, again with a focus on smaller companies and the Not for Profit sector. In addition, throughout the year we received invitations to attend careers service information days at employers’ premises. Regular visits and meetings of this kind ensure that the team is kept up to date on companies, their recruitment methods and available opportunities for students and graduates. 6.8. Vacancy handling The Placement and Internship team and Information team have continued to encourage companies to make use of the free online vacancy system. Over 11,000 vacancies were processed during 201617. The Service is continuing to canvas for graduate, placement and internship vacancies whilst continuing with our policy of declining to advertise unpaid internships which contravene the Minimum Wage Act. A new Employer Engagement Strategy is under review and will be launched in 2017-18. 7. Charity Insights Introduced in summer 2012 the Careers Service has again offered bursaries for undergraduate and PhD students to allow them to undertake 4-week summer project internships with charities. The students were required to seek out their own projects and bid for funding providing an outline of the project and how they feel they will benefit from engaging with the scheme. Twenty-two students were accepted onto the scheme for summer 2017 following evaluation of their applications and an interview process. The funding for this initiative comes from income generated by the Careers Service from employer services. 8. Alumni Mentoring Programme The Careers Service launched a new Alumni Mentoring Scheme in October 2014. The aim of the Scheme is to enable alumni mentors to assist in the development of current students by encouraging their mentee to better understand the professional workplace, discuss potential careers open to them and share insights into their profession. Matching was based on degree background, academic department and career interests. The motivation of the applicants was also measured and priority was given to students from disadvantaged backgrounds and underrepresented groups, in line with the College's outreach criteria. During academic year 2016-17 129 students were paired with mentors, of which we have 179 willing to offer assistance to our students. This programme has grown significantly since inception on 2014. 9. Work Shadowing Pilot 2016/17 2016/17 saw the pilot of our Work Shadowing programme which (based on good practice from the USA) is designed to give students short (1-3 day) insights into a professional workplace. Spending time in a workplace allows students to experience the realities of a professional environment within a certain industry and provides them the opportunity to question and learn from professionals to help inform their career plans. Our scheme targets first year undergraduates as it can be particularly difficult for them to secure work experience such as summer internships as preference is often given to those in more senior year groups. Additionally, we prioritised students from WP backgrounds and those with limited professional work experience. During its pilot phase our scheme operated on two cycles; spring and summer vacations. Students apply by expressing interest in the type of work they wish to shadow and are matched to a host organisation based on a variety of criteria. Spring saw 30 students matched to hosts organisations which increased to 71 student matches for the summer (to the end of August 2017). Host organisations range from SMEs to MNCs with some well-known names including Cisco; CRUK; Deutsche Bank; GORS; Morgan Stanley; Network Rail; and several ICL departments.
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10. Service Quality Review The Service continued to use online surveys to conduct regular reviews of service provision. During the course of 2016-17 surveys were sent to the register of employers, registered JobsLive users and also to finalist students. Additional surveys were developed to canvas feedback on specific areas of service delivery such as 40 minute consultations. Overall feedback from students and employers has proved to be very positive with some useful comments on how the Service might develop in the future, some of which, where practical, has been implemented. A section on the Careers Service website provides details of changes to service delivery following survey feedback.http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/careers/about/commentsandfeedback 11. Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) The following data for undergraduates relates to students graduating in summer 2016 and the data for postgraduate students relates to those who completed between August and December 2016. Survey capture dates are 12 January 2017 for undergraduates and 14 April 2017 for Postgraduates. Please note that because of the structure of the HESA survey the March 2017 submission to HESA included the January 2017 collection for undergraduate students along with the April 2016 data for postgraduate students. 11.1. Response rates HESA sets response rate targets of 80% for UK students, 50% for EU students and no official target for international students. Overall response rates achieved in January 2017 and April 2017 are listed below. It is increasingly difficult to meet the response rate targets for PGT graduates. Home UG EU UG International UG
83.0% 67.3% 44.3%
Home PGT EU PGT International PGT
74.5% 42.4% 28.5%
Home PGR EU PGR International PGR
76.7% 63.7% 38.5%
11.2. Unemployment Rates Home & EU Undergraduate International UG
2012 6.5% 5.0%
2013 2014 2015 2016 (Graduation year) 4.45% 4.45% 4.25% 4.4% 2.5% 2.65% 2.65% 2.15%
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6.4% 8.9%
4.2% 7.4%
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3.0% 7.4%
4.8% 1.95% 2.60% 1.95% 11.4% 3.9% 5.55% 1.05%
5.6% 7.2%
6.65% 2.85% 5.50% 5.3%
The overall unemployment rate for Home & EU undergraduates combined is 4.4% which is a marginal increase on the previous cohort (4.25%). Although this is not as low as some of our benchmark institutions such as Cambridge, who routinely record less than 2.5% unemployment, we do achieve a higher percentage of students whose employment is at a graduate level, and continue to do so. This factor significantly increases our standing in the ‘Graduate Prospects’ elements of league tables and was a factor in the recent TEF assessment as a positive indicator in our Gold status. Those graduates from the summer 2016 graduating cohort who reported as unemployed on
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the 12 January 2017 (the census date) were subsequently followed up in April to check their continued status. This year 56 (51 in 2015-16) home & EU students from the initial survey reported as being unemployed and in the follow up we made contact with 25 of the 56 – 31 were uncontactable or did not wish to take part in further discussion. Of these 3 remained unemployed and a further 2 were currently unemployed but due to start either a course or job in the near future. Among the 2 still fully unemployed one had gained a 2:2 and 2:1 respectively. One reported starting their job hunting during their final year. The 2 unemployed graduates have been encouraged to keep in contact with us and to use the facilities and support of the Careers Service for as long as is necessary. Full details of main destination areas and main areas of employment can be found in Graphs 7 to 10 for undergraduate, Graphs 11 to 14 for PGT and Graphs 15 to 17 for PGR students. Further analysis by department is available from the Careers Service website at: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/careers/exploring-your-options/destinations 11.3. Destination Data for 2016 Leavers.
Graph 6: Destination of Leavers from H.E. Main Destinations Home & EU UG 70 60 50 Entered Employment
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Graph 8: Destination of UG Cohort (Home & EU) by Industry Sector Others 100.0 Health/Social Work
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Graph 12: Destinations PGT Cohort (Home & EU) by Industry Sector Others
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Graph 14: Destination of Leavers from H.E. Main destinations Home & EU PGR 60
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Graph 15: Destinations of Leavers from HE Main Destinations PGR International 60.0%
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Agriculture
Year of Graduation
Graph 17: Destinations of International PGR by Industry Sector Other Health / Social Work
100.00%
Education
90.00%
Public Adminstration/Defence
80.00%
Other Business Activities
70.00%
Business & Management Consultancy Accountancy
60.00% 50.00%
Banking / Financial
40.00%
IT & Telecommunications
30.00%
Technical Consultancy / R&D
20.00%
Utilities & Transport
10.00%
Manufacture
0.00%
Oil/Mining
2013
2014
2015
2016
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12. Specific Areas of Development/Activity for 2017-18 12.1. Careers Service Staffing • At end of academic year 2016-17 there was a large amount of staff transition. The Director of the Career Service, Elspeth Farrar retired. The role is currently being advertised with an interim measure of Jason Yarrow (Deputy director) acting up 1.0 into the role. • Two placement and internship advisers, Barnaby Mollet and Jess Noon resigned to pursue roles elsewhere • Shahida Osman and Rachel Power, Careers Consultants will be leaving in 2017–18. Shahida will be retiring and Rachel is leaving to take up a role at LSE. • These are experienced members of the team and our thanks and best wishes go with them as they move onto the next phase of their careers. • A 0.6 Administrative Assistant has been recruited using income generated by the Careers Service. This role will go to support initiatives that have expanded and are in line with WP aspirations of the College. • The Careers Service will be going into the Autumn term 2017 with a significantly reduced team. We are currently recruiting to back fill roles, as well exploring interim measures to continue to offer as a full and coherent service as possible. 12.2. Student Experience • Establish a student voice panel to inform the work that we do. • We have recruited and will train five PhD students to act as CV and Cover letter reviewers. This will give us additional appointment slots to meet with students face to face particularly during Autumn and early Spring. Funding for this will come from our income generation activities. • In line with the Learning & Teaching Strategy regarding using technology effectively, we are designing and will trial an online CV checking system for 2017–18. This is currently under development with a view to launching live to students in Autumn term 2017. • Further develop the series of Career Cafés, small group topic sessions, in the Careers Centre space. • Expand our Work Shadowing Programme in 2017-18 • Utilise Learning & Teaching funding to explore and work further in initiatives to imbed employability into areas of the Curriculum, levering our employer contacts to provide innovative and real world experiences for our students. • Further develop the alumni mentoring scheme to improve students’ confidence and professional knowledge. • Continuing to develop additional support for PhD students though a targeted programme of employer led workshops and information events. • Developing further interactive mixed media resources via the website to aid self-help by students. • Further encouraging the take up and preparation for placements and internships by all students. • 12.3. External Engagement • To improve our employer relationships by introducing an account management approach to relationship development. • Engaging with companies to promote placement opportunities for PhD students particularly those where placements are required by funding councils. • Providing improved employer services particularly for SMEs. • Increase the pool of alumni mentors to support the development of students from 1st year onwards.
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Development of a pool of alumni “experts” to offer “Professional in Residence” sessions for students.
Jason Yarrow Acting Director Careers Service
September 2017
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