Hi,
This is interesting area as lot institutions seem to stop after 6 months namely and maybe a mindset/cost issue by central University administration why bother after DHLE cut off date. However, observation we found is with graduates in engineering some may have gone back to their SME placement provider, however year or two years later have been accepted on FT indexed firm graduate scheme. These firms have been impressed with the student education, as the students have continued their relationship with course leaders have now come back to us with their employers to recruit directly our pending graduates.
So the long and short maintaining relationship and providing services longer for graduates has potential developing opportunities for immediate graduates.
Best wishes,
Anne
Anne Nortcliffe
BSc CNE Course Leader
Placement Tutor
Faculty of ACES
Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield
S1 1WB
Tel: 0114 225 6902
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On 28 Nov 2012, at 10:29, "Chris Simpson" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Rosy
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> Interesting topic. What do you offer currently, out of interest?
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> Our graduates now keep their central username and password for 6 months after graduation. This doesn't mean that they will automatically have access to the same resources, but it means that they may be able to be given access, depending on the system.
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> E.g. our Employability Tutorial, in our Blackboard VLE, has three student versions: Undergraduate (all current undergraduates), Taught PG (...), Research PG (...). When a student graduates, they stop being (e.g.) an 'undergraduate', so will automatically lose access.
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> However, we have a graduate version which we have manually added recent graduates to, as part of specific programmes or on request.
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> Most of the rest of what we offer is on our website - almost all open access, and in our Interactive Careers Service (using the TargetCONNECT system) - graduates create a password to log in using their personal email address, and can sign up post-graduation, so this is essentially a service for life.
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> Other than anything we may have to add manually, and the central support for accounts post-graduation (which is one of the University's commitments), I don't think there are any significant cost implications.
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> We also use Google for some core services: email and calendar, primarily. However, this also provides shared online documents/websites which opens up more possibilities: (with some limitations, admittedly) resources can potentially be shared with students, and graduates (if they have a Google account).
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> Finally, we do quite a lot of work with our alumni office, who provide an online space for graduates, and an email for life. We have some link-up between systems here and are working on more (it's unavoidably very technical).
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> If you're using a system which is licensed per user, the cost side may be quite different.
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> Hope that's useful
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> Chris
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