Employability Skills: Readiness
Readiness is the mindset of projecting yourself into the future to take better actions and decisions. This guide includes resources that will help you get ready to get the job you want or to create your own activity:
- Leverage the support offered at BCU to build skills: Careers+, the Centre for Academic Success, Graduate+ and Discover Your Digital Skills.
- Discover which attributes employers are looking for and identify which competencies you want to acquire.
- Use the library resources while you can access them to stay aware of what is happening in your field, to research jobs and potential employers, to apply for a job and be your best in job interviews and to build your own business.
Careers+
The Careers+ team is here to help you develop your employability and entrepreneurship skills:
- Career Options & Planning
- Job Search
- Work Experience, Placements & Internships
- CVs, Cover Letters & Applications
- Interviews & Assessment Centres
- Networking
- Self-Employment & Entrepreneurship
- Professional Mentoring
- Masters and further study
Careers+ is your first resource when it comes to build employability readiness.
Centre for Academic Success
The Centre for Academic Success offers a range of services providing academic support to Birmingham City University students, such as workshops, one-to-one and small group tutorials and online study guides on a variety of subjects including:
- Academic writing
- Study skills
- Report writing
- Dissertations
- Referencing
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Networking
- Programming
- Project management
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access)
- and other technical subjects.
Graduate +
Graduate+ is the extra-curricular awards framework offered by the University.
It is designed to help you identify and reflect on what you do so that you can promote yourself with confidence. Why not aim for the Gold Award?
Discover Your Digital Skills @ BCU and Beyond
Digital Literacy is an incredibly important set of skills in the modern world.
BCU gives you access to the Digital Skills Discovery Tool so you can test your skills and access hundreds of learning resources: e-learning courses, blogs or useful channels.
Visiting the JISC Discovery Tool frequently will help you monitor your progress, and measure the differences you are making.
Library resources to help you be ready
We selected useful sources of information about employment readiness:
Employability AttributesCurrent AwarenessResearching EmployersResources for job applications and interviewsEntrepreneurship and Business Planning