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Employability at Westminster

Being Westminster 22-29

Employability Objective: “Connect students and


employers for graduate career success”

University Employability Strategy: refresh in 2023


Employability: measuring success
• Graduate Outcomes survey: nationally
recognised measure of Graduate
Success
• Ask graduates what they are doing 15
months after graduation
“Secure outstanding
• Our ambition: ensure as many employability outcomes for all
graduates as possible are in highly groups of graduates in
skilled employment or further study. established metrics used in
sector performance
• Graduate success for all our graduates measurement systems.”

Being Westminster 22-29


Graduate Outcomes: Our latest results
• 2019/20 results: welcome upturn in employment and further
study outcomes

• Recovered from effects of pandemic – on a par with results


from 2 years ago

• Upturn in ‘highly skilled’ metric: narrowed gap to subject-


sector benchmark
Work Based and Placement Learning
Project
Graduate success: what next?
• Employability Communications: raise awareness of support
• Build on existing programmes:
• Work Based and Placement Learning Project (WBPL)
• Westminster Employability Award (WEA)
• Early Careers Programme
 Further enhance Business Engagement:
• Scale up Future Ready Mentoring, Westminster Working Cultures
and Westminster Enterprise Network
• Develop our new Centre for Employability and Enterprise at 29
Marylebone Rd
Videos:

Video showcasing impact of our employability projects

Video showcasing impact of Westminster Employability Award


Discussion points and Questions
• Your employability strategy
• How do you measure graduate success?
• Challenges with engaging students and employers at your institution
Thank you

Linsey Cole Monica Deshpande


Director of Business Engagement Head of Employability and Graduate
l.cole2@westminster.ac.uk Success
m.deshpande@westminster.ac.uk

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