The Essential Components of our Employability Strategy

York St John Business School places emphasis on exceptional development of students through personal and professional development. We are committed to develop appropriate career practices, maintain continuous improvement in the employability provision and facilitate the transition into stable and satisfying employment. We encourage students to consider their career planning, to reflect on their aspirations and to identify their personal and professional priorities. This will in turn encourage students to better engage with employability initiatives, which can make them more marketable graduates. The Business School programme teams work hard to:

Active Citizenship

Improve reputation through the provision of on-going and up-to-date information for continuous curricular and extra-curricular development to key stakeholders
Seek feedback for curriculum development supporting change for future student support
Offer mentoring support to enhance students prospects of career success
Utilise existing academic, research and management expertise in promoting employability values

Critical Thinking and Effective Communication

Continue to build strong links with employers
Develop transparent mechanisms in which students, employers and staff members engage to continually review and update employability skills, in both the curriculum and student support services within the Faculty
Target to increase the range and availability of student work placement and research project opportunities
Develop further the continued engagement of the YSJ Business School with the outside world

Learning and Personal Development

Ensure the provision of high quality career information and resources to students, graduates and employers
Establish ‘best practices’ to enable graduates to meet the demands of continuing professional development, building on their own first experiences of employment
Monitor and review the employability strategy annually through the YSJ Business School Employability and Work Placement Sub-Committee

Academic Excellence

Review and implement the new integrated employability strategy to provide on-going graduate careers support at faculty level
Increase the range and availability of student work placement and research project opportunities
Use pre-graduation support services for example career development modules, university’s career services and graduate gateway events
Develop of post-graduation support through establishment of a career hub to increase the opportunities for graduating students to obtain graduates position within the first six months of graduation