DkIT Embedding Employability
The DkIT Embedding Employability Initiative funded by the National Forum, as part of their Strategic Alignment for Teaching & Learning Enhancement Fund 2019.
News Update
DkIT Employability Statement and PCs Graduate Attribute Framework accepted by Academic Council, Autumn 2021.
The DkIT Embedding Employability project represents the latest step in the Institute’s commitment to our graduates’ employability.
Funded by the National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, as part of their Strategic Alignment for Teaching & Learning Enhancement Fund 2019, the project has offered staff, students, and employers an opportunity to exchange employability best practice Institute-wide and to voice-together their vision of the DkIT graduate.
We have aimed to highlight the best examples of employability activities across the Institute and enhance them through a series of project outputs. Among these are a set of DkIT graduate attributes, a framework to guide the Institute, and a toolkit for staff.
This process of collaboration with these key stakeholders has informed the development of an authentic set of DkIT graduate attributes and a bespoke DKIT employability framework. This project has provided a valuable showcase and roadmap for employability at DkIT, and has delivered the following:
- DkIT Graduate Attribute Framework
- DkIT Employability Statement & Framework
- An Employability Guide which provides a mechanism to map graduate attributes and embed employability activities in programme design and delivery
Project Team
- Project Lead - Catherine Staunton, Head of Careers & Employability, DkIT
- Research - Dr Michelle Cowley-Cunningham; Dr Jonathan Hodgers.
Project Steering Group
- Dr Moira Maguire, Head of Centre of Learning & Teaching, DkIT
- Maria Roddy Freyne, Hospitality Lecturer, DkIT
- Pat McCormick, Head of Civil Engineering & Trades, DkIT / Dundalk Chamber
- Taidgh Kavanagh, Student Union President
- Raymond Murphy, Regional Skills Fora Manager
- Anthony Murray, Employability Advisor
Reports & Frameworks
DkIT Employability Statement & Framework
DkIT Graduate Attributes
- DkIT Graduate Attribute Research Report
- DkIT Graduate Attribute Framework
- 10 Dot Matrix: Attribute-led Employability Activities
- Attribute-led Employability: Toolkit Wireframe
- Graduate Futures Toolkit – Charting Your Employability Success at DkIT
- Graduate Futures Workbook
- Discover Your Graduate Persona Workbook
- Graduate Attribute Workshop Master Slides for Guidance Counsellors
DkIT Embedding Employability Consultations
- Focus Group Collection 2021 (Institute Use Only)
- Embedding Employability Focus Group Protocol
- Scoring Key for Thematic Analysis of Consultation Groups
- Embedding Employability Survey Templates – Student Template, Graduate Template, DkIT Staff Template, Employer Template
- Embedding Employability Survey Report
You can also view all of the Embedding Employability Project documents on SlideShare at www.slideshare.net/EmployabilityDkIT/presentations.
Awareness Raising Sessions
- Lightning Talk Presentations
- Academic Council Presentation
- Sharing Practice Conference 2021 - CELT (Centre for Excellence in Teaching & Learning), Dundalk Institute of Technology
- SSRN eJournal Distributions
- Blog 1
- Blog 2
- Graduate Futures at DkIT: Introducing New Employability Policy Initiatives to Regional Skills Fora
- Graduate Attributes Poster Showcase - National Forum VIT&L Week Conference
- EOA Project Report for Academic Heads Forum DkIT
