Getting the Edge

Allison Kavanagh

Library and Career Development Centre Collaboration to Help Students Develop Employability Skills and Find Jobs

Careers Workshops

Careers Area

Could We Do More?Contribution of libraries to employability

Libraries’ traditional information literacy role in broader academic skills landscape

Best practice examples

Digital Literacy: The ability to appropriately and effectively use digital technologies for learning, working and living in a digital age.

JISC & Bonner McHardy, 2014

What is Digital Literacy?

Why is it Important?

How Can We Incorporate it into Programmes & Modules?

DIT Graduate AttributesAll DIT programmes aim to provide students with a range of opportunities to develop, practice and be assessed on an agreed range of key employability skills or graduate attributes

Engaged Enquiry-Based

Enterprising Effective Expert

DIT Graduate AttributesAll DIT programmes aim to provide students with a range of opportunities to develop, practice and be assessed on an agreed range of key employability skills or graduate attributes

Engaged Enquiry-Based

Enterprising Effective Expert

Global CitizenEthicalMotivated self-startersExcellent communicators

InnovatorsCollaborative workersEntrepreneursLeaders

Critical ThinkersProblem Solvers Creators of new knowledgeDecision Makers

Disciplinary KnowledgeWork based/work related learnersReflective Practitioners Digitally LiterateEmotionally Intelligent, Active team

players, Strategic thinkers, Resilient

ENQUIRY BASED

CRITICAL THINKERS

EXPERT

REFLECTIVE PRACTITIONERS

ENGAGED

ETHICAL

EXPERT

DIGITALLY LITERATE

ENGAGED

EXCELLENT COMMUNICATORS

ENTERPRISING

COLLABORATIVE WORKERS

ENQUIRY BASED

PROBLEM SOLVERS

ENGAGED

MOTIVATED SELF-STARTERS

EFFECTIVE

RESILIENT

Library Workshop for CDC Team

Train the Trainers Workshop

Where can I find

information about a company?

How can I research their competitors?

Who’s the best person to

contact in the company?

Library Workshop for CDC Team

Can I set up alerts to keep me up to

date?

Benefits of Collaboration

Helps students improve their employability skills and find

jobs

Secured role for Library in

developing Graduate

Attributes toolkit

Emphasises transferrable

nature of Digital

LiteracyHelps Careers

Advisors by expanding range of

resources

Opens door to further

collaboration – with CDC and

beyond