{"id":80127,"date":"2021-12-10T15:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T20:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?post_type=cu_story&p=80127"},"modified":"2025-10-10T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T19:18:54","slug":"graduating-career-employability-framework","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/story\/graduating-career-employability-framework\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduating Career Ready with the Employability Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Finishing university is a major life milestone, but many graduates find themselves with a degree and a question: what\u2019s next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Entering the world of work can be challenging, but Carleton\u2019s Career Services<\/a> has launched a tool to help. The Employability Framework<\/a> is a resource to help students graduate career ready, with all the skills and abilities required to secure meaningful employment in fields related to their degrees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The framework underpins work that\u2019s already done by Career Services by creating a consistent set of career competencies and guidelines to assist students in articulating the capabilities acquired through their campus experiences. Students can also complete a self-assessment to assess their experiences and identify ways to make the most of their time at Carleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The goal is to create awareness about the many opportunities that exist on campus to enhance a student\u2019s employability. Additionally, it will encourage students to engage more strategically in opportunities throughout their time at Carleton, and to enable them to better articulate how these experiences connect to their overall employability so they are well-positioned for career success upon graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cIn Career Services, we often see students who are approaching graduation and using our services as they prepare for life beyond graduation,\u201d says Courtney R\u00e9gimbald, director of Career Development and Co-operative Education.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\u201cThey do not recognize the connection between these skills developed and the skills required for the roles they\u2019re seeking. Our goal is to close this gap and help students become more intentional in seeking out experiences and to better recognize how these experiences connect to their employability.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe experience was actually eye opening,\u201d says Carleton student Vanessa Ippolito, who completed the framework\u2019s self-assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cI was able to understand that all of the skills I’ve gained through my academics, volunteer work and extra-curricular activities were skills that I could put on a resume and use in future positions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Carleton faculty are also able to seamlessly include the framework into their courses, thanks to the competencies that align with the Ontario Universities Council on Quality Assurance\u2019s degree-level expectations. Career Services supports faculty members by offering tailored presentations to classes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI teach courses with significant community engagement components where I provide students with experiences that enhance their life and work skills, but I realize that they need support to identify and integrate this learning,\u201d says Deborah Conners, an instructor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cI have had Career Services come into my courses at the end of term for a number of years to help the student with this task\u2014to see that taking part in a community-based advocacy project has given them a greater appreciation for life, enhanced their social skills, made them more aware and committed to civic engagement and developed skills for the work world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Faculty looking to work with Career Services can request<\/a> an in-class presentation and\/or workshop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students looking for personalized support with their resumes, competencies and skill exploration can connect with Career Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Finishing university is a major life milestone, but many graduates find themselves with a degree and a question: what\u2019s next? Entering the world of work can be challenging, but Carleton\u2019s Career Services has launched a tool to help. The Employability Framework is a resource to help students graduate career ready, with all the skills and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":80128,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[1592],"cu_story_tag":[],"class_list":["post-80127","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-teaching-learning"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"blueprint"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/80127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/80127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98308,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/80127\/revisions\/98308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=80127"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=80127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}