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Register by the 6th of May 2009 for "Tools for a successful careers service" training course

Petrus Communications is organising a 2 day workshop on the theme “Tools for a successful careers service”on behalf of the European Association for International Education (EAIE)

Are you working directly with students to provide careers advice, employability skills training, help with finding an internship or practical tips on how to make a good application? Do you work with employers to provide communication services such as events and online job and internship offers? Held in the “City of Lights”, this training course covers the practical skills you need, shared by experts with years of experience of graduate recruitment, employer liaison and skills training.

Location: Paris, France
Dates: 24th June- 26th June 2009
Deadline for registration: 6th May 2009
Find out more and sign up here

Last chance to sign up for the EAIE training course:
"Managing alumni programmes effectively"

On behalf of the EAIE - European Association for International Education - Petrus Communications is organising a 2 day workshop on the theme “Managing alumni programmes effectively”.

Experienced professionals will cover the key areas of alumni relations and will focus on how to plan and implement the key alumni projects that suit your institutional needs. The main topics will include strategic planning, alumni associations and non-traditional alumni groups, records management, institutional assessment and surveying alumni, alumni communications and on-line communities, special events and reunions, alumni career and student recruitment programmes, alumni fundraising. The course provides a review trends, resources, and tips on how to get your existing alumni programmes to the next level!

Location: Paris, France
Dates: 3rd June - 5th June 2009
Find out more and sign up here

Managing a Careers Service 

Petrus Communications is organising a 2 day workshop on the theme “Managing a Careers Service”. Held in 2007 and 2008 with great success, this workshop is a key development and networking opportunity if you work in the field of internships and graduate employability.

Course description

A careers service may be a person, a group of people, a physical place, a virtual place (on-line or a network) or a combination of these. The main objectives of a careers service include providing career advice, contacts to the labour market and training to the students of their institution.

To meet these objectives, institutions need to build strong links with business and industry, as well as supporting the careers development of staff, and even alumni. This course covers the strategic, financial and managerial requirements for a Careers Service to meet these challenging expectations, and will look at a range of models of funding and development which can be adapted to meet the needs of different kinds of institution and all the key stakeholders.

Description

Course description

A careers service may be a person, a group of people, a physical place, a virtual place (on-line or a network) or a combination of these. The main objectives of a careers service include: providing career advice, contacts to the labour market and training to the students of their institution. The careers service is also in a unique position to facilitate interaction and exchange between education and industry with the overall aim of enhancing the employability of students from that institution, perhaps also supporting the development of institutional staff themselves. This training course will cover the actions needed to establish and to manage an effective careers service, whatever the institutional circumstances are.

Topics

The content will be tailored to allow all participants with some experience to have a better insight in the strategic and management aspects of their service, delivering employability skills to enhance the overall reputation of the institution, and relationships with key stakeholders. The areas to be covered are:

1. Careers service models and stakeholders
Central administration, student counselling, science transfer, internship office, alumni office, private/public partnership
2. Service description and best practice in service provision
Career service tasks (ie counselling, training, placement, events, fund raising etc)
Advantages for universities, faculties, students and alumni
3. Management
Director and staff functions, qualifications, development
IT office management, databases, legal considerations
4. Marketing and PR
Internal: ensuring you are able to deliver on your promises to external partners and benefit all areas of the institution
External: ensuring external partners are aware of your services, cost and benefits
5. Relationships and international networks
Regional, national and international networks
Creating a network with local industry around your institution
6. Financial planning & fundraising
EU programmes / Regional sources
Raising funds via the recruitment services you offer to companies

Learning outcomes

As a participant you will be able to identify the role of the careers service in your institution and which specific services you should offer. You will learn what is recognised as ‘best practice’ when providing those services, and how to communicate activities to key stakeholders – that is, the institution, students/graduates and companies. Participants will also get an introduction to the financial, legal, managerial and organisational aspects of a careers service with references to useful resources, to allow you to further develop this area for yourself. The handouts and course materials are designed to allow all participants to develop a relevant action plan during the course to take back to your institution.

Course format

Prior to attending, all participants will complete a questionnaire so that the course content can be tailored as much as possible to your actual situation. The course is structured to offer many interactive learning and networking opportunities, such as:
- Interactive group discussions and practical exercises
- Case studies to explore the practical application of the concepts discussed as well as sharing experience with other participants
- A round table discussion to allow questions on different careers service models, the views of employers and institutional partners.

Level

Intermediate

Target audience

Placement and employment officers, career service directors or managers, corporate relations managers, mobility/international officers, departmental staff with responsibility for career guidance, international relations/affairs managers. The language of instruction is English. The intensive and interactive nature of the course means that you need to be able to understand and contribute actively to discussions in English.

Class size

From 15 to 25

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Programme

Schedule

Day 1

16.00 Registration
17.00 Introductory Session and Survey Results
18.00 Interactive Planning Workshop
19.30 Welcome Cocktail

Day 2

  AM
- Alternative Careers Service Models
- Best Practise in Staff Development
- Roundtable Discussion with Employers and Institutions
  PM
- Stakeholder Management
- Service Description
- Marketing your Services
  Evening
- Social Activity, Discovering Marseille and Dinner

Day 3

  AM
- Developing Employability Skills (a business plan to integrate employability training into academic and non academic programmes ideal both for non ‘targeted’ students, eg from the arts and humanities as well as business and science / engineering students)
- Management Case Study
- Finance Case Study
  PM
- Networking and Relationships
- Developing a Prioritised Action Plan

We will provide a range of suggestions to allow all participants to make the most of this visit to the Marseille region.

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Trainers

Leo Robben, EUFLEX BV, The Netherlands

Leo studied Philosophy at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands. He also completed postgraduate studies in the field of general management and personnel management. Since 2002 he is the Director of EUFLEX Employment Services in Eindhoven, The Netherlands. From 1997–2002 he was head of the international office at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Before that he was responsible for projects in developing countries for the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Paul Blackmore, Lancaster University, United Kingdom

Paul is Director of the Centre for Employability Enterprise and Careers (CEEC) at Lancaster University. He has 20 years of experience working with and within industry, R&D and higher education; supplying services relating to skills development, training needs analysis and the recruitment of students and graduates across all labour markets. Paul also has over 10 years of experience in managing career development programmes and services for prospective employers, the student, graduate applicants and recruits.

He has managed several regional projects and higher education partnerships relating to graduate self-employment, HR business support for small and medium-sized enterprises and collaborative on-line vacancy brokerage services. He is a frequent speaker and trainer at national and international events on issues relating to the development of employer liaison strategies and related services. Paul is the author of several publications and papers regarding the use of corporate internet technologies for networked collaborative learning, working and personal development.

Kirsten Williamson, Petrus Communications, France

Kirsten is founder and Managing Director of Petrus Communications, an award-winning international campus promotions and market-research company. Petrus’s small team of experts works closely with international companies, colleges and universities in more than 30 countries, to attract and place the right candidates for internships, graduate jobs and masters or MBA programmes.

A highly active partner in the European Association for International Education (EAIE), Petrus devised and ran the organisation’s first ever ‘Managing a careers service’ training course in Paris in 2007. And Petrus is expanding: this year a third base, in Krakow, opened to join the established offices in Paris and the UK. The UK’s National Council for Work Experience recently presented Petrus with the 2006/7 ‘UK’s Best Internship Provider’ award in the small companies category.

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Practical information

You can find information regarding the venue, travel options and accomodation by downloading this file.

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Registration and contact

Course fee: €900

It includes
• Course materials
• Coffee/tea breaks
• Lunches
• Welcome Cocktail on Wednesday
• Social event and dinner on Thursday

Participants Registration:

To register click here.

Contact

If you have any questions please contact us.

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