Welcome
International Conference on Enhancement
and Innovation in Higher Education
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Glasgow
9-11 June 2015
Gail McGuigan & Sophie Morrison
Support students to transition to and from short
internship placements:
Internship Module & Business Management Internship Module
Agenda
• How are you tackling transition learning for
short internship placements?
• A Dundee Approach: Internship Modules
– Brief History and Development
– Module Content and Assessment
• Hands on! Transition Learning
• Hands on! Assessing Transition Learning
• Q&A
Short Internship Placements
How is your
institution tackling
transition learning
for short internship
placements?
What are the
transition needs and
issues of students on
short placements?
Do different
groups of
students have
different
transition needs?
Transition Exercise
What, if anything, do you already
know about the content of this
workshop?
Short Internship Placements
How is your
institution tackling
transition learning
for short internship
placements?
What are the
transition needs and
issues of students on
short placements?
Do different
groups of
students have
different
transition needs?
Transition Learning: One Approach for Dundee
Internship Module
Business Management Internship Module
Transition Learning: One Approach for Dundee
Internship Module
Launched Semester 2 AY 2005/6
Level 2
20 credits
Any student where degree pathway allows
Transition Learning: One Approach for Dundee
Business Management Internship Module
Launched Semester 2 AY 2010/11
Level 2
20 credits
Compulsory
Transition Learning: Content and Assessment
Session
Assignments
1
Module Introduction and Reflection
1st Blog Post
2
Organisational Culture and Personal Effectiveness
2nd Blog
3
Transferable Skills
3rd Blog
4
The art of CV writing
4th Blog
5
Insights: Personality Measures
5th Blog
CV & Cover Letter
6
Interview Techniques & Peer Assessment
7
Peer Assessed Mock Interviews
8
NO CLASS
Updates from Placement Providers
Report Writing and Presentation Training
9
Your team role (with Insights)
7th Blog
10
Presentations
8th Blog
Presentation
11
Factors of Career Choice & Action Planning
Final Report & Blog Assignment
6th Blog
Transition Learning:
Organisational Cultures and Personal Effectiveness
Aim:
Today’s session we will look at organisational culture and
consider how this can impact career. We will also consider
professional behaviours within the workplace. Finally we will
consider your own personal effectiveness.
By the end of this session you should be able to:
• Define workplace culture
• Demonstrate an understanding of how to assess workplace
culture
• Explain how personally effective you are and how you can
improve your own personal effectiveness
Transition Learning:
Organisational Cultures and Personal Effectiveness
Blog Activity:
Consider the organisation you are completing
your internship with. What do you think the
culture will be like? How do you think you will fit
into a culture like this? You may want to
consider your own values and how you feel they
fit with the organisation?
It would also be useful to consider your own
personal effectiveness and reflect on this.
Transition Learning:
Organisational Culture Exercise
In your group, review the organisational
culture task in the pack provided.
Discuss how this task could help with
student transitions into work placements.
Transition Learning:
Postcard to the Future
Transition Exercise
What do you know now about the
content of this workshop?
Transition Exercise: Student Version
Before the
Module
Knowledge of the working environment and how to operate within it
My awareness of what transferable skills are and how to effectively evidence
them
My awareness of my own strengths
My awareness of how to prepare and deliver a professional presentation to an
audience
My knowledge of what a strong CV and Covering Letter should contain
My understanding of what happens at an interview and how to turn it to my
advantage
What next?
Sharing good practice
Learning points from this session
‘Take-homes’
Thank you
Gail McGuigan
University of Dundee Careers Service
g.mcguigan@dundee.ac.uk
Sophie Morrison
University of Dundee Careers Service
s.a.y.morrison@dundee.ac.uk