UEA Award and AMA

UEA Award Guardian

Monday, November 7th 2016

No, 17(3)

Free to committed students

Award Students Film Student Benefits

Students asked to give their views

UEA Award and AMA

HUM students talk about their Award experiences

Learning objectives to do three things:

Why Take Part?

What our questionnaires show...

1. Explain the UEA Award and the benefits of taking part;

2. Explore what you could submit to the UEA Award;

3. Look at how to write up submissions for your formative activity and the UEA Award.

1. RECORD, REFLECT AND GAIN RECOGNITION FOR YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS

Write up your activities and know that you are developing attributes desirable to employers and society; be recognised for the great things you do with a University certificate.

2. BUILD A GREAT CV THAT DOES JUSTICE TO YOUR TIME HERE

When you’ve completed the UEA Award you’ll have plenty of material to help your CV and applications stand out from the crowd.

3. BE IN THE KNOW AND TAKE PART IN ACTIVITIES ON CAMPUS

By doing the Award you will get to know the amazing range of things to do at UEA and you’ll be able to get more involved…

4. GAIN INDIVIDUAL FEEDBACK AND PERSPECTIVE FROM EMPLOYERS

In the Silver and Gold levels of the Award, employers can give you a unique and valuable perspectives on your presentation skills.

5. GAIN GREATER AWARENESS OF YOUR STRENGTHS AND AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT. The UEA Award provides a framework to help you track your progress.

‘‘As I have a tendency to get involved in plenty of activities, the Award has provided a great opportunity to stop for a moment and reflect on the skills gained during my time at UEA."

Esther Veas Perez De Tudela Rodriguez, 3rd Year, AMA

What is the UEA Award?

UEA Award Success Stories

What counts in the UEA Award?

...and how can you describe it?

Students discuss their activities

• A framework for academic and extra-curricular activities, recognising your achievements.

• Developed in conjunction with employers, it culminates in a certificate from the University.

• Enables you to demonstrate a set of key skills and attributes for application forms, covering letters and interviews.

• Involves making activities you already do 'count' as well as getting you to do some new activities to make you more 'well rounded.'

• Students have gained confidence

• Silver Award students have changed their CVs in line with employer comments

• Gold Award students have experience of panel interviews with senior academics and employers

• 8% of questionnaire sample think a benefit of doing the UEA Award was helping to secure a graduate job (n = 115)

• Students have used the UEA Award as a talking point in interviews to provide a 'wrapper' for their extra-curricula experiences

What have you done and what are you going to do?

In groups of two or three, write down some activities you think you could submit to the UEA Award.

Are there any you're not sure about?

Which categories should they go in?

What kind of academic activities would you want to submit?

Writing Your Submissions

How does it work?

Writing Your Submissions

How many hours and activities are needed?

It is good to think about ways to write your submissions.

Compare and contrast the three submissions in front of you.

What's good about them?

How do they use evidence?

How could they be improved?

The UEA Award forms have two main sections of writing:

1) 'What did you do?' section or activities description.

2) CV section - ‘write a short statement that might be used in a CV, summarising your experience and skills gained overall from this activity.’

Golden Rules: the Language of CVs

Students Asked to Use the CARL Framework

The CARL Framework

CARL = Context, Action, Result, Learning.

Using the CARL framework is a good way to structure your statement. CARL allows you to give full evidence for each attribute:

Context: Set the scene for the reader and explain the situation.

Action: Explain what action you personally took in the situation. What did you do?

Result: What did you achieve as a result? For example, gaining a high score for a presentation, getting positive feedback, or achieving a target.

Learning: Show what you learned or gained from this experience

If you learn how to write the CV section well, it will save you time later!

• Consistent verb tense
• Keep it succinct
• Keep it clear and avoid jargon
• Include your attributes – what did you do to develop these?
• Evidence – what did you do?
• What did you do, rather than what your team did
• Use the CARL framework

Using the sheet in front of you, can you pick an activity you wrote on your previous sheet and try and describe it and write a CV statement for it using the CARL framework?

Share it with the person next to you.

What's good about it and how could it be improved?

Questions and Contact

Using the Framework

• What questions did it raise for you/ your partner?

• What did you find difficult? Why?

• What benefits are there in using the framework?

E-mail queries: award@uea.ac.uk

Appointments:

Wednesdays and Fridays during term time, e-mail for other times.

Expression of interest for follow up session.