These slides are from our information event for organisations interesting in hosting an Agency Life team. You can find more information at http://mmuagencylife.com

1. MMU Agency Life
“Parents Evening”

2. MMU Agency Life “Parents Evening”
• Introductions & hello
• What is Agency Life?
• What’s the plan and how does it work?
• Potential configurations
• What are the min/max requirements?
• Individual organizational ideas
• Lots of questions: help us build our FAQ

3. Introductions
• Rod
• David and Ben
• Helen

4. What is Agency Life?
• Brand new unit as part of University “EQAL”
project
• Introduces “Experience of work” into the
formal curriculum
• Students are assessed on evidence of
professional development, professionalism,
work quality and employment engagement

5. What’s the Plan/How does it Work?
• We have nearly 300 students starting on
Agency Life
• Divided into 50 teams of 6
– Hence the need for 50 host employers
• Students begin programme at the end of
September
• End programme end of April
• 3 weeks off term at Christmas and Easter

6. What’s the Plan/How does it Work?
• Host employers need to be within
easy/cheap/free travelling distance
– Greater Manchester, city-based where possible
– There are exceptions to this (later)
• Students spend a morning/afternoon with you
followed by a morning/afternoon with us back
here each week

7. Potential Configurations
a) Students
• 6 students all with you in one session
• Split the group and half 3 with you on one day,
3 on another
• Have 1 or 2 with you on each day of the week

8. Potential Configurations
b) Locations
• They can work ½ day at your chosen site and
their other ½ day at MMU with the MMU
mentoring teams
• They can work both ½ days at your chosen site
• They can work both ½ days at MMU and we
will visit them at MMU

9. Potential Configurations
c) Employment
• Students can work on:
– A single project over the year
– Several projects over the year, one after another
– Several projects at any one time over the year
– No specific projects but ad-hoc jobs within the
business throughout the year
– Individuals work on specific roles within the
business

10. Min and Max Requirements
• For at least one AM or PM they need
– Managing
– Supervising
– Developing
• You (the organization) should “see” them
(literally) once a week
• They need to have work to do, they are not
shadowing

11. Min and Max Requirements
• Specialist tasks
– You may need to train them up
• Example
– You’d like the team to run a PPC account
• They’ll need training up
• They’ll need an eye kept on them
• Specialist tasks are good
– It’s that experience you’re looking for when they
graduate

12. Super Outcomes
• Within 24 months you’ll be able to recruit
students with the Agency Life badge with
confidence
• We’ll have talent that realizes there’s an
industry up here (and doesn’t need to go to
London for the streets paved with gold)
• Graduates with qualified experience

13. Individual Organization Ideas
• Please let us know if you have an idea which
you think is worth doing
• There’s almost nothing that we can think of
that’s not appropriate
• Think about what experience you’d like from
future recruits

14. Q&A and FAQ
• You’ll have lots of questions, suggestions and
ideas
• Ask us now
– On Twitter @MMUAgencyLife
– On Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/MMUAgencyLife
– On our web site http://mmuagencylife.com/
• Please make sure you have our business cards