Presented at CONUL conference, June 2016, Athlone, Ireland by Allison Kavanagh.

1. Getting
the Edge
Allison Kavanagh
Library and Career Development Centre
Collaboration to Help Students Develop
Employability Skills and Find Jobs

2. Careers
Workshops
Careers Area

3. Could We Do More?
Contribution of libraries to
employability
Libraries’ traditional
information literacy role in
broader academic skills
landscape
Best practice examples

4. Digital Literacy: The ability to appropriately
and effectively use digital technologies for
learning, working and living in a digital age.
JISC & Bonner McHardy, 2014

5. What is Digital Literacy?
Why is it Important?
How Can We Incorporate it into
Programmes & Modules?

6. DIT Graduate Attributes
All DIT programmes aim to provide students with a range of opportunities to develop,
practice and be assessed on an agreed range of key employability skills or graduate attributes
Engaged Enquiry-
Based
Enterprising Effective Expert

7. DIT Graduate Attributes
All DIT programmes aim to provide students with a range of opportunities to develop,
practice and be assessed on an agreed range of key employability skills or graduate attributes
Engaged Enquiry-
Based
Enterprising Effective Expert
Global Citizen
Ethical
Motivated self-starters
Excellent
communicators
Innovators
Collaborative
workers
Entrepreneurs
Leaders
Critical Thinkers
Problem Solvers
Creators of new
knowledge
Decision Makers
Disciplinary
Knowledge
Work
based/work
related learners
Reflective
Practitioners
Digitally LiterateEmotionally Intelligent, Active team
players, Strategic thinkers, Resilient

8. ENQUIRY BASED
CRITICAL THINKERS
EXPERT
REFLECTIVE
PRACTITIONERS
ENGAGED
ETHICAL
EXPERT
DIGITALLY LITERATE
ENGAGED
EXCELLENT
COMMUNICATORS
ENTERPRISING
COLLABORATIVE
WORKERS
ENQUIRY BASED
PROBLEM SOLVERS
ENGAGED
MOTIVATED SELF-
STARTERS
EFFECTIVE
RESILIENT

9. Library Workshop for CDC Team

10. Train the Trainers Workshop
Where can I find
information about a
company?
How can I
research their
competitors?
Who’s the best
person to
contact in the
company?
Library Workshop for CDC Team
Can I set up alerts
to keep me up to
date?

12. Benefits of Collaboration
Helps students
improve their
employability
skills and find
jobs
Secured role for
Library in
developing
Graduate
Attributes toolkit
Emphasises
transferrable
nature of
Digital
Literacy
Helps Careers
Advisors by
expanding
range of
resources
Opens door to
further
collaboration –
with CDC and
beyond