Step Into Your Future
Program Overview
The "Step Into Your Future" program at UWE Bristol is a career coaching program designed for recent social science graduates. It provides individualized coaching, career management resources, and peer engagement opportunities to help graduates identify career paths, develop job applications, and expand their professional networks. The program is self-paced and allows participants to set personal objectives that suit their situation and interests.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This introductory section covers various aspects of the career coaching program, including:
- Target Audience: Recent graduates of UWE Bristol social science degrees (Psychology, Sociology, Criminology, Philosophy, and Politics and International Relations) who graduated in 2023.
- Objectives:
- Support these graduates in their early career journey and help them make a shift in their current work situation (for those who desire it.).
- Guide graduates by providing individualized coaching from a dedicated counselor, tailored career management resources focused on their social science field, peer engagement opportunities like discussions to provide a sense of community and mutual guidance from one to another.
- Career Benefits:
- Gain clarity with identifying your relevant career paths based on your values, interests and priorities through one-on-one sessions. The coach is instrumental in generating individual plans and supporting with next steps.
- Access broader access to job avenues, learn advanced techniques regarding creative, networking and interview skills by understanding employer specific expectations, to put forth applications that leave an impact for job roles requiring specialized knowledge of Social Science graduates such as the Psychology or related domains. However, some pertinent info we did extract includes: -
- Learning Style: Self paced; program allows tailoring by setting personal objectives that suit your situation or interests
- Access To Learning Materials Post Program : Graduates retain long standing access with login via UWE Bristol portal Overall, it presents a flexible framework versus structured one so participants can decide pace for completion
Careers:
This aspect was mentioned at both beginning: Overall objective , plus within Benefits" subheadings within "Introduction": 1, Identify : Help define which Career field might interest, align 2) Application creation , to better reflect skills relevant However, as far as actual job titles, organizations where prior grad landed (salary info etc, ) there's a void there that needs UWE filling!
