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Large scale assessment centre simulation: probably the largest in the UK if not the world!

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Judith Baines

Presentation at Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services Heads of Services Annual Conference, Edinburgh 2019

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Large scale assessment centre simulation: probably the largest in the UK if not the world!
How did UH make it a reality? • Inspiration • Gaining ’buy-in’ • The pilot • Partnership working • Scaling up • Impact • Influencing at a senior level • Future aspirations • An invitation
Gaining ‘buy-in’ • Influencing key stakeholders • Securing the budget
Found our Champion • 14 March 2016 – “thank you for thinking of us” • 8 April 2016 – it’s a yes – here are some questions for you • 15th April 2016 – responded with answers • 15th April 2016 – “Then it is down to logistics and HBS ensuring we maximise buy-in. To do this, we will have to move swiftly and do a little post-DMD approval date fancy footwork, to link it to assessment, in order to get the important buy-in. It does mean that the date of the event needs to be organised asap - 30 April latest so we can communicate this via their workloads.” • 30th April – “I have really enjoyed the speed at which we’ve been able to work on this”
The Pilot • 400 Business students • Watford football club
Business School Support • “… 700 students who now feel confident to pursue employment opportunities is a great achievement. This will hopefully help our employability metrics, but most importantly it will be one more way in which we transform the lives of our students.” (Dean of Business School) • There had been concerns that students would not engage or perform well in front of employers and damage reputations but these were allayed (Lecturer Business School)
Scaling up • Student feedback • Accommodating changes • Supporting the schools
Humanities School Support • Thank you for a rewarding day. High powered stuff, delivered with zest. A privilege for our students. (Dean of Humanities tweet) • We hope that they found the experience a real confidence boost and it has certainly given us much to think about in how we move forward with the employability agenda in the School. (Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning Humanities) • Thank you so much for your effort, energy and enthusiasm around yesterday’s Assessment Centre Exercise for our Level 5 Humanities and Mass Communications students. The day was a resounding success, and I am very grateful to you all for making it so professional, positive, and productive. (Lecturer Humanities)
Influencing at a senior level Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire: Robert Voss The whole morning, - team working, presentations and interviews were of the highest calibre and our students were blessed to have such high quality, intense development and feedback from experienced ‘real word’ professionals, I doubt they will ever experience such a transformational morning in their future careers. Robert Voss, my fellow governor and I made a point of expressing our admiration of the assessment training initiative at the university governors board meeting this afternoon and asked that our appreciation be recorded and minuted. (Tony Hughes, Governor at the university) Robert Voss, Chair of UH Board of Governors filmed at WFC endorsing ACE https://youtu.be/xAZl3347lxg

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Large scale assessment centre simulation: probably the largest in the UK if not the world!

  • 1. Large scale assessment centre simulation: probably the largest in the UK if not the world!
  • 2. How did UH make it a reality? • Inspiration • Gaining ’buy-in’ • The pilot • Partnership working • Scaling up • Impact • Influencing at a senior level • Future aspirations • An invitation
  • 3. Gaining ‘buy-in’ • Influencing key stakeholders • Securing the budget
  • 4. Found our Champion • 14 March 2016 – “thank you for thinking of us” • 8 April 2016 – it’s a yes – here are some questions for you • 15th April 2016 – responded with answers • 15th April 2016 – “Then it is down to logistics and HBS ensuring we maximise buy-in. To do this, we will have to move swiftly and do a little post-DMD approval date fancy footwork, to link it to assessment, in order to get the important buy-in. It does mean that the date of the event needs to be organised asap - 30 April latest so we can communicate this via their workloads.” • 30th April – “I have really enjoyed the speed at which we’ve been able to work on this”
  • 5. The Pilot • 400 Business students • Watford football club
  • 6. Business School Support • “… 700 students who now feel confident to pursue employment opportunities is a great achievement. This will hopefully help our employability metrics, but most importantly it will be one more way in which we transform the lives of our students.” (Dean of Business School) • There had been concerns that students would not engage or perform well in front of employers and damage reputations but these were allayed (Lecturer Business School)
  • 7. Scaling up • Student feedback • Accommodating changes • Supporting the schools
  • 8. Humanities School Support • Thank you for a rewarding day. High powered stuff, delivered with zest. A privilege for our students. (Dean of Humanities tweet) • We hope that they found the experience a real confidence boost and it has certainly given us much to think about in how we move forward with the employability agenda in the School. (Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning Humanities) • Thank you so much for your effort, energy and enthusiasm around yesterday’s Assessment Centre Exercise for our Level 5 Humanities and Mass Communications students. The day was a resounding success, and I am very grateful to you all for making it so professional, positive, and productive. (Lecturer Humanities)
  • 9. Influencing at a senior level Lord-Lieutenant of Hertfordshire: Robert Voss The whole morning, - team working, presentations and interviews were of the highest calibre and our students were blessed to have such high quality, intense development and feedback from experienced ‘real word’ professionals, I doubt they will ever experience such a transformational morning in their future careers. Robert Voss, my fellow governor and I made a point of expressing our admiration of the assessment training initiative at the university governors board meeting this afternoon and asked that our appreciation be recorded and minuted. (Tony Hughes, Governor at the university) Robert Voss, Chair of UH Board of Governors filmed at WFC endorsing ACE https://youtu.be/xAZl3347lxg

Editor's Notes

  1. Business School Who would listen? Wanted to avoid committees My managers Pro VC for Business and Enterprise and Marcomms so could see the potential for recruitment and had funding. Who could change their modules quickly and already had one that we could embed into In 2015/16 CE looked at the data from the 13/14 DLHE cohort with a BME graduate level employment gap of 14% with overall employment/further study gap at 5.2%. UHBS also has the highest number of BME students studying at UH, outside of HSK,. To address this CE piloted a scheme in the autumn of the 2016/17 academic year, ACE, that prepares students for assessment centres, further details below
  2. Talk them through what we do: Interview Group exercise Presentation Materials bespoke to courses Scoring on the day Employers involved
  3. Attached sheet
  4. Selling it to each other Supporting academics Supporting students