Engage your wider team to support student development
An additional add for organisations working with Queen’s is the potential to engage your wider team in our student employability and skills initiatives.
We recognise that Corporate Social Responsibility and Development of Staff are high on the agenda for many organisations and our events, programmes and wider University engagements opportunities are not only an excellent way of achieving these objectives, but they also offer additional brand awareness in support of your talent acquisition strategies.
There are a range of engagement opportunities for your organisation to get involved in throughout the academic year.
Mentoring of Underrepresented Students
Queen’s University Belfast is committed to ‘widening participation’ and actively engages in support initiatives to ensure students from backgrounds, that are traditionally underrepresented at universities and colleges, can thrive.
The Queen’s Widening Participation (WP) Mentoring Programme utilises experienced professionals and industry specialists to provide much valued advice and guidance to this group of students, supporting their career planning, development and access to useful networks.
Guest Speaker Insight and Knowledge
Our extra-curricular and co-curricular student development initiatives at Queen’s benefit from the inclusion of guest speakers who provide expert insights across a range of topics that enhance student learning.
Alumni experiences and stories also add significant value in highlighting career pathways post-graduation and are another welcome addition to our events and programmes, assisting students to envision what they can achieve with their chosen degree.
Experience of the Real World
Getting students off campus and into a real-world setting is also an important part of development activity at Queen’s and hosting an insight day or sector tour of your facilities is a great way for organisations to both support and engage students.
Equally provision of a challenge or project that students can work on as part of consultancy programmes is another avenue to explore, that benefits both sides. Not only does the organisation get the benefit of the student’s work but a representative can also get involved with helping to mentor the students through the task.