In today’s competitive higher education landscape, graduates career outcomes are under the spotlight and employability is more than a buzzword - it’s a key driver of student satisfaction, institutional reputation and league table success.
Whether you're developing your employer engagement strategy or embedding employability within the curriculum, we help academic institutions cut through the noise to pinpoint and develop initiatives that truly boost employability / ensure your graduates are career ready.
Developing a strategic approach to employer engagement
Improving graduate outcomes and employability metrics
Designing targeted interventions for specific student cohorts
Enabling academics to embed employability within the curriculum
Evidencing the impact of your careers and employability teams
Supporting your careers services with coaching and mentoring
Establishing a cohesive model for employer engagement
““The Blueprint is proving to be an essential and powerful tool in our change process and in support of our business cases for new innovations.””Jo Wheldon, Director of Careers and Employability, University of Leicester
1. Look in: We start with you. Through interviews, focus groups and surveys we comprehensively assess your current employability landscape, pinpoint your challenges and define your goals.
2. Look out: Next, we examine the wider university and employment sectors to benchmark your performance. We review relevant success stories, case studies and best practices to shape the direction of travel.
3. Look forward: Finally, we conclude by turning insight into action, presenting our findings in an evidence-based report with strategic recommendations that are tailored to you.
““They just get us these guys, don’t they?””Pro Vice-Chancellor Education, Teesside University (Following their 2023 Employer Blueprint)
Our flagship offering, Blueprint, provides a comprehensive diagnostic of your employability strategy, giving you the roadmap to secure internal buy-in and the toolkit to ensure that positive graduate outcomes are at the forefront of everything you do.
Make informed decisions. Gradcore's predictive data mode is designed to help you identify which students are most at risk of underemployment or unemployment. Our unique algorithm analyses more than 50 internal and external data points to generate an individual risk score for every student in a cohort. This helps you deliver targeted, proactive employability support to the students that need it most.
Understanding the impact of your initiatives is key to shaping a strong employability strategy. From mobility programmes to career service interventions, our team will evaluate what’s working and where to focus your support. Our insights can guide budgeting decisions and strengthen your Access and Participation Planning (APP).
Get a clear view of where employability lives in your curriculum. Over the past five years, we’ve mapped provision at 20+ UK universities using our Embedding Employability Spectrum model. We’ll we work with academic teams to identify where internships, work-based learning and experiential opportunities add the most value. We pinpoint gaps, highlight strengths, and benchmark against sector data to provide clear, actionable recommendations.
Empower your people. Our EQUIP programme provides academics with the appropriate knowledge, skills and confidence to embed career skills into the curriculum. Through a series of webinars, events and resources supporting strategic professional development, we guide your academics to become true champions of employability.
Conor Moss
Director of BESE and Dean of Work-Based Learning
Sheffield Hallam University
Let’s work together to build impactful frameworks that align with your students, your academic priorities and your institutional goals.
