EMPLOYABILITY
Middlesex students are prepared for the world of work – whatever their aspirations – thanks to MDXworks, our dedicated careers and employability service working with our Faculties and other professional services.
EMPLOYABILITY SUPPORT: ENGAGING IN THE REAL WORLD OF WORK
MDXworks helps our diverse student population to prepare for a world of opportunities. The team gives them tailored guidance to identify their aspirations and strengths, build their skills and confidence, and be ready to articulate their experiences, talents and value to employers or develop their own business.
Close work with employers in every sector is central, and an increasing number of them share our values of social justice, equality, diversity and inclusion. We forge partnerships with businesses of all sizes, especially local small and medium-sized enterprises, and support start-up community collaborations. This meets the University’s objective of embedding a practice-based pedagogical model, where students work on real projects, with real clients to deliver real, viable solutions.
Experience with an income
Our employment agency, Unitemps, offers part-time, flexible work paid at the London living wage. This not only helps students financially but also means they can build their CVs, confidence and skills.
This year, Unitemps has won a national award for efforts in helping thousands of students obtain paid work during their studies. The Unitemps branch at Middlesex was awarded the £5 million Turnover Award, which represents the amount contributed towards student and alumni salaries who worked for Middlesex from 1 February 2017, at the Unitemps Annual Conference in June 2021. For a consecutive year our branch was nominated for the Compliance Award, and one of its consultants, and Middlesex alumnus, Clemente Ruidiaz, was runner up in the Internal Consultant of the Year Award.
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Unitemps has helped nearly 2,300 students to find employment, and arranged more than 435,000 hours of paid work.
Approximately 1,500 students were actively employed via Unitemps during summer 2021 – at a time when the part-time jobs market was still in recovery mode from the pandemic. We continue to explore ways to extend the Unitemps offer to local employers to increase the range of paid work available while enabling businesses to establish partnerships with Middlesex so they can access the University’s academic and research expertise as well as its facilities.
BUSINESS AS USUAL
Throughout 2020, we kept providing our services, moving swiftly and seamlessly to a fully online model. Among our new online resources is an A-Z Careers Survival Handbook, which includes a rich, dynamic mix of real-time placement, work and volunteering opportunity updates, tips on keeping ‘career active’, and wellbeing support. Students now have free access to LinkedIn Learning, which offers video courses to develop business, technological and creative skills.
The WhatsApp Student Community Group, set up early in the pandemic, has developed into a number of coordinated support groups where the University provides support for professional development as well as pastoral care. We responded with agility to the national lockdown and successfully delivered our annual Gradstock Careers Festival. In October 2020, we ran a four-day online festival with more than 40 employer-led workshops and presentations and 96 one-to-one employer-student networking sessions. Attendance was up by more than 150% on the previous year.
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