Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Graduate Attributes
We developed the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Graduate Attributes through research with employers about what they want from a graduate, through talking to the lecturers on your course about what you learn and how transferable skills grow, and by talking to students who study here. When you apply for jobs or further study you will need to be able to reflect on what you can bring to an employer or university course (just like when you wrote your personal statement to apply for your current course).
Being able to refer to the attributes you’ve acquired alongside your degree will really help you. You will have already grown some of these attributes in your personal and professional life and your time at the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» will allow you to evolve them. There may be some of the attributes that you don’t feel so confident about, and that’s where your course team and the careers and employability team can help you.
An engaged global citizen
Suggested qualities
- Aware of the world and their role within it
- Open-minded, respecting and valuing diversity
- Proactively engaged with the community: locally, nationally and globally
Suggested skills
- Problem-solving
- Making decisions
- Communicating ideas
- Collaborating with others
- Curiosity
A solution-focused innovator
Suggested qualities
- Able to identify a problem and find a solution to address it
- Curious and imaginative, with a positive attitude
- Enterprising in approach, with wider commercial awareness
Suggested skills
- Creative thinking
- Problem solving
- Spotting and analysing opportunities to innovate
- Implementing ideas
- Managing projects
An inclusive collaborator
Suggested qualities
- Inclusive when collaborating with others
- Emotionally intelligent
- Considerate and able to act and lead with empathy
Suggested skills
- Recognising and analysing opportunities to collaborate
- Identifying relevant stakeholders
- Building relationships
- Engaged participation in group situations
A resilient self-advocate
Suggested qualities
- Positive in attitude, with a growth mindset
- Interested in lifelong learning and self-development
- Proactive in identifying and planning personal and career development opportunities
Suggested skills
- Evaluating strengths and relevant work experience
- Managing time
- Managing wellbeing
- Working independently
- Self confidence
- Able to make choices and decisions that have a positive impact
A creative and confident user of digital technologies
Suggested qualities
- Able to choose digital technologies relevant to different tasks
- Exploratory and experimental with new digital technologies
- Up to date with new digital technologies as they evolve
Suggested skills
- Using technology to find, interpret, evaluate, manage and share information and data
- Using digital technologies for communication and collaboration
- Working fluently across a range of tools, platforms and applications
- Adopting and developing new practices with digital technologies
- Creating new technologies to be used by others