Opportunity Profiling- Stepping up our Game!
Hi everyone,
Since Eleanor took a 3 week period of annual leave on August 11th, the pressure has no doubt been on for all members of the Mission Employable team to achieve as much as possible and meet the range of respective goals that we each set for Eleanor’s return at the start of September.
However, alongside this work we have also been compiling opportunity profiles for the Southampton Opportunity Project. These detail all of the opportunities available for Humanities students here at the University.
The profiles, as we have mentioned, will ultimately be incorporated into a Southampton Opportunity website, serving as a comprehensive database of student opportunities offered across the University. Given the importance of this task, our role as part of such a large, university-wide project, and following a reminder from Charlotte who, incidentally, is doing a great job taking on a leadership role in acting as a port of call for the team during Eleanor’s absence, we have shared out the task of creating profiles so that we can provide the Project with as much information as possible.
The process of profiling involves completing Excel spreadsheet entries for each individual opportunity and then contacting the relevant individual to amend, review, and add to our profiles as they see fit. We also need to obtain their approval before placing the data on the website that will hopefully go live at the beginning of Semester 2 – a process which can be either very simple or quite tricky depending on how many of the contacts are checking their emails over the summer holidays!
Naturally the profiles are a significant task in their own right, and consequently we have all had to be on top form in order to successfully incorporate this task whilst striving to complete our own personal and extensive lists of objectives!
At this point, I would normally happily continue to explain the process of opportunity profiling in more detail, or perhaps include some general updates on my progress, however as you may imagine, I have work to do and really need to crack on!
Instead I will simply reiterate that things are definitely heating up in the Mission Employable office (figuratively speaking of course, as the temperature has sadly dropped a lot in the last few weeks-summer may well be over!) and we remain optimistic that our hard work will pay off and lead to big things for the Faculty and hopefully the University as a whole!
Until next time!