Employability Skills Bootcamp

Ensure your learners have the skills they need to be work-ready

CMI’s latest research, Work-Ready Graduates: Building Employability for a Hybrid World, highlights that nearly 80% of employers believe that current graduates do not arrive fully equipped with the skills they need to be work ready.

The Employability Skills Bootcamp focuses on developing the core employability skills, as identified by employers, enabling you to equip your learners with key tools and resources, and an additional digital certificate and digital badge to make them a candidate of choice in the job market.

Take a look at this Employability Skills Bootcamp demonstration to find out how you can provide your learners with the skills they need to succeed in the workplace.

How the Bootcamp works

The Employability Skills Bootcamp is a digital learning series that focuses on core employability skills.

Through self-assessment diagnostics and e-learning modules, learners develop their core skills with tailored resources and tools to support their studies.

Throughout the programme, learners have the opportunity to retake their self-assessment diagnostic and see just how far they have come. All learners receive a digital certificate and badge from CMI to showcase their achievements to future employers.

Self-assessment Diagnostic

Digital Learning

6 hours to complete

Digital Badge and certificate on completion

Personal Effectiveness

Self-management, critical thinking and problem-solving and communication skills

Interpersonal Excellence

Interpersonal and leadership skills with collaborative working

Organisational Performance

Change management, managing resources, developing business acumen

Career Management

CV, cover letter and interview skills

*These core competencies are all underpinned by
CMI’s Professional Standard.

Backed by CMI research

CMI research was recently carried out with employers into what the key employability skills are, and how graduates need to be able to evidence them.

In response to this research, CMI has created the Employability Skills Bootcamp for our partners, to ensure that learners across all fields have the ability to leave their studies with not only their subject knowledge but with the key employability skills that we know employers are looking for.

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Setting the Professional Standard

The Employability Skills Bootcamp is underpinned by CMI’s Professional Standard, and backed by insights and research conducted. It also incorporates feedback from academics and employers - nearly all of whom agree that there are a core set of skills that graduates need to progress in their careers.

CMI's Professional Standard

Tools to make your learners stand out in the job market

Included with the Employability Bootcamp is 12 months free access to CMI’s Career Development Centre for each of your learners offering digital resources and practical tools to ultimately open doors for your learners to get a better job, including the following:

CV 360

scores a CV against more than 50 checks giving instant, detailed feedback to boost the chances of an interview

Interview 360

a bespoke interview experience using artificial intelligence providing instant feedback on communications, body language and speech

I think graduate employability skills are so important, as you would be able to highlight those even when you lack other experience in the field you are applying to. By managing to showcase the employability skills in other types of experiences you have, I think it would improve your chances of success.

Laura Pasca, BSc Psychology Student - University of Manchester

I am a recent BSc graduate starting a job at a world-class investment bank and it was only after having had around 30-50 interviews that I gained some knowledge as to what employers are actually looking for. Employability skills are something that could be stressed even stronger at universities as these are the soft skills - or lack of them - that make a person viable or not viable to join a particular team. I believe that the employability skills taught in the CMI Employability Skills Bootcamp should be more ‘common knowledge’ and accessible for every young person entering the workplace.

Krzysztof Borowieckil - University of Manchester

I am graduating next year so I think it is very important for me to be thinking about, and gaining, employability skills right now. I need time to practice and prepare for interviews, but also to know how to write a good CV and cover letter. I have to gain some career-related employability skills to stand out from other candidates.

Xue Loo - University of East Anglia

Employability Skills Bootcamp

Backed by CMI research

Setting the Professional Standard

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