Skillscast

Not sure how to give the right feedback, in the right way, at the right time? Are you worried about how it might impact your relationship with who you give feedback to? Check out this short to get you started on improving your feedback practices.

Want to improve your focus but not sure how? in this Skillscast Short episode Tom Greenaway shares tips on how to improve your focus, eliminate distractions, and complete your goals.For transcripts of this and other episodes head to warwick.ac.uk/skillscast. TO learn more about the Warwick Award and how to register check out our home page at warwick.ac.uk/warwickaward.

Do you want to start a business? Learn entreneurial skills? Warwick Entreprise can sort you out. Listen to this interview with Chris Wilkinson, Student Innovation Officer to learn how to get started. Learn more about Warwick Enterprise here - Unleash your potential | Warwick Enterprise Learn more about the Warwick Award at Warwick.ac.uk/warwickaward

The 1 Hour projects connects students who are first in their families to attend university with professionals in a range of industries so they can learn about the skills needed for their potential careers and start to build a professional network. Learn more or register at https://1hourproject.org/ For transcripts to this and all our episodes head to warwick.ac.uk/skillscast

Warwick's Active Bystander Course has supported over 1,000 students to gain confidence in assessing and safely addressing situations relevant to student life to help build a community that embodies our ethics and values. Take a listen to some of the course participants talk about how it has positively impacted their lives and the lives of other students. For transcripts of this episode and other episodes head to our website warwick.ac.uk/skillscast To learn more about the Warwick Award check out our website - warwick.ac.uk/warwickaward

This time we’re covering something that has been mentioned in just about every episode; the Warwick Award.    The Award is Warwick’s skills development programme, and launched fully in September 2022. To help you understand more about the Award and why you might like to register for it yourself, we caught up with Lauren Ketteridge. Lauren is now studying for a PhD, but she also achieved the Gold level of the Warwick Award while she was an undergraduate here, and has plenty of useful insights to share.    If you enjoyed this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts, you can find transcripts of all our episodes at warwick.ac.uk/skillscast

This time we’re taking another deep dive into one of Warwick’s 12 core skills; professionalism. In this episode, head of the skills team here at Warwick Ali Collins was joined by Giorgia McDonald, who is Warwick Business School’s careers manager for undergraduates. This interview is packed full of excellent advice about professionalism – what it is, how and where you can build it, and how it might help you stand out from the crowd of 500,000 graduates who enter the job market every single year. If you enjoy this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts, you can find transcripts of all our episodes at warwick.ac.uk/skillscast.

This time our focus is something that is great not only for skills development, but many, many other things too; volunteering. In this episode, skills developer Tom Greenaway caught up with two people with in-depth experience of Warwick Volunteers, the official Warwick society for volunteering that has an impact across the local community all year round. Later, you’ll hear from Dominik, a recent graduate who has previously been a project leader and Vice President of Warwick Volunteers. But first, you’ll meet Zosia, the President of Warwick Volunteers for 2023/24. To find out more about Warwick Volunteers and how you can get involved, check out their website and Instagram pages. If you enjoy this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts, you can find transcripts of all our episodes at warwick.ac.uk/skillscast.

This time we’re focusing on a key part of learning skills, personal development and, as it happens, the Warwick Award – we’re looking at reflection, with two members of Warwick's skills team; Tom Greenaway is asking the questions of Steven Burke who has extensive interest in and experience of using reflection and reflective practice. He gives you some background to the art of reflecting, tips on how to do it, and explains how it can help improve so many parts of your life – including what you have for breakfast! This episode also mentions the reflective practice toolkit that can be found on our website. If you enjoy this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts, you can find transcripts of all our episodes at warwick.ac.uk/skillscast

In this episode, we caught up with two former Warwick students who have found success setting up their own businesses – David and Sumit. Both offer great insights into why you might want to consider becoming an entrepreneur and tips on how to achieve success doing so. And don’t forget; here at the University of Warwick we have Warwick Enterprise, who can help you explore your ideas, develop your skills, and launch your venture. Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/enterprise. See David's LinkedIn profile. See Sumit's LinkedIn profile. If you enjoy this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts, you can find transcripts of all our episodes at warwick.ac.uk/skillscast

This time we’re taking another closer look at one of Warwick’s 12 core skills – specifically, sustainability. In this episode, skills developer Steven Burke caught up Laura Allison, a qualified dentist who swapped canines for carbon literacy – sorry, couldn’t resist – and pursued her passion for sustainability, becoming a sustainability co-ordinator here at Warwick in 2023. Laura has plenty to offer, including what sustainability means, why it’s important whatever sector you plan to work in, and some insights as to whether eating bananas is bad for the environment. If you enjoyed this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts, you can find transcripts of all our episodes at warwick.ac.uk/skillscast

In this episode you’ll get to hear from some of my immediate colleagues in the skills team about something we’ve not yet covered here – what it takes to actually learn a skill. In this episode, two of Warwick's skills developers got together to talk skills – Steven Burke asked the questions and Tom Greenaway offered his insights and expertise. There’s lots to cover here, including defining skills, complicated gymnastics moves, and Rubik's cubes. If you enjoyed this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts, you can find transcripts of all our episodes at warwick.ac.uk/skillscast

In this episode, we’re going to hear from four students who were part of Thrive’s pilot programme who will tell you more about the skills they’ve developed both on the programme and alongside it. If you’d like to find out more about Thrive yourself, visit warwick.ac.uk/thrive. If you enjoyed this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts, you can find transcripts of all our episodes at warwick.ac.uk/skillscast

In this episode, we're joined by Jim Judges, who is an academic technologist here at Warwick and has more than 20 years of experience working in a digital realm. Across our conversation, Jim offers insights into why digital literacy is important, how it might change in the future, and why it’s important for students to think about while they are at university. If you enjoy this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts, and you can find transcripts of our episodes on our website – there’s a link in the show notes, or you can head to warwick.ac.uk/skillscast

In this episode, our focus is on the URSS and you'll hear the perspectives of four University of Warwick students who completed it in 2023. In case you were wondering, URSS stands for Undergraduate Research Support Scheme, and it enables Warwick undergraduate students to carry out an interdisciplinary summer research project and receive a bursary towards it. As you’ll hear from our guests, the scope of the URSS is huge and everyone gets a different experience and skillset from it. If you feel inspired, applications for the 2024 version of the URSS open on Thursday 16 November, so why not take a closer look? Also, if you enjoy this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts, and you can find transcripts of our episodes on our website.

How confident are you in selling your skills to potential employers? In this episode, we meet Sam Merrix and Kelly Coles, both senior careers consultants at Warwick and both people who are well worth listening to if you want to give yourself the best chance of standing out to employers and kick-starting your career. In this chat, you’ll hear tips on how to market what skills you have to potential employers, how to find out what skills those employers are looking for, as well as advice on how to prepare to talk about your skills at assessment centres and in job interviews – feel free to take notes as there’s lots of great stuff in this episode! If you enjoy this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts, and you can find transcripts of our episodes on our website. *** Interview by Tom Greenaway Hosting, mixing, editing, and artwork by Dave Musson Theme music from Adobe Stock Music The Skillscast is brought to you by the team behind the Warwick Award, the University of Warwick’s employability skills award and development scheme. Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/warwickaward.

Welcome to the first episode of the Skillscast, from the University of Warwick's Skills Team. Our guest this episode is Fay Inverarity, who graduated from Warwick in the summer of 2022 and secured a place on the graduate scheme at Barclays Bank and who did an incredible amount of skills development while studying here. In this chat, Fay shares some great insights about how to develop your skills while at University. Among other things, Fay shares how she’s found her first year of work, she talks about how she went about developing a range of skills while studying here, and reflects on the importance of, well, reflecting on your own skills development – particularly when thinking about applying and interviewing for jobs. If you enjoy this interview, please share it with a friend and consider following the show so you don’t miss any future episodes. You can find The Skillscast on Spotify, Apple, or wherever else you get your podcasts. We'll be back in two weeks. --------------------------------------------------------- Hosted, mixed & edited by Dave Musson Artwork designed by Dave Musson using elements by Icongeek26, downloaded from Flaticon. The Skillscast is brought to you by the team behind the Warwick Award, the University of Warwick’s employability skills award and development scheme. Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/warwickaward.

Launching in mid-October; The Skillscast - a brand new podcast from the University of Warwick. The Skillscast is all about how to learn and develop your skills while at University, and how to use them to set you for a fantastic start to life once you graduate. In each episode, you’ll get to hear from a range of different people from across Warwick’s campus about why skills are important, how they developed theirs, and how you can too. Coming up in our first season, you’ll hear from recent graduates who have taken their next step. They’ll tell you how taking their opportunities to build their skills while at Warwick helped them find the jobs they wanted. We’ll also bring you various experts from Warwick’s staff, who will explain how to learn and improve different core skills, so that you can really stand out.   And, we’ll talk to current Warwick students and discover how they’re making the most of what’s offer while they’re a student here, as well as how they’re using those opportunities to develop their own skills. Season one of the Skillscast launches in mid-October, and there will be a new episode every two weeks. Find the Skillscast now and subscribe on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts. The Skillscast is brought to you by the team behind the Warwick Award, the University of Warwick’s employability skills award and development scheme. Find out more at warwick.ac.uk/warwickaward.

Where do you start when you want to get work experience? Warwick has a toolkit to help you. Take a listen to Laileng from the IPWE team to learn how to get started with work experience. Check out the toolkit here

Interested in getting real-world work experience at Warwick? In this episode we are Joined by Laura Jackson, Project leader at the TeamWork International Experience Programme and two of her ambassadors, Chris and Anais, to discuss the programme, their experiences, and the skills they developed. Learn more and sign up at TeamWork International Experience Programme