Employability
Employability at DEN goes beyond skills training. It is built through student-led research, publications, conferences, and global collaboration, enabling students to graduate with real-world experience, professional networks, and public outputs.
DEN provides in-house training to enhance graduate employability. DEN and its partners provide ‘graduates’ experiences in a real situation, interning and mentoring by developing students’ skills. DEN is integrated into two modules: ‘Political Research and Practice’ and ‘Democratic Engagement in an International Context’. The latter is a new module based on DEN and delivered to the students at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. DEN supports students with their basic employment skills such as creating a digital profile, writing skills and placement opportunities. Since 2020, DEN has provided academic credit to students who take an internship, manage, run, and deliver projects. Students are mentored by alumni and academics both at the university and online.
This model integrates employability into the curriculum by embedding real-world outputs and professional engagement within teaching and assessment.
Identifying Opportunities
If necessary DEN works with students and local partners to identify appropriate internship or even first employment. Alumni, academics, students, and partners work cooperatively to ensure students are going through the process of mentoring and internship.
Democratic Skills
DEN provides students with a distinct and a clear pathway for acquiring employment-enhancing Democratic Skills. The corollary to this is focusing on the upskilling of students to make them more employable in an increasingly competitive, diverse and uncertain world.
Employability Networks
DEN supports students with skills for this new world of work, with a creative and professional environment and a set of graduate attributes: critical thinking, global awareness, digital literacy, etc. It will develop their employability networks with our national, local communities, international partners and alumni.
Tailored Workshops
Alumni and current students work together to organize and deliver workshops for undergraduate students on employability, involving local and community leaders, and with different thematic focuses.
Please watch and listen to students reflection
