Project Leader: Paul Cox, School of Management

The objective of this project is to amplify student engagement and focus within the classroom while promoting recruitability. A focus on recruit-ability creates a Class environment in which an improvement in the interview and employment offer rate of our students is inevitable, reduces the burden of making such a large number of applications, helps students make the step into a career, and improves their comfort level later on as alumni when navigating the recruitment process during future job change.

The project will perform what we believe to be the first job application experience survey as an approach to pedagogy. Using that survey, we proceed to develop a ‘Recruitability Toolkit’ for instructors to implement in Class. The pedagogy is to work together with students to create powerful exercises to aid learning, engagement, in-Class focus, and recruitability.

Collectively, our students have a strong understanding of what hiring companies are emphasising through their first-hand lived experience of applications, assessment centres, and interviews. The project collates that body of knowledge by surveying a large number of learners. The consolidated and condensed findings are used to develop a ‘Recruitability Toolkit’ to support instructors amplify engagement and recruitability within the classroom.

The project is designed to make the following three innovations:

First, we believe that current learner job application information has not before been collected and used to improve current student engagement, in-Class focus, and recruit ability.

Second, learners’ lived experience of applications, assessment centres, and interviews, is relatively fast moving information and highly informative, yet this type of information is rarely used to improve classroom instruction. It is a minimal lag pedagogy.

Third, the information comes direct from learners, and presents an opportunity to listen and act on student voice as universities and educators increasingly say they do.

Project Update Estimated: Spring 2026.