The Exeter Award structure

Skills Audit

You don’t have to complete a skills audit to undertake The Exeter Award, but you may find it a useful exercise as it has been designed to help you identify your strengths, weaknesses and areas for development within various skills areas that are typically sought by employers. Find out more about a skills audit.

How to achieve the Exeter Award

In order to achieve The Exeter Award, you will need to complete seven activities - FIVE compulsory elements and choose TWO DIFFERENT elements of choice

Download a visual summary of the Exeter Award

Complete these elements first, in any order:

1. Complete a minimum of 35 hours of the following, in any combination: 
             1.Work experience
             2. Volunteering  
   (So you could for example use 10 hours volunteering and 25 hours in a paid job towards your Award, or simply 35 hours from a paid job.) When you have completed 35 hours, click the ‘complete’ button in your profile. Keep a note of your supervisor’s contact details as you will need to provide these as your referee on your Exeter Award application form.
   
   
2. Choose one of the following: 
             1. Planning Your CV Session OR
             2. Effective Applications Session (login to view the events and training calendar) 
   (NB: you can attend both sessions if you wish, and we would encourage you to do so, but you only have to attend one for your Award.)
   
   
3. Personal development session. Current topics available are: Presentation Skills, Time and Stress Management, Team Building Skills, Negotiation Skills, Listening Skills, Networking Skills and Cultural Awareness.
   
   
4. Two elements of choice (see list below)
   
   

5. When you have completed the above elements, complete and submit your Exeter Award Application Form for marking. Please note that you cannot save your work and come back to it at a later time,so you may prefer to copy the questions to a Word file and paste your answers back in when you are ready to complete and submit the form.

6. When you have read and reflected on your application form feedback, book onto The Interview Experience. This is the final stage of the Award. After attending your Exeter Award profile will update confirming your completion of the Award and you will be invited to the next Exeter Award ceremony in due course.

Two elements of choice from the following:

• Employer Business Game
• Employer Presentation
• eXfactor
• Institute Presentation
• Alumni Presentation
• British Sign Language Course
• Certificated Basic First Aid Course
• IBM Challenge (Business School only)
• Foreign Language Centre evening programme – beginners level
• Exepert
• Xing
• Any accredited sports instructor course eg. PADI, Football coaching certificate

N.B.  Or other acceptable & verifiable activities – this is not a definitive list. Email exeteraward@exeter.ac.uk to check if an activity you have undertaken or are planning to undertake can be counted as one of your options towards the Exeter Award. Please check the FAQ before emailing us.

All events and training sessions can be booked online via your award profile.

See FAQ for more details