Add+vantage scheme

Enhancing your employability

The new and unique Add+vantage Scheme offers students on participating full-time undergraduate courses an extensive range of modules; helping you to gain work-related knowledge, develop employability competencies such as decisiveness, initiative and adaptability, and manage your career.

You can view our short Add+vantage films to find out more about employment, the Add+vantage Scheme and what graduate employers think.

Industry Led Modules with Jaguar Land Rover and IBM

Coventry University has one of the most innovative and comprehensive employability programmes in the UK with more than 11000 undergraduates students taking accredited ‘Add+vantage’ modules each year.

Two of these modules have been developed in association with IBM and JLR and are designed to give students unique industry insights and experiences, including opportunities to understand the skills requirements and recruitment processes of these important graduate recruiters.

Students are involved in a range of practical activities which help them develop their career management skills, including developing effective CVs, completing application forms and being able to present effectively at interview. Representatives from the companies, working with Lecturers and Careers Advisers from the University, are involved in the training and assessment of students through the 10 week course and provide realistic insights into what students will need to have a chance of securing graduate roles in these types of organisations.

Students have the added benefit of having personal mentors from these companies who have been chosen because of their interest and expertise in supporting undergraduate students and helping them make the transition from university life to the graduate working environment.

Students are also provided with opportunities to visit the employer workplaces, to gain understanding of how large and complex organisations work and to hear first-hand from staff working in these companies what skills they will need to be successful.

Add+vantage Scheme Highly Commended by Green Gown Awards.

How will the Add+vantage Scheme help me?

The Add+vantage Scheme:

• Provides an opportunity for you to choose additional subjects (Add+vantage Modules) as part of your degree programme to develop your career prospects
• Provides a selection of entrepreneurial modules to help you set up your own business or think more effectively for other companies
• Makes you stand out in the marketplace when applying for graduate positions
• Makes you more effective and capable of ‘hitting the ground running’ when commencing your chosen career
• The combination of academic and Add+vantage modules could give the edge over other newly qualified graduates

How to find out more

Add+vantage Modules – view the extensive range of modules available to you
Participating Degree Courses – check whether you are eligible to participate in the Add+vantage Scheme
How to Register – find out how to register for your Add+vantage module

Or view our four short Add+vantage films.

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