Case Studies

Fashion Retail Academy, located in London, partnered with Abintegro two years ago to make a measurable difference to the employability of all their FE students. Theresa Chambers, Careers Manager at the Fashion Retail Academy, recently shared insight into how the college has achieved incredibly high levels of student engagement with its online careers and employability support. Aligned…

Exeter College, located in the South-West of England, partnered with Abintegro two years ago to help its small employability team to have a big impact and enable every student to access highly personalised employability support. Deborah Kearney, Programmes Director for BA and Business Management at Exeter College, shared insight into how the college has utilised…

Ranked in the world’s top 50 in the QS World University Rankings 2020, University of Bristol has partnered with Abintegro for a number of years to help provide the best student employability support to over 27,000 students. Abintegro’s CV review tool CV360 has been adopted as a core part of the University of Bristol Careers…

Canterbury Christ Church University use Career Pulse, our capability for measuring employability. By using Career Pulse to support student employability, the university was able to demonstrate a 16% Learning Gain in students’ career confidence within an 8-month period. In addition to the valuable student employability support gained through using Career Centre, the data insight has…

DeMontfort University use Career Pulse, our capability for measuring employability, to enable their students to visualise their career development journey and assess their strengths and weaknesses, helping them develop the self-awareness needed to reach their full potential. “It’s a great resource as students can visualise the journey they are on, assessing the strengths and weaknesses,…

Exeter College use Abintegro’s Career Centre and were delighted to have it set up and fully functioning within eight weeks. With over 10,000 students and a severe lack of career advice available to them, Abintegro was considered to be the ideal solution for the college. “Abintegro has been vital in enabling all our higher education…

Birkbeck, University of London recently partnered with Abintegro to create a Digital Careers Fair in their Career Centre to help them achieve an ambitious attendance target for their annual Careers Fair. Record attendance was achieved, with 2,000 students and graduates attending the event, and the careers team was delighted with the end result. In addition…

The University of Suffolk values how students can access the Career Centre at any time they see fit, which they consider to be very useful within a student community. “We talk to students during their inductions about careers and employability and then they often forget about it until it’s crunch time. Now they’re aware of…

Using their Career Centre to deliver programmes at scale, Manchester Metropolitan University trialled a Credit Bearing Programme for final year students, with 10% of their final year marks attributed to undertaking the programmes. The pilot was trialled for the Faculty of Business & Law. The two final year programmes were Global Strategy and Corporate Reporting…

Birmingham City University recently shared their thoughts on partnering with Abintegro to enhance their student employability support. ‘We really value how they have recognised the individual needs of each student – making Career Centre applicable to every person that uses it.’ Watch this short video to learn about the range of ways Birmingham City University…

Following the extension to the Graduate Outcome Survey from 6 months to 15 months, The University of Northampton was particularly keen to explore ways to increase alumni registration and engagement.  A two-pronged approach was taken involving the following initiatives: Using Career Centre’s Social Login via LinkedIn, Facebook, Google and Microsoft to make it easier for…

The University of Lancaster was keen to consolidate their online career resources, utilising Abintegro’s themes and content in Career Centre to support them in providing a 24/7 career resource for their students. The ways they achieved this were as follows: The university used DOTS framework and Career Edge theories to frame careers education, with the…

The University of the West of England has been using Career Centre’s Career Pulse and Programme Manager tools to support them in embedding employability throughout the curriculum. Other activities to support this include: Using an Enhancement Framework (embedding graduate attributes), incorporating the DOTS Model, to enable students to successfully prepare for the world of work…

Lancaster University incorporates the wide range of resources in Abintegro’s Career Centre into all of their courses, ranging from Business to Arts and Social Science. “Right the way through our levels of study, ranging from undergraduate to masters levels, we utilise the content within Career Centre to best support each student.” Watch this short video…

Nottingham Trent University has been particularly pleased with the ease of using Abintegro’s Career Centre, coupled with the ways in which Abintegro delivers solutions quickly and efficiently. “Abintegro is a very positive, forward thinking company that delivers many solutions that are, quite simple, ready to use straight away.” Watch this short video here to see…

“It has been a phenomenal eights months that has led to real employability benefits for our students. My small team have worked incredibly hard but none of this would be possible without the support and technical know-how of Abintegro.” Susan Odev, Head of Employability Canterbury Christ Church University has been delighted with how Abintegro supports…

The University of Exeter was keen to explore ways to achieve the highest possible levels of student engagement in their Career Centre. Through utilising Abintegro’s Sprint Email Programme, the university managed to significantly impact the number of student users, the level of engagement, as well as greater usage of higher impact employability tools in their…

Nottingham Trent University has increased overall student engagement with their Career Centre by increasing e-learning resources, expanding their award offering and improving award administration and validation. Activities have included the following: Single sign-on that integrates with graduate sign-on Implementation of a landing page for their Acceler8 and employability awards Implementation of award-specific mini-programmes (which Career…