Careers website wins national award

By Sam Balls
October 12, 2011

The University Careers and Recruitment website has beaten off competition from eight other universities to claim first prize at the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) Excellence Awards.

The website was shortlisted for the ‘Best Website category’, amongst other universities such as Manchester and Nottingham; however, it was Portsmouth who impressed the awards panel the most.

The website was launched in March 2011, and statistics have highlighted that an increasing number of students are using the site and taking advantage of having access to many career resources.

The site was created as a reaction to popular demand for the University to provide somewhere for students to have easy access to employability resources, faculty placement offices, research and knowledge services and Student Finance.

The website scooped first prize for demonstrating good design, high quality content, interactivity and sustainability. It contains a wealth of useful information to students and graduates alike, supplying employability guidance and advice on a ‘twenty-four-hour’ basis.

Head of Employability, Julia Hughes, said that the accolade was a reflection of the hard work put in by Employability, Marketing and the Department of Curriculum and Quality Enhancement (DCQE) who worked collaboratively on the project.

She said “Feedback from students has been overwhelmingly positive. The website’s design is based around a flexible homepage, designed to keep it up-to-date and topical, which includes nine quick link tiles which take visitors directly to popular areas of the site, which can be easily changed to reflect key sections of the site throughout the year.”