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Lincoln Award – Explore

This first section of the Lincoln Award is all about exploring your skills, strengths, motivations, and career options.

Step 1: Complete Skills Assessment

Your first step is to complete our Skills Assessment which should take around 20-30 minutes. You can access the skills assessment on CareerLinc. CareerLinc

  • Simply log-in to CareerLinc using your University username and password.
  • Click on “Skills” on the menu bar and you can get started.
  • There are 30 definitions, and you simply choose the statement most relevant to each.
  • Once you have completed the Skills Assessment, please take a screen shot of your summary- you will upload this on your pathway on CareerLinc.

Step 2: Submit Skills Assessment evidence

At this stage you will become familiar with your Lincoln Award pathway and submit your progress.

Visit your Lincoln Award pathway on CareerLinc by clicking on the ‘Pathways’ icon on the menu bar or via Search. You should see your Lincoln Award pathway listed (if not please get in touch), simply click ‘Get Started’ or ‘Continue’ and you can see your pathway.  This is where you can monitor your Lincoln Award progress and submit activities. 

After completing your Skills Assessment, please upload a screenshot of your results summary and click ‘Submit’- we will verify this for you.

Step 3: Reflect on your results

Reflect on your results by answering our 2 Explore Reflection questions. You can find these on the pathway and submit your thoughts straight into the text boxes provided. To log onto your pathway please click here 

Step 4: Continue onto the next level- Develop

From your results and reflection, you should have a good idea of the activities you would like to complete to develop your experiences and skills.  See below for more inspiration on the types of activity you could complete in the next stage of your Lincoln Award.  You can find details of specific activities on the Develop page here; Develop webpage

If you would like any support with activities or developing your skills, please get in touch and we can support you by email.

Skills Development

Below are some activity ideas for developing your skills – just click on the skill you’d like to build to see more.

This list is just a starting point – if you would like to discuss skills development further, our advisers are here to help. We have many events to support you which can be viewed and booked on our Events Calendar, or you can book an appointment with an adviser.

Commercial Awareness

  • Develop your general knowledge of the industries you wish to enter and your awareness of political and economic events.
  • Follow industry news.
  • Gain practical workplace experience via an internship or a part-time job to help you acquire commercial understanding. See CareerLinc for relevant opportunities.

Digital Literacy

Communication

Interpersonal

  • Act as a mentor for other students through Lincoln Connect.
  • Be an active listener by showing you hear and recognise the perspective of others and consider their contributions.
  • Help colleagues and fellow students perform well by creating a friendly and co-operative work or study environment.
  • Take on the role of moderator when colleagues or fellow students disagree. Have a discussion with both parties to help them resolve their conflict.

Teamwork

Problem Solving

  • Gain a part-time job to develop customer service skills and resolve problems for customers and your employer. See CareerLinc for advertised part-time jobs.
  • Strengthen your ability to think strategically and creatively through games such as Sudoku and chess.

Leadership

  • Get actively involved with a group activity and step up your responsibilities by taking on a key role.
  • Look for a Student Rep or personal tutoring role. See further information on the SU website.
  • Volunteer for extra duties during a part-time job, for example, deputising for your manager in their absence or training new staff.

Resilience

  • Be willing to face challenges and learn from setbacks and mistakes.
  • Don’t be resistant to change, but instead be open and adaptable to it.
  • Set confidence boosting goals – setting and achieving goals and seeing how far you’ve come are effective ways to develop resilience.

Attitude and Initiative

  • Develop a positive attitude in the workplace by creating a clear and effective daily routine with regular breaks.
  • Take the initiative to work for yourself with activities such as freelancing and business start-ups. See the Self-Employment page for more information.

Perseverance and Motivation

  • Review your skills and strengths through the Lincoln Award to help you set future goals and stay motivated.
  • Achieve work and study goals by making them SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely).

Organisation

  • Set yourself a clear schedule for university activities in order to manage coursework and revise for exams with a timely approach.
  • Complete an internship to give yourself a crash course in organising, planning, and prioritising in the workplace. For placements and internship opportunities see CareerLinc.
  • Take on a Student Officer role through a society or sports team and get involved in organising events.

Confidence

  • Build good habits and break bad ones to improve your self-esteem.
  • Review past achievements – your self-confidence will increase when you’re able to say, “I can do this, and here’s the evidence”.
  • Try attending some of our Unlocking Potential Workshops, which you can find on our events calendar which cover a wide range of topics including how to feel confident in your future career. 

Negotiation and Persuasion

  • Become more active in discussing ideas within a group during work experience or a university team project. Support your ideas with evidence.
  • Get involved in raising awareness of key campaigns and charities through volunteering and civic engagement activities.
  • Represent the views of your peers by becoming a Student Rep. See the SU page for more information.

 

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