2024 is here and I’m excited for what lies ahead. Indeed, it’s the first time since 1992 that a UK general election, a US election and an Olympics will be held in the same year (Major, Clinton and Barcelona for quiz fans).
I’m halfway through my two-year term as President of AGCAS, and as careers team leaders from across the UK meet at the annual AGCAS Heads of Service conference in Cardiff, with a theme of “being a strategic leader in turbulent times” I’ve been reflecting on what 2024 might hold for careers teams.
We continue to work against a backdrop of student engagement challenges during a cost of living crisis. Yet given the regulatory and strategic importance of graduate outcomes to any institution right now, the careers and employability space is an exciting one to be in, albeit one at a tipping point if the resources to deliver across the institutional strategic stage aren’t there.
