{"id":8881,"date":"2019-07-24T16:22:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/?p=8881"},"modified":"2019-07-24T16:23:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:23:02","slug":"cardiff-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/cardiff-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardiff Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cardiff has a whole host of departments that offer fantastic\nopportunities for its students. The Cardiff Award is just one of these and is\nsomething that I only just signed up to in the last few months. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is it?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essentially, the Cardiff Award is an award that champions extra-curricular\nactivity and experience outside of your studies and therefore recognises your\nachievements. It also focuses on the professional development of students and\naims to make them \u2018career-ready\u2019 upon graduation. There are many skills to be\ngained through doing the award and it is a great bonus to put down on your CV\nto impress employers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What does it involve?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, you are required to do a minimum of 70 hours of\nextra-circular activity in at least two different activities. Some of the ways\nI have made up these hours are through internships, work experience, volunteer\nwork and being part of a society. It is pretty easy to clock up these hours and\nonce you have done that the rest of the award is pretty straight forward!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You also have to complete a number of sessions on a dedicated\nonline portal including uploading your CV, cover letter and reflecting upon\nyour experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You also have to complete five other employability sessions\nonline or attend employability sessions through the university. These can be CV\nsessions or careers advice sessions in which you just need to have a form\nsigned at the end to confirm you have completed this section of the award. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally you will need to do a recruitment activity such as a\nmock interview in person or online! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is basically it and once all this is completed you will\nhave a fantastic achievement to put down on your CV. Even better, the award\nwill go on your Higher Education Achievement Record which employers can see. You\nwill be given a digital certificate that can be printed out or put on your\nLinkedIn Profile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of the year an awards ceremony is also held which celebrates everyone that completed the award. Some students are even given special recognition awards for those who went above and beyond the required hours and provided detailed self-reflection on their portal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How to sign up?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The great thing about the Cardiff award is that it can be\ncompleted at any time during your years at uni. As long as it is completed\nbefore April 1st<\/sup> in the year of your graduation then you can do it!\nI signed up in the second semester of my second year which gave me over a year\nto do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To take part in the award all you have to do is email CardiffAward@Cardiff.ac.uk<\/a> and\nthey will do the rest with sorting out your profile on the portal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have any questions feel free to leave a comment below\nand I will be sure to get back to you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardiff has a whole host of departments that offer fantastic opportunities for its students. The Cardiff Award is just one of these and is something that I only just signed […]","protected":false},"author":1499,"featured_media":8886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[696,693,8,12,740,694],"tags":[810,41,43,46,809,78],"class_list":["post-8881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice-for-students","category-cardiff-university-experiences","category-jobs-and-work-experience","category-only-in-cardiff","category-opportunities","category-student-life","tag-award","tag-cardiff","tag-cardiff-award","tag-cardiff-uni","tag-cardiff-univeristy","tag-experience"],"meta_box":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8888,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8881\/revisions\/8888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/insiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}