Abstract
As AI reshapes work, recruitment, and early-career pathways, international students need clearer support to understand the return on their education and build the capabilities employers value. This session draws on global employability data, institutional insight, and employer perspectives to examine how students define career readiness, where gaps remain between expectations and labour-market needs, and which support models help graduates succeed. Building on the speakers indepth knowledge of the topic, each coming from different angles, combining data insights with pragmatic experiences, the panel will highlight practical ways institutions can integrate employability across the student journey through careers support, transferable skills development, professional certification, work-integrated learning, and cross-sector collaboration. Participants will gain ideas to strengthen student outcomes, suggestions to improve institutional value propositions, and align provision with evolving workforce demands.
Learning objectives
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Understand how global employability data can inform career readiness strategy.
- Identify the key skills and attributes employers expect from international graduates.
- Discover new models of augmenting formal education with employer-led professional certifications
- Recognise the main gaps between student perceptions, institutional support, and labour-market needs.
- Explore the influence of AI on future employability and career preparation.
- Translate insight into practical action to improve student employability outcomes.
Target audience
International educators working in student experience, careers, employability, curriculum design, employer engagement, student success, and international recruitment.
