What do employers think?
While some employers and training providers have been involved in the Progress File Demonstration Projects, man – at all levels of recruitment – have not yet had the opportunity to experience either this or PDP materials from higher education at first hand. Rather more may have come across the National Record of Achievement. Work is currently being undertaken by the Centre for Recording Achievement and the Association of Graduate Recruiters to raise awareness in recruiters at this level about the nature of the additional information being generated about students and graduates to enable them to decide how far and in what ways to take account of it in their selection processes. Within the world of work there has been increasing use of ‘recording and reviewing learning and experience’ over a number of years, in management development programmes, appraisal and performance review and professional accreditation. “Personal development planning is a continuing process into and throughout empl
