Dundee Plus

The Dundee Plus Award gives you recognition for the many skills you develop, outwith your academic life, while at university including:

• communicating effectively
• critical thinking
• team working

Transferable skills

Your university degree is highly valued by employers, but on its own, it’s not enough to convince them to offer you the job of your dreams – you need to demonstrate your transferable skills too as these help them to see your ‘added value’.

Applying for the Dundee Plus Award helps you to recognise your existing skills, identify any areas where you need to develop further and be able to successfully talk about your experience to employers in application and interview. 

How to apply

There are a few steps to successfully achieving your award:

Step 1 

Take a skills audit. This will help you to see where you already have highly developed skills and also to analyse the areas you might want to improve.

Step 2

Carry out your skills development activity. This can be one of a number of different extra-curricular areas such as volunteering, coaching, taking on a role in a society, internships and work experience, or volunteering as a student representative.  We suggest this should be completed over a minimum of 30 hours. 

Step 3

Work on your personal development activities. This element of the award helps you to develop your skills through online learning or attending employability or skills events.  We suggest you take a minimum of four hours to complete this part of the award.

Step 4

Your final task is to apply for the award! You should take the skills audit again after you have completed your development activities to see where your skills have developed and write three statements to describe the activities you undertook and the impact these made on your skills.

Award and recognition

The University of Dundee is very proud of our students and wishes to recognise success in every field. Every student who submits a successful application will receive a digital certificate. 

Students who have shown an outstanding achievement through their Dundee Plus Award application will receive additional recognition.