“Our Careers Service commented that nothing else has been taken as quickly from their shelves. We are currently having to restock three distribution bins every other day at the Examination Schools to keep up with demand.”

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Notebooks have proved to be very popular with students and we are very happy with them. The publications went very quickly!

Careers Service – IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON

Smart Notebooks are really high quality and were a great way for us to get key careers messages outto students. The notebooks were so popular we had students coming in at Careers Zone especially to pick one up! Students love them and we would definitely like to do this again.

Career Zone Manager – Careers Services, EXETER UNIVERSITY

We are really pleased with the Smart Notebooks – they look great and our students were delighted to receive them. Some of our senior students said that they wished they had received something like this previously and even our PhD students asked for copies.”

Student Experience Officer – School of Economics, THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH

The Smart Notebooks are an excellent and cost-effective way to provide students with a product that they will no doubt find useful during their studies.

LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE

Our students loved the notebooks, comments included ‘great quality’, ‘useful’, ‘something for free!’. Some students have even returned to ask for a second one but we completely ran out in the first two days of term.

School of Economics, UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

The notebooks were very successful and students seem to love them.

Careers, UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER

The Smart Notebooks have gone down well with our students at both our Durham and Queen’s campus. They were delighted to receive them as a gift and are finding them handy, practical and informative.

Marketing Officer – DURHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

The Smart Notebooks were really well received by our students. The tailored content, academic planner and creative integration of graduate employers creates a useful resource for any student.

Marketing & Student Recruitment Manager, NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

The branded smart student notebooks are a really nice touch and great addition to induction week, the students loved them! The only thing is I wish I’d ordered more as many of the staff wanted one too.!

Marketing Officer – Birmingham Business School, UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM

The Smart Notebooks launched at Loughborough this year have been very well received by our students. The employer opportunities with some of our existing employer partners and the promotional information about the Careers and Employability Centre and really enabled us to enhance our support for undergrads and have built on our strengthening brand. Despite the appeal of online communication, students love to have something they can pick up, read and of course write in too!

Careers & Employability Centre, Loughborough University

There has been a very positive response from staff and students to the idea of providing these free notebooks, and to their quality and content. This year, the university content was designed to be of use to students throughout their first year. We plan to do something similar next year for our final year students with an employability focus.

Head of Student Services – UNIVERSITY OF BATH

We were really pleased to be able to give out the Smart Notebooks. The students really liked them, the parents were impressed and it provided a reason for new arrivals to engage with our staff and student ambassadors. Inside we included all the information about Student Services so they have a
reminder of where to go if they need support.

Director of Student Services – SWANSEA UNIVERSITY

We were really happy with the quality of the Smart Notebooks, it was a great way to provide students with useful information at the start of the year. The students loved them and we would definitely like more next September.”

Head of Compass (Student Centre) – KING’S COLLEGE LONDON

Smart Notebooks were a great addition to the Welcome event at Said Business School.
They were popular and well received by our students.

Said Business School – UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

The Smart Notebooks were very much appreciated by our undergraduate students. I was impressed by the high level of employers as most of them were focussed on graduate recruitment which is important for all our students not just for when they graduate but for summer internships. Overall, we are very happy with our Smart Notebooks.

Alliance Manchester Business School – UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

The 2014/15 Smart Notebooks were extremely well received by all the recipients this year. Anecdotally, students are pleased with the new compact size, and some academic staff have fed back they are a marvellous addition to the support we provide our students. A final year returning from their placement year commented, “ wow this looks really useful and will help to work out where everything is now” on receiving this year’s notebook.”Alliance Manchester

Student Experience Co-ordinator – ASTON UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

The notebooks are really great! Most impressed with the quality – couldn’t be better.

Department of Engineering, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

The notebooks have been really popular – we’ve had some good feedback from students. We’ll definitely go with the notebooks again next year.

Careers Service, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

The notebooks were very popular with our students and as such we would be interested in doing them again for academic year 2014/15 .

Careers, Employability and Enterprise Centre – DURHAM UNIVERSITY

The notebooks went down really well. It was great to have something that stood out from other products that students could pick up. I’m keen to look at doing this Next year.

Careers Service, PLYMOUTH UNIVERSITY

Students love them – most of our stock went within the first week of term and we still had students coming into the office asking for them up until December! We find they are a useful vehicle to provide guidance and ideas, as well as information about the services we can support them with.

Careers and Employability Service, KINGSTON UNIVERSITY

This is our second year with Smart Notebooks. The notebooks are university branded with Student Services information and our students have much appreciated receiving something so useful. The notebooks have good visibility on campus, and are evidently used by our students for notes during their lectures.

Director of Student Support – UNIVERSITY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE

The Smart notebooks were very popular with our students and always got snapped up very quickly. It was great to give students something that is branded with our Careers Service key messages, but is also useful, something that they can carry around and keep using and not forget about their career planning.

Careers Service, UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

Our students are very pleased with their Smart Notebooks, which look good, provide useful information and are also very functional. It was easy to engage with the very professional production process which helped ensure a personalized product of real value.

ECS – Faculty of Physical & Applied sciences, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

I was impressed with the quality of the notebooks which were produced to a high standard. They look attractive and are very functional. The students appreciated information as well as the practical gift.”

NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

The notebooks were a hit on campus! We have had many comments from both students and staff saying how great they look. I think we will be wanting to get more this year.

Careers Service, UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD

The branded notebooks are an excellent and cost-effective way to provide students with a useful product. They were well received by our undergraduate students.

LANCASTER UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT SCHOOL