Encouraging your tutees to engage in extra-curricular activities and explore opportunities available at the University will help them to develop a range of transferable skills, graduate attributes, and characteristics that employers and universities seek.
Through participating in student clubs and societies, sports teams and social groups, your tutees will not only have fun and meet new people but will also have the opportunity to be involved in activities such as team building, organising social events and fund raising. Other opportunities such as volunteering, part-time work, internships, projects, and charity work, being a student representative or student ambassador also help develop graduate attributes and skills that are useful after leaving university.
You are unlikely to have much contact with your tutees throughout the university vacations, but the vacations provide students an opportunity to engage in activities outside of their studies that can really boost their graduate profile. In the second semester of each year you should challenge your tutees to think about how they might make the most of the summer vacation. This long vacation period provides plenty of opportunity for students to engage in volunteering activities at home and overseas, to secure internships and work placement, or just paid employment. All these activities will help your tutees build confidence, improve their transferable skills and make them into a more employable graduate. You may also want to encourage your tutees to spend some of the summer vacation preparing for the next year of study by reviewing topics they found difficult, or by planning and preparing for dissertation projects, etc.
In helping your tutees to reflect on and plan for their personal development, you should encourage them to find out what extra-curricular opportunities exist and consider how engaging with these will benefit their skill set and future employability.