Graduate attributes and potential.ly

At Westminster, preparing you for your future is at the heart of what we do. We strive to give every student an excellent education, making them highly employable and ensuring they're fit for any future they choose.

Westminster graduates are:

  • Experts in their fields – Studying with us will equip you with detailed, practice-informed subject knowledge, as well as a degree qualification.
  • Highly employable – Your course programme and extracurricular activities will prepare you for the world of work, developing the technical and soft skills needed to make you a competitive candidate.
  • Socially responsible – The ideas you encounter in our diverse community will help you develop values that are distinctively ‘Westminster’, including social responsibility, a progressive mindset and global fluency.

Potential.ly

Take control of your personal development with Potential.ly, an online tool that helps you explore your strengths, preferences and competencies. Potential.ly will also assist you in planning activities that fuel your personal growth on your journey to becoming a highly employable, globally engaged, and socially responsible citizen.

Potential.ly is a personalised tool for building the skills and competencies you need to demonstrate the Westminster graduate attributes.

Using Potential.ly, you can complete an online questionnaire (personality indicator test) and access detailed reports that give you insight into your personal behavioural style and team role preferences.

Potential.ly will also suggest areas to focus on and recommend further reading and activities available to you as a Westminster student to help you strengthen your graduate attributes.

Through your course and through self-assessing using Potential.ly, you can see your progress against each attribute on a chart. This will help you to see your strengths and areas of development.

By the end of your time at Westminster, you will be able to demonstrate with evidence the qualities you have developed during your time here. This will be invaluable when applying for jobs, for further study and for any other situation that requires evidence of personal development.

Log in to Potential.ly to start your journey.