Organised volunteering and work experience has long been a vital companion to university degree courses. Usually it is left to【C1】______to deduce the potential from a list of extracurricular adventures on a graduate"s resume, 【C2】______ now the University of Bristol has launched an award to formalise the achievements of students who【C3】______ time to activities outside their courses. Bristol PLuS aims to boost students in an increasingly【C4】______job market by helping them acquire work and life skills alongside【C5】______ qualifications. "Our students are a pretty active bunch, but we found that they didn"t 【C6】______ appreciate the value of what they did【C7】______ the lecture hall," says Jeff Goodman, director of careers and employability at the university. "Employers are much more【C8】______ than they used to be. They used to look for 【C9】______ and saw it as part of their job to extract the value of an applicant"s skills. Now they want students to be able to explain why those skills are【C10】______to the job." Students who sign【C11】______for the award will be expected to complete 50 hours of work experience or【C12】______work, attend four workshops on employ-ability skills, take part in an intensive skills-related activity【C13】______, crucially, write a summary of the skills they have gained.【C14】______efforts will gain an Outstanding Achievement Award. Those who【C15】______best on the sports field can take the Sporting PLuS Award which fosters employer-friendly sports accomplishments. The experience does not have to be【C16】______organised. "We"re not just interested in easily identifiable skills," says Goodman. "【C17】______, one student took the lead in dealing with a difficult landlord and so【C18】______negotiation skills. We try to make the experience relevant to individual lives." Goodman hopes the【C19】______will enable active students to fill in any gaps in their experience and encourage their less-active 【C20】______ to take up activities outside their academic area of work. 【C6】