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Written by Elizabeth Wilkinson, Careers Consultant at The Careers Service If you’ve taken part in the flurry of vivas which happen before Christmas – congratulations on getting this far. We’re here to help with your next step. Some of you will have sailed through with no corrections, but it’s much more normal to have a…
Written by Callum McAvan, Student Communications and Marketing Assistant at the Careers Service It’s a new year, a new decade. In the spirit of that, everyone will likely bring back the same old clichés – “New year, new me” and New Year’s resolutions aplenty. Although the more cynical of you out there (myself included) may…
STP 2020 – now open for applications until Monday 20th January 2020 at 5pm. The NHS Scientist Training Programme (STP) is open for applications for September 2020. Thousands of scientists and engineers of all disciplines work for the NHS, and the STP is how they recruit most of their Clinical Science trainees each year. Many…
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Written by Amanda Conway, Careers Consultant at The Careers Service It makes sense that our working world will operate online. It’s where we create and store information, how we make sense of things and where we communicate with customers and clients. From big commercial organisations to the health service, local schools or government bodies, employers…
Read more Digital CV makeover? You are savvier than you think
So here we are at the dawn of another decade. Resolutions have been made and possibly broken already! Here’s what’s coming up in the year ahead. January If you don’t have exams it’s a good time to get started thinking about the year ahead. Have you considered getting work experience or what you might want…
Written by Amanda Conway, Careers Consultant at The Careers Service It won’t cost you money, and you don’t need to be particularly savvy to get started, so investing in your digital know-how could be time well spent, particularly given employers’ increasing focus on employees’ digital capabilities. Whether you want to overhaul your digital know-how or…
Written by Callum McAvan, Student Communications and Marketing Assistant at the Careers Service It’s that time of year again –graduation! The time of year that holds the most potential for dominating Instagram feeds with cap throwing boomerangs and proud paragraphs of (well deserved) self-praise. However, once all of the ceremonies are over and the bottles…
Written by Callum McAvan, Student Communications and Marketing Assistant at the Careers Service Networking – it’s a scary word. For some it may come naturally, the conversation flows smoothly from the moment they are in the business environment, talking to someone new, they’re in their element. However, if you’re anything like me, that is certainly…
Written by Callum McAvan, Student Communications and Marketing Assistant at the Careers Service The Postgraduate Study Fair will be taking over Manchester Academy on the 19th of November. Whether your heart is set on a particular course or you don’t have any idea what the future holds beyond your graduation, this fair is absolutely worth…
Written by Anna Lomas, Employability Consultant at the Careers Service. I could take this opportunity to reel off the sensible reasons why postgraduate study is definitely something you should consider – because you’ll demonstrate that you’re tenacious, capable of self-managing and working independently or because you’ll develop your critical thinking, analytical and research skills –…
