Author: Elizabeth
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Pathways: What we learnt
I love Pathways, our annual PhD careers options mega-event – and it turns out I’m not the only one. Here’s a great guest post from Chris Manley, Senior Careers Consultant at Warwick University who visited Pathways this year, gratefully reproduced from The Careers Blog at Warwick. Life after the PhD – by Chris Manley The…
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World Bank – Young Professionals Programme talk
In case you missed the reference in the Pathways post, we’re delighted to have Antonieta Podesta Mevius coming to the University this Friday, 6th June, to talk about recruitment into the World Bank Young Professionals Programme. The talk and this programme are aimed at PhDs, and at Masters with at least 3 years relevant experience.…
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Pathways: The Programme is announced …
It’s almost upon us – our annual PhD career options event, Pathways 2014 takes place on Friday 6th June, in the Renold Building (register on C floor concourse). It’s free, and open to all University of Manchester current PhDs and research staff. The event gives you the chance to hear from people who’ve already got…
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Environment, International Development or Media – Events coming up
This semester, our events are targeted at those really “tough to get into” careers – environmental work, international development and broadcasting and journalism. These careers are so popular that, unfortunately, employers have no need to turn up to careers fairs, trying to tempt you to apply to them – so you won’t see them at…
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UN Virtual Careers Fair
Following on from the info on EU internships, we’ve just been told about a UN Virtual Careers Fair. I don’t normally just reproduce info sent to us, but this one’s too good to miss: The second Virtual Careers Fair will be held on 10 December 2013. The following international organizations will participate: The United Nations…
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EU Internships
As I’ve been looking at internships today, thought some of you might like a summary of internships (they call them Traineeships) offered by various European Union bodies. There are far more EU bodies than I’d ever imagined (34 on this list of internships!), including many which I know would appeal to postgrads from a wide…
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Internships – your rights
If you read the press, you might assume that you just have to accept being unpaid if you want to do an internship – not so! Most of the media focus is on topics that really interest journalists – the media, politics and the creative sector. This is where a culture of unpaid interships seems…
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“I don’t know what I want to do”
It’s probably the most common phrase we hear at the Careers Service, and something we’re more than happy to help you with, but … The Big Careers Secret A careers adviser can’t tell you which job you should do The idea of a careers adviser being able to pick out the right job for you…
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Should I apply now, or wait?
The main recruitment fairs have been and gone (just the Postgrad Study Fair on 20th November and the Law Fair on 19th November still to go), the employer campus events are starting to thin out, and the whole “Get your career together NOW!” frenzy is calming down a bit. What if you haven’t done anything…
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Just the Monday blues – or something more serious?
It’s Monday. It’s dark, gloomy and raining. No-one expects you to be bright and perky on a day like today – but what if it’s not simply that “I don’t like Mondays” feeling? Doing a postgraduate degree is always challenging, but sometimes life continues to pile on the pressure, until the cracks start to show.…
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