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Sometimes, when it comes to careers, all the information and options can feel a bit overwhelming. You might also have a lot of questions (e.g. What do I need to do to make myself employable? or ‘Should I be getting more work experience, and if so what and how?’ or ‘How do I decide on…
Read more Overwhelmed by career planning? It’s time to prioritise!
If you’re just about to start your final year and you’d like to get something sorted career-wise by the time you graduate, you might think there isn’t really much you can or need to do at this stage, but you’d be wrong. You’ll be so busy with academic work once the semester starts that it’s…
Read more Gearing up for final year? 3 things you can (should!) do now towards your career plans
When you’re looking for jobs or internships, it’s sometimes hard to know where to look for the kinds of opportunities that interest you. It’s easy to just focus on the big job sites, but it’s like fishing from just one pool that everyone else is fishing from too! And if you’re looking for jobs in…
Read more Twitter is full of ‘hidden’ jobs, but how to find them…? Enter Twitjobsearch.com
If you’re just about to graduate – assuming that you’re not in the comfortable position of having a job, course or other plan for the next few months lined up – you might find the sobering reality of life after university hitting home at this point. It’s an exciting time, but it can be pretty…
Amy Edwards, guest blogger from Bubble Jobs talks to us about the digital industry… Want to get paid to post fabulous Facebook content or to come up with engaging messages in 140 characters or less? Maybe you’d like to lead the online presence for major brands like Clinique or Channel 4 or design and develop…
If you’re in your final year and you’re not one of those people who already has a clear plan for what you’re going to do after June, then you probably have a nagging voice in your head that won’t go away asking you “what next?” A lot of people get stuck at this point in…
Read more Need a job but no career plan mapped out? Try a ‘Planned Happenstance’ approach
For those of you interested in broadcast journalism (and specifically news), the BBC have launched their work experience scheme at Media City in Salford. These kinds of opportunities are always hugely competitive, so allow yourself some time to put together a really strong application. Here are some key links to placements being advertised now (deadlines…
A lot of the students I’ve seen recently are in the thick of job interviews and most are pretty clued up on the importance of preparing for the interview – research the company well, know your own job application inside out, prepare for the sorts of questions you are likely to be asked, especially those…
Read more Practice makes perfect (or at least a lot better) when it comes to job interviews…
If you consider yourself to be ambitious and enterprising and fancy being part of a new National Student Apprentice TV show, you might be interested in the National Student Apprentice Challenge. The National Student Apprentice Challenge describes itself as “an entrepreneurial competition providing a platform for thousands of students from top universities to showcase their…
Read more Do you have what it takes to be the next ‘Apprentice’?
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