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Interested in Investment Banking? Seven tips on getting in

Investment banks help organisations, individuals and governments to raise capital, often by investing in the financial markets or selling shares. They also provide other services to organisations, for example performing large mergers and acquisitions. Investment banking is a very popular area with graduates looking for a challenging career and high financial rewards, however combined with […]

Starting University in September? Be bold, be resilient, make plans, be you!

With A level results out this week and many graduate schemes opening for 2017/18 it’s time to look ahead for both new & returning students. If you are starting your First year at University It can be an exciting and bewildering time. Some of you will have thought long and hard about different courses, universities and…

Why it’s OK to fail

Let’s get this out of the way first – at some point, you’re going to fail. Everybody does. Sometimes, things happen which make you feel stressed out and knock your confidence, and you’ll probably go away and eat your body weight in Domino’s to try and get over it. Whatever it is – you get…

Graduating and don’t have a career plan? Been there, done that.

In fact, it’s been five years since I graduated and I still don’t have one of those magical things called a “career plan”. Coming from someone who works for The Careers Service, that might surprise you. Back when I graduated, my lack of masterplan was something that filled me with panic. I nearly started down…

Can I leave looking for a job / internship till after my exams?

Yes you can but… a) it depends what point you are starting from and b) it may limit some opportunities. Obviously there comes a point when you just can’t do two things at once. Exams are coming like an express train and you need to do what you must to get through them. That said I notice…

Careers Advice playlist Vol 2

Back in 2015 I gave you my Careers Advice Playlist so I thought it was high time to release that infamous tricky second album. Again you won’t find anything that ‘current’ but the careers advice in this songs have stood the test of time. ‘Are You Experienced’ Jimi Hendrix Experience Well are you? This is…

Three things I wish I’d known before I graduated

A lot of interesting things happened in May 2016. Leicester City won the Premier League at 5000-1 odds, Sadiq Khan became the first ever Muslim mayor of a major Western city, and I turned 21 years old. It was a pretty good month, if you ask me. May 2016 was also the month that I’d…

New LinkedIn desktop version: what you need to know!

Well, it’s all change at LinkedIn, and they seem to have finished the roll out of their new desktop user interface. It has been given a bit of a makeover, to bring it into line with the mobile version which has also changed some of the functionality. We’re in the process of updating our LinkedIn…

And so the end is nigh.. Nearly finished your degree what next?

Easter vacation is coming to an end and some of you will be handing in dissertations soon. Does it feel like it’s all over bar the exams? Obviously exams are uppermost in most minds but use your time well and you could still secure a graduate job or internship starting in summer or autumn. To do list…

Gratrick on Gratrick: An interview with my 20-year-old self

Guest post by Paul Gratrick, Careers Manager for the Faculty of Humanities This June sees 10 years since I graduated with a degree in Philosophy from Durham University. Given my current role as Careers Manager at the University of Manchester (thereby speaking to students on a daily basis about life after University) and in…

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