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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…
Your Masters degree ends in September/October, so the autumn recruitment fairs happen at just the right time to help you find a job, right? Wrong! If you’re going to find a job at a recruitment fair starting this year, the fair you need is the summer Graduate Recruitment Fair – next week. Why? Here is…
Read more What Masters students need to know about the Grad Fair 2017
You’re mixed with the feelings of sheer joy and absolute terror at the idea of finishing university; you are purposefully ignoring the fact that you haven’t started thinking about your career despite your jammy housemate securing a graduate scheme way back in November; you feel a little bit sick at the mere idea of job…
February is one of the coldest, darkest and wettest months of the year. January exams are over, semester two has just begun and summer feels like a very long way off. But that magical time of the year without exams or assignment deadlines will come around sooner than you think, and it’s also the ideal…
Guest blog post written by Avni Devgan, Law student at the University of Manchester The Law Fair is now less than a week away and for those who are interested in attending it, here is a list of things you should do before and after the fair to get as much out of it as you can.…
Next week (18 and 19 October), we’re hosting the Big Careers Fair at Manchester Central Convention Centre. Maybe you know this already – you might have seen our shiny big banners around campus, spotted a poster, or one of your lecturers has mentioned that it’s a good idea to go. Maybe, though, you think that…
Well, the 10th anniversary of Pathways: Career Options for Researchers arrived along with 400+ delegates and panellists, all current or former researchers. The best way to report on it is to hear from current doctoral researcher, Marc Hudson, who’s written a really clear, bullet pointed blog post with the advice he gleaned from the 5…
You’ve probably heard or seen quite a bit about The Graduate Recruitment Fair happening this month. It’s one of The University’s biggest Careers Fairs and this year there will be over 140 exhibitors attending, offering local and national graduate jobs, further study courses and other opportunities for students graduating in 2016. Now your exams are…
(even if [especially if] no one is doing exactly the job you think you might want to do) Pathways gives you access to the career stories of many individuals doing many different types of work. Some may not been doing exactly the sort of job you imagine yourself doing, or that you might even find…
These are the 2 most commonly asked questions: Should I take a CV to a careers / job fair? What do I put on my CV? Firstly not all job fairs are the same Summer / graduate careers fairs: Recruiters at these fairs are looking for candidates to start work almost immediately for graduate entry…
