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Congratulations on completing your degree! You can continue to use the Careers Service for 2 years, including CareersLink which advertises job vacancies. Your University login will be turned off in a few weeks so we need to convert your CareersLink student account to an alumni account. The conversion happens on different dates for different courses…
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…
Read more Graduating and don’t have a career plan? Been there, done that.
By Amanda Conway, Careers Consultant By now you will probably have already heard about psychometric tests and how they are regularly used by employers to shortlist and select candidates – you may have already encountered one of them! Around 70% of the major graduate employers now use some form of testing to gain insight into…
Read more Have you heard of the practice effect? – it could transform your job hunting success
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…
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…
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…
Read more New LinkedIn desktop version: what you need to know!
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…
Read more Gratrick on Gratrick: An interview with my 20-year-old self
Growing up I was always taught not to talk about money… Well, sorry Mum & Dad that’s exactly what I’m going to do in this blog post. Salaries are something we get asked about a lot on the information desk so I thought I’d spend a bit of time answering the most common queries. What…
Unless you are applying for Teaching or Medicine through UCAS this will be a completely different process for you. There are some universities which use the UKPASS system but most require a direct application to the postgraduate admissions contact for the course you are applying to. (You will find this on the university website when…
Faced with a job advert it is easy to give up, shrug and say I can’t do that I don’t have what they are looking for. It may not even be that clear what they are looking for! Don’t give up quite so easily – print out that job description, have a good rummage on their…
Read more Have you got the right skills for the job? Think hard before you say no!
