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Why should I complete the Graduate Outcomes Survey during a pandemic?

Written by Jenny Sloan, Careers Consultant for Graduate Transitions at The Careers Service The Graduate Outcomes survey is the biggest annual social survey in the UK. It’s run by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) and asks all graduates who have studied a higher education course in the UK what they’re doing 15 months after finishing their…

How I got my UK graduate job during the pandemic

Written by Mia Zhang, MSc Human Resource Management, 2020 I am an international student from China and graduated from The University of Manchester in 2020 with a degree in MSc Human Resource Management. After graduating, I embarked on the difficult task of finding a job during the pandemic. At the end of 2020, I secured…

Finding Internships and Graduate Work in China

Written by Jialing Chu, MSc Commercial Project Management, 2020 Jialing graduated from The University of Manchester in 2020 with an MSc in Commercial Project Management. She has a job lined up at Deloitte for October 2021. Here she talks about her job search in China. “While trying to find a job, I planned to get…

6 tips for finding a graduate job

Written by Samantha Oates-Miller, Careers Insights and Graduate Support Assistant at the Careers Service With Stuti Sethi, MEng Computer Science, 2020, Technology Graduate at Barclays Technology Centre Stuti Sethi graduated in 2020 with an Meng in Computer Science. She is now a Technology Graduate at Barclays Technology Centre. Here, Stuti tells us about her job…

Graduate job hunting using LinkedIn

Written by Samantha Oates-Miller, Careers Insights and Graduate Support Assistant at the Careers Service and Hui Huang, MA Educational Leadership 2020, Research Executive at The Insights People Hui graduated in December 2020 with a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership from The University of Manchester. She now works as a Research Executive at Manchester-based market intelligence…

Graduate Q&A: Securing work in the Legal Sector

Written by Samantha Oates-Miller, Careers Insights and Graduate Support Assistant at the Careers Service Interview with Avni Devgan, LLB Law with Politics, 2015 We interviewed Avni, a 2015 Law and Politics graduate from The University of Manchester about how she found searching for work in the legal sector during the pandemic while studying for her…

How to access CareerConnect as a graduate

Written by by Sarah Mallen, Careers Information and Guidance Coordinator at the Careers Service and Samantha Oates-Miller, Careers Insights and Graduate Support Assistant at the Careers Service CareerConnect is the Career Service’s new platform for graduate opportunities and jobs, employer sessions, careers workshops and application advice and careers guidance appointments. As a graduate, you have access to…

How to adapt to job searching during COVID

Written by Bernadette Lyons, Careers Consultant at The Careers Service In many of my careers guidance appointments with recent graduates, a common thread of conversation has come about ‘how have they adapted to working during the COVID pandemic?. Their stories were reassuring for students approaching graduation, placement, or trying to find some experiences in the…

Where to look for graduate jobs

Written by Samantha Oates-Miller, Careers Insights and Graduate Support Assistant at The Careers Service Looking for a graduate job but not sure where to start? Here are six places to start your search for your next opportunity: Manchester Graduate Talent (MGT). Run by the University, MGT offers graduates roles in a variety of sectors within the University…

PhD Careers: Finding a job amidst a global pandemic

Worried about whether it’s possible to find a job for PhDs in these tricky times? We regularly see PhDs for practice interviews so we know that finding a job in a pandemic is possible. Here’s just one example of a recent PhD job hunting success, from Dr Hannah Thurgur: Lockdown 1.0 was announced just as…

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