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Written by Samantha Oates-Miller, Careers Insights and Graduate Support Assistant at the Careers Service The Graduate Employment and Skills Guide is a UK government initiative developed by the Department for Education and the Office for Students, working with the higher education sector and graduate employers. You can read more about the guide from the Minister…
Read more Graduate Employment and Skills Guide – Office for Students
Written by Samantha Oates-Miller, Careers Insights and Graduate Support Assistant at the Careers Service Coming to the end of your degree? Whether you know exactly what you want to do next or have no idea, the Careers Service is here for you. Offering full access to the Careers Service for two years after you complete…
Read more Stay in Touch: Engaging with the Careers Service as You Finish Your Degree
Guest blog written by Camille Yasmina Lorfing (MPhys Physics with Astrophysics, 2020) Camille graduated from The University of Manchester in 2020. She is currently working towards a PhD in Solar and Plasma Physics at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey. “We often say that a degree in physics is a degree in problem solving,…
Read more Graduate perspective: What it’s like to be a PhD student in Astrophysics
Final Year Future Week is a weeklong programme of careers events, especially for final year students and recent graduates, of all disciplines and degree levels. The programme will run from Monday, 14 – Friday, 18 June 2021 and aims to help participants plan their first steps after university. The week will be packed with employer…
Written by Khushboo Sansanwal, MSc Business Analytics: Operations Research & Risk Analysis 2020 My first tip would be to believe in yourself. You were selectively chosen for your Master’s from a pool of diverse, super, brilliant candidates from all over the world. If you could make it through that, then COVID-19 is nothing but just…
Read more A Graduate’s Tips for Job Searching During the Pandemic
Written by Jenny Sloan, Careers Consultant for Graduate Transitions at The Careers Service As you approach the end of your course, you may be thinking about your transition from student to graduate life. This transition is an important part of your higher education journey. We recognise that you may need extra support as you plan your next steps…
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…
Read more Why should I complete the Graduate Outcomes Survey during a 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…
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…
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…
