The latest career news and comment from the University of Manchester
All good things must come to an end, and my MGT internship at the Careers Service is no exception. 12 months ago I was feeling lost over my future career; I felt like there was no clear path for me and my head was swimming with different options. While I didn’t really know what I…
Written by Kareem Belfon, Marketing and Communications Assistant at the Careers Service. So, you’ve been away at Uni all year. Your aunts and uncles have been politely ‘liking’ all of your posts on Facebook, commenting ‘Looks like you’re having fun! Sending our love xxxxx’ every so often. Your family group chat is lit. ‘Look! We’ve…
Read more Questions your relatives will ask you at Christmas dinner and how to answer them
Written by Anna Lomas, Employability Consultant at the Careers Service. I could take this opportunity to reel off the sensible reasons why postgraduate study is definitely something you should consider – because you’ll demonstrate that you’re tenacious, capable of self-managing and working independently or because you’ll develop your critical thinking, analytical and research skills –…
Read more 8 Reasons to Consider Further Study That You Won’t Get Told at the Postgraduate Study Fair
First came the Fear Of Missing Out, but now psychologists and sociologists, as reported in the New York Times, have noticed that instead of trying to combat FOMO by attempting to do everything, people can’t decide what to do at all due to the Fear Of Better Options, FOBO. The FOBO phenomenon, also known among…
Read more The Fear of Better Options and how to overcome it.
Written by Paul Gratrick, Careers Manager for the Faculty of Humanities. One of the most common sentences that I hear from students of all year groups and subjects is ‘I don’t know what I want to do’. This is almost always in a future career context, but at a University with a huge amount of…
Read more Saying “I don’t know what I want to do” and why this isn’t a problem
Guest post by Anna Lomas, Employabilty Consultant, The Careers Service Having been manager of the Careers Service’s mentoring programme (Manchester Gold) for several years, I know first- hand how valuable a mentor can be. I was constantly surprised by just how generous our mentors were with their time, how genuine they were in their desire…
Read more Apply for a mentor – Nothing to lose, everything to gain
Every year we see a lot of surprised students who say “but I didn’t know you could help with that” Your expectations may be low or you may have none at all but I promise you there is likely to be something we can help you with. You pay for this service in your fees…
Read more Why use your Careers Service? What can they do for you?
Traditionally it’s the time of year we all try to make ourselves feel better by making plans for summer holidays. You definitely need a break from studying over summer but there are lots of options depending on what you want from your time off. Here are some places you could start… I need to earn…
Read more What can I do this summer? Volunteer, work, travel the choice is yours.
Some degrees are vocational, some are not, but whatever you study there are always more options after Uni than just literally using your degree. You may be a scientist but you don’t have to work in a lab! Let’s face it a degree is a piece of paper that says you studied a subject for…
Read more You are more than your degree, step outside the box.
You may or may not have already seen adverts for, or been told about various Careers Fairs that are taking place over the next two months at the University. For many people the fairs seem to come along quite early in the semester when you aren’t really in the head space to be thinking about…
Read more Why attend a University Careers Fair – by someone who didn’t.
