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It’s the middle of summer – your last day at university, school or college feels like a long time ago and yet you’ve still got a month to go. Not bad, eh? We know that you’ll be busy over the summer, whether you’re doing some voluntary work, working a temporary job to get some cash in…
By Marisa Bell Final year Anthropology student Nine months slogging through one year of your degree can feel more like nine years at times. One bad week slips past and before you know it you’re neck deep in readings – most of which barely feel as though they are written in your native language. As you sift through the inaccessible writings and abstract theories, scribbling…
Read more Is work experience worth it? Anthropology student Marisa tells her story.
Want to apply for my job? As my 12 month MGP role is coming to an end in September, maybe you’d be interested in filling the position? I don’t know what I want to do Smiling for my photos I had just graduated after completing a 3 year Psychology degree at Manchester. I still didn’t…
Read more Fancy a job working in Careers helping students? Intern Hannah tells all.
To rewrite Steve Jobs’ quote ‘Great things in the world are never done by one person. They’re done by a team of people.’ I had the opportunity to participate in the leadership programme- 33Sixty, alongside 99 aspiring young leaders across the Commonwealth, spreading from the rich diversity of South Africa and New Zealand, and, to…
Vanessa is a final year English Language and Screen Studies student here at Manchester and spent eight weeks last summer working as a Project Leader Intern at ReachOut, as part of the Student Experience Internship (SEI) programme. Vanessa recently joined us to talk us through various aspects of her SEI 2015 experience… Why SEI? “I…
Read more Project Leader Intern at ReachOut – Vanessa’s Story
My name is Jade and I am in my final year studying Linguistics. I knew from the beginning of second year that I wanted to do something productive with my summer, to boost my CV and skills before I entered the dreaded final year. I found out about SEI’s when I was walking through Sam…
Read more Humanities Alumni Video Project at The University of Manchester – Jade’s story
Amy, an International Management student at Manchester, spent the final three weeks of last summer as a Welcome Week Intern for the Alliance Manchester Business School, as part of the Student Experience Internship (SEI) programme. Amy recently joined us to talk us through various aspects of her SEI 2015 experience… Why SEI I applied to…
Read more Welcome Week Intern at The University of Manchester – Amy’s Story
I get asked on a regular basis how as an international student/graduate is the easiest way to find a job in the UK? The answer is there isn’t an easy way to find a job in the UK as a UK graduate or an international graduate. The situation is not helped by the fact employers…
Read more There is no quick fix or an easy way for an international graduate to get a job in the UK
By Nadya Valkova Being out in the job market is not a pleasant thing. In fact, it is perhaps one of the few most terrifying things you can experience as a student because … a) you don’t have the experience to be competitive, b) you’re absolutely lost in terms of job titles and roles and…
By Charlotte Cox It has been over six years since I was accepted into The University of Manchester to study for a BSc in Zoology with a modern language, and I couldn’t be more jealous of those students just starting out in their very first semester of their Zoology course. In all honesty, first year…
Read more What I did with a degree in Zoology. Graduate Charlotte tells her story.
