Category: Postgraduate
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Manchester Gold – Mentors available now
Why would a busy professional with lots of experience want to help someone at the start of their career? Well, it feels good to help others who want to succeed. Here’s a real life example of mentoring at the highest level. Mentoring at the edge of space If you’d held a world record for 50…
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Vacancy: Data Analyst – Help our students get jobs
Are you looking for a full-time job, right now, to work as a Data Analyst? We might just be able to help you. I’ll admit it to anyone, I’m hooked on data. Give me some numbers & I’ll toss them around in a spreadsheet until they make a picture & tell me something interesting –…
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Who are “the best” employers?
If you haven’t already worked for an employer, it’s hard to gauge whether they’re the best one for you. There’s been a boom in “Top 100/300/1000 Employer” books, all trying to “help” you make that decision – so which one should you believe? Here’s my view on some of the information and strategies available to…
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PhDs wanted – Editor and Social Media Manager roles
Our in-house magazine for PhDs, STEPS, is looking for more volunteers to fill editorial and social media manager roles. If you’re interested in any sort of public engagement or communications role, or want to help build a thriving community of researchers at the University of Manchester, this is a great chance: to make a difference…
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CareersLink – exclusive services, just for you
It always surprises me when our students ask me for ideas of where they can look for jobs, or find out about what careers events are coming up, or where they can find employers who want to target University of Manchester students – and they’ve never used CareersLink. I’m on a mission to change that!…
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A Master Plan for Masters
If you’re just starting your Masters degree, it can all be a bit overwhelming, but half an hour’s planning now could be the difference between having your dream job lined up after you graduate – or heartache as you settle for second best. Why the rush? Some employers in the UK recruit a year in…
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Part-time e-Tutor posts for PhDs (paid)
We’re recruiting yet more PhDs to tutor on our undergraduate “Manchester Leadership Programme” (MLP). These are aimed at PhDs who already have some experience of teaching and assessing, preferably at university undergraduate level. The tutor positions are for Semester 2, and, in the main, will be for our MLP unit which is taught completely online.…
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Welcome to our shiny new blog
If you’re new to our postgraduate careers blog at the University of Manchester, lovely to see you! I’ll do the tour in a second, but just got to say hi to our regular readers – yup, it’s the same old postgrad careers blog, but now with a new, shorter address, a new outfit and we’re…
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The right choice?
If you’re at the start of a new postgraduate degree, are you perfectly happy with the choice you’ve made, or are you still wondering whether you should have gone for that other PhD, or that job, or stuck it out in your old job after all? I’ve been watching a TED talk from Dan Gilbert,…
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How do postgrads find jobs?
Most postgrads are very internet-savvy, so when anyone asks me about finding jobs, the normal request is “which websites should I look at for jobs in X?”. They look a bit nonplussed when I start talking about using their contacts, developing their networks, making a list of who you know – isn’t that all just…
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