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We are delighted that Helen Tonge, Managing Director and Executive Producer of Title Role Production is able to join us for our next Media Club session. Title Role make a range of quality programmes. Recent ones are Jeremy Bamber: crimes that shook Britain; The Consumer Police; The Baker Street Robbery and The Great Train Robbery.…
Read more Media Club – next session: Wednesday 7 November, 5.15-6.30pm, room 5.4
OXFAM PHOTO AND VIDEO COMPETITION Don’t miss out on a unique opportunity this academic term. GAIN EXPERIENCE AND BOOST YOUR CV – This is an exciting opportunity for any gifted photographer or media interested student to gain experience and boost their CV by helping to create a promotional video for Oxfam. While all entries will…
Recently we have had a lot of enquires about psychometric tests and how best to prepare for these tests so I thought it would be a good basis for my next blog post. What are psychometric tests? Psychometric tests are used by employers to assess your aptitude and overall personality. They are used as part…
Team “Kitty” didn’t assign a time keeper for their group exercise. Their brainstorming session went on a little longer than planned and they completely missed the tea break. What you need to know about assessment centres! This may be the first time the employer has seen you in person, and they will be testing how…
If you’re starting to wonder if all this Twitter stuff might be worth investigating, I’ve just picked up a recommendation of an excellent blog post explaining it all. It’s from the point of view someone more interested in keeping up with academic research and others working in their field, than celebs or blow-by-blow accounts of…
We are delighted that Helen Tonge, Managing Director and Executive Producer of Title Role Production is able to join us for our next Media Club session. Title Role make a range of quality programmes. Recent ones are Jeremy Bamber: crimes that shook Britain; The Consumer Police; The Baker Street Robbery and The Great Train Robbery. …
Read more Media Club event – Wednesday 7 November, 5.15-6.30pm, room 5.4, Crawford House
A “big name” employer at our recent fair told me a cautionary tale which I found both shocking and horribly inevitable. Two students applied to the employer through their graduate programme. They both got through the online application form stage successfully. They both passed the numerical and verbal reasoning tests. They both got through very…
I had a really great chat the other day with Helen so I was dead chuffed when she offered to write a blog post about her first few months at work. Helen Butterworth (BSc Management, 2012) relates her experience of working for a small local company “After graduation I was unsure about the exact business…
The answer is… actually there is! First let’s establish some facts, there is no typical humanities student! Archaeology, Languages, Planning, Economics, Finance, Philosophy, Drama, Law to name but a few subjects. That’s a pretty good mixture and you don’t all want to do the same things. We see humanities students interested in finance, management, HR, PR,…
There are an increasing number of agencies now setting up to help international students in the UK to explore and apply for graduate opportunities back in their home countries. One organisation that has worked with The University of Manchester for a number of years is The Global Career Company (GCC) – www.globalcareercompany.com GCC organises a…
Read more Recruitment fairs targeting international students – Global Career Company
