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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…
Getting into the environmental sector can seem like such a puzzle – what’s the difference between a sustainability consultant and an environmental consultant? How do I get an entry level ecologist role when they all ask for previous experience? Do I really need a masters? As a recent graduate interested in this sector I was…
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
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.
