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These are the 2 most commonly asked questions: Should I take a CV to a careers / job fair? What do I put on my CV? Firstly not all job fairs are the same Summer / graduate careers fairs: Recruiters at these fairs are looking for candidates to start work almost immediately for graduate entry…
Alright, heading over to Manchester Central Convention Centre may seem like a bit of a trek. But there’s plenty to gain from coming along to one of our upcoming fairs, whatever your degree subject and whether you’ve given your future some thought or not. So why should you make time to attend a fair? To…
University of Manchester Student Hanna tells us about finding and applying for summer work experience What Type of Opportunity and Why? Studying a non-vocational course, my future careers plans are fairly vague. Coming to the end of my second year I knew that I needed to gain some type of experience to help me determine the…
Read more My Summer Plans – Finding and applying for work experience
UPDATE: Although registration for the main Pathways event is now closed, if you would like to attend the Guangdong University of Technology presentation, please register online. The presentation is 12 noon in Room C9 of the Renold Building. On Thursday, June 4th at 12:00 pm as part of Pathways, Professors Bao Hong and Liu Yijun…
Read more Could you be one of a Hundred Young Talents at Guangdong University of Technology?
In this article we will be looking at finding part-time jobs, work experience and graduate work in the Manchester area. Looking for work experience – Internships, summer jobs and volunteering? Use your CareersLink account – jobs for University of Manchester students & graduates Use the advanced search and select vacancy type = student placement/internship& casual…
Whether you are looking for a job for life or a more short term engagement, it’s important to choose carefully and plan your approach. Sometimes you can tell at a glance that a job is not for you, wrong hours, wrong location, or you just don’t have the skills. However, some jobs grow on you. The…
Read more Valentines special: How to find your perfect (job) partner
By Bernie Lyons Careers Consultant Richard Susskind’s book “The End of Lawyers” does not propose to rid the world of lawyers in Dr Evil style, but does write a fairly gloomy prediction that lawyers, as we know them, shall essentially cease to exist in their current form. It’s true. But I want to take a…
I love Pathways, our annual PhD careers options mega-event – and it turns out I’m not the only one. Here’s a great guest post from Chris Manley, Senior Careers Consultant at Warwick University who visited Pathways this year, gratefully reproduced from The Careers Blog at Warwick. Life after the PhD – by Chris Manley The…
In case you missed the reference in the Pathways post, we’re delighted to have Antonieta Podesta Mevius coming to the University this Friday, 6th June, to talk about recruitment into the World Bank Young Professionals Programme. The talk and this programme are aimed at PhDs, and at Masters with at least 3 years relevant experience.…
The Times reported recently that employers are struggling to find ‘work-ready’ graduates. They said companies are struggling to fill graduate positions because they cannot find enough quality candidates as the economy picks up. According to the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) nine out of ten graduate employers still have vacancies for this autumn. A poll by…
