The latest career news and comment from the University of Manchester
A friend of mine was recently reminiscing about her graduation 4 years ago. She was awarded a third class degree and hated her graduation day, struggling to work out what the 3 years were all for and what exactly she had learned. She had felt pretty down about it and wasn’t looking forward to her…
I can’t pretend to know what’s going to happen in the UK in the next half hour, never mind the next 6 months – other than I’m pretty sure we’ll soon hear lots of press stories and anecdotes about problems in the job market (they’ve started already). We’re in unprecedented times so history may not…
Read more What’s going to happen to the graduate job market?
Do you worry that you don’t know what you want to do for the rest of your life? Do you feel you would be trapped by taking a graduate job, and panic about not making the right choices? Don’t panic a job is not for life (unless you want it to be) No one really expects you to have a crystal…
Read more I don’t want a job for life, I just want to try something out.
Recruitment agencies can be a really useful way of finding work, both full-time graduate positions and temporary positions. There are lots of different types of recruitment agencies, covering a range of different industries and the level of support they offer varies. Jobs board websites Many popular jobs websites (or ones that you may have heard…
The truth is out there, but where should you look for information and how can you be sure it’s accurate? Looking for a job vacancy with a specific company? Fairly obviously you would start with the company website. But what if what you are looking for isn’t there? If they simply don’t have a jobs website –…
Read more What careers information can you trust – is Google your friend?
Some people plan everything – I’m sure you know someone who lives their life by lists and makes a revision time table and sticks to it. We all behave in different ways, so if you are the type of person who lets life unfold why would you suddenly change your behaviour because you are planning…
Read more Do you need to plan your career or can you just let it happen?
I was asked recently by a colleague to answer some frequently asked questions that all careers advisers/consultants who work with international students get. Here are my answers to these questions. 1. How easy is it to get a job in the UK? It is not easy getting a job in the UK but it can be done. If…
Business and management, 2 words that either appeal to you or strike fear into your heart! There seems to be a great deal of confusion over what these mysterious business and management job things are though. So how can you know if you would love or hate something if you don’t know what it looks…
Read more Working in management and or business. Love it, hate it, what is it?
We’ve all heard this statement before, be it from disgruntled friends or the media, and despite the frequency with which it’s uttered, it just isn’t true. There are currently (at the time of writing) 1,020 full-time roles being advertised on CareersLink, and that’s just one vacancy database – and, as the graph below shows, employers…
Read more Myth #4: There aren’t any jobs out there for graduates in this economic climate.
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…
