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You know everyone tells you to network for your career, but you don’t like hassling people – what should you do? Well, in a shameless piece of “wringing the most out of what I’ve spent today writing”, here’s my handy “How to network” guide (ie. this is your sneak preview of part of a new…
The sun shining through the office window has made me think about Spring and some of the great events we have coming up before Easter. I know it’s only a few weeks until the Easter vacation starts, but there are lots of opportunities for you to find out more about different sectors and job roles…
Read more Events in March – your chance to meet people and find out more
To celebrate the Chinese New Year we would like to share details of some forthcoming career events with you for both Chinese students in the UK and Chinese alumni returning home to China. 1) Networking & Recruitment Evening for China / Chinese students, Tuesday, 26th February, 2013 5.00pm – 7.00pm Careers Service – Careers Resource…
Read more Events coming up for Chinese students/graduates in February / March 2013
You’ve been told that getting on in academia is all about contacts. You know that conferences are where lots of these “contacts” happen – but what if you’ve attended conferences and still come away without having made any useful connections? There’s a great new post on The Thesis Whisperer blog* giving practical tips on establishing…
Did you know that we have 400 mentors ready this Spring, all waiting to help someone – maybe you? And did you know that 50 of them have PhDs, and are particularly keen to to help our current PhDs? Our Manchester Gold mentoring programme is now recruiting for our Spring intake, and this time, we’re…
You’ve found someone you think could help with your career, your degree or your research. You’ve steeled yourself to approach them – and you’ve been knocked back, or simply ignored. What do you do? “Networking” can be daunting for many postgraduates but it’s an important skill which can improve your chances of finding specialist jobs…
Read more Networking – how to persevere without being a pest
Postgrads are really starting to take to LinkedIn. Not surprising, really, given that there are over 110,000 PhDs already listed on LinkedIn, and over 410,000 Masters postgrads in the UK alone. I’ve started picking up tips on using LinkedIn from our current postgrads – here are three uses I’ve heard of in the past week:…
Ever heard the phrase it’s not what you know it’s who you know well I think it should be changed to Its not what you know it’s who your connected to. I’m of course talking about social media and how it can be used to help you both network with prospective employers and find out…
Our two big Autumn recruitment fairs are taking place on Wednesday 17th October (Engineering, Science and Technology) and Thursday 18th October (Finance, Business and Management) at Manchester Central (G-Mex as it used to be called). Time is tight … but it’s a difficult job market, so should you go? Here are my views, the short…
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…
