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Written by Jannine Thomas, Employability Consultant (Placements) at The Careers Service Doing a placement is a great opportunity but searching for one can be testing. Here are some of our recent placement year students’ top tips when searching. Tip 1: Make the time Alex Bell’s (BSc International Business Finance and Economics) advice is to “plan your days,…
Written by Jannine Thomas, Employability Consultant (Placements) at The Careers Service Are you feeling tired of searching and applying for placements only to be rejected or – worse still – left in a state of limbo? Whatever stage you’re at in your placement search, the Careers Service can help. It’s not too late! Though many large companies…
Written by Jannine Thomas, Employability Consultant (Placements) at The Careers Service Finding and managing time are amongst the most common problems students have when searching for placements. The need to find, research and apply for placements, alongside lectures, coursework, exams and the extracurricular parts of your life is difficult. Here we share some of the top tips…
Read more How to juggle full time study and placement search
Future Fortnight, an online programme of careers support for students and graduates at The University of Manchester, ran from 19 to 30 October. Missed it? Don’t worry! We’ve collated all the resources and recordings so you have them all in one place. Who is this for? Whether you’re looking for an internship, placement or graduate…
Future Fortnight is a programme of online careers support running from 19 to 30 October. Open to all students and recent graduates from The University of Manchester, it’s is a must for anyone looking for placement or graduate opportunities. Week 1 (19-23 October) focuses on exploration – considering your skills and interests, thinking about how…
Read more 6 reasons why you should tune into Future Fortnight
Written by Jannine Thomas, Employability Consultant (Placements) at The Careers Service Whilst the Covid-19 pandemic is still making its presence felt (and seems likely to be doing so for some time to come), it doesn’t have to mean the end of your hopes to undertake a placement next academic year. Just as you’ve had to…
Written by Penney Gordon-Lanes, Careers Consultant at the Careers Service You’ve worked hard to secure your placement, you have smashed all those challenges the employer has set and you have demonstrated you are the right fit for the business. Sure, it was hard, but YOU did it, you got that placement! So, now what? With…
Written by Phoebe Moore, Final Year Italian and Spanish Student This past year has definitely been an important turning point in my career plans and aspirations. After two years studying Italian and Spanish at Manchester, last September I embarked on my year abroad, first working as an intern in Madrid for five months, then studying…
Read more Italy, Spain & The Telegraph: a student’s career defining year
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