My Study Abroad Experience
Recently the Study Abroad service moved in with us at Careers, and as we’ll be working more closely with them from now on, we wanted to find out more about what they offer (and…
Posts Categorized: employability
Celebrating our Career Ambassadors
Our Career Ambassadors ended the year on a high note as they attended the Student Leadership Awards at Student Central on Tuesday 17 May. The event was a celebration of…
Balancing part-time work with full-time study
Today’s article is written by Ravi Bakshi, BSc Clinical Sciences student and one of our Career Ambassadors who help to spread the word about our services. Here he describes how…
My Summer Experience placement
For this week’s article, Rachel Hogg, a final year Medical Engineering student tells us about her Summer Experience placement last year (which is good timing, as we are currently looking…
Graduation day and life after uni
This week, Tehseen Bibi, who graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Sociology last year and has gone onto to our postgrad PGCEMP course, talks about her experiences of the graduation…
How can you be more than your degree?
For today’s post, Subira Ismail, the UBU Community & Welfare Sabbatical Officer tells us about the ‘Be More Than Your Degree’ initiative, and how you can get involved to improve your employability…
PGCEMP – My hopes for the course
This week, Joseph Lee talks to us about his Life After Uni, and starting on the Postgraduate Certificate in Employability and Entrepreneurship course (PGCEMP). Having graduated in 2015 with a 2.1…
Fitting Salt & Eggs in a Jar- My Work Life Balance
Our next guest blog comes from Chris Davey, a PhD researcher in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. He has a busy life balancing his research and publications, working part-time (including…
Your CV: Profile or no profile?
Your CV can be a valuable tool in helping you secure a job, placement or internship but there is a lot of conflicting information available about the best way to…
How to improve your career prospects in 2016
HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2016 will see the Olympics in Brazil, EURO 2016 in France and the election of a new US President. Plus, it’s a leap year, which means there’s…
Case Study: Jimi Oke
A Bradford alumnus, Jimi is also a “Friend of Careers”, having worked alongside us in in his role as a Student Sabbatical Officer last year. Here he shares his experiences…