Written by students and staff on anything and everything career-related, including snippets of news and information from Career and Employability Services
On Tuesdays throughout 2015, we’re going to highlight resources which may be useful in your career development.
Today’s resources are all about CVs. Click through to check out our Pinterest board for articles and advice on creating a CV suitable for your aims and objectives.
Eat less chocolate, go for a run each morning, get up at 6.30 am every day… many New Years resolutions fade over a couple of days. Instead, why not make your New Years resolution to be to do more things you’re scared of? It may get your career off to a flying start!
Our latest Careers Fair, The Graduate Recruitment Fair 2014 is coming up on Wednesday October 22nd in Student Central. If you’ve never been to a careers fair before, here’s a…
Best practice has never been more important in an age of accelerating technology, globalisation and rapidly changing economy. Almost every business has a best practice guide in order to reduce…
I can’t believe how quickly my placement is going. The time is absolutely flying by. My experience with Hewlett Packard has been invaluable to me in so many different ways….
Have you ever prepared a long time for an exam -reading books, understanding theories, and thinking about examples- but forgotten to think about a way of introducing the subject you…
Spring and jobs have arrived. We are now 7 weeks in to the course and it is great to see that students are getting placements and also have some job…
About 15 years ago getting a job was a piece of cake. After a glance in the newspaper job ads or a good word put in by your dad you…
When I first started my placement year with Cummins Power Generation I was a complete introvert, minding my own business, doing my work in my corner, dealing only with my…
How it felt to be unemployed after graduating The day of my last university exam was one of the best days of my life but at the same time it…
The day had finally arrived! Three years of hard work, dedication, and sleepless nights had come to fruition in what was going to be such a proud moment for both…
Having finished the fifth week of my ten week internship, I have now crossed the threshold of the half way mark, and now growing ever closer to the finish line,…