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Making the most of the graduate recruitment fair

Ahead of the Graduate Recruitment Careers Fair tomorrow in Student Central, graduate trainee Mahriya Saleem has shared her thoughts about how everyone can benefit from the event… My name is…

Tuesday, October 16th, 2018 in Careers Fair, employability, Employers, graduate jobs, Graduation, Job seeking

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Welcome to Careers – how can we help you this year?

It’s that time of year again when we welcome new and returning students for a new and exciting academic year. There’s a lot to take in at the moment, but…

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018 in Be more than your degree, Bradford, career planning, CVs, employability, graduate jobs, internships, Interviews, Job seeking, Mentoring, My Career and Employability Centre, Part time jobs, study abroad, Work experience

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What I learned from networking

This week’s guest post comes from Bianca Drotleff, who has been a fantastic intern for us this year at Career and Employability Services. In her second post for us (see…

Wednesday, May 9th, 2018 in Case studies, employability, Mentoring, networking, Placements, Students, Work experience

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Four Key Things To Remember When Writing Your CV

Don’t worry if you’re a bit daunted by producing a CV – it’s a very specific way of writing that’s unique to job applications, so it’s unlikely you’ll have done…

Wednesday, April 18th, 2018 in Applications, CVs, graduate jobs, internships, Job seeking, Opportunities, Part time jobs, Placements, Summer Experience, Work experience

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My Placement Year as a Business Administrator

Continuing our series of placement year stories, this week Jessica Berko, a Marketing student at the Faculty of Management & Law, shares her experiences working as a Business Administrator at…

Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 in CVs, employability, Interviews, Job seeking, Placements, volunteering, Work experience

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My Placement Year as a Consumer Product Marketing Intern

This week’s guest post comes from Jasmine Chue, an International Business and Management student, currently working as a Consumer Product Trade Marketing Intern in B/S/H Home Appliances. Applying for the…

Wednesday, March 7th, 2018 in Applications, CVs, employability, internships, Interviews, Placements, Work experience

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I did loads of practise psychometric tests – here’s what I learned…

Our post today is by Steve Tillotson, one of the Information Advisers in the Career and Employability Services team, who delves into selection tests… Our advice to students who are…

Wednesday, February 21st, 2018 in Applications, psychometric tests, selection tests

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5 ways to keep active on LinkedIn

This week’s post comes from our Career Consultant and resident LinkedIn guru Hermione Berry. Here she talks about how once you’ve set up your profile, it’s important to keep your account…

Wednesday, January 31st, 2018 in graduate jobs, Job seeking, LinkedIn, networking, Social Media, vacancies, Wisdom Wednesday

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Study Abroad Photo Competition Winners 2017

For the last few years, the International Opportunities team have run a competition to find the photos that best capture the experience of studying abroad. The competition was open to…

Friday, December 8th, 2017 in Be more than your degree, Bradford, Motivation, Opportunities, Students, study abroad

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Careers’ Useful Mnemonics For You

Careers advice can be complicated, so to make things easier to remember it’s often presented as acronyms made up of the key words and phrases. This is known as a…

Wednesday, November 8th, 2017 in Applications, career planning, employability, Interviews, Job seeking

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How A Part-Time Job Helped Me Discover My Passion

It’s our first post of the year (welcome freshers and returning students!), and as part-time jobs are a popular query at this time of year, we asked Bianca Drotleff, a…

Wednesday, September 20th, 2017 in Careers Fair, employability, internships, Part time jobs, Part Time Jobs Thursdays, Placements, Students, time management, Work experience

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Becoming a Career Ambassador

This week Memuna Younis tells us about why she decided to volunteer as one of our Career Ambassadors, a group of students who help us spread the word about Career…

Wednesday, May 31st, 2017 in career ambassadors, CVs, employability, Students, volunteering

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