Careers Calendar September 2019
Here’s the first instalment of our new interactive calendar with suggestions on how you can get involved with Career and Employability Services, whichever year you’re in, to learn new skills and…
Posts Categorized: volunteering
The importance of extra-curricular activities – Abdul-Wahab Mahmood
This week, Abdul-Wahab Mahmood, 2nd year Computer Science for Business student tells us why he decided to get involved with the Career Ambassador programme and the Barclays-SAS Tech Challenge… Career Ambassador: a voluntary…
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…
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…
Balancing my graduate job search with a young family
This week’s guest blog comes from Amy Johnson, who graduated from Health, Wellbeing and Social Care in summer 2016, and she’s now studying for the Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Career Management in Practice ….
“Don’t lose heart”: My graduate job hunting journey
Today’s guest post is from Steven Cheeseman, a 2016 graduate who is now studing for the Postgraduate Certificate in Professional Career Management in Practice. Here he describes the challenges he…
Our FOUR BIG CAREERS TIPS for 2017!
HAPPY NEW YEAR! So here we are. Another new year, and it’s fair to say that big changes are on the horizon for all of us. But, whatever happens in the…
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…
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…