This has come to our notice rather late: The DFID Graduate Development Scheme was launched in January 2012 to provide graduates with work experience to assist them in obtaining future employment. DFID is also keen to bring fresh thinking into...

The staff in the Careers Service are delighted to see campus back in to full swing, especially now students are booking appointments and once more engaging with their careers research and investigation. We do like to be busy! Here are three...

  An article appeared in the THES last Thursday on this topic. Victoria Halman investigated how employers view the growing trend for graduates to take a second qualification, usually a Masters, to help them land a first job. It is a...

The Careers Service is hosting two Bath Alumni who are going to talk about working in the Charity Sector Thursday, 26th November at 13.15 - 14.05. We thought ahead of this fantastic event, we would shine a light on this immensely...

Just a quick note today in response to some comments from students that all the jobs being advertised are for business roles. There are some great public sector schemes either open or about to open which are advertised in MyFuture: Civil...

During the summer I was privileged to hear the author and careers coach John Lees give a talk on surviving change to a conference of Higher Education careers staff. He is someone who I have admired for the simple truth...

This e-book from the website jobs.ac.uk has been developed to help all those who are considering undertaking a PhD. The focus is on using career decision-making approaches to assess and prepare for this rather than on the choice of research...

What other topic would we have for today's blog? If you do want to stand as an MP here are some facts: You must be over 18 years of age, be a British citizen or citizen of a Commonwealth country...

Spend any amount of time looking at CVs and you discover how amazingly generous university students are with their time. I'm constantly surprised by the  volunteering our students manage to be involved in which is often over and above their...

Today, Tuesday February 10th, is Safer Internet Day. Surely, you are thinking, this is just for the kids? Well it is true that the emphasis is on making the internet a safer place to be for young people but we...