Advice

  • CV Tips: Watch your language!

    It is a busy time of year for students; you’re tackling job and placement applications alongside completing your academic studies and you’re also trying to juggle your social life and extra-curricular activities too. So don’t make things harder for yourself...

  • Autumn Careers and Placements Fair 2018

    On Thursday 18th and Friday 19th of October, the Autumn Fair will be held between 11am and 4pm in the STV. This year we are absolutely thrilled to say it is a joint venture between the Careers Service and the...

  • Tips on building your career as a woman from our Sprint Speakers

    At this year’s Sprint Personal Development programme for female undergraduates, we were really fortunate to have some excellent female speakers to come and share their career journeys!  We delivered our Day 4 twice to ensure our students on placement could...

  • Career Check List for Final Years

    Career Check List for Final Years and Postgraduates       So, you have started your final year of your degree or your one year postgraduate degree? Apart from focusing on your academic skills, what can you do to improve...

  • The Authenticity of Networking

    A few weeks ago I delivered a short conference talk about networking and I started reflecting on my own fears of networking and the lessons I have learnt. Researching slides for my talk I found one particular slide from a...

  • It's not too late for me to get a job, is it?

    It's not too late for me to get a job, is it? A common question we are asked by final year students in our Quick Queries is "its not too late for me to get a job, is it?".  This is a totally understandable question...

  • Finding last - minute summer work experience

    I find that our excited Jack Russell gets me motivated every morning so I hope this brief blog entry on finding last - minute summer work experience may do the same for you! Is it too late to find summer...

  • low-stress career planning in the final stages of your doctorate

    The final months of a doctorate can be intense and draining, with the pressures of writing up, checking references, making sure tables are properly formatted etc. In the midst of all this, you may have a nagging sense that you...

  • How to handle job offers

    Picture this: Your phone rings, it is a unknown number - you answer with much trepidation. It is someone from the graduate recruitment team following an assessment center you went to. Hurrah they have offered you the job. This should...

  • Do I really need to know Excel?

    Do I really need to know Excel? Updated December 2020 Students sometimes come in to our office asking about the usefulness of Excel in graduate job hunting and how to get additional training.  My advice to you is don’t sit...