Anne Cameron
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Career conundrum: job versus location
Career thinking often involves what can feel like conundrums or dilemmas; choices between alternatives which can feel difficult to make. One such ‘career conundrum’ I encounter quite often in my conversations with students relates to weighing up the question of...
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Volunteer your way to employment
Volunteer your way to employmentWe know lots of our students are passionate volunteers, and as this is the SU’s volunteering week we wanted to help showcase the ways that volunteering can benefit your career and employability.Here’s 5 ways volunteering is...
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Design thinking and your career
Design thinking and your careerAs we’re focussing this week on careers in engineering and design, I wanted to explore how a key concept in engineering – design thinking – can be used to help you navigate your career options. Using...
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A Graduate Perspective: Working in a Green Career
Following on from the University's Green Week, here's a guest blog from Olly Stewart, a Bath graduate and Senior Development Engineer, on how he's using his engineering skills to make manufacturing processes more sustainable. My name's Olly, I studied Mechanical...
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The Benefits of Working in Telecoms
This is a guest blog post by Virgin Media (written by Brianna Croughan) and the views expressed are theirs rather than those of the Careers team. In an era defined by rapid technological advancements, the telecom industry stands at the...
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Career curiosity (Or: how to find out things about work you don't know yet)
Over the summer I moved to a different role within the Careers team, which has meant I've needed to learn about some new career areas. This has made me pay extra attention to a question which is often at the...
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Welcome to first years
Welcome to Bath! I really hope you’ve been enjoying your time here and studies so far. You might be thinking it’s far too early to think about your next steps after Bath – and you’d have a point – but...
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Research Culture and Applying for Academic Jobs
As the time of year is upon us when I spend quite a bit of time helping people with academic job applications, I wanted to address an issue that is very high on the agenda for policymakers, research funders and...
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Selling your part-time work experience to employers
I've seen a few students recently who have asked 'but are employers really interested in my job in a bar/shop/restaurant?' While some sectors will require relevant work experience, UK graduate employers value any experience that gives you insight into the...
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Managing your career in the final year of your doctorate
This blog post is aimed at anyone who is going into, or currently in, the final year of their PhD. As the final few months of a PhD can be intense with the demands of completing a thesis alongside beginning...