Ghislaine Dell
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Ghislaine DellFebruary 16, 2015
International Careers Week: the world is your oyster
Today we are launching our second International Careers Week, which will run from 2-6 March. Whether you are an international student looking for opportunities to work here or at home, or a British student looking to expand your horizons and...
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Ghislaine DellJanuary 23, 2015
The hard truth about soft skills
Sometimes it seems as though the list of skills and attributes that employers want in their potential employees is getting longer and harder to attain. And, worst of all, it's full of unmeasurable, intangible 'soft skills'. Things like 'interpersonal skills', 'communication',...
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Ghislaine DellDecember 2, 2014
How to be more commercially aware
Many employers love Bath students. They are well-qualified, intelligent, active, have experience - but sometimes they don't do as well in employer selection processes as the employers (or the students) were expecting. When we dig a little deeper, this tends...
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Ghislaine DellDecember 1, 2014
Is there such a thing as a non-relevant internship?
We're seeing quite a few students coming in asking us about internships. This is great - to have people coming in and asking us about productive uses of their summers is exactly what we want! But some of you are...
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Ghislaine DellNovember 19, 2014
Only connect....the Bath way
If you've ever wanted to have a chat to someone about their job - how they got it, what the interview was like, what they do every day - but wondered how on earth you are going to get in...
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Ghislaine DellNovember 18, 2014
How would I know if I am 'an entrepreneur'?
So, for the last few days we have focused on articles about entrepreneurship. But I'm sensing there may still be some people reading this thinking 'but how would I know if I have the potential?' Yes, we ran an article...
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Ghislaine DellNovember 11, 2014
Entrepreneurship - a wide open career path
It's very easy, when hearing about something like Global Entrepreneurship Week, to think 'well that's not for me - I don't have any business ideas'. So when I read a blog post in Nature last week which had as its...
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Ghislaine DellOctober 22, 2014
It's only a dissertation, right?
Yesterday I saw lots of students for CV checks - par for the course at this time of year. And I have noticed a common theme. With the final years, I hardly ever see any mention of their Final Year...