If you answered "attending the biggest ever careers fair on campus" then everyone in the careers service bows to you! If, however you haven't got the fair in your diary, then you're missing out - big time! Our Autumn Careers Fair,...

Your Careers Service needs your feedback to continue to give you excellent careers support. This year we’re taking part in the trendence survey, one of the UK’s largest student surveys, and their reports will tell us how satisfied you are with...

Did you know that we have a small reference library of carefully selected career books in the Careers Service? Come in and have a browse and a read, or find a list of what’s in stock in our on-line catalogue. Newly...

A few days back, I did a practice interview via Skype with a client, all was going well except I was rather distracted by a less than professional poster on the clients wall and that the candidate was wearing what looked...

According to HEFCE, in 2011-12 there were 501,330 postgraduate students studying in institutions in England and Northern Ireland, a 50% growth in the market. These last few weeks, we have seen an increase in the number of students coming in...

Yesterday, George Osborne announced a feasibility study to link the London Stock Exchange with the Shanghai Stock Exchange, this initiative would enable Chinese and British shares to be traded in both countries. This announcement comes off the back of a £2bn deal under...

If you’ve just started at The University of Bath or are returning after the summer break and you’ve already found this blog, congratulations! You rock! Brand new fresher? If you’re going to the Freshers Fair this week, you’ll probably find...

This week, we are running our #GetAhead webinars; I am just finishing writing the CV's and Applications talk and found myself in a debate with colleagues over personal profiles on CV's. Career profiles, personal profiles, career objective, personal statement - are...

Today, I had a 1:1 meeting with a Bath graduate, towards the end of our appointment she said "I wish I would have thought about my future much earlier" Many of you will be excited about coming to Bath, frantically...

Yesterday, someone asked me "what is careers advice all about and what do you do?" Got me thinking, we often assume our students know what we do and how we can help them, but I imagine the reality may be...