Career Development

The shock and disruption the Coronavirus pandemic has caused, is prompting many to rethink their careers. But as a recent article in the Harvard Business Review mused “is this really the right time?”  Before you go too far in your pursuit of new opportunities, it’s worth taking...

A few weeks into the lockdown we ended up caring for a robin fledgling, who we named ‘Tufty’. For a little ball of fluff, he ate rather a lot (hourly meal worm feeds) and produced plenty of waste but he...

As part of the Universities ‘Skills and Employability week’ here in Careers we decided to focus our blog posts on the one dilemma that every one of us will be confronted by at some point in our working lives, “I...

3. How to help your boss keep you motivated and in their organisation. Debbie Pye is our Application Adviser and has written this excellent series of three blogs looking at the viewpoints of business leaders hiring graduates and placement students....

Being your boss: A view from the other side of the desk #2 Debbie Pye is our Application Adviser and has written this excellent series of three blogs looking at the viewpoints of business leaders hiring graduates and placement students....

  Debbie Pye is our Application Adviser and has written this excellent series of three blogs looking at the viewpoints of business leaders hiring graduates and placement students. The next part in the series will be published next Tuesday. Being...

Liz Bingham OBE Maisie Goodson (Psychology final year) shares some key advice given by Liz Bingham OBE, our special guest speaker on the Sprint Professional Development programme for female undergraduates. Liz talks about her career journey, the advice she would...

Maisie Goodson, Psychology final year describes over the next few blogs the career journeys and excellent advice given by our guest speakers at Sprint - a 4 day personal development programme for female undergraduates. Emma Allen, an Executive Director and...