Diversity
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International Women's Day: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Imposter Syndrome - that lurking feeling that you're not actually as good as others think you are, that you don't really 'deserve' that placement, graduate job, promotion etc, that you somehow just got lucky and that one day people will...
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Celebrate yourself, love what you do, and live without limits!
As part of our Careers Service themed events on Celebrate Diversity: Challenge Discrimination - this week our focus is the LGBT+ community. Today, Aidan Murch (PhD Student), our guest blogger gives you his insight and advice. I am Aidan Murch....
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An autistic graduate’s search for employment
Our guest blogger this week is Chris Ellis who graduated with a BSc. Hons in Natural Sciences with a placement in 2017 and recently completed his MSc in Biosciences gives an honest account of his career journey to date. Chris...
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"I don't disclose my disability to employers." Does that sound like you?
A really great blog below from Edmund Lewis, University of Westminster who gives a good overview of what to think about when considering disclosure. Originally posted on the AGCAS Disability Task Group Blog on November 15 2018 Although many students say...
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Women in banking and finance
Guest blog post by Isobel Nash, one of our student marketing assistants. Women in Banking and Finance Panel, Monday 29th October On Monday 29th 2018 October a panel of female speakers from the banking and finance industry visited the University of Bath...
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Ethnic Minority Graduates from Rare Recruitment talk about how they landed top graduate jobs
Isobel Nash, our guest blogger today and student Events Assistant in the Careers Service reflects on our recent Rare Recruitment Panel event. On Wednesday 10th October five ethnic minority graduates from RARE Recruitment visited the University of Bath to tell...
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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...
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Succeeding as a Woman in Banking
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! Today’s blog features: Lauren Fear - Head of Service Management & Risk Unit,...
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Why some employers are targeting students on the autistic spectrum
It’s been great to see more media attention on the subject of autism and an interest in raising the awareness of this condition with programmes like the Channel 4 programme “Are you Autistic?” and the BBC Documentary “Employable Me”. Last...