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Increasingly, employers are using strengths-based interviews to recruit new staff. But recognising your strengths can do more than help you to succeed in a job interview. By knowing what your strengths are, you can look for ways and opportunities, to...

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...

I have spent the best part of today chatting to final year students from the Faculty of Science (I mean it when I say, it has been the highlight of my day). A common theme in all the conversations has...

I’m writing this in mid March 2020. I don’t have a crystal ball…but all things must and will pass. At some point, hopefully not in the too distant future, we will be at least be gradually “coming out the other...

  In this blog, Bath student Nathan Roberts discusses his experience of working in Japan.   The six months I spent in Japan working at NTT Basic Research Laboratories have been some of the most interesting, stimulating and enjoyable months...

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...

Our guest blogger, Maisie Goodson, shares highlights from our guest speaker, Parimala Shivaprasad who recently qualified as Doctor of Chemical Engineering while developing a social enterprise start-up. Parimala grew up in Bangalore, India and performed at a high level at...

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...

Researcher Alumni Case Study – James Cave Software Engineer at MathWorks, Cambridge What do you do day-to-day in your current role? I work on the development of MATLAB’s Parallel Computing Toolbox, which allows you to scale up your code over...

Event review: Leadership Exploration and Development Programme (LEAD) - an event for women in Humanities and Social Sciences     On Saturday 30th March Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Careers Service, with great support from Department for...