Tips & Hints

As part of our Careers Celebrate Diversity, Challenge Discrimination week on Disability and Mental Health, we focus today on finding a job as an autistic graduate.  Our guest blogger, Chris Ellis who recently completed his MSc in Biosciences first blogged...

We get asked about CV length for non-academic, UK-based roles a lot in Application Advice appointments, so I thought it was worth tackling here. There are all sorts of rumours about which types of employers prefer a one, or a...

    This blog is part 2 of our LGBT+ careers panel event and was held as part of the LGBT+ careers week where we welcomed four wonderful speakers to Chancellor's Building to discuss their experiences of being LGBT+ at work. Part...

Machine Learning and Video Interviews – how to prepare? As it is future proof your career week and we are talking about how technology can affect our world of work, I have recently researched how technology is already affecting application...

     On 26th February we had the privilege of holding the University of Bath’s first ever LGBT+ centred Careers Service panel. This event was held as part of the LGBT+ careers week and we welcomed four wonderful speakers to...

As part of our series on how doctoral students and research staff can make the most of networking to support their career development, I wanted to share a few key pieces of advice on how to build and make the most...

In a recent Institute of Student Employers survey (2017), 49% of employer respondents said that they now use pre-recorded video interviewing during recruitment processes. Unilever, EY, John Lewis, CERN, and Goldman Sachs are all big-name users of video interviewing. Video interviews are...

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...