career choice
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Making a Career Change after the Covid-19 Pandemic
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...
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International Careers in the UN, and private sector companies in Singapore & Dubai: Our Careers Service Ambassador John Smith attended the alumni panel talk and this is what he found out…
All alumni presenting initially studied at the School of Management. They all began with an internship and progressed to full-time roles. Some have worked in 3-4 countries before moving to Singapore or Dubai. Singapore Application Process Mainly application and interview-based...
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How do I pick a career?
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 will be confronted by at some point in our working lives, “I am...
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Getting into the Charity Sector: a fantastic evening all about the third sector
Maisie Goodson, our guest blogger and a final year Psychology student talks about our Getting into the Charity Sector event.This semester I attended a wonderful careers event with two amazing and inspiring speakers, all about the charity sector. We had...
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Shhh - careers in libraries and information
I work as an Information Officer here in the Careers Service but my background is from the academic library sector. In this blog post I hope to give you an overview of the library and information sector and some tips...
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International Careers - curious about a career in international development (part 2)?
International Careers - curious about a career in international development? As it is International Careers Week we will be sharing two exciting blog entries written by professionals working in international development. Wednesday we had Katherine who works in a NGO in Uganda. Yesterday...
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International Careers - curious about a career in international development (part 1)?
International Careers - curious about a career in international development? As it is International Careers Week we will be sharing two exciting blog entries written by professionals working in international development. Yesterday we had Katherine who works in a NGO in...
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Exploring Career Stories
Exploring Career Stories I watched a youtube link today where a student talked about the importance of exploring careers stories in finding out about jobs, sectors, employers and skills needed and how it really had taught him about different career...