{"id":297,"date":"2015-04-14T08:42:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T07:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/?p=297"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T14:58:20","slug":"top-5-time-management-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/2015\/04\/14\/top-5-time-management-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 Time Management Tips!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We understand this is a really busy time for Bath students, with project deadlines, exams and having to fit in job hunting. There are times it just feels too much; so we thought we would share our top time management tips to help you stay sane during this crazy busy period.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2015\/04\/time-management.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-298\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2015\/04\/time-management-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"time-management\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2015\/04\/time-management-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/82\/2015\/04\/time-management.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Urgent vs important grid<\/strong> \u2014 Make a 2x2 grid with \u2018Important\u2019 and \u2018Not important\u2019 across the top and \u2018Urgent\u2019 and \u2018Not urgent\u2019 down the side. Allocate your tasks to the four squares in the grid. This will help you prioritise what is important.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Batching<\/strong> \u2014 Group tasks by similarity, e.g. same location, involving same people, using same resources. Do similar tasks together as this will save you going up and down the campus!<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a0Motivation by action<\/strong> \u2014 Don\u2019t wait for motivation to strike. Whatever you are putting off, just start it and allow yourself to stop after a fixed time period (it can be as little as 5 minutes). It doesn\u2019t matter if you haven\u2019t made much progress. See if starting it has made you more motivated to engage with it later.<\/li>\n<li><strong>One big thing<\/strong> \u2014 Each day decide on \u2018one big thing\u2019 that you are going to make a start on. Allocate time to spend on starting it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Energy scheduling<\/strong> \u2014 Try to schedule particularly demanding tasks for times in the day when you tend to have most energy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Finally, ask for help! Pop into careers and talk to us about a realistic job hunting plan. You'll be amazed how much we can accomplish together in 15 minutes, so book a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/students\/careers\/one-to-one#dropin\" target=\"_blank\">Quick Query<\/a> today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We understand this is a really busy time for Bath students, with project deadlines, exams and having to fit in job hunting. There are times it just feels too much; so we thought we would share our top time management...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[748],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-time-management"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}