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Ey Up Governor! A Volunteering Opportunity!

Across the country, primary and secondary schools are looking to diversify their board of governors, in terms of ethnic background, sexuality and age.

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Cheer on Brighton’s Marathon Runners!

This year’s Brighton Marathon is taking place on Sunday 10th April. The University of Brighton is promoting several volunteering roles for the day, via two different charities and this can be your chance to take part and give back without having to put your trainers on.

“Mentoring changed my mindset and made me a bigger person”

Mentors will help you see that you’ve got nothing to worry about, just keep working hard at what you’re good at or what you want to be.

Volunteer at Brighton Festival 2022!

Brighton Festival are looking for reliable and enthusiastic people to help deliver festival events and represent the festival across Brighton, apply now.

Shi Pin: The Careers and Employability team helped me find a part-time job

eople always say that a good CV is important for future job applications and one of the most important components in a CV is work experience.

7 – 13 February is National Student Volunteering Week

Find out what volunteering opportunities are available and sign up today.

My name is Ashlie and I’m a Physician Associate in Emergency Medicine

I did Biological Sciences at University of Brighton and I then completed my master’s degree in Physician Associate Studies at Brighton and Sussex Medical School in 2021.

Placements & internships are now more flexible than ever

There are many placement and internship opportunities, ready, and waiting for you. Don’t miss out and speak to your School placement team today.

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Live Webinar! Get into the Public Sector

Have you thought about a career in the Public Sector? Get started in a new career by joining our free webinar.

Careers Support For Students and Graduates With Long-Covid

Long Covid is mainly affecting people of working age, in different ways and for different lengths of time. It has become apparent that a significant minority of those who contracted COVID-19, even with initially mild symptoms, do not quickly return to full health and have found themselves living for months with a range of debilitating…

Be More Skilled Week – Digital Skills

What do we mean when we say digital skills?

Be More Skilled Week – Volunteering

Volunteering can be a fantastic way to develop existing skills or learn new ones.

Be More Skilled Week – Mentoring

Are you just starting out and want to build new skills now?

Be More Skilled Week – Creative Problem Solving

Creative thinking and problem solving are essential skills for the workplace.

How to Impress in an Accounting Interview

Job interviews are daunting no matter which sector you are in. As a growing accountancy firm, we’ve interviewed our fair share of nervous candidates. Here’s a few words of advice from the people on the other side of the table, to help you become a job interview aficionado. We’ve been interviewed for accounting jobs, too!…

Competency Questions Advice

Competency-based questions are a really popular type of question used by employers during both applications and interviews. These are questions which ask candidates to describe when and how they have demonstrated a particular skill or attribute. You might be in a position where you’re reading the person specification for a vacancy you’re interested in applying…

Applying for placements or graduate schemes? Increase your psychometric test skills

Online tests can be a daunting process but evidence shows that practice can increase your success rate by 10%. With this in mind, the university has established a partnership with Graduates First who specialise in practice online tests. https://www.graduatesfirst.com/university-career-services/brighton/ This gives you free access to premium psychometric tests and job preparation tools, including: 7 verbal…

Job Searching and Applications: Are you Ready?

We hoped you enjoyed Brighton Works Week. A week full of events, webinars and Q&As with our specialist careers staff and employers. All sharing advice and ideas of how to be more employable, make great applications and enter the world of work. With my colleague Liz Vassilakes, our events officer we ran a session: Job Searching…

How to differentiate between different types of graduate jobs

There is lots of terminology for graduate jobs. How do you work out what is the right path for you? Firstly, it is good to understand the recruitment cycle. This article covers the basics: https://www.graduate-jobs.com/gco/Booklet/graduate-recruitment-calendar.jsp Although most big players in an industry have deadlines for graduate scheme applications closing by Christmas, there will still be grad schemes…