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Start a Business as a Student with beepurple, the University’s entrepreneurship service

Did you know that the Careers & Employability team can help you start your own business or side hustle whilst you are studying? Each year, we support 100s of students and graduate to start up! Continue Reading Start a Business as a Student with beepurple, the University’s entrepreneurship service

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Gain work experience with a placement or internship

At the University of Brighton, we have dedicated Placement teams who aid you in searching, applying, and interviewing for placements or internships whilst at university. Continue Reading Gain work experience with a placement or internship

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Mentors available to work with you now! Apply today

Do you want to stand out in a crowd and know what new skills you need to get the perfect job? Or are you just starting out and want to build new skills? Continue Reading Mentors available to work with you now! Apply today

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Graduating Art Student? Read on for advice and opportunities…

If you’re finishing your art degree this summer and uncertain about the future, remember there’s plenty of support out there from the university and beyond. Continue Reading Graduating Art Student? Read on for advice and opportunities…

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Help for Students and Graduates with Mental Health conditions

The Careers and Employability Service offers confidential and impartial advice and guidance to all students and graduates. We can: help you consider how best to move forward with your next steps, if you have a mental health condition. advise on how to communicate about your mental health support needs to a prospective employer refer to… Continue Reading Help for Students and Graduates with Mental Health conditions

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Graduate Opportunities 2021

What’s happening with graduate opportunities 2021? 7 predictionsfrom the Prospects and Gradconsult labour market experts: 2021 very likely to be betterin job market terms than 2020, but probably not until later in the year. We won’t get back to pre-pandemic employment this year. Overall, unemployment may continue to rise, however, non-graduates will be impacted far… Continue Reading Graduate Opportunities 2021

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Make your idea happen and win a cash prize

Do you have an idea for a new product, service or community project? The Santander University of Brighton Ideas Competition is your chance to make it happen. Continue Reading Make your idea happen and win a cash prize

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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… Continue Reading Careers Support For Students and Graduates With Long-Covid

Ever Considered a Postgraduate Conversion Course?

Students often think about  popular career areas offering good opportunities and wonder how can they break into them when they don’t have a relevant degree.  One way of doing this is a via a postgraduate conversion course and Prospects has an excellent section on these on their website. https://www.prospects.ac.uk/postgraduate-study/conversion-courses These courses are designed specifically for entry into… Continue Reading Ever Considered a Postgraduate Conversion Course?

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Be More Skilled Week – Volunteering

Volunteering can be a fantastic way to develop existing skills or learn new ones. Continue Reading Be More Skilled Week – Volunteering

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Be More Skilled Week – Mentoring

Are you just starting out and want to build new skills now?  Continue Reading Be More Skilled Week – Mentoring

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Be More Skilled Week – Creative Problem Solving

Creative thinking and problem solving are essential skills for the workplace. Continue Reading Be More Skilled Week – Creative Problem Solving

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My Time At Brighton

Leah Brown studied on our Health Studies BSc(Hons) top-up degree. She tells us a bit about her time at Brighton and what she has been up to since she graduated. “I chose the University of Brighton as it was one of the few Universities that offered the top-up degree course. The fact that it was… Continue Reading My Time At Brighton

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Pandemic-Proof Skills for Your Placement Journey

What are the skills employers are looking for these days and how can you build them? Continue Reading Pandemic-Proof Skills for Your Placement Journey

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Be More Skilled!

We all have our own unique set of skills, strengths and attributes that make us who we are. Our strengths and abilities often reflect our interests and experiences, and our skills can help us to work out where we can succeed and make a difference in the world. Being at university is all about learning… Continue Reading Be More Skilled!

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!… Continue Reading How to Impress in an Accounting Interview

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… Continue Reading Competency Questions Advice

Fancy A Non-Medical Career in NHS?

Considering a career in logistics, HR, finance, training, strategy or information? Introducing the NHS… Did you know that the UK NHS, after the US Department of Defence, the People’s Liberation Army China, Walmart and McDonald’s, is the 5th largest workforce in the worldwith 1,7 million people? The NHS has over 350 different job roles and is… Continue Reading Fancy A Non-Medical Career in NHS?

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

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