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The Highs and Lows of Starting Up

Last week, as part of the University of Brighton’s #BrightonWorksWeek, the beepurple (Student Enterprise) team hosted an inspiring panel event entitled, ‘The Highs and Lows of Starting Up’. It was exciting to hear from four graduates of the University of Brighton, all of whom have pursued entrepreneurial careers since completing their studies. All four speakers… Continue Reading The Highs and Lows of Starting Up

Get Yourself a Careers Buddy!

Try something new today: Get yourself a careers buddy! We all know that thinking through options, skills and opportunities can easily feel like a just going round in circles – a lot of thinking but perhaps not much forward movement. That’s why we would like to suggest you reach out to your peers during lockdown… Continue Reading Get Yourself a Careers Buddy!

Brighton Works Week is here: Sign up for these live sessions

This week is packed full of live Q&As, chats and webinars with actively recruiting employers, external careers experts, and our in-house specialists, all helping you to be more employable. Here are three of our webinars with spaces still available: Tues 3 November 13:30-14:00 Graduating in a pandemic – Graduate Recruitment Bureau Local graduate recruitment consultancy GRB… Continue Reading Brighton Works Week is here: Sign up for these live sessions

Preparing for the Virtual Careers Fair

Our Virtual Careers Fair is fast approaching! We hope you have all downloaded the Careers Fair Plus App as you need it to take part. The app lets you browse employers, go to their drop-ins, watch webinars and book one to ones. Hopefully you are already signing up for the one to one sessions with employers… Continue Reading Preparing for the Virtual Careers Fair

Step-Up: A new paid internship for final-year students and recent graduates

Step-Up is an exciting new paid internship and skills training programme for current final-year students and recent graduates from the University of Brighton and University of Sussex. Continue Reading Step-Up: A new paid internship for final-year students and recent graduates

Advice from Coca-Cola European Partners on job searching during COVID-19

The University of the West of England’s GradLink organisation held an interview with the Bulgarian Talent Acquisition team from Coca-Cola European Partners plc to discuss graduate job recruitment in the ongoing pandemic. They covered a range of areas giving advice to students on how to become the ideal candidate. Networking It isn’t about how many… Continue Reading Advice from Coca-Cola European Partners on job searching during COVID-19

Apply now: Santander Student Online Self-Development Programme

Santander Universities UK has joined forces with Sporting Edge – a high performance consultancy that blends powerful insights with proven psychology – to run a new and exciting learning experience for 19 students from the University of Brighton. Students taking part will gain access to eight hours’ worth of insightful material, and have a chance… Continue Reading Apply now: Santander Student Online Self-Development Programme

Brighton Works Week including Careers Fair 2020

2 to 6 November is Brighton Works Week This week is packed full of events, workshops, chats and webinars, to help you to be more employable. The sessions will be hosted by external experts we’ve invited in from all corners of the world of work and our own specialist Careers and Employability team. For more… Continue Reading Brighton Works Week including Careers Fair 2020

Words Count In Your CV

We generally advise that CVs are no longer than 2 pages, it is important to make every word count. What you say and how you say it is very important. Here are some tips to help: Think about WHO you are approaching with the CV and what is is for? A job, internship, placement, or speculative… Continue Reading Words Count In Your CV

Meet top games studios and find out about career opportunities

Join Wired Sussex on Tuesday20th October at 1230 for the first in a series of events where you can meet some of the UK’s top games studios. At the event you can find out what jobs games companies have, what they look for when hiring and to ask any questions you have about beginning your career.… Continue Reading Meet top games studios and find out about career opportunities

FREE digital skills course for graduates: worth £2600!

The Digital Accelerator is a free digital skills diploma, worth £2600 delivered by Creative Process, it will equip you with an essential tool kit of digital and creative skills that employers demand. Here’s how you can get access to the digital know-how so highly prized by employers… Continue Reading FREE digital skills course for graduates: worth £2600!

Starting a Business as a Student

The beepurple team recently caught up with Ben Brooks, Anmol Mangat and Ehab Ahmad – the Founders of UniiMarket, which is an exclusive online marketplace hub for students, by students. Here’s what we talked about… What inspired you to turn UniiMarket into reality? After presenting a very rough sketch of the idea to our peers… Continue Reading Starting a Business as a Student

Your Invite to Black Tech Fest

University of Brighton students are invited to attend Black Tech Fest. Black Tech Fest is the UK’s leading free 3-day virtual event taking place from the 13th to the 15th of October, dedicated to celebrating black culture in the tech industry. With 20 hours of content, the event includes 50 highly successful speakers from Fortune… Continue Reading Your Invite to Black Tech Fest

Brighton Peace & Environment Centre

BPEC is a charity which raises awareness and understanding on social justice, peace, sustainable development and environment protection matters. They offer information, education and positive practical solutions to global problems to the community, for example the Refill Brighton + Hove project. “Our student volunteer, Ayeesha, administered our social media accounts. A large part of her work was to manage communications about the Refill project and create new… Continue Reading Brighton Peace & Environment Centre

Cherish: Brighton & Hove City Council Disability Team

Cherish is a service that provides social and leisure opportunities for 16 to 25 year olds with moderate to severe learning disabilities. They offer evening activities during term-time as well as a series of mini-bus based day trips throughout the school holiday periods. Active Student have worked with the organisation and provided student volunteers to help support… Continue Reading Cherish: Brighton & Hove City Council Disability Team

Ronald Mcdonald House Charities

Ronald Mcdonald House Charities is a nationwide charity that offers free ‘home away from home’ accommodation for families who have children in hospital. Active Student have led various mural projects with the charity to brighten up the rooms at the Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital. Jasmine Hind from Ronald McDonald House, serving Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital and the Trevor Mann Baby Unit, tells us about the help… Continue Reading Ronald Mcdonald House Charities

STEM Students and Grads. Don’t Miss Gradcracker Webinars

Gradcracker is hosting a series of webinars with guest speakers from a wide range of employers. In each webinar, you’ll get to meet one of the companies as they tell you all about their organisation, opportunities, their application process, and more. It is a perfect opportunity for you to discover more about an employer… Continue Reading STEM Students and Grads. Don’t Miss Gradcracker Webinars

#BrightonWorks 2020 Graduate Futures on September 30th

2020 Graduate Futures: Next step advice for University of Brighton Graduates

If you have just graduated and are looking for a start to your career, come along to 2020 Graduate Futures on Wednesday 20 September. Continue Reading 2020 Graduate Futures: Next step advice for University of Brighton Graduates

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Brighton Tech Entrepreneurship Resilience

We are reaching out to alumni to hear how they have dealt with challenges and built resilience – and have asked them to share their ideas on how students and graduates move forward positively. Here alumnus of 2015 (PGCE Further Education and Training) and entrepreneur and Founder of Vixen Digital Ltd. Sean Carroll tells us… Continue Reading Brighton Tech Entrepreneurship Resilience