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Planning Your Future career During Covid-19

How you can still plan for your future career in the Covid-19 crisis “How did you make use of your time during the Corona virus lockdown?” “What did you learn about yourself from the Corona virus lockdown period?” If you were told to work from home for a month, how would you approach it?“ “Tell us… Continue Reading Planning Your Future career During Covid-19

What Covid-19 Has Taught Us About Employment Skills

Only a mere few months ago, the world of work looked remarkably different and organisations had priorities completely unlike the ones they have today. In the wake of a crisis however, things can change rapidly, and leaders across industries are finding themselves in need of certain skills to ensure they come out the other side… Continue Reading What Covid-19 Has Taught Us About Employment Skills

Developing resilience and how it can help you to focus

In the blog series Brighton Resilience, we are reaching out to alumni who are sharing their experience of building resilience, how this is helping them now and any tips and idea they have for current students and graduates, facing the labourmarket in a time of uncertainty. Alumnus from Law LLB and Paralegal at Howard Kennedy… Continue Reading Developing resilience and how it can help you to focus

St. John’s are Recruiting

While a lot of the news may seem like doom and gloom, don’t be put off your job search! Although some employers are unsure about recruitment at the moment, the University’s Careers Service still get new jobs on our Vacancy Service. Make sure you update your requirements and check out new opportunities regularly: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/careers/resources/ Sian from… Continue Reading St. John’s are Recruiting

How To Prepare For Virtual Assessment Centres

Even before Covid 19 many companies had started to move their assessment centres (ACs) online. Due to the current pandemic this trend has accelerated in the past few weeks and may continue for the foreseeable future. Cardiff Metropolitan University Careers Service sent us these great tips on preparing for VACs from EY and a recruitment… Continue Reading How To Prepare For Virtual Assessment Centres

Creative Access Wednesday Workshops

Creative Access are a social enterprise, unrivalled in diverse recruitment and inclusion. They work with all under-represented candidates and organisations across the whole creative industry from Theatre and TV to Publishing. Creative Access is largely funded by their employer partners who are committed to improving diversity and inclusion within their organisations, wholeheartedly. All profits go… Continue Reading Creative Access Wednesday Workshops

Adapting Your Career Plans During COVID-19

Staying positive at present can be a challenge, however as we have said in previous blog posts there are jobs still being advertised so worth exploring these. Think about diversifying into a different career area, at least for a short while. It may not be your ‘ideal dream job’ but any experience will help you… Continue Reading Adapting Your Career Plans During COVID-19

Work from home – Songs that MAXIMISE your productivity

With so many of us currently working from home, employees will likely plug themselves into Spotify playlists to help them get through the working day. But are your current playlists properly helping you work most productively? To find out, the loan firm Transmit Startups recently investigated the power of music and revealed the must-have tunes… Continue Reading Work from home – Songs that MAXIMISE your productivity

Prospects Postgraduate Virtual Fair

Following Prospects’ previous successful online events we’re thrilled to announce our first dedicated postgraduate Study Fair, connecting potential applicants with UK and international postgraduate course providers. The event will take place from 1-4pm on Wed 6 May, with exhibitor booths available to view after the live event has passed. The link to register can be found… Continue Reading Prospects Postgraduate Virtual Fair

Focusing on resilience and how it can help you adapt

As part of our Brighton Resilience blog series, alumna and Brand Identity Manager for BT’s Enterprise Division Tia Schwarz tells us how she is stepping up to home working and thriving in a challenging new environment: Adjusting to working in a way that we’re not used to can be tricky. For me? I’m fortunate enough… Continue Reading Focusing on resilience and how it can help you adapt

Being resilient and how it can help you develop

We’re featuring insightful and informative stories from our alumni about building resilience and finding work in difficult times, and building a career in an area different from your degree. This is from a member of our alumni Gregory Bortkiewicz: I studied Geography and graduated in 2008, then spent a year applying unsuccessfully for jobs in… Continue Reading Being resilient and how it can help you develop

Career Development Tips During Lockdown

No one knows exactly what will happen to the labour market following the pandemic including governments and public bodies. The media is reporting lots of negative news, many employees are being furloughed and some businesses will probably close. A recently published report from the Office for Budget Responsibility is predicting gloomy news initally but also… Continue Reading Career Development Tips During Lockdown

My Tech Career – Sparta Global Consultant Q&A

Hear about Sparta Global consultant, Rituja Rao’s journey from journalism graduate to trailblazing woman in tech! Thursday 16/4 3pm for Sparta Global. Rituja will talk about her career in tech. This will be a great chance for students to ask questions and learn about her experience. She comes from a non-technical background and offers a… Continue Reading My Tech Career – Sparta Global Consultant Q&A

Wired Sussex Virtual Jobs Fair

Based in Brighton, Wired Sussex support the digital, media and technology sector across Sussex. Thousands of companies and freelancers come together to make up their regional network. A few months ago we posted a blog about the exciting Wired Sussex recruitment events that were coming up in late April. Wired Sussex has moved these events online… Continue Reading Wired Sussex Virtual Jobs Fair

Career Planning in the Time of Covid-19

Normally spring is full steam ahead for the final year students. As a Careers Service we would be seeing students and posting blogs about applying for jobs, putting the finishing touches to CVs and preparing for interviews. But these current times as we know aren’t ‘normal’. However, there is still a lot you can do in… Continue Reading Career Planning in the Time of Covid-19

Good News From Gradcracker!

Gradcracker promote opportunties for STEM ( Science Technology Engineering and Maths) students and graduates and have sent good news around recruitment for 2020. As of yesterday they had 248 employers offering 2,237 graduate opportunities and 962 placements and internships. They have also reported back on particular companies – see the details below. For students who… Continue Reading Good News From Gradcracker!

Free Employability Webinar Series

Grant Thornton are one of the largest accountancy firms in the world, recruiting between 350-400 school leavers, graduates, interns and placements in the UK every year. They would like to invite University of Brighton students to their exciting webinar series which will run for 4 weeks (1 series per week) and will focus on the… Continue Reading Free Employability Webinar Series

Sound Time Management

Manage your time to get things done – and make yourself more employable Time management is one of the top employability skills much valued by employers. Even though you might not be able to work or volunteer right now, you can still develop your time management skills: 1. Break your overall goals for this period into… Continue Reading Sound Time Management

Apply for arts/heritage/media volunteering to get your skills up before term ends!

Volunteering is one of the key ways students can get degree-related work experience before they graduate. The University of Brighton’s Volunteering Service, Active Student, has a fantastic, free service available to University of Brighton students, to access rewarding, safe and supported volunteering opportunities. Did you know? You have a dedicated Volunteering Project Officer at City… Continue Reading Apply for arts/heritage/media volunteering to get your skills up before term ends!

Fabrica (Brighton) Gallery Volunteer Role – contact the Active Student Volunteering Service to apply

Spring exhibition: A Simple Act of Wonder Artists: Walter & Zionel Sat 18 Apr–Sun 31 May 2020 Front of House Gallery Volunteering role available for students to apply for via the University’s Volunteering Service, Active Student: Tel: 01273 644145 E-mail: volunteering@brighton.ac.uk (students) Website: www.brighton.ac.uk/careers/volunteering Exploring ideas of place and our power to re-imagine the world, acclaimed… Continue Reading Fabrica (Brighton) Gallery Volunteer Role – contact the Active Student Volunteering Service to apply