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Part Time Library Jobs are GO! Falmer and St Peters recruiting NOW!

No more teaser trailers – the jobs are here and now… Closing 10 October! FALMER Library are hiring Student Helpers to provide basic advice and support to students in the library and computer rooms and to assist with checking equipment in teaching rooms. Pay is £8.50 per hour. Download the job description at http://bit.ly/2N2ojK2 and get… Continue Reading Part Time Library Jobs are GO! Falmer and St Peters recruiting NOW!

Here come the part time jobs! DOMESTIC CLEANER. £8.75 p/hour.

Part time DOMESTIC CLEANER. £8.75 p/hour. Looking for work alongside your studies? Can you commit to 2 set days per week? (8-12 hours per week) *Weekdays only. No evenings/weekends. Refreshing Homes offers affordable and ethical home cleaning in Brighton, Hove and surrounding areas. We are a living wage employer not an agency. We are looking… Continue Reading Here come the part time jobs! DOMESTIC CLEANER. £8.75 p/hour.

Crafts, Arts, Humanities and Cambridge – there’s money for the taking…

Time for another funding round-up? I’d say so. Now read on… Closing 24 August! The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) funds the education of talented and aspiring craftspeople through traditional college courses, apprenticeships or one-on-one training with Masters. Find out more and get your application in at https://www.qest.org.uk/ Deadline 27 September! The ESRC and the Arts and… Continue Reading Crafts, Arts, Humanities and Cambridge – there’s money for the taking…

Want to make a difference to the lives of thousands of children and families?

Guest post alert! On 17 August The Children’s Trust are opening their doors to anyone interested in their work and who would like to get involved. Read on… Would you like to know more about The Children’s Trust and the amazing work that we do? Interested in developing a career where you make a significant… Continue Reading Want to make a difference to the lives of thousands of children and families?

Critical Thinking and the Three Types of Lies – something interesting from our inbox

Usually people ask to be guests on our blog, and quite often we say yes – we’re nice people. Sometimes we come across something that’s interesting enough to share without being asked. This from Pearson Talentlens being a case in point. According to them, critical thinking is the #1 skill of the 21st century. We… Continue Reading Critical Thinking and the Three Types of Lies – something interesting from our inbox

The joy of student volunteering and the occasional hmm of the charity sector…

Been a while since we’ve had a round-up of think pieces, and also been a while since I posted on here *waves*. Hope this gives you food for thought. Student volunteering: does it make a difference? – (*SPOILER* Yes it does.) Joy Williams, IES research fellow, considers the vast array of reasons and motivations for students… Continue Reading The joy of student volunteering and the occasional *hmm* of the charity sector…

Did you know the Careers Service are always here to support you?

I may have just seen my last student of the academic year before a month off during summer but did you know that the Careers Service are here to support you all year round. We always have staff here throughout summer and term time holidays, apart from over the christmas break. So if you have… Continue Reading Did you know the Careers Service are always here to support you?

Photoworks and Brighton Photo Biennial: volunteering opportunities in front of house, invigilation, communications, art installation exhibition team

About Photoworks and Brighton Photo Biennial: 28 September-28 October 2018 Photoworks will be presenting the month-long photography festival, Brighton Photo Biennial in the Autumn, 2018. It will be curated by our new Director Shoair Mavlian, formerly curator of photography at Tate Modern. Photoworks is an organisation dedicated to supporting and promoting emerging contemporary practice across… Continue Reading Photoworks and Brighton Photo Biennial: volunteering opportunities in front of house, invigilation, communications, art installation exhibition team

Top tips for new graduates

If you have just graduated then you may feel euphoric and so you should… getting to the end of several years of study is worth celebrating. But then back into sharp focus comes the question ‘What do I do now?’ If you haven’t got a job as yet then here are some tips to get started with the next… Continue Reading Top tips for new graduates

Promoting your work experience – Creativity

We are nearly at the end of the series of 10 blogs on digging deep into your work experience to find good evidence of key skills employers seek. The penultimate one we are looking at is creativity. If you have worked in a setting where you have produced something tangible or helped others produce something and also encouraged their… Continue Reading Promoting your work experience – Creativity

Promoting your work experience – Analytical skills

Right we are back with the 8th blog in the series of promoting your work experience and identifying your skills. You should be thinking of how you can evidence skills and show them to a future employer in all kinds of contexts. So by keeping records of these you can address the skills section on… Continue Reading Promoting your work experience – Analytical skills

Promoting your work experience – Commercial Awareness

Welcome back to our series of blogs on promoting your skills gained via work experience. These blogs aren’t trying to ignore the excellent skills gained on your university course but are designed to try and get you think of other ways in which you are getting skills. Using skills from education and any other experience will enrich your… Continue Reading Promoting your work experience – Commercial Awareness

Promoting your work experience – Self Awareness

In the last of our blogs about skills before Easter we look at Self awareness. We will be back after Easter with more blogs on different skills so keep looking out for them. So far we have covered Communication, Teamwork and Problem solving . Self awareness is perhaps more tricky to define but it is… Continue Reading Promoting your work experience – Self Awareness

Looking to kick-start your Engineering career? Meet industry-leading employers at NECR18, 20-21 April.

Don’t miss out on your chance to meet leading companies from across the globe that are actively looking to recruiting students and recent graduates into engineering roles. Discover which companies would be a good fit for you, what opportunities they have to offer, and what they are looking for in an ideal applicant. You will… Continue Reading Looking to kick-start your Engineering career? Meet industry-leading employers at NECR18, 20-21 April.

Guest Blog Drop! Fully Funded, Paid Route into Teaching with Teach First

Teach First is a charity that works with like-minded people and organisations towards a day where every child has the education they are entitled to. On the two-year Leadership Development Programme (LDP) they train people with leadership potential to be inspirational teachers in schools in low-income communities across the country. Since 2002, thousands of… Continue Reading Guest Blog Drop! Fully Funded, Paid Route into Teaching with Teach First

Top tips in preparing for the NHS STP

Here is some advice we have been forwarded by Dashi Alpion, Careers Adviser, Medical and Dental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, on how to prepare for the NHS STP (Scientist Training Programme). Our thanks to Dashi for this. The format of the Multiple Mini Interview (MMI) includes: 4 stations; 4 questions at each… Continue Reading Top tips in preparing for the NHS STP

Promoting your work experience – Problem Solving

Number 3 in our series of blogs is problem solving, we have already covered teamwork and communication so have a look at those if you haven’t already seen them. We are covering some of the key skills that employers look for in applicants and in these blogs we are focusing primarily on skills gained through work experience. Problem solving… Continue Reading Promoting your work experience – Problem Solving

Promoting your work experience – Communication

In the second of this series on breaking down key skills and providing evidence of them, we look at communication. On the surface this can look easy… we all communicate in some way or other. However it is how this skill can be shown to a prospective employer in the application process that concerns us, here in this blog. We are encouraging… Continue Reading Promoting your work experience – Communication

Promoting your work experience – Teamwork

We often meet students who talk about having had a job but ask if the skills gained are ‘irrelevant’ to want they want to go into as they are not directly related. Employers do like relevant work experience of course, but are also very interested in what you have gained though being in any type of work or volunteering. These… Continue Reading Promoting your work experience – Teamwork

Put your artistic skills and interest in fashion/dress history to good use and add to your CV at the same time…

Creative Artistic Volunteers Wanted! Volunteers will be working with the The Sussex Beacon shops in Brighton to: help design and paint the wall outside the St James Street store (just round the corner from Grand Parade!) and some items at our home store on London Road. The idea we have for St James Street is… Continue Reading Put your artistic skills and interest in fashion/dress history to good use and add to your CV at the same time…