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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

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.

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

Daunted by Psychometric/Online Tests? Come along next week and practice with us.

Employability Fortnight #FocusOnYourFuture is well on its way now with many workshops and events still to come. Have you been asked to complete online tests as part of an application? Have you done them and found them hard or complex? Need some help and opportunity to practice? Well the Careers Service are here to help.… Continue Reading Daunted by Psychometric/Online Tests? Come along next week and practice with us.

Gaming and Television – What’s the Score?

Gaming makes up a significant portion of many media industries, including YouTube, Twitch and E-sports, but Gaming formats, are less frequent on Broadcast Television, even with formats alike ‘Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Bit’ (Dave), ‘Videogame Nation’ (Challenge) and ‘Charlie Brooker’s Gameswipe’ (BBC Four), which begs the question, why? In this event, the relationship… Continue Reading Gaming and Television – What’s the Score?

Finding the hidden job market

Many graduate opportunities are advertised through a variety of channels so if you are looking for these make sure you are registered on key websites such as the Careers Service vacancy database, Prospects, Target and others related to your profession. Make sure you are setting the right preferences for what you want and remember you may need to update these from time to… Continue Reading Finding the hidden job market

It’s deadline day for some opportunities with Gradcracker

As we reported recently on this very blog, some opportunities are closing today – 31st January 2018 – on the recruitment website Gradcracker. The deadline for applying for some 61 work placements/ internships and 121 graduate opportunities with companies such as Atkins and Dyson is today. There are still some opportunities on the website and new… Continue Reading It’s deadline day for some opportunities with Gradcracker

Got plans for 12-23 February? You do now. Time to #FocusOnYourFuture…

Here we go with the last day’s programme of events for #FocusOnYourFuture Friday 23 Feb How to Start Your Own Business 12-1pm, Room 215, Hillbrow, Eastbourne Interactive workshop with the beepurple team Student Volunteering Week Roadshow 12-2pm, Grand Parade cafe Thanks to everyone who’s turned out since the 12th – hope you found it beneficial.… Continue Reading Got plans for 12-23 February? You do now. Time to #FocusOnYourFuture…

2018 NHS Scientist Training Programme

Calling all final year scientists… information about the 2018 NHS Scientist Training Programme (STP) application process is now available at on the Health Education England Website There is a list of open days available (details at the link above). The link for the application portal will also appear on this page. Applicants can also… Continue Reading 2018 NHS Scientist Training Programme

Technology’s largest careers fair for women

Technology’s largest careers fair for women, Tomorrow’s Tech Leaders Today, returns to London on 31 January 2018 at the spectacular Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane. The free-to-attend event, organised by business-technology magazine Information Age in partnership with YOOX-Net-a-Porter, has grown in reputation as an unparalleled and exclusive opportunity for women to connect with… Continue Reading Technology’s largest careers fair for women

Are you stuck for ideas?

We often get enquiries from students and graduates unsure what to do and don’t know where to start. Even those on vocational courses can find themselves thinking I don’t really want to go into this occupation or industry now, but what else can I do ? So here are some ideas to get you thinking…… Continue Reading Are you stuck for ideas?

Employer’s top tips from the Careers Fair – Part 5

Thank goodness its Friday you might think. Well save a bit of studious brain power to check out our top tip of the day before you disappear into weekend mode. Today is our final day to learn from employers about what they are looking for in applications and help you get one step closer… Continue Reading Employer’s top tips from the Careers Fair – Part 5

Employer’s top tips from the Careers Fair – Part 4

Happy Thursday! I hope you’ve been finding this weeks blogs of interest. For those of you who haven’t seen what I’ve been doing this week, where have you been? Anyway, to get you up to speed, at this years Careers Fair at the Amex stadium at the beginning of November I spent time talking to… Continue Reading Employer’s top tips from the Careers Fair – Part 4

Employers top tips from the Careers Fair – Part 3

So we are half way through the week with two top tips under our belt. If you didn’t make it to our Careers Fair on 8th November, don’t worry, as Employment Advisor at our Moulsecoomb campus I did some homework for you by chatting to our exhibiting employers and am sharing the top tips I’ve… Continue Reading Employers top tips from the Careers Fair – Part 3

Employers top tips from the Careers Fair – Part 2

Hello, it’s me again with all things applications! If you didn’t make it to our Careers Fair on 8th November, don’t worry, as Employment Advisor at our Moulsecoomb campus I did some homework for you by chatting to our exhibiting employers and am sharing the top tips I’ve gathered from the event this week in… Continue Reading Employers top tips from the Careers Fair – Part 2

Employers top tips from the Careers Fair – Part 1

It is Careers Fair season! Did you get to our Careers Fairs on 8th November? If you did, we hope you got a lot from it and had chance to chat to the employers about what they’re looking for and how you can make your application stand out. As an Employment Adviser, my job is… Continue Reading Employers top tips from the Careers Fair – Part 1

What are THEY saying about YOU? Another round up of choice graduate labour market gossip

Here we are at the mid-point between two academic years and still the chattering classes chatter (classily? You decide)… Female graduates undervalue their worth as they enter the job market according to data from the LEO study (shared by the good folks at Ri5)…and the labour market seems more than happy to exploit this misapprehension.… Continue Reading What are THEY saying about YOU? Another round up of choice graduate labour market gossip

Getting the best deal on salary

You have applied for a job, endured the interview and then you hear the phrase ‘Congratulations you’ve got the job ‘… Excellent if you feel its the right job for you… So far so good. If it was an advertised vacancy the salary details will be published and should now be adhered to and relatively easy to agree. But what… Continue Reading Getting the best deal on salary

Grad fairs, local fairs, NHS, PhD, LGBT – a sample of doings for your early summer diaries…

Did y’miss me?? After a protracted absence (the fruits of which will become apparent quite soon – and no, I’ve not had a baby) witness the sparkly return of Magic Careers News Round Up Bear. Yes indeed. It is *on*…and here’s just the first wave of upcoming stuff for the summer. Apologies for the clashing… Continue Reading Grad fairs, local fairs, NHS, PhD, LGBT – a sample of doings for your early summer diaries…

Be clear and ready to succeed at interview

Interviews can be nerve racking events, there is much at stake. However remember you are there because the employer is interested in offering you a job. So remind yourself of this … get ready and prepare. Here are some dos and don’ts that may help. DO Read through any information they have sent you on the… Continue Reading Be clear and ready to succeed at interview