Wednesday 5th June
Thursday 6th June
Friday 7th June

The Careers and Employability Service will be offering workshops as follows:

On Commercial Awareness / Clueless! / Managing your e-Presence / CV Workshops / Job Applications & Interviews / How to Stand Out from the Crowd:  An Employer’s Perspective / How to Impress an Employer / Personal Branding / Understanding Commercial Awareness.

Further information coming very soon.

Target Audience:  Final Year Students, but also open to all who are interested.

The Writer are a UK business language consultancy who have worked with careers advisers in UK Universities over the past two years to offer undergraduates (2nd years) the chance to take part in their two day word experience.  It’s like work experience, but wordy.  A group of 20 students came and spent time with The Writer in a work-shop-type way where they covered practical things like how to improve their CV and cover letter writing.  But the bigger point of the two days though was to get the English Literature students thinking in a wider way about the possibilities of a career in writing.  There isn’t only the option of being a novelist or a journalist – there is so much more.

Applications are now open for the 2013 Word Experience…experience which is taking place on the 11th and 12th of April.

Click here for information on The Writer’s website.

The Blind in Business charitable trust helps blind and partially sighted people into work.  This open day will take place between 11.00 and 14.00 on 30th January at:

Blind in Business Office
1 London Wall Buildings
London Wall
London
EC2M 5PG

Refreshments will be provided.

This event will provide:

• Opportunities  for consultations with staff
• CV workshops
• A great opportunity to network
• Career guidance

For more information call 0207 588 1885

OR email:  media@blindinbusiness.org.uk

Monday, 18 February 2013 from 10:00 to 19:00 (GMT)

This event is for undergraduates and recent graduates interested in ecological careers.  Visit http://youngecobes.eventbrite.co.uk/ for more information.  Tickets cost £10 and can be bought online.

There will be a series of inspiring talks on a wide range of ecological career paths, followed by useful career management workshops discussing your CV and online presence.

Discover your next steps during the Q&A session, before networking with the experts who can make it happen!

Work experience opportunities during Employability Week beginning 21st January 2013.

• Leading employers in South Wales are offering one week of work experience looking at different aspects of their business.
• You can identify an area of work where you would like to undertake a longer placement.
• Employers may negotiate a further placement with you.
• This week will count for one of the experiences towards the Swansea Employability Award.
• The University will pay your fares and lunches.
• Simple application process.
• Contact:  employability@swansea.ac.uk.

Find jobs in EU Affairs convenientrly listed in one place at www.eurobrussels.com.

You can search by:

• City
• Country
• Experience
• Policy area
• Job type

The Society of Young Publishers is a non-profit organisation dedicated to helping those new to the publishing industry.

This year’s conference is entitled Beyond the Book and will be held on Saturday, 3rd November 2012 at London College of Communication.  The conference represents an invaluable opportunity for students and graduates interested in publishing to engage, discuss and learn about current issues through a series of debates and seminars led by industry experts.

The 2012 conference aims to highlight the diverse ways in which we create, publish, and interact with audiences today and will include seminars on interactive and social reading, educational publishing, beautiful books, print production, publishing services and interview skills.  Attendance will further include an opening and closing debate, as well lunch and refreshments throughout the day.

An early bird discount will be offered to all delegates registering before the 20th October.  Students are entitled to save £9 with a special price of £40 for new membership and conference entry.  Early bird entry for non-members is £25.

For more information or to register for the conference, please visit www.thesyp.org.uk/conference/index.php or follow the SYP on Twitter:   @SYP_UK and #sypconf12.

Think German for jobs!

This event will take place on 8 November 2012 from 12.00 – 6.00 pm at The German Embassy, 22 Belgrave Square, London  SW1X 8PZ.

Click here to view full details.

The German Embassy Career Fair provides a unique opportunity for students and graduates

• to meet representatives of German companies as well as British companies with important
  business links to German speaking countries,
• to discuss employment opportunities at these companies,
• to hear about the importance of German language skills in a career context.

GO Wales can help you get a head start in today’s competitive job market.  They have a dedicated team here on campus to help you find quality work experience that can improve your CV and employability.

GO Wales Work Tasters are organised according to your needs.  They are bespoke periods of work experience designed to help you make informed career choices.  Tasters are short, flexible and enable students and graduates to gain experience of working in a particular career, industry or business sector.

Work Tasters:

• Normally last 3 days up to 10 days.
• Are unpaid.  You observe and maybe take part in some selected tasks but you’re not an employee of the organisation while on a Work Taster.  GO Wales can help you with travel expenses.

Some work taster examples include:

• Graphic design
• Marketing
• Engineering
• Copywriting
• IT
• Heritage
• Archiving
• Office admin
• International Relations
• Media
• Support work
• Charity work
• Many others!

If you’d like to take part in the scheme, visit www.gowales.co.uk and register for a Work Taster, telling us more about what you are looking for, when you are available etc.  You’ll then be invited in to meet with one of the team and discuss your ideas further.  If you have any queries, you can email worktasters@swansea.ac.uk or call 01792 606719.

Just a quick reminder about our Careers Fair on Thursday:-

Time:  10.00 am – 3.00 pm, 4th October 2012
Venue:  Marquee in front of Fulton House

• This is your chance to meet recruiters from a wide range of employment sectors.
• Our Careers Advisers will also be running a CV clinic if you would like some advice on this.
• If you complete one of our student surveys at the Fair, you will have the option to be entered in a prize draw to win a Uni bus term ticket worth £156.  This has been kindly donated by First Cymru Buses Ltd.

Click here for more information.

The Society of Biology is organising Life Sciences Careers Conferences at the following universities:

• University of Birmingham:  Wednesday 14 November 2012
• Queens University Belfast:  Wednesday 28 November 2012
• University of Leeds:  Wednesday 5 December 2012

The conferences are aimed primarily at undergraduates and recent graduates, but postgraduates are welcome to attend.  At each of these comprehensive events there will be presentations from high quality speakers covering a range of science-related subjects, including careers in industry, academia, patent law and science communication.  There will be an hour long CV workshop with tips on writing CV’s and cover letters and getting an interview.  Students will have opportunities to talk to experts from professional bodies, employers, recruiters and universities about further study. Lunch and afternoon refreshments are included.

Society of Biology members can attend for free, even if they join on the day, and for non-members attendance is £10.

The Society’s last successful event was shortlisted for Best Life Science Conference and student feedback has always been very positive, so this time they have chosen larger venues and added an extra date.  About 250-300 students are expected to attend each conference, so you are advised to register early.

This autumn & winter, the IOP has an excellent line up of companies wanting to invite you to their careers evenings, including:  Seagate Technology, IBM, Atkins, Bank of England, TTP, Lockheed Martin and Corporate Risk Associates.  The host companies are interested in recruiting physics graduates on completion of their studies.  Attending these events is an excellent way of finding out what graduate careers are available in these organisations, and how you could boost your chances of securing an interview.

Dates:

• Seagate Technology, 26 September, 2pm – 4pm, Belfast
• IBM, 17 October, 6.30pm – 8.30pm, London
• Atkins, 24 October, 6.30pm – 8.30pm , London
• Bank of England, 7 November, 6.30pm – 8.30pm, London
• TTP, 14 November, 6.30pm – 8.30pm, London
• Lockheed Martin, 5 December 6.30pm – 8.30pm, London
• Corporate Risk Associates, 23 January 2013, 6.30pm – 8.30pm, London

All events will be held on a Wednesday afternoon or evening.

If you wish to attend these events, please click here to book:  http://www.iop.org/events/careers/index.html

If you have any questions, please contact:

Vishanti Fox
Careers Manager
The Institute of Physics
76 Portland Place
London W1B 1NT
E-mail: vishanti.fox@iop.org
Direct Tel: +44 (0)20 7470 4906
Fax: +44 (0)20 7470 4900

Time:  10.00 am – 3.00 pm, 4th October 2012
Venue:  Marquee in front of Fulton House

• This is your chance to meet recruiters from a wide range of employment sectors.
• Our Careers Advisers will also be running a CV clinic if you would like some advice on this.
• If you complete one of our student surveys at the Fair, you will have the option to be entered in a prize draw to win a Uni bus term ticket worth £156.  This has been kindly donated by First Cymru Buses Ltd.

Click here for more information on our website.

It has recently been brought to my attention that a number of fraudulent offers of employment seem to have been made in UK hospitals’ names.

The Guardian article below is a few years old, but has some useful tips for spotting a job scam.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/nov/07/job-hunting-by-hook-or-crook

Volunteering at the Egypt Centre on the Swansea University campus can give you excellent experience to boost your CV and help you get your dream job.

Read about one successful volunteers’ experience here.

Get inside information to help your applications and interview technique stand out from the crowd!

You can find this information in profiles of key graduate employers on the following websites:

• Graduate Prospects
• TARGETjobs

These sites are well worth exploring for vital information on lots of other Careers and Employability topics too.

Final year students – get ready for work!

Tuesday 12th – Friday 15th June 2012

Swansea Employability Academy and the Careers & Employability Service are hosting a series of workshops for final year students. These workshops are designed to improve your knowledge and skills in the job application and interview process and to help to prepare yourself ready for the employment sector.

Click here to view the full programme.

Two of our students reached the final of the recent national TARGETjobs Undergraduate of the Year Awards.

Ollie Brooks, a second year Civil Engineering student, won the Construction Engineering and Design of the Year Award, and Alexei Nicholas, a second year Mechanical Engineering student, was shortlisted for the Engineering Undergraduate of the Year Award.

Read the full story here.

The UK/Malaysia GradLink website is aimed at connecting Malaysian students studying across the UK with opportunities in Malaysia.

The website is completely open access and includes job and internship vacancy boards for Malaysian based opportunities, case studies of Malaysian graduates and Malaysian employer profiles.

Protect your reputation online!

Your online presence is important for your future – so make sure you protect it.

Here’s a short video on the subject from commoncraft.com:  www.commoncraft.com/video/protecting-reputations-online

Click here to see lots more videos about life online, and life skills generally, in the Commoncraft video library.