Here Come the Girls!

Enterprise Rent-A-Car supports this fantastic prize, offering £150 Capital Bond vouchers which can be used in many high street shops!  Are you this year’s Female Entrepreneur of the Year? Enterprise Rent-A-Car have invested heavily in supporting female employees to move into management roles within their company, ensuring women form a representative proportion at all levels. …

What it takes to become the Accenture High Performance Prize Winner!

Thinking about applying for one of this year’s employer-supported prizes? Deborah Okperin, was announced as the co-winner of the ‘Accenture High Performance Prize’ at last year’s Nottingham Advantage Award’s annual Celebration Event. Accenture were looking for a candidate who could demonstrate that they had gone above and beyond expectations in their extracurricular activity and work. Deborah won …

And the winner is… You?!

Now is the time to get involved and apply for this year’s employer -supported prizes! There are eight fantastic prizes up for grabs this year from a selection of top employers. These include Teach First, Experian, EY, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Accenture, BT, Coca–Cola Enterprises and last, but not least, GSK co-supporting the Vice-Chancellor’s Global Graduate Prize. …

Time to put a spring in your step this term? Learn more about the upcoming employer-led skills workshops this term

Welcome back after the Christmas break! This week, we are keeping you up to date with the variety of employer-led skills workshops coming up this term…   Throughout the spring term, a number of key businesses will be delivering a variety of skills workshops during February and March at University Park. Employers running the workshops …

Finding the time for your future: How to do the Nottingham Advantage Award with a busy schedule

Did you know that fitting the Nottingham Advantage Award in with your studies is much easier than it sounds? The amount of time that you need to spend on an Award module can sound daunting, but actually most of our modules are spaced out over a semester or even a year. We interviewed Shareen Akhtar, …

Thinking about a career in the third sector, marketing or event management?

This spring, the Nottingham Advantage Award will be teaming up with Save the Children to deliver a hands-on module that gives students direct experience in third sector marketing, fundraising and event management. We interviewed Jane Piggott from Save the Children to find out about what students can expect from the module. Here’s what she had …

Nourish your skills with the Communicating Nutrition Project

Calling all nutrition students! We have a module just for you! This week we shine the spotlight on to Communication Nutrition, a project based at Sutton Bonington. Not only does this project give you direct experience at making dietary recommendations to individuals within the community, but it also helps you to gain lots of transferable …

Your University needs you! Become an agent of change and make a difference

Do you want to gain skills in project management and communication? Do you see yourself as a change maker? Yes? Well we have the module for you! Students as Change Agents is a new 10-credit module which will give you a unique opportunity to collaborate with staff and fellow students to make very real changes …

How to discover your team personality

The chances are you’ve been a in a team before and that you have developed some excellent transferable skills that you can talk about at an interview. But employers increasingly want to know what kind of persona you usually adopt in a group context and what kind of team role suits you the best. Have …

Become a sports hero through the Any-buddy Scheme

This week we shine the spotlight on the small but perfectly formed Any-Buddy Scheme which has been running at The University of Nottingham for just over four years now. The scheme aims to pair up disabled and non-disabled students with sports buddies who have similar interests to them.  We asked the convenor of the scheme, …