What I Learned During Work Experience at a Magazine
March 24, 2017
By student blogger Antonia Munday, BA Hons English Literature and Language I was nearing the end of my first year and decided I needed to add some work experience to my CV. An opportunity at a magazine presented itself, and I ended up getting a lot more out of it than just learning how to make a good cuppa. …
Top Tips for Securing Your First Graduate Creative Role
March 21, 2017
By Michon, a Nottingham-based full-service creative agency Despite the notoriously tough competition for roles across the creative sector, Nottingham continues to provide a hotbed of opportunity for young professionals and recent graduates looking to pave the way into their first design, marketing or advertising job. Nottingham’s rich heritage in textiles, fashion and more recently technology, …
How a Local Internship Helped Me Land a Graduate Job
March 20, 2017
By Una Kunyha, BA Hons English, graduated 2016 This time two short years ago, I was facing the final months before it all got really serious – final year, and then graduation. I thought I wanted to work in marketing, but hadn’t really figured out much else. If you’re facing a similar dilemma to me, don’t panic! …
Four Reasons to Become an Open Day Helper
March 16, 2017
By Unitemps at the University of Nottingham If you want to earn some extra cash for your summer holidays, we have a golden opportunity right on your doorstep. The open days offer prospective students and their families the chance to find out more about studying at the University. Maybe you came to one? Here are four reasons …
How to Identify Employability Skills in Your University Life
March 14, 2017
By Charlotte May, Direct Bookings Coordinator, Unitemps Nottingham There are opportunities everywhere to gain employability skills, and the reality is you often acquire them without even realising it. At university, the skills you gain are implicit within your studies and engagement with university life. So how, when applying for jobs or undertaking any self-reflective exercise, do you …
How to Become a Student Entrepreneur
March 10, 2017
By Lauren Wise, content writer for The Accountancy Partnership Despite what you may think, you don’t need a tonne of experience to become an entrepreneur. In fact, the perfect time to test your entrepreneurial skills is when you’re at university. You have hundreds of resources available to you that can help you gain insight into …
Five Ways Travelling Can Enhance Your Career Options
March 7, 2017
By Ryan Neal, Student Communications Officer at The University of Nottingham, Editor at onemetal.com and a freelance copywriter It’s June 2010, roughly two weeks before graduation and I’m sat in the Careers office on D floor of the Portland building trying to work out what I want to do with my life. I’m about to graduate …
What Can You Expect on a Graduate Internship?
March 3, 2017
By Qinyan Li, MSc Management Psychology and Dominique Rowan, BA Hons Economics Is a graduate internship a better choice than immediately entering full time employment? As two students who graduated last year with an unclear idea of what we wanted to, we think so. A graduate internship provided real insights into working life, helping us to decide what …
Three Convincing Reasons to do an Internship in Nottingham
February 24, 2017
By Grace Pownall, third year, MEng Hons Civil Engineering Last summer, I spent an amazing five weeks doing an internship in Nottingham. I worked on a placement at an engineering consultancy, where many of the engineers had also studied at The University of Nottingham and stayed local after they graduated. As a student here, you’ve …
Five Things to Know About Working in a Start-up
February 21, 2017
By Austin Tran, Marketing Assistant at Click Mechanic So, we’ve told you why should choose an internship at a start-up, but what’s it like to actually work for one? We’ve found someone doing just that to tell you all about it. 1. There’s always something new As part of a small team, you’ll be working in …
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