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How I Used LinkedIn While Job Hunting

Emily Oxbury, History MA Student Blogger LinkedIn can be an invaluable tool if you’re about to graduate and on the hunt for a career path after university. Connecting with professionals within the industry, finding job vacancies and highlighting your skills, qualifications and interests are just a few of the functions LinkedIn has to offer. Here’s …

Why I Chose To Apply for a Master’s Abroad

By Lucy Cooper, Modern Languages graduate After having a long, hard think about what I could do after my languages degree at Nottingham I decided that going on to further study and completing a master’s degree abroad would be a great option.  Choosing to study abroad is a serious decision to make, and one that …

From PhD to Higher Education Professional Services

By Dr Ruby Hawley-Sibbett, PhD in English Literature (2023) and Graduate Management Trainee at the University of Nottingham Starting my PhD I decided to do a PhD because I was enjoying my MA and wanted to continue to research early nineteenth-century women writers. I had an idea for a project shedding light on Jane Austen’s …

How Working for the Careers Team at University Helped Me Land a Graduate Job

By Grace Smyth, Spanish and Contemporary Chinese Studies student blogger Over the past year, my final year of university, I have worked for the Careers team as a social media content creator. What started as simply a way to earn some extra money alongside my studies, has actually given me the opportunity to move abroad …

You Will Never Be a Doctor!

By Andrew Evans, alumnus and Professor of Breast Imaging at Dundee University Early childhood I was born in 1961 (an identical twin) with a clubbed foot and syndactyly (fused fingers). Attempted correction of my foot shortly after birth failed. I therefore required seven operations between birth and the age of 11 and had to wear surgical …

A Life Science Graduate’s Experience of Writing a Cover Letter

By Yueqi Wang, MSc Immunology and Immunotherapeutics graduate As an international student, writing a cover letter was a completely new experience for me and I did a lot of research before writing it. According to the information I gained from the internet, a cover letter is a brief introduction to yourself showing your skills in …