Engineer your career as a PR consultant
July 30, 2019
By Andrew Bartlett Chart.PR, Director of Science and Engineering with TopLine Comms and TopLine Film Do you love science, engineering and technology? But feel you might enjoy a career writing and talking about these subjects more than doing them in the laboratory? Then you could put your STEM qualification to good use as a public …
How to Deal With Career FOMO. Yes, It’s A Thing.
July 16, 2019
By Valentina Corrao, Employability Officer I am sure you are all familiar with the acronym FOMO. For those of you who are not, it means Fear Of Missing Out, the apprehension linked to missing out on opportunities, events, and social interactions that are happening elsewhere. Well, it looks like career FOMO is also a thing. …
Worried about getting a good job if you didn’t secure a 2:1?
July 12, 2019
By Christian Jameson-Warren, Employability Education Projects Officer If you didn’t graduate with the grade you wanted then don’t worry, there are lots of reasons to be optimistic about your career prospects. Understand the big picture Graduate training schemes requiring at least a 2:1 actually represent a small amount of the total graduate labour market. Some employers are more flexible, including many well-known organisations (e.g. EY, …
Use MyNottingham App to Find Your Graduate Job
May 13, 2019
By Katy Johnson, Marketing and Communications Officer On MyNottingham, you’ll find all you need to know about the Graduate Jobs Fair – one of our biggest events of the year. It takes place on Monday, 10 June 2019 between 11:30am and 3:30pm at East Midlands Conference Centre, University Park. The Graduate Jobs Fair is an …
How Can I Use Sport to Further My Career?
May 10, 2019
By Emily Bateman, Sports & Alumni Relations Officer The Alumni & Sport Speed Networking Evening in April was an opportunity for students to hear from alumni who were involved in sport during their time at university. The students listened to how our alumni applied the skills they gained in their career. You may not realise it, …
Insight Days: An Underrated Opportunity
April 18, 2019
By Katie Watson, second year BA (Hon) History, student blogger I did not know what to expect at all when I arrived at my Insight Day at Hallam. Yet when I left I was so excited for a future job in Digital Marketing. My day at Hallam inspired me. Using my example of Hallam, here …
How a Rapid Change in Technology Increases New Opportunities for Graduates
January 22, 2019
By Chris Jones, Senior Careers Advisor for Faculties of Science and Engineering Monday, 29 October 2019 saw over 40 varied companies descend on the East Midlands Conference Centre to meet our brilliant students and to promote their opportunities within science and technology. Members of the Careers team were also there on the day speaking to employers …
Make a Difference, This New Year!
January 18, 2019
New Year, New Me! I got my new gym clothes, I’ve eaten fruit instead of chocolate and I am out of bed before 9am. It is 2019 and I have all the productivity apps downloaded so I can check off those to-do lists and before a success this year. Sound familiar? via GIPHY We …
How Pedalling the Path Less Travelled Helped Me Explore Career Pathways
January 11, 2019
By Andrew Wilhelmsen, PhD Life Science After finishing my master’s degree, I had all the career focus of a wayward roaming, itchy-footed vagabond and all the wanderlust of a, well… wayward roaming, itchy-footed … you get the point. So, I hopped on a plane to Singapore and decided to go on a bike ride, for …
Three Reasons I Was Nervous to Graduate (And Why I Didn’t Need to Be)
December 10, 2018
By Lorna Airey, BA Hons French Studies (2014) and Employability Officer at the University of Nottingham I remember approaching graduation with a mixture of excitement and dread. Excitement because I was celebrating four years of hard work with some of my closest friends. Dread because I could no longer ignore the question that people kept …
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