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Support to find employment in final year at uni?

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sellthesizzle · 03/09/2019 22:23

Hi

Does anybody know what careers support/advice is made available to final year students at Leeds Uni?

Thanks in advance

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BubblesBuddy · 04/09/2019 18:33

Look at their web site? Most universities have careers officers and careers fairs and help with writing cvs. They won’t help you put anything on the cv though. That’s down to you. As is researching grad schemes and vacancies. You need to do research yourself because they obviously cannot spoon feed thousands of students.

LIZS · 05/09/2019 17:35

I suspect it will be up to students to look out for workshops, careers fair or make appointments to go through cv, linkedin etc. Grad schemes often start recruitment during spring term.

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sellthesizzle · 12/09/2019 22:19

Thanks guys - I've got her googling and checking out the uni website she's not very proactive...😳

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catsharingmychair · 13/09/2019 17:19

Hi

University Careers Offices will have fantastic support usually! They will keep information on the graduate recruitment rounds and have industry info/press/magazines. They will encourage students to attend the 3rd year Careers Fair (where students go and talk to companies to get a feel for industries/sectors). This is usually autumn term to help prep for applications. They will also run workshops for most areas e.g. CV writing, applications, interviews, psychometric testing, assessment centres.

And will usually have 15 minute appointments to check/help edit CV's and longer appointments to help with career direction.

Look out for Employment Advisers (who help with company info/CV checking/interview practice) and Careers Guidance Practitioners (who run 1:1 careers counselling sessions to really help students self analyse and consider which careers could be useful to research/consider). Some unis have both, some EA's are also CGP's and vice versa.

Staff will have either a degree or a Masters in Careers Guidance therefore they all take good careers guidance very seriously and wish to help students make a success of applications. After all, they want students to do well and be happy - but overall also student success will hit their destination data and satisfaction surveys!

Info which will hopefully help in the meantime...

A calendar of how graduate recruitment cycles work - scroll down once you are in it to a horizontal line (in colour) showing when interviews are etc
www.graduate-jobs.com/gco/Booklet/graduate-recruitment-calendar.jsp

This is a list of graduate opportunities with deadlines for this academic year:
www.brightnetwork.co.uk/graduate-career-advice/choosing-a-career/application-deadlines-graduate-schemes/

Your daughter might like to have a go at some free psychometric evaluations online to help her figure out careers areas that could suit her, and her personality: www.16personalities.com/

Very best of luck to your daughter x
(Yes I work in the careers space Smile)

sellthesizzle · 03/11/2019 20:18

Catsharingmychair - thank you so much and so sorry for the late response. Really helpful info Smile

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