What should you do if you would like to find a job, or work for a particular organisation, but no vacancy is advertised? How about sending off a speculative application? You don’t have anything to lose (apart from some time) and you might get lucky. You’ll need to put together a good cover letter though … Continue reading
For many PhD graduates the realisation that, after all, an academic career may not be the right thing, can come as a surprise and raise some fundamental questions: “What career do I want?” “What options have I got?” “How do I convince a potential employer that I have something to offer outside of my area of … Continue reading
What springs to your mind if you think about working for a start-up company? Fear that your job could be short-lived if the company doesn’t flourish? Concern that you will be working for someone nobody has ever heard of? Or excitement? Perhaps this could give you an early opportunity for real responsibility and allow you … Continue reading
Just about any graduate job requires you to have commercial awareness. This shouldn’t induce panic and palpitations! You’ll almost certainly have demonstrated commercial awareness already – both in jobs you’ve done and in decisions you’ve taken. Start by making sure that you’re able to talk about these experiences. Then, if you want a finance job, … Continue reading
Congratulations if you are expecting to graduate this summer. Graduation is a big day and for those not continuing to study it marks the end the first phase of your life. You have probably been in full time education for as long as you can remember. Some of you will be excited about the job … Continue reading
We have blogged before about the reasons why you might not have got the job you expected. We’ve given you lots of tips on the mechanics of job applications and about decision making but what about career adaptability? It doesn’t just apply to those who have been in the workplace for a long time. As … Continue reading
We hear a lot about market research but that doesn’t necessarily translate into an understanding of what a career in the field could be like. What does it entail? What might you be doing and what skills are you likely to need? I thought I could do with finding out a bit more about it, so I went … Continue reading
