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Monthly Archives: April 2017

Strengthen your Applications: Identify Your Transferable Skills
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Strengthen your Applications: Identify Your Transferable Skills

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Sue Johnstone • Leave a comment

We gain transferable skills through a range of experiences – not necessarily in a sector or relevant work place. The key is to identify where you have demonstrated these skills in the past, in your own experiences and illustrate these in your applications.  Continue reading →

If you are a mathematics student and don’t want to work in finance, what else can you do?
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If you are a mathematics student and don’t want to work in finance, what else can you do?

Posted on April 18, 2017 by Ray Ryan • Leave a comment

Just when you thought that understanding Godel’s incompleteness theorems were the most difficult questions you could face on your mathematics degree, along came an even more challenging one. What will you do if you have decided you don’t want to work in finance?  Continue reading →

Why I really dislike the phrase ‘Find Your Perfect Job’
Job market / Self awareness

Why I really dislike the phrase ‘Find Your Perfect Job’

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Chris Manley • Leave a comment

This is a phrase which you see plastered all over graduate recruitment and careers websites and it gets right on my nerves. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s not for a minute because I think that you should give up on trying to find something that suits you and just settle for any old rubbish … Continue reading →

Making a Difference: 9 questions to help you plan your career path.
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Making a Difference: 9 questions to help you plan your career path.

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Anne Wilson • Leave a comment

If you want to ‘make a difference’ through your work but aren’t yet clear what shape this might take, answering the following questions may help you move from a gut feeling of wanting to do something worthwhile to a clearer goal and a plan. Continue reading →

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