Whether it’s Warner Bros, Tesla or L’Oréal, we all have our favourite companies – the ones we’ve followed for years and always hoped we’d someday be a part of. But what about when you want to stop dreaming about them and actually start working for them? From LinkedIn searches to handwritten letters, University of Warwick … Continue reading
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How do I Research my Career? 5 suggestions (clue: don’t start with Google!)
If you’re feeling bored, you could try walking into your careers service and asking ‘Got any information about jobs?’ See what response you get if you can’t be any more specific. But occasionally students confess that they have done pretty much the same thing on-line, starting their career investigations by typing ‘jobs’ into Google. Continue reading
‘There’s never anything for us at careers fairs’. Actually, there might well be – and we don’t just mean free pens.
‘Can I have a free pen?’ is the number 1 most annoying question employers are asked at University of Warwick careers fairs. We know because, after the careers fair on May 8th, we asked them. Now don’t misunderstand me – I love a free pen as much as the next person who loves a free … Continue reading
Careers fairs – what are they actually about?
‘Tis the season to make the most of the opportunity to meet employers who are on campus for university careers fairs. So what can you expect and how can you make the most of a careers fair? If you’re an arts student looking for inspiration, should you bother? Continue reading