Better than rotten tomatoes

The old form of public humiliation where people would throw rotten tomatoes has now been replaced with….

Event – Working in the UK

Many international students want to gain work experience in the UK after graduation. The Post-Study Work visa makes this more accessible. But what is it like in reality?

Internships in Shanghai and Hong Kong

PWC Internships – Shanghai & Hong Kong

“Take advantage of one of a limited number of opportunities to work at PwC this summer.You’ll be given a real taste of life at the heart of the firm, working alongside graduate trainees and experienced professionals on live and interesting client projects. By experiencing life inside the world’s leading professional services firm you’ll develop many new skills and qualities that will be valuable for your future career.

If you are in your penultimate year of study, you are fluent in Mandarin/Cantonese and you are looking to pursue your career in China upon graduation then we would encourage you to apply for our PwC China Insight Internship. PwC China operates in one of the fastest growing economies of all time, with an impressive range of global clients and exhilarating projects. Therefore it’s no surprise that China provides fantastic career opportunities for ambitious and adventurous business professionals. We are currently active recruiting for Assurance summer interns in our Shanghai and Hong Kong offices. Start your journey from here for Shanghai; and here for Hong Kong.

Hours of work paid off

Jiafeng Li is a former Royal Holloway student who currently works in the careers centre as an assistant. Jiafeng has put in many hours of work to develop our first international careers fair. She writes for the blog below:

Under the circumstances of the global credit crunch, employment is at the top of governments’ agendas. For overseas students in UK, it is an even severer challenge to excel over local students and successfully secure a job back in their home countries.

A Community of Entrepreneurs

Ever thought of working for yourself?

An increasing number of graduates do, and we regularly see students with amazing ideas which they would like to commercialise. Handily, the College offers plenty of help and support for entrepreneurs. There is a Facebook page where you can meet enterprising Royal Holloway students and find out about the exciting events on offer. One of those events coming up soon is Be Your Own Boss, a workshop which will explore the key issues, considerations and decisions you may need to make when starting a business. Although some of the material covered will be UK specific, many of the topics will be relevant to business in any country, and the workshop will also provide an opportunity to meet other budding entrepreneurs.

The workshop will be running on Thursday 21^st May 1-3pm in McCrae 219.

Find out more here and sign up in the Careers Centre today as places are limited.

Want to use your languages?

We have just been informed on an on-going recruitment for speakers of different languages. Language Empire is an organization that provides translation services to a range of clients including health professionals. So perhaps somebody is involved in an accident but cannot communicate in English, Language Empire might provide a translator so the staff and patient can communicate effectively. They are looking to build a language base of pretty much every language. In particular: Slovakian-Nepalese-Newari-Turkish-Somali-Bengali-Farsi-Sighalese-Arabic-Iranian-Kurdish-Mandarin-Cantonese-Polish-Albanian-Serb Croat-Tamil-Dutch-Bengali Dhaka Sylethi-Pashto-Tigrinya/Amharic-Vietnamese-Kashmiri & Ghana languages-Malay-Malayalam-Romanian-Shona-Ndebele-Yoruba-Gujrati-Dari-Lingala-Burmese-Kurdish Sorani-Pashto and all other Languages: Africa and Southwest Asia – East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific-Papuan languages – Australian Aboriginal languages – North America – Central America and South America and the Middle East

Salary/Rate: £12-30 per hour

Application method for candidates: Send your C.V with a covering letter via

Email to recruitment@language-empire.com

All vacancies open to non-EU candidates

Before going into this article can I suggest a bit of caution? There are some lovely headlines out there about how Ashokvardhan Purohit succeeded in forcing companies in the UK to accept non-EU candidates. Even if companies are forced to include non-EU candidates in the selection process, UK immigration rules may still prevent them from employing a candidate unless they can demonstrate certain labour market and selection criteria.

International Student Barometer

A message from the Deputy Principal

Dear Student, Just as you receive regular feedback from us as you progress through your studies, we need to receive regular feedback from you. The Student Barometer is your opportunity to tell us what’s working, what’s frustrating and what you think of your university experience to date. The survey forms part of a wider ongoing study and is independently administered for Royal Holloway by the International Graduate Insight Group (i-graduate.org). Please click the link for your chance to have your say. Your response, together with the response from others, helps us to improve the student experience for current and future students . If you have responded previously, please do so again now. We recognise that opinions change over time. Equally, if previous concerns remain, we need to know. Your views will be treated in strictest confidence and the university will not identify you from your response.

Thank you in advance.

Professor Rob Kemp

Deputy Principal

Bank accounts for Iranians

There are some rumours on the blogosphere about bank accounts of Iranian customers in the UK being closed. If this is true there will be an important impact on Iranian students studying at Royal Holloway.

Riding the recession?

Manchester University careers service have developed a series of articles on their blog relating to finding jobs in a recession. There are several resources online about this topic including articles on this blog, the UCL Recession Blog and now Manchester’s contribution.