A Spring in your step

Welcome back!

I hope you all had a good break over Christmas.

The Spring term is off to a flying start with a great programme of events from the careers service. If you go to the booking page of this blog you can now sign up for some of the events specific to international students. This term we are continuing to run sessions on marketing yourself through CVs but also sessions on UK Interview style and technique. There is a session on building up your personal networking from a distance as well as finding work in India and China for students returning home. This term we are also going to pilot online careers advice – you may have noticed the Meebo box on the blog although I’m not sure that’s the application we will use for this. Details to follow!

International students studying Psychology or in the Arts will be able to attend sessions about career choice and job hunting techniques relating to those sectors. I will blog more about those in the next few weeks.

So what else is happening?

In addition to the international student events, the careers service has a large programme of activities ranging from mock assessment centres to careers in medicine and law. The full programme can be found here.  Employers attending the campus include Chatteris who provide opportunities in Hong Kong, Ernst & Young, Proctor & Gamble, KPMG, Weber Shandwick, Research in Motion and Capital IQ.

This term is short but the careers service has packed a lot in with many evenings having options of different careers related events taking place.

Remember that places at many of these events are limited and you need to book in advance to attend them. International student specific events can be booked here but all others must be booked in person at the careers centre.

Happy New Year!

The Royal Holloway College Careers Service

wish you all a

Elizabeth, Virgnia, Janette, Emma, Rachel, Hilary, Rose, Carola, James and Andrew

Shape our future!

The International Student Barometer is a very influential survey at Royal Holloway. The survey is for all current international students to tell us about your experience at Royal Holloway so far. It covers academic work and departments as well as support services like us lovely people here at the careers centre!

There are cash prizes to be won by entering but also the more people who respond to the survey the more relevent it becomes. A larger sample of international students can be more representative.

The survey is confidential so anything you write in it will not be traced to you!  (Click here to see their privacy policy) We just want to know! Responses from the survey in the past have encouraged the greater availability of wireless broadband on campus – something the college is now doing; better student accommodation – something that many students are benefiting from, and well, food too!

Take the survey here

The survey is carried out in different “waves” throughout the year so please do not be shy about completing the survey again next year.

RHUL Careers Summer Programme

The Careers Service summer programme is now available online. The post-exams programme includes workshops on CVs and application forms as well as help choosing a career path. This summer term both Ernst & Young and  JP Morgan will be onsite to help students understand more about the application process and the work they do.  Additional workshops include “Recession Proofing your Career” and “Second Class Degree: First Class Career” – for those whose grades were not as hoped for. Details of how to sign up for events are in the careers service.