Prepare For The Summer Recruitment Fair May 14, 2012
Posted by The Careers Group News in : graduate recruitment, recruitment , add a commentThe London Graduate Fair from The Careers Group and TARGETjobs.co.uk takes place on Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 June 2012 at The Business Design Centre in London.
For employers and recruiters the Fair is an excellent way to recruit recent graduates.
Agata Klimaszewska, HR manager of Syncoms, a growing holding company, who own a number of e-commerce brands, such as Printerpix.com said: “Last year was the first time we attended the London Graduate Fair. Syncoms has been experiencing significant growth and the time came for us to access the wealth of talent at such events.
“The Fair increased our reach of potential candidates far beyond our expectations, proving to be a great way of finding fresh and hungry talent.” As a result we recruited four talented grads who joined our Printerpix.com team of marketing professionals.”
The four people recruited by Syncoms include 24 year old Soraya Al-Assmi, who graduated from Kingston University with a maths degree. Soraya wasn’t sure what she wanted to do career-wise when she attended the Fair last October, but she sufficiently impressed Syncoms, who offered her an interview soon after the event and then a permanent graduate role as marketing co-ordinator a few weeks later.
Soraya is thrilled that her efforts paid off, as she spent all day at the Fair, working very hard.
“In one day I filled in more application forms and signed up to more recruitment agencies than I had done in the previous month. I even had an on the spot interview with a sales company,” she recalled.
“I also went to each and every stand at the Fair, attended several seminars and would have gone to more but the day ended at 6pm. I could have stayed until 8pm or 9pm – so a longer day would be ideal!”
For information on how to exhibit or to pre-register as a visitor, please visit the official website.
Professional Development Webinar May 8, 2012
Posted by The Careers Group News in : Professional Development, courses , add a commentThe Careers Group will deliver its first ever professional development webinar on Tuesday 3 July 2012.
Working with Final Year Dental Students – Webinar
Kate Murray and Vinny Potter
Tuesday 3rd July 2012
3pm – 4.30pm
Big changes are occurring for Dentistry graduates. There is now high competition for jobs and a new national recruitment system. This session will help you to understand the changes in dental recruitment and develop better support programmes for final year dental students.
The course will:
1. Describe the new national recruitment process, specifically looking at the application form and assessment centre stages
2. Help you to understand how students can improve their chances in the assessment centre
3. Provide information on the options available for students who fail to get onto the dental Foundation Programme.
The course is suitable for staff within Dental Schools who advise students as well as careers advisers working in this sector.
The training is being delivered as a webinar to save you time and money on travel. The Careers Group can also lower the cost for attendees so it’s an affordable way to hear about the latest developments.
Professional Development This Summer April 26, 2012
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The Careers Group, University of London announces some great new professional development courses this summer.
Our unique collection of innovative courses led by expert practitioners is designed to meet the latest sector requirements and techniques.
Coming up soon:
How Careers Theories Improve Your Work: An Introductory Course
Vanessa Freeman, Wednesday 9th May 2012
Can you sort out your trait factors from social learning? Does planned happenstance help?
This course introduces some of the main career theories and gets you to apply them within a careers and employability context. An excellent introduction or refresher if you are working in careers or employability.
New dates:
Moving into Management – for New and Aspiring Careers Service Managers
Sue Young (Course Leader) Karen Barnard and Alison Springate, Friday 18th May 2012
Want to find out more about what the role of Head of Careers entails?
Are you thinking of moving into a careers management role?
Are you a new or recently-recruited Head of Careers Service?
This intensive half-day course will give you a richer understanding of the Head of Careers role as well as offering you insights, practical tips and networking opportunities.
Abi Sharma and Andrew Falconer, Tuesday 3rd July 2012
Aimed at any careers professional whose work brings them into contact with international students, this course will develop the depth and breadth of your work.
Others to choose from:
Writing Marketing Copy That Gets Results
Using Webinars in a Careers Context
Coaching on Career Management and Self Presentation
How to Coach: Tools, Techniques and Tips for Coaching in Different Contexts
Time Management for Busy People
Effective Groupwork and Facilitation Skills
Expanding your Work with International Students
For more details please contact visit our website.
Pre-registration open for the Summer Fair April 4, 2012
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Avoid the queues and give yourself more time to spend with employers by pre-registering for The London Graduate Fair from The Careers Group and TARGETjobs.co.uk.
This free two-day event runs from 12pm-5pm on Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 June 2012 at the Business Design Centre. There are over 80 exhibitors with something of interest to visitors of all degree disciplines.
The careers fair is a good way to find graduate appointments in your area of interest.
It’s an opportunity for you to meet potential employers face to face and understand more about your chosen industry.
- Build your confidence and experience of interviews by talking to prospective employers about graduate appointments. You may even be offered a role.
- Meet job recruiters and fellow graduates at the fair. You’ll broaden your network of contacts.
- Speak to job recruitment professionals to learn more about your chosen sector.
- Find out about graduate placements offered by companies.
Exhibitors already booked to attend the fair include The College of Law, Save the Children, and Abercrombie & Fitch.
Also on offer:
- Free CV advice
- Professional one-on-one careers advice at reduced prices
- Free careers advice presentations
Free employer presentations and sector specific careers advice talks
University of London Temp Agency March 23, 2012
Posted by The Careers Group News in : employability, employability and skills, experience, graduate recruitment, job, job hunting, job vacancies, jobs, working , add a comment
The University of London Temp Agency from The Careers Group is a professional recruitment agency offering a specialised and tailored service to both students and employers. It places students in both temporary and permanent positions working with The University of London, its associated Colleges and institutes as well as with external businesses. Its aim is to provide a personal and high quality employment solution for students and employers.
The Service
A dedicated and specialist service to both the employer and the temporary worker, the University of London Temp Agency from The Careers Group offers employers:
- A dedicated database for students to register and apply for jobs
- Access to over 200,000 students and graduates
- Free vacancy advertising
- Ability to target specific skills for your positions
- Shortlisting of candidates
- Interviewing of candidates
- Verifying applicants’ right to work
- Payroll
- AWR
- Efficient recruitment at a low cost
Flexible working has become a way of life in many companies and temporary staff are an integral part of many organisations across the UK. Growing support from legislation has made temporary work an increasingly attractive option with employers prepared to offer competitive rates of pay and benefits to secure the best employees.
More employers now look for temporary and contract help to cover peaks in business activity as well as to cover for holidays and sickness. Temporary help is the most buoyant sector of the employment market – in fact there is a real shortage of talent.
The University of London Temp Agency has access to hundreds of thousands of current students and recent graduates ready for work in a wide range of industries and occupations: from cleaning and catering assistants to scientific research and building websites.
The Temp Agency currently has a number of vacancies including:
- 6 x office workers (non) admin – full time hours based in Russell Square
- 1 x library receptionist – part time hours based in Russell Square
- HTML programmer – full time hours based in Russell Square
- 1 x receptionist – full time shift hours based in Camden
For further information contact Emmeline Shadrach on 020 7 863 6031 or emmeline.shadrach@careers.lon.ac.uk
Spring Graduate Fair 2012 March 16, 2012
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On Wednesday 21 March more than 60 employers are gathering for the Spring Graduate Fair, at the University of London sponsored by WikiJob.co.uk.
This FREE careers event provides networking opportunities with recruitment teams from top employers. Exhibitors this year include Google.
The career advice on offer includes CV and application checks where you can get impartial feedback from experienced careers consultants.
Presentations on how to write a CV, how to complete an application form and how to perform well at interviews will also be available on the day.
Pre-register for fast track entry at 12pm.
Improve Your Groupwork and Facilitation Skills March 9, 2012
Posted by The Careers Group News in : Professional Development, Training, Uncategorized, vocational courses , add a commentThe Careers Group, University of London is running a one day Effective Groupwork and Facilitation Skills course to help you plan and run better training sessions to get the most out of student-centred groupwork.
You will learn how to adapt your training to suit individual learning styles and learn techniques and tools to make your sessions interactive, fun and effective.
This popular course takes place on Friday 16 March 2012 and has a few extra spaces available.
As a result of the training, you will:
- Understand and appreciate the principles of student-centred learning and the role of the facilitator in groupwork sessions.
- Understand how to plan effective groupwork sessions, including writing aims and objectives, which encourage participation and discussion amongst students.
- Create and exchange ideas for group work exercises to use in your Careers Education Programme.
- Understand the principle of ‘mixed-ability teaching’ and how this might affect the session, and develop strategies to ensure participation by all students.
- Develop the ability to assess students’ understanding of the session to ensure that learning has taken place.
Hilary Moor is an experienced careers consultant and is part of the team who promote good groupwork practice across the whole of The Careers Group. During this interactive course, you will have the opportunity to discuss issues and questions and practice your groupwork and facilitation skills.
Costs
AGCAS associate members: £166.00
Not-for-profit organisations: £250.00
How to apply
Contact the PDU Coordinator on 020 7863 6018.
Or fill in a Booking Form and send to the Professional Development Unit:
Email: pdu.support@careers.lon.ac.uk
Post: PDU Support, The Careers Group, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN
There’s more information about this course and others on the Professional Development Unit webpages.
What London Graduates Do website release March 2, 2012
Posted by The Careers Group News in : Career Advice, Uncategorized, career help, career planning, graduate, graduate jobs, graduate recruitment , add a commentWhat do graduates do after university?
The Careers Group, University of London has just released a public website showing what happened to graduates after leaving universities in London. Aimed at those considering entry to higher education, teachers, parents, pupils and current university students it shows the occupation, employer and salaries of graduates over the last five years.
More than that, it allows you to examine these trends by subject area, and then to delve deeper and personalise the results according to graduate profile. So for example, you can find out the employment destinations of full-time, female, geography graduates over the last one, three or five years; then dig further into the data and analyse the employment trends of popular employers and occupations.
Anne-Marie Martin, Director of The Careers Group, welcomed the launch saying that “Students, parents and others can now explore in some detail the employment outcomes of graduates. Initial feedback has been very positive and we will be using this to make it even more useful in years to come.”
All universities in the UK survey their graduates 6 months after leaving to determine what type of employment or training they are undertaking. The government requires that all universities follow a rigorous set of processes and achieve high response rates of up to 80%. Oliver Gardham, Head of Graduate Research at The Careers Group said “We have an experienced team at the University undertaking the survey, and as the largest university group in the UK other universities have turned to us for advice. We now handle the survey work for a number of them. This year we are undertaking the survey for over 30 universities covering over 100,000 graduates.”
The Careers Group has analysed and reported on graduate destinations for a number of years and its online tool “Destinations Interactive” is used nationally by careers services and university administrations to support students and for academic planning. Creating a public-facing site for a diverse audience, while observing data protection requirements proved to be a challenge for staff at The Careers Group. Gardham added that “We had to design the site to take account of what the focus groups were telling us they wanted, what was technically possible, and what data could be disclosed legally.”
The government plans to improve public information about higher education later this year through Key Information Sets (KIS) which will include data from the graduate destinations survey. Martin noted that “What London Graduates Do is a response to pressures to make information about graduate outcomes readily available to all stakeholders and the general public. With the increase in tuition fees and the increased focus on consumers of higher education we believe that this is a significant step towards openness and transparency.”
http://wlgd.thecareersgroup.co.uk/
For further press information, please ring Adeline Iziren on 07950 255 389.
The Careers Group, University of London and Step launches 2012 internship programme to tackle rising graduate unemployment February 24, 2012
Posted by The Careers Group News in : The Careers Group Blogs, internship, internships , add a commentAs new figures reveal a rise in the number of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET), The Careers Group, University of London launched Step’s London Internship programme at Winning Internships. This event was held at Senate House, the University of London, in central London, on Wednesday 22 February 2012.
Step has helped over 20,000 interns secure employment since 1986. Step offers:
- Graduate Step, an 8-24 week internship programme for new and recent graduates
- Step Classic, project based internships for 8-12 weeks over the summer for full time undergraduates
- Step into Industry, sandwich placements of 6 to 12 months for full time undergraduates
While attention is focused on school leavers who are NEET, the risk of recent graduates becoming NEET has shot up by 50% since 2008, according to research conducted by the Institute of Public Policy Research and the Private Equity Foundation.
Around 300 employers, mainly London-based SMEs, such as Dennis Publishing, attended Wednesday’s event, although big name employers such as Hilton Worldwide were also present.
“We were delighted to see so much interest in Step at the Winning Internships event, particularly among so many smaller London businesses,” said Phil Donnelly, CEO of Step Enterprise, which manages the Step programme.
“The Careers Group have done a fantastic job in raising the profile of the Step programme and all the signs are that we’ll have a record number of Step internships across London and indeed the rest of the UK, this year.”
Dennis Publishing took on Step interns for the first time last year and five of the eight it recruited went on to join the company permanently as advertising sales executives. Abdul Ahad is one of the interns who joined Dennis after a 12 week Step Internship. The Step Internship appealed to Abdul because it was paid and offered the real possibility of a permanent job at the end of the programme.
“I wouldn’t have been able to quit my part-time job to take up the internship if it hadn’t been paid,” he admitted, during a speech at Winning Internships.
Another Step intern, environmental science graduate Kate Pierpoint, had a chance to apply her degree knowledge during her internship. She improved her host company’s environmental policy and they were so pleased with her overall contribution to their business that they recommended her for a role with Manor House Development Trust, a charity, where she is gainfully employed, as a social enterprise manager. Now Kate is not just a former intern who has secured permanent employment, but also an award-winner, having been named a Future 100 Young Social Entrepreneur of 2011.
Anne-Marie Martin, Director of The Careers Group and President, Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services, said: “Our experience shows that internships not only significantly improve the prospect of permanent employment for graduates, but also provide great value to employers.
“A very high proportion of employers on our programme end up offering their interns a permanent role, but not all internship programmes balance the benefits to both parties and it’s important that employers understand their responsibilities and how to avoid the more questionable schemes on offer.”
More spaces available on Working with PhD Students February 17, 2012
Posted by The Careers Group News in : Professional Development, Training, students , add a commentWould you like a better understanding of the career requirements of your PhD students? The Careers Group have a few extra spaces available at a session on Tuesday 28 February 2012 to address the issues you face when dealing with this client-group.
PhD students are often seen as daunting clients with specific and unusual needs. Who are they? What are their motivations and their career expectations? What are the characteristics of their work/study environment and how do these differ from those of undergraduates? What are the issues they can be expected to bring to the adviser, and how can the adviser help them given the absence of detailed knowledge of the highly specialised employment markets which are of primary interest?
The training will be given by Dr Calum Leckie and Dr Kathy Barrett.
Calum Leckie has been coordinating a programme of careers workshops for PhDs for the past six years in close collaboration with the UCL Graduate School, is actively involved in the delivery of both group work and one to one provision for research students and collaborates with the UCL Careers Service PhD employer engagement manager in the design of employer- led careers events.
Kathy Barrett works with research staff and students at all levels, has a PhD and has supervised PhD students.
- Cost
AGCAS Associate members: £75.00
Not-for-profit organisations: £112.00
For more information and to book yourself a place fill in a Booking Form.
Send to the Professional Development Unit:
Email: pdu.support@careers.lon.ac.uk
Post: PDU Support, The Careers Group, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN
There’s more information about this course and others on the Professional Development Unit webpages.
