By Miriam Hemingway, Careers Project Coordinator "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."- Aristotle. Who do you think you are? We all have an idea in our head of who we are, and quite often find ourselves wondering (or worrying) what other people might think of us. But how often do we pause to … Continue reading Who do you think you are? Reflection for employability
Author: Hilary Neary
Exploring career ideas
Often the hardest part of anything is getting started, especially if you don’t know what you want the end result to look like. This particularly applies to exploring career ideas but we’re here to help you with getting started and this blog will show you 5 things you can do this term to help you … Continue reading Exploring career ideas
Getting started with Handshake
Handshake is our careers platform and you can use it to connect with the Careers and Placements team, employers and other University of York students. Here’s a quick guide on how you can get started. Login and activate your account The link to Handshake is york.joinhandshake.co.uk but you can also find links to it on … Continue reading Getting started with Handshake
Keeping in touch with Careers and Placements after graduation
For graduating students, your time at the University may be nearing its end but that doesn’t mean it's time to say goodbye to Careers and Placements. We can continue to help you beyond graduation whether that’s with career exploration and decisions or support with honing your application skills. Here’s what we offer... Access to all … Continue reading Keeping in touch with Careers and Placements after graduation
An Introduction to Psychometric Testing
By Hannah Vernon, Media & Communications at Gradcracker A key stage of many recruitment processes, psychometric tests are used to assess some element of a candidate's cognitive ability or personality. It is likely that you'll come across psychometric testing when applying for degree apprenticeship, placement and graduate opportunities, as many Gradcracker employers use this method … Continue reading An Introduction to Psychometric Testing
What’s on in Careers and Placements?
It’s summer term and we’re open as usual for appointments, drop-in and a busy events programme but here are some other highlights to look out for this term. Student Internship Bureau The SIB team have been busy collecting together some great opportunities for paid, project-based jobs in the local area this summer. All opportunities are … Continue reading What’s on in Careers and Placements?
Getting started with career planning – breaking the procrastination cycle
Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com A few weeks ago we shared a blog on how to get started when you don’t know what to do but what if you can’t get started because procrastination keeps getting in the way? Procrastination is avoidance of a task. When you need to start an essay but you put … Continue reading Getting started with career planning – breaking the procrastination cycle
Virtual Assessment Centres
As with many things this year, graduate recruitment has largely transitioned to taking place online. This includes assessment centres so in this blog we’ll look at some tips on how to tackle a virtual assessment centre. Firstly, if you’ve not come across them before, an assessment centre is a way to assess job applicants through … Continue reading Virtual Assessment Centres
CAREERS BLOG: The benefits of doing a MOOC
Careers blog written by Hilary Neary, Information Assistant, Careers. Employability is a key word that you will hear frequently in relation to getting started in your career and finding your first graduate role. Enhancing your understanding of a career sector and learning new commercial skills that will aid you in your first job will all … Continue reading CAREERS BLOG: The benefits of doing a MOOC
Keeping motivated
Studying at home and learning online is our new normal for the time being but without our normal routines, places to be and people to see, we can get stuck in a spiral of procrastination and the accompanying guilt, when we convince ourselves that everyone else is getting on, doing more and even learning a … Continue reading Keeping motivated
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