#PGfuturesintroduction2011

Welcome to Postgraduate Futures 2011
Fiona Christie
Senior careers consultant
[email_address]
www.careers.salford.ac.uk
#pgfutures2011
Careers & Employability Student Life Advice & Opportunity

What are the aims for the day?
To equip participants with an understanding of how development in digital technologies are transforming careers and work practices as well job seeking/application processes.
To provide a stimulating programme to inspire you to think about how to get ahead in your future career.
To provide you with an opportunity to consider your career options and strategies for career success.
To provide a networking opportunity for you

What’s the plan for the day?
Keynote panel – The big picture “Career management in the digital age”
Workshops am - Technology for researchers/ employer panel
Lunchtime – Networking, Careers & Employability, Vitae, each other…
Workshops pm – Broadening Horizons, Public Engagement, Ketso, Enterprise café, Researcher development framework, Creative job search

What’s in your pack?
Programme
Speaker biographies
Workshop outlines
Post card and envelope – details to follow
Evaluation form
Postgraduate Careers & Employability leaflet

Changing how we work! http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/may/14/computer-technology-changing-work "the digital industrial revolution espouses many of the tenets that its mechanical predecessors did: disruptive; productive; facilitative; fearsome; irreversible". Alexander Grous, a technology specialist from the Centre of Economic Performance at the LSE

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Innovation…it makes you think
“ I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.”
John Cage (1912-1992)

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