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The document is a career services guide from the University of Bath that provides information and resources to help students plan their careers. It includes: - Advice on how the careers service can support students throughout their time at university, including help with CVs, applications, interviews, and finding work experiences. - Stories from Bath graduates describing the variety of jobs and sectors they are working in after graduation, including sports administration, social research, and engineering roles. - Information on exploring career options, researching employers, and tips for different academic years on career preparation activities. - A directory of employers advertising opportunities for Bath students and postgraduate course providers.

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bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 1 Your Careers Service is here to help you make sense of your career options, help you make plans for the future, and support you in achieving your goals... whether you don’t really know where to start or you have firm ideas already. We are professional, impartial and friendly, and you can speak to us confidentially about the career-related things that matter to you. Whatever year of study you are in, and whether you are an undergraduate or postgraduate, you are welcome to use our services at any time. We’ve helped many students to understand their career options, find opportunities for summer work, graduate jobs or further study, and develop their skills so they are in the best possible position to achieve their aspirations. This Guide provides a great overview of how to think about your career, research your options and present yourself to employers. We are grateful to the Bath students and alumni who are sharing their experiences with you here. Why not read the advice they have for you, and what they have to say about our services? We hope you will be inspired by their stories. Don’t forget to take a look at the directory at the back of the Guide. These are just a few of the many employers and course providers who are actively recruiting University of Bath students. Throughout the year many more employers will advertise their opportunities on our website via MyFuture, and you will have the chance to find out about a wide range of jobs and internships at Careers Fairs and other employer events. There is much more on offer on our website, at our events and in the Careers Service. Please get in touch directly if you have any comments or suggestions. Tracey Wells, Head of Careers Service, on behalf of the Careers Service team Editor Sue Briault Produced by GTI Media Ltd The Fountain Building Howbery Park Benson Lane Wallingford Oxon OX10 8BA UK T: +44 (0)1491 826262 www.groupgti.com Editorial Helen Turner Proofreader Fiona Shearer Advertising Adam Gillespie, sales product champion; the TARGETjobs sales team; the campaign management team Design Jane Anderson Commercial director Jon Mallott Sales director Simon Rogers Production director Jane Anderson Group CEO Graham Storey ISSN: 2046-3421 ISBN:1 84318 925 9 Printer Headley Brothers, Ashford GTI Media works in association with AGCAS to provide top quality careers advice to university students. START HERE TO GET WHERE YOU WANT TO BE Careers Service 01225 386009 careers@bath.ac.uk twitter.com/CareersatBath facebook.com/bathunicareers Work in progress From February 2017 we are on the move from our campus location to the new city centre student space at 18 Manvers Street (previously the Police Station). Keep up to date with these changes by checking the About Us section of our website: www.bath.ac.uk/careers Watch out for our Careers Advisers working in your department too. Contact us Opening times Monday to Friday 9.15 am to 16.30 pm during term time. We are open throughout the year with increased hours during teaching and exam periods. The website will keep you up to date: www.bath.ac.uk/careers
bath.ac.uk/careers2 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 BATH AND YOUR CAREER 5 How we can support you 6 What do Bath graduates do? 8 At your service 10 Use your Bath experience to make yourself employable 13 How to choose the right career 14 Postgraduate study questions 16 Taking time out 17 Try smaller businesses 19 Using work experience to get a job 20 Get ahead with employer research 22 Where and how to look for a job 25 International students: destination global 26 How to sell your PhD 28 Here for a year: masters students 31 Applications 32 A quick guide to interviews 33 Assessment centres Bath and your career Your options after university Finding your first job Postgrad and international students Applications and interviews INSIDE THIS GUIDE Try smaller businesses, page 17 Phd students pages 26–27
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 3 35 Leading employers and course providers who want to hear from you Employers & professional bodies BAE Systems ................................................(IBC) Balfour Beatty................................................(36) Bank of Ireland..................................................37 CHP Consulting ........................................37 (37) Dialog Semiconductor ......................................38 Dixon Wilson......................................................38 Fidelity International ........................................38 Frontline ............................................................38 HSBC................................................................(39) Institute and Faculty of Actuaries ..................41 Johnson Matthey ..............................................41 Laing O’Rourke ..............................................(40) LCP......................................................................41 Oliver Wyman ....................................................41 Swiss Re Management Ltd ..............................42 Teach First ..............................................42 (OBC) TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) Ltd ......42 (IFC) UHY Hacker Young ............................................42 Jobs and course providers www.bath.ac.uk/careers This publication is available online at www.bath.ac.uk/careers in Information Resources. If you need this information in another format, please contact us. Course providers Bath Spa University ......................................(46) Le Cordon Bleu London ................................(47) University of Oxford ......................................(47) PGI ............................................................46 (48) IFC = inside front cover OBC = outside back cover IBC = inside back cover ()=displayadvertising BATH AND YOUR CAREER Applications and interviews from page 30 At your Careers Service website Go to www.bath.ac.uk/careers for... • news and updates • advice and helpsheets on choosing a career, going for interviews, getting work experience, postgraduate study and more • links to resources including streamed videos. Go to myfuture.bath.ac.uk for... • searchable vacancies targeted at Bath students – from taster courses for first years to graduate jobs and postgraduate funding • booking your place at campus skills workshops and recruitment events • booking to speak to a Careers Adviser in the Quick Query service – or check if our guidance service is what you need. And don’t forget Go to targetjobs.co.uk to find your ideal graduate job, work placement, internship or part-time job. You can search thousands of vacancies by sector and location, as well as access top-notch careers advice. And go to targetpostgrad.com if you’re considering postgraduate study. Find the right course for you, as well as advice on funding and how your postgraduate study options affect your career prospects.
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bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 5 BATH AND YOUR CAREER How you can help yourself: • Take advantage of the many opportunities here at Bath to develop your skills, find out about your strengths and gain confidence in your abilities. • Get involved with some extra- curricular activities. • Use work experience opportunities to help you find out about different career areas, and help reflect on your career goals. • Learn how to explain yourself to people when networking and job hunting. Practise how you are going to talk about relevant experiences and interests. • If you are applying for placements, attend all preparation sessions, keep in touch with your placement office and read your placement handbook carefully. • Attend fairs, employer presentations and sector events to find out more about the opportunities available and how you can enter different career areas. • Check our skills development opportunities during the semester. • Keep checking in to MyFuture for vacancies and set time aside each week to do some research. • Start early! Accept that it will take time to work out what you want to do. Many graduates tell us that they wish they had started earlier. Amy Jowsey says: The Careers Service helped me in so many ways each year I was at Bath. The first time it was to discuss potential career paths, which led to me switching to engineering. Later I got help with identifying errors in my writing of CVs and covering letters for summer placements and graduate jobs. I learned better ways to put forward information about myself. A Careers Adviser advised me when to disclose my dyslexia to prospective employers and also helped me prepare ahead for careers events and assessment days. Milda Norkute says: The majority of jobs I have applied for were through the Careers Service MyFuture website. I also found the advice from Careers Advisers on my CV and cover letter very useful. The assessment centre workshop helped me to prepare well too. I was still quite undecided even while I was applying but I knew this was important advice to get regardless of what job I was going to end up going for. HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOU LOTS OF STUDENTS FIND US REALLY HELPFUL RIGHT FROM THE TIME THEY START AT BATH. How we can help you: • Contact with a large number of employers from a range of different sectors, through careers fairs, employer presentations and workshops • Sessions on employability, job-hunting, application and interview skills • Information resources especially written for Bath students, including a well-researched website • MyFuture, our comprehensive vacancy service, offering graduate positions, work experience schemes/internships and other opportunities • Careers Advisers delivering sessions to your department • Information and advice about postgraduate study • Information about the careers that past alumni have gone on to and the chance to network with them • Advice on how to find all kinds of work experience and graduate jobs – not just big business schemes • Opportunities to practise aptitude tests – so that you are prepared when the time comes to apply for jobs • A practice interview service to enable you to practise your interview technique in a supportive environment • An enquiry desk for quick and easy access to information and advice on any careers and skills issue • Help through the job-hunting process on a one-to-one basis from experienced Careers Advisers • CV and application advice. From fresher to finalist First year Get involved with societies and activities so you can build your skills and a good CV for future work experience. Be curious about the jobs you could do by checking out the Careers Service programme, publications, website and MyFuture. Talk to alumni, lecturers, friends and family about these jobs. Get yourself a LinkedIn profile and start connecting with people. Start exploring work experience, open days or similar. Don’t forget your studies, as good grades will lead to better opportunities. Check our web page for first years: www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/first- year/index.html and chat with a Careers Adviser. Second year Time to get serious about your career by exploring placements and summer internships. Find out if jobs that interest you will be advertised, or how you can be more proactive in finding opportunities. Research employers by meeting them on campus or finding other ways to network with them. If you can’t get any focus on an area of work then book an appointment with a Careers Adviser. If you are applying for a placement keep in contact with your placement office. The Careers Service is the place to come for summer work experience advice. Final year/masters year Know the normal recruitment timetable for your chosen area because some employers may open applications in the summer before your final year starts. Check if employers that interest you will be on campus at Careers Fairs or presentations. Perfect your applications, whether for postgraduate study, a job or a gap year by getting feedback from a Careers Adviser. Do some employer/further study research while you are applying. Practise psychometric tests and start preparing for interviews. Hit the shops for an interview outfit in case you get an interview at short notice. Do you need a practice interview with a Careers Adviser?
bath.ac.uk/careers6 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 BATH AND YOUR CAREER U niversity of Bath graduates have outstanding success in finding employment or continuing with their studies. The quality of the jobs our graduates achieve is high too. 85% of Bath’s employed UK full-time first degree graduates are in the top three occupational groups (professional or managerial jobs) compared with 64% of employed graduates nationally. This means we are ranked 7th for best graduate prospects according to The Sunday Times and The Times Good University Guide 2016. To gain an insight into our graduates’ successes you can check out the results of our annual survey to find out what work or study our graduates are doing six months after finishing their course: www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/choose-a-career/what-our- graduates-do. In this section we have a selection of stories from graduates. If you want to talk to other graduates about what their work involves then register to use the Bath Connection: www.bath.ac.uk/ students/careers/choose-a-career/bath- connection/index.html. Not everyone represented here is working in a field directly related to their subject so your subject does not limit your career choice. Many graduate vacancies don’t specify particular degree disciplines, so it is OK to think about jobs that are unrelated to your degree. Use our website sections ‘Find out what you want’ and ‘Find out about occupations’ at www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers. Also use the ‘How to choose the right career’ article (page 13) for more advice. You can discuss your ideas and concerns confidentially with a Careers Adviser too. It’s fine to come and talk with us even if you have no idea what you want to do. NAME Michael Powell DEGREE BSc Maths and Physics (2015) EMPLOYER Pentathlon GB While I was working on Bath Impact I bumped into the Chief Executive of Pentathlon GB when I was taking photos at a football match. From that conversation I ended up doing some things for them including volunteering at the European Championships. Just as I finished my internship at Iconic Cycling Events (see page 17), Pentathlon GB had a paid vacancy so it was right place, right time, right contact. At first it was a challenge as staff changes meant I ended up with a lot of things on my desk that I wasn’t expecting. As Membership Services Co-ordinator, I process membership applications and deal with membership queries but I am also helping to shape the future membership packages of the organisation by making them more attractive. Additionally, I help the National Competitions and Events Manager with processing entries in the build-up to the event and in numerous roles on competition days, like setting up and entering into the results system. I get to see what they do all the way through and I feel like I am getting some great experience. I am not sure where this job will take me but I certainly want to stay in the business of sport. I know that some of my work is ‘adminy’ but because it is in sport, which I am passionate about, it’s not boring. I am always looking forward to the next big event which is really enjoyable – whereas it wouldn’t be if I was doing this work in a sector that didn’t appeal to me. NAME Kylie Barton DEGREE BSc (Hons) Politics with International Relations EMPLOYER One Community Since graduating I have worked as a Social Researcher for a local charity called One Community. Last year I undertook a research project looking into domestic abuse support for young people in the county, which helped the Police and Crime Commissioner direct funding to where it was truly needed. This project led me to working with marginalised groups in the community to ensure they have a voice in local community organisations like Neighbourhood Watch, which are typically white, middle-class, middle-aged groups. These successes mean I am now advancing to manager level and will also be the Digital Marketing Manager at One Community. As a researcher I get a great balance of working with people, including young people, and writing. What I do has an influence, I convey the message of those marginalised by society’s structures to those who create the structures. For me, a thirst for diversity in my life is why I am also wearing other hats. I am also the Hampshire Coordinator for the Green Party in a voluntary capacity, and I am volunteering and fundraising for the One Community Young Carers Project. And finally, after more than five years of pitching, I am a blogger for the Huffington Post – the hard work of being a freelance writer, which started at university, pays off! WHAT DO BATH GRADUATES DO? BATH GRADUATES GO ON TO A WIDE VARIETY OF PRESTIGIOUS JOBS BUT NOT ALL ARE OBVIOUS CHOICES FOR THEIR SUBJECT.
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH AND YOUR CAREERBATH AND YOUR CAREER NAME Gabriella Sherry DEGREE BSc Psychology (2014) EMPLOYER Dstl I had no strong career aspirations at first and the standard career path laid out for my subject didn’t quite resonate with me so I needed to think outside the box. Thinking more fluidly about my degree (Psychology) allowed me to go off the beaten track and into the field of defence and security – it was one of the best decisions I ever made! By September after I graduated I was lucky enough to be working as a strategic analyst for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). Dstl conducts a huge range of work to maximise the impact of science and technology on UK defence and security – this really is as broad and varied as it sounds! I applied for the job early in my final year at university and shortly after applying I had to complete a situational judgement test, security checks, two interviews, a group activity and an assessment day. It was a daunting process but I felt well prepared after all the support I had received from my department throughout my degree. I am now on a two-year graduate scheme, working as part of an interdisciplinary team that conducts analysis to support key strategic decisions, as well as contributing to defence and security planning and processes. I have been here for seven months and already I have worked with academia, industry and the military as well as a multitude of security and political organisations. This means I am able to network with others in the field as well as taking part in the training and development opportunities at Dstl, building a solid foundation for my future career. NAME Tian Cao DEGREE MSc Management with Operations (2014) EMPLOYER Capvision, Shanghai City, China I work in the Human Resources Service sector of a knowledge consulting firm as a researcher. My main responsibilities include looking for potential candidates, screening CVs, recommending suitable positions and making cold calls to get in touch, then interview arrangements and application follow-ups. I applied for a few other roles to several different companies before I finally decided to go for this one. I got the job after successfully passing three interviews with the HR manager, line manager and the sector director. I did gain some part-time and voluntary experience during my masters, which helped me a lot, not necessarily in identifying what I wanted to do but rather in giving me some sense of what it’s like beyond university and what kind of professional environment I should expect at work. The Careers Service was where I learned a great deal about job applications and interviews. I talked to the Advisers about the problems I met during every single application and they offered their advice to help solve them. There were also many resources that were very useful. The MyFuture website, the annual Careers Guide, the Bath Connection and the workshops they regularly held – I think I benefited from all of them. It’s really important to know what your passion is and how you are going to combine it with your chosen career path. Once you have decided, start working on it as soon as possible and don’t be afraid to ask for help. NAME Amy Jowsey DEGREE MEng Civil and Architectural Engineering (2014) EMPLOYER WSP Group I am working for an engineering consultancy in central London. My work involves designing and checking structural design for buildings and has involved some high-profile projects. I got my job following attending an event advertised by the Careers Service for women in engineering where the keynote speaker was from WSP. I was really excited to be attending their assessment day, and this just made me want the job even more. I was thrilled to have been offered a place on the graduate scheme. My summer placement and a research placement with the university meant I could compare these experiences and I decided to apply for graduate roles rather than a PhD. When it came to which role I wanted to do I was less clear, so I applied for a few different types of roles, and ended up choosing the role with the company I most wanted to work for. I used the Careers Service numerous times during my time at Bath; at the start of my second year I discussed the career implications of my chosen degree and ended up switching to engineering. After that, each year I went along for help in writing a CV and covering letters for summer placements, and during my final year I visited again, with CV, covering letters, application form, for practice interviews and advice before attending careers events and assessment days. I did my placement at the Ministry of Justice as a Data Researcher. It was a paid placement in London, which was ideal. I enjoyed it 120 per cent – if that’s possible! I loved living in London with other placement students, working with a government organisation and using maths. It helped me discover what I wanted to do long term. I was stuck behind a computer screen eight hours a day, which didn’t suit my skills. Communication, public speaking and interpersonal skills are my strengths and I didn’t get to use those much. However, doing social research opened up a new avenue for me, as I identified market research and social research jobs that used the skills I had gained on placement and included client contact. In my final year I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do and so I made applications to Teach First, a PGCE, the Civil Service and Auditing. My placement really made me realise I wanted to work in quantitative research at a public organisation, so these applications did fit my criteria. After graduation I spent six months at the BBC in a temporary graduate position of Research Assistant, not knowing where it would lead. I then spent 14 months at the next level as a research executive with Radio 1 in a different team. I was then promoted to Senior Research Executive (SRE) at Radio 4. Even in the interview for this I used examples from my placement. In 2015 I moved to television as SRE with BBC 1 and BBC Drama. NAME Kenny Cunniffe DEGREE Economics with Politics (2012) EMPLOYER BBC Television BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 7
bath.ac.uk/careers8 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 BATH AND YOUR CAREER AT YOUR SERVICE WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON BEING YOUR FREE, PROFESSIONAL, IMPARTIAL, ON-CAMPUS CAREERS SERVICE. HERE, STUDENTS TALK ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES OF USING US. Careers Service website and MyFuture The Careers Service website www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers and MyFuture www.myfuture.bath.ac.uk are two important resources you can use in addition to talking to our Team: Choose a career It’s not unusual to have no idea what job you want to do. This section of our website could help you get started especially if you want to talk to a Careers Adviser. The ‘Using your subject’ and ‘What do Bath graduates do?’ sections could be a starting point. Succeed in the selection process This section of our website helps you to find out about occupations, sectors, industries and professions as well as advising you how to cope with applications, interviews, aptitude tests and assessment centres. You can download our bespoke guides which contain detailed advice on applications and interviews. Get work experience Look on our website for a range of resources, including our downloadable guide, to find out more about where to look for work experience. MyFuture lists job opportunities such as vacation work experience, placements, open days, competitions and courses. Find a graduate job In MyFuture you will find jobs with employers who have chosen to target you directly as a Bath student or graduate. Our website provides resources for whichever sector you’d like to be in, and whether you’d like to work in the UK or abroad. You can also download our comprehensive job hunting guide. Find further study If you’re considering going on to do postgraduate study check the website for some great advice and links to resources. Any funded postgraduate opportunities which we hear of are advertised as vacancies in MyFuture. Events At the start of each semester MyFuture lists our full range of employability skills workshops run by our Careers Advisers and employers. We help you to meet employers on campus too. We send out a regular Careers Service update alerting you to the next week’s events and you can book in MyFuture. Get help Check here on the website for advice on booking different types of appointments. Quick Query appointments only can be booked through MyFuture. You can also access our comprehensive range of helpsheets and guides specifically written by our staff for Bath students. Our information Team research a catalogue of external websites to supplement this material. Our Blog The Careers Team use this Blog to share their ‘news and views’ about careers with you. You will find advice about a wide range of career related issues, news from graduate recruiters and links to interesting articles: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/careers. Careers Adviser Saiyada Fazal helped second-year Mathematical Sciences student Anisha Patel achieve her placement by sharing her expertise on CV writing. Careers Adviser Ghislaine Dell was one of the Careers Advisers who helped Michael Powell, who studied Maths and Physics, find his dream job in the sports business. Careers Adviser Sue Briault has helped Politics with Economics graduate Christopher Gynn from his first year through to his final-year job offers. W e pride ourselves on empowering and enabling our students to find their career direction, and to make successful career transitions. Our Service is not just about the people you can talk to but also about the expertise we share with you through our Resources. Most students who use us tell us how helpful we have been.
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 9 BATH AND YOUR CAREERBATH AND YOUR CAREER What the students say The staff and the resources at the Careers Service have been instrumental in my professional development. They have developed my confidence in articulating my experiences in both my CV and my interviews. Employers have told me my CV is professionally written and well-structured which was due to the endless support of the careers staff and their CV Guide. They gave me great support when applying for a Team Leader role at the London Youth Games and for my placement application to QPR. Keon Richardson, BSc Sport and Social Sciences with placement, QPR in the Community Trust A Careers Adviser helped me to work out I could have a career in the sports business without having studied a sports-related degree. Before that discussion I was heading for a Finance career because that seemed the most obvious thing to go for. Michael Powell, BSc Maths and Physics, Pentathlon GB I learnt how to express my experience in a business-like way in both my applications and in interview. Everyone should get help from the Careers Service because they deal with applications and interviews every day so they know what they are talking about. The service is free so it’s silly not to use it. Anisha Patel, BSc Mathematical Science with placement Getting help from the Careers Service is really easy although you may have to get up early to book an appointment. Fifteen minutes with an Adviser is just the right amount of time to get an answer to something that is troubling you. Bharat Bajaj, MSc Management with Finance The feedback I got on my applications for work experience was a big confidence booster. I get lots of emails from the Careers Service and they may not all be relevant at the time you are reading them but they will be later, so I take note so I can act on them when they become relevant. Louise Downton, BSc Social Sciences with placement I started using the Careers Service from my first year, getting advice on what I should be doing so I could get the placement I wanted. I continued getting support for my applications. In my final year I was back getting more support because my employer did not make graduate job offers to placement students. My final discussion was weighing up two good offers. It was valuable to be able to talk through my thoughts and ideas at every stage. Christopher Gynn, BSc Politics with Economics with placement, Bank of England
bath.ac.uk/careers10 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 BATH AND YOUR CAREER Sports and Exercise Science graduate Sean Howard told us he regretted not getting more involved in societies related to business and finance as it would have helped him to develop his knowledge: “I ended up devoting a lot of my spare time in final year trying to get to grips with commercial awareness. However, I did play rugby, which provided useful interview answer material.” Postgraduate Management student Bharat Bajaj told us: “When I came to Bath I made a point of trying everything I am scared of. One thing was dancing so I joined the Latin Ballroom Society! The other thing I was scared of was talking to people I didn’t know and giving speeches. So I joined some societies, became the Postgraduate Association Campaigns Rep and stood for Faculty Rep in the School of Management. I found out a great deal about how decisions are made at the University and School level. I saw how students can feed back into this and make a change. I stood for the Postgraduate Officer post in the Student Union elections (March 2016) because I was involved in creating the post. I didn’t win but it was the best two weeks of my time at Bath. I learnt so much more than I could have done in lectures. It just made me so much more confident having to do lecture shout-outs and selling myself to thousands of people.” Christopher Gynn (final-year Politics with Economics 2015) told us: “My placement year was an important experience and gave me so much, but I gained from other things I have done too. For example, in my final year I worked on the Students Associates Learning Project. I was on the committee for the Debating Society in my second year. I’ve been Academic Rep every year and this has been invaluable in helping me to understand how the university as an organisation works. I have also shadowed a member of the university staff. Both of these were really useful examples to use in interview questions especially to show that I understand how an organisation like the university works. I’ve tried to evaluate what I am going to do every year and then afterwards think about what I enjoyed about it and how I want to move on with it.” B ath students are often targeted by big-name employers, but it’s still a very competitive market for summer internships, placements and graduate jobs. You’ll need to find ways of differentiating yourself from the rest of the students applying. One of the most important ways you can do this is through your extracurricular activities. We spoke to Trung Vu (Computer Science and Maths), who told us that, in his first year, he spoke to a Careers Adviser to get feedback on his CV. He learned from the Adviser that he needed to build up his CV with more experiences, as he would find it difficult to compete with other students if he wanted to get into investment banking. He said: “I joined the Finance Society because it made sense given the career I was interested in and then I put myself forward for election to be on the Committee in my second year. From other students in the Finance Society I found out the Economics Society was attending a Finance Conference in York and I went along to that. I learned more from the people I met there than from a whole month of research on the internet because there were so many people there who were working in investment banks that I want to work in.” USE YOUR BATH EXPERIENCE TO MAKE YOURSELF EMPLOYABLE
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH AND YOUR CAREER Psychology graduate Milda Norkute told us she thinks the Bath Award, which is run by the Students’ Union, helped her CV look more impressive. The Award helps you reflect on typical skills sought by employers because you demonstrate skills development by using examples from extracurricular activity including work experience, volunteering or club leadership roles. You also need to attend skills training sessions run by the Careers Service and the Students’ Union and complete a short written task related to careers. Milda told us: “The Bath Award was useful preparation for interviews as the questions you answer are similar for both. For the Award I used the experience from my final year because I was an Academic Representative and I led Peer Supported Learning Sessions for second-year Psychology students as well as working part time as Admissions Ambassador for the university.” BATH AND YOUR CAREER BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 11 NAME Keon Richardson DEGREE Sport and Social Sciences with placement (final year) I was a Team Bath Futsal Performance Athlete for two years, and I have developed key skills that are valued by employers. The Team Bath Futsal Performance Programme was a full-time programme consisting of: three technical sessions, one hydrotherapy session, one strength and conditioning session and a match on the weekend, which I completed alongside my full-time academic studies. I developed my discipline and dedication, time management skills, ability to work calmly under pressure and hard-work ethic. These are all skills employers value, and are often found in the Person Specification section of many job roles in sport and other industries. I’ve also volunteered at numerous events for different organisations, such as the London FA, London Youth Games, Wesport, Tackle Africa and the IBSA Blind Football European Championships. Employers are always very impressed with my playing experience, coupled with academic results, coaching qualifications and volunteering experience. I’ve been able to balance this through managing my time productively, and setting myself a target/priority list to achieve the above. The diverse range of experiences I’ve gained not only made me more employable for my placement, but at other organisations, which have offered me paid work (Fulham FC, Disability Sports Coach UK and Tottenham Hotspur). The most recent job role I have undertaken is Assistant Coach of the FA Partially Sighted and Deaf Futsal London Regional Talent Centre, which is run by the London FA and Tottenham Hotspur.
YOUR OPTIONS AFTER UNIVERSITY Resources The best place to start is our website. Look at www.bath.ac.uk/careers and select options from ‘Choose a career’ such as: • ‘Find out what you want’ – including leaflets on choosing a career, whether to use your subject or not and some specific subject-related resources. • ‘Find out about occupations’ – a great place to start if you have a few career ideas you want to explore. • ‘Get one-to-one help’ – information on how you can arrange to see a Careers Adviser along with what to expect and how to prepare. • ‘Try online guidance tools’ – direct links to Prospects Planner and other resources, which are great starting points for generating ideas. • ‘What do Bath graduates do?’ – destinations of Bath graduates by subject.
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 13 YOUR OPTIONS AFTER UNIVERSITY N o-one says it is going to be easy trying to work out what you want to do with your life. In our opinion, spending time exploring your options is so much more important than following the crowd and later discovering you don’t like what you have opted for. So here are six steps you can take to get you started. Step 1 Embrace the uncertainty and take some action. Being unsure about your future career can be a big worry so don’t be too hard on yourself to get the answer too quickly. Having more than one option is not a bad thing. Step 2 Get a plan. Easier said than done perhaps, but imagine how you would advise somebody else to tackle the same task. Working out what you want to do is just like any research project. You are a student, so you should be good at this. Don’t let your emotions get in the way of basic research. Start with the ‘Choose a Career’ section of our website www.bath.ac.uk/careers and read Career Choice articles in our blog http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/careers/category/ career-choice/. Step 3 What’s your story? What are the common themes in the things you have done so far? What skills are you most drawn to using? What are you interested in? What do you find boring and why? What are your values in relation to the type of work you do or the employer you will work for? Learn to become confident in talking about these things so you are ready for applications and interviews. Step 4 Be curious and get talking to people doing jobs you could do. You can learn a lot from people who enjoy their work. We organise for employers to come onto campus for Careers Fairs and individual employer events. Talk to family and friends, lecturers and anyone else you might know. Use the Bath Connection (search on the university website) to contact Bath Graduates and use the Alumni menu option on your LinkedIn profile to connect with even more Bath alumni. Step 5 Be flexible and adaptable because the world of work is constantly changing. You will be making decisions about your HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT CAREER HERE IS OUR SIX-STEP PLAN TO CHOOSING A CAREER AND TWO STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF HOW IT HAS WORKED FOR THEM. Michael Powell Maths and Physics Halfway through my degree I realised I wasn’t particularly enjoying it that much, but I decided I was going to carry on because I was doing OK. I went to the Careers Service to help me decide what I could go on to. It became clear my big interest was sport. I was elected as Sports Editor for Bath Impact which I did during my third year, having started out as a writer in my second year. I really enjoyed that as I went out to quite a few live sport fixtures. I was thinking about sports journalism and exploring that as an option. I also thought about my subject and realised that I enjoyed Maths more at school so also started looking at finance, possibly working for one of the Big 4. They seemed polar opposites but after talking with a Careers Adviser, she suggested looking at finance roles within a sports setting. At that time I found out about the Santander Student Intern Programme for Finalists and Graduates which is a paid, entrepreneurial internship programme that provides paid-for work experience within local businesses. I got a place in a sports business and that is now my direction. My advice is to follow your heart. I got caught up in thinking about my subjects which led me to Finance but the lightbulb moment was talking to a Careers Adviser and realising that, even though I didn’t have a sports-related degree I could still work in the sports business. career throughout your working life so this choice is your next move, not your lifelong choice. Being open minded and aware of your strengths, skills and interests is more important than pinning a label on your future job title. Step 6 Ask for help because everyone needs help with big decisions. Engage with Careers Service resources and our team because it will take a while to work through this but we can help you every step along the way. Shaun Lee M. Pharmacy Before I came to university I did a placement in a retail pharmacy and I was particularly impressed with the pharmacist. He was one guy who knew all this stuff about the different coloured pills. I was interested in why he chose one strength over another, why he didn’t choose to be a doctor and as I have spent time studying my degree I know my interest still remains. I didn’t want to stay at home to study and so I got a scholarship to study in the UK. We do have several arranged placements on our course but I have also organised my own internships every summer from the first year. I have done community and hospital work experience but I have also gained industrial research experience which is where the Careers Service has helped me a lot. Pharmacy students don’t tend to venture there. I would say don’t narrow down your options too early. It is very easy to follow the crowd and go with the flow. The University and your lecturers may steer you in a particular direction but you need to make sure you look at the alternatives for yourself too. That way you will find out what you really like the most or at the very least decide on the things you dislike and want to avoid. Advice for international students? Go for it! I was quite intimidated in my first year and didn’t expect to get a summer placement in the UK so I made no UK applications but I realise now that it is your skills not your nationality that matters in pharmacy.
YOUR OPTIONS AFTER UNIVERSITY bath.ac.uk/careers14 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 institution that focuses on the aspect of a subject that most interests you. It is essential to check which topics will be covered, the teaching methods used and how you will be assessed to ensure that it is appropriate for your needs. Will postgraduate study improve my chances of getting a job? This depends. Chosen carefully with reference to your career goals, a postgraduate course can increase both your chances of getting a job and the salary that you start on. You need to check whether potential employers in the area that you want to work will value the postgraduate course that you have selected. It is always worth asking the course provider about the employment destinations of past students. Would it be better to do a masters or a PhD? This can be a difficult decision to make. If you want to enhance your knowledge and skills in a specific area a masters programme may well be the best choice. Likewise, if you are not sure whether a career involving a significant research component would suit you, it may be worth trying an MRes course in an Some employers seek postgraduates with specific capabilities, sometimes targeting specialist courses or institutions, while others may not differentiate between postgraduates and graduates with a good first degree. You will need to check for your chosen career area. Sue Briault, Careers Adviser POSTGRADUATE STUDY QUESTIONS FURTHER STUDY NEEDS CAREFUL THOUGHT AND PLANNING. Embarking on a PhD is a major commitment lasting several years as opposed to typically one year for a masters course. For some career paths it is obligatory; for others it may enhance your chances of career progression. In all cases it is important for you to think carefully about the focus of the research involved, the main methodologies used and how this will relate to what you want to do subsequently: see www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/find- further-study/why. Do I need a first to do a postgraduate course? In some cases the answer is definitely yes; however, in many other cases it’s no. The entrance requirements vary from institution to institution and from course to course. Checking what entrance requirements are required is usually straightforward: access the relevant postgraduate prospectus. The difficulty comes when these say the minimum entrance requirement is ‘a good honours degree’. In these cases you will have to discuss what this means with the appropriate admissions tutor. When should I apply? Many postgraduate courses are extremely popular. The problem is that they are advertised at different times of the year. This is particularly true for PhD studentships. However, most masters-level programmes (and any scholarships covering costs) will be ready for applications early in each academic year. PhD opportunities are often advertised from October onwards with a peak in the period November to March. If possible, do your research before the start of the year in which you want to apply and identify the sort of postgraduate course that would suit you best. How will I fund my course? There are a number of funding arrangements for masters courses dependent on the subject and your domicile. Some universities offer
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 15 YOUR OPTIONS AFTER UNIVERSITY Resources Our website contains a wealth of information to help you. Go to our home page: www.bath.ac.uk/careers and look at the section headed 'Find further study'. Explore how to apply, write personal statements and get funding. • Wondering how to fund a masters or PhD? The TARGETpostgrad funding database contains vital information to help you bankroll your course. Further information can also be found in the Prospects Postgraduate Funding Guide. • Use targetpostgrad.com to research and compare postgraduate courses. • Watch out for our talk ‘Postgraduate study: is it for you?’, which takes place during Semester One and Semester Two. • Did you know we advertise funded postgraduate opportunities in MyFuture? myfuture.bath.ac.uk. • If you are thinking about studying abroad you will need to start early. Check our online catalogue for relevant books and websites. www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/information-resources/catalogue. • Why not bring your personal statement to a Careers Adviser drop-in session to get some feedback? scholarships and bursaries and many offer reductions to their past students. Some subject-specific courses have special arrangements. From 2016 students from England or the EU taking a masters will be able to borrow up to £10,000. At the time of writing, news is still to come for students from the rest of the UK. There are also Professional and Career Development Loans. It is always worth talking to the admissions team responsible for the course you are interested in to discuss funding options. Ask how students normally fund the course. The seven publicly funded Research Councils are the UK’s biggest source of PhD funding, awarding around 8,000 studentships every year across all academic areas. From 2018/19, doctoral loans of up to £25,000 will be available for English students with a place at a UK university who are not receiving a research council living allowance. How can I make my application stand out when the course is so popular? In essence, a postgraduate course provider will want to know the answer to three basic questions: 1 Is there evidence that you have the relevant abilities and achievements to undertake the course? 2 Is there evidence that you have thought carefully about your reasons for taking the course? 3 Is there evidence that you have looked at the course structure and have a clear idea of what you will get from it? This information can be gained in a number of ways. For help on how to make sure you get full credit for your past achievements and current interests irrespective of what selection process is used, see our website: www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/find- further-study/apply and www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/find- further-study/statements.
YOUR OPTIONS AFTER UNIVERSITY bath.ac.uk/careers16 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 Research the job market so that you know the timetable for your chosen area. Don’t rely on employers offering deferred entry. It is good to ask recruiters who come onto campus whether they would consider this, as these are the employers who are most likely to do so. However, recruiters who offer deferred entry are in the minority. There are many things you could consider doing in a gap year and our website offers suggestions and resources you could consider. The most popular options are going overseas to teach English as a foreign language or to volunteer in a developing country. Careers Advisers are happy to discuss the relative merits of gap year options as well as help you work out the best timings. T he best way of achieving a successful gap year is to make sure you plan it well and that you take into account when you might need to apply for jobs and be available for interview. It can be pretty easy for one gap year to slip into two if you aren’t careful. An essential part of your planning is to give as much thought to what you want to do when you return as you do to the time out itself. Focus on your goals Graduate employers are most impressed by applicants who have positive reasons for wanting to take a gap year. You will need to be able to explain readily your rationale and what you expect, or have gained, from the experience. Start thinking about how you will sell what you did to them, the skills you will gain and the personal development you hope to achieve. Employers will switch off if you look as though you just had a long holiday or took part in highly organised volunteering projects where you were cosseted from the rigours of the locals’ way of life. Don’t miss the recruitment cycle Timing your availability for applications and interviews is one of the biggest challenges you will face. The best plan is to engage with recruitment activities in the autumn term of your final year. TAKING TIME OUT TAKING TIME OUT CAN SEEM AN ATTRACTIVE OPTION AFTER HARD YEARS OF STUDYING; HOWEVER, MAKE SURE IT IS PART OF THE ROUTE TO YOUR FUTURE CAREER AND NOT JUST A DIVERSION. Resources If you are going to take a gap year, plan it properly to get the most out of it! Read our helpsheet Taking a Gap Year, www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ get-work-experience/gap-year, see the gap year section on targetjobs .co.uk/internships and ask to see the books Gap-Year Guidebook, Planning Your Year Out? and Your Gap Year.
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 17 A survey published in November 2013, ‘Smaller businesses – a positive career choice for graduates?’ published by GTI Media, found that 87 per cent of undergraduates would be willing to start their career with a smaller employer, while 59 per cent of SMEs found it a challenge to recruit graduates. Read our guide Finding a graduate job for advice on how to go about searching for jobs that are outside the main graduate schemes. Finding an SME to work for is a challenge. Some resources include: • The Step Programme offers internships and longer graduate placements mainly in smaller businesses: www.step.org.uk. • The Santander Student Internship Programme operated on campus by the Students’ Union provides paid for entrepreneurial internships to final-year students and recent graduates: www.bathstudent.com/joblink/ internships. • Many regional websites for graduates are useful for finding SMEs in the local area. See our website for further details: www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ find-a-graduate-job/region. • Get involved in Enterprise Bath: www.bathstudent.com/enterprise. YOUR OPTIONS AFTER UNIVERSITY TRY SMALLER BUSINESSES SMALLER BUSINESSES ARE BONA FIDE EMPLOYERS, OFFERING DIFFERENT CHALLENGES FROM BIGGER GRADUATE RECRUITERS. S mall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are not easily visible to students as a starting point for their career as they don’t often feature in the events we organise. Small businesses are defined as up to 50 employees while up to 250 employees are medium sized. Such organisations cover job sectors from advanced science and communication technology to artisan bakers. Businesses with high growth potential are more likely to consider recruiting graduates for permanent jobs, internships or work experience. SMEs usually hire only one or two people at a time. This means that each person hired is special and especially valuable to the company. As a result you are likely to have far more exposure to the leaders and decision makers in the organisation. Smaller organisations may have less structured career paths, but they can also offer a steeper learning curve and accelerated progress for high performers. Graduates can experience bigger challenges and responsibilities relatively early in their careers and may also see stock options featuring as part of their remuneration package. NAME Michael Powell DEGREE BSc Maths and Physics (2015) JOB Membership Services Co-ordinator My family run a small business so I was attracted by the idea of getting experience of the whole business rather than only seeing part of it. In my final year I found out about the Santander Student Intern Programme that provides paid internships within small, local businesses. One of the employers, Iconic Cycling Events, saw I had sports communication skills and so they offered me a job. They organise mass participation cycling sportive events and first of all I did PR, press releases and social media for them. They are a very small company, an SME, and so after the first month my role grew into a wider range of activities including dealing with registrations, communicating with riders both pre- and post-event, analysing data from past riders to assist with future marketing techniques and redesigning the company's website. I felt like I was getting a much broader business insight. This led to my current job which is with another small sports organisation, Pentathlon GB, where I am in charge of memberships but I help the Competition and Events Manager too, so I get to see what they do all the way through. I feel like I am getting some great experience for someone who has only recently left university. Enterprise Bath (Student’s Union) competitions are great for gaining experience. Seen above left is James Courtney, BBA student, who turned his prize-winning app Lux into a business opportunity for his placement. www.bath.ac.uk/news/2016/04/12/ student-business-competition-winner- launches-company
FINDING YOUR FIRST JOB Sports and Social Science student Keon Richardson worked for QPR Community Trust during his placement.
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 19 BATH AND YOUR CAREERFINDING YOUR FIRST JOB A ll work experience counts, even casual work. At the Careers Service we see many student CVs and so we know the wide range of jobs you do to earn some cash. From working on farms or in shops and factories to waitressing and cleaning, we know these aren’t exciting jobs but they will show future employers that you can apply yourself to work, turn up on time and get a job done to a good standard. Many casual jobs also show you can work under pressure. As well as providing good things to talk about in job applications you are learning about yourself and what you might like and dislike about work. Don’t forget that although you’ve only worked at a low level in a company you may have gained an insight into the business, so you might be able to talk about how that company differentiates itself or what challenges it faces, which is useful in demonstrating commercial awareness. Employers value placements A unique feature of the University of Bath is the focus on placements as part of your degree. This is one of the reasons why we are targeted by top employers. One of our featured students in this guide, Politics with Economics graduate Christopher Gynn, told us: ‘When I applied to Bath I was set on doing a placement and the ones that were paid were the business ones so that’s what I set myself out to apply for. They did also appeal to me more. I was very set on applying to the Bank of England because I had really enjoyed taking part in their schools competition during A levels. I knew I was more interested in policy than finance. I did also apply to some strategy consultancies but I heard back from the Bank of England quickly and my placement was settled by Christmas. I learned so much from my placement – not just about the job I was doing but things that would help me in any job I might do.’ A bonus is that many placement students get job offers from the employers they work for. Christopher’s employer required him to re-apply and he was successful. However, his experience also impressed another top graduate employer so he had a choice between two offers and his Careers Adviser helped him to make a decision. Recent graduate labour market reports highlight how important evidence of previous work experience is to employers. Internships If you can’t do a placement, plenty of graduate employers offer summer internships. It is essential to build up your work experience over your time at university. Recruitment for some work experience starts as early as the previous summer so you need to be off the starting blocks early in the academic year if you don’t want to miss out. Look in MyFuture for advertised vacancies and check our work experience guide for other places to look. Finding work near to home You may not have much choice but to return home for the summer. Make sure you do your research on local employers. Our website can help with this. Don’t expect to pick something up at the last minute. Local work is often found by pounding the streets with your CV rather than looking for jobs on websites. A good plan is to combine casual work with some thorough investigation of your career options. First years in particular should be aware that some top graduate employers offer taster days or courses, which are worth checking out in MyFuture. Getting experience in popular sectors Some areas of work are difficult to get paid experience in. Think about volunteering and balance that out with paid casual work. Often overlooked options are work shadowing or simply talking to people about their jobs. Think hard about people you know. Do you know what your friends’ parents and siblings do? Who knows, there might be a contact who could help you with some work shadowing. Talking to people about the work they do is equally valuable and USING WORK EXPERIENCE TO GET A JOB THE CAREERS SERVICE CAN HELP YOU MAKE THE MOST OF ALL YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE, WHETHER IT’S CASUAL WORK, A SUMMER INTERNSHIP OR A PLACEMENT. shows any potential employer your motivation and interest. A good starting point is the Bath Connection, our alumni network accessible online at www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ choose-a-career/bath-connection. Read up on networking in our booklet Finding a Graduate Job. How we can help Read Finding Work Experience online or pick up a copy. We advertise a variety of opportunities through MyFuture, our careers gateway for Bath students and graduates. However, they in no way represent the full range of potential vacancies. Careers Service staff can help you get started on researching potential employers and advise you on making speculative applications to employers not obviously recruiting. Get started with your investigations early. I heard about the National Citizen Service (NCS) which offers 15- to 17-year-olds the opportunity to gain useful skills during the summer vacation through engaging in social action activities. I had participated in this when I was at school but I wasn’t very confident about applying to be a leader because it was a lot of responsibility but I want to work with children in the future. Then I did the Sprint Programme (Women’s Development) run by the Careers Service and the main thing I came away with was that you should let the employer decide if you can do a job and not rule yourself out by not applying. Up until I did the Programme I was reliant on people pushing me or encouraging me to do things whereas now I realise I shouldn’t be afraid of putting myself forward. I also applied to YMCA Children and Disability department working on Holiday Play schemes. I got offers from both! Louise Downton, Social Sciences (2019)
FINDING YOUR FIRST JOB bath.ac.uk/careers20 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 as PR Week for the public relations sector. Make sure, too, that you keep up to date with news items about organisations you are interested in by reading business sections of newspapers or the BBC News website. In-depth research on an employer and its competitors can make a real difference when you’re being asked about why you want to work for a particular company, or to comment on a business issue that is affecting your chosen industry. Given all the resources available to you it’s no surprise that employers are disappointed by candidates who fail to prepare properly. GET AHEAD WITH EMPLOYER RESEARCH WHETHER YOU’RE CHECKING YOU MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE OR PREPARING FOR INTERVIEWS, YOU NEED TO BE TOP OF THE CLASS WHEN IT COMES TO RESEARCH ON EMPLOYERS AND JOB ROLES. It never ceases to amaze me how many graduates don’t bother to find out who they are applying to and what the job entails. I can’t stress enough how important it is to read up on this. Lack of preparation really shows. Graduate employer Talk to employers and graduates A previous placement or internship will give you obvious networking opportunities to gain further insight direct from those in the know. If you don’t have these contacts you can still build up your knowledge in other ways. You can attend relevant careers fairs and employer presentations organised by the Careers Service or your department and speak directly with graduates. The Careers Service is working with the Alumni office to bring you Bath Connection. This is a secure online system, which allows you to network with our alumni experts. They are Bath graduates who have volunteered to talk to current Bath students (and fellow graduates) about working for their employer and what’s involved in their job: www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ choose-a-career/bath-connection/ index.html. Use our Finding a Graduate Job guide for advice on how to network to find out more about jobs. C areers Advisers regularly meet employers on or off campus and so we have a pretty good idea of what irritates them when they receive applications or conduct interviews. In the words of one employer: ‘It never ceases to amaze me how many graduates don’t bother to find out who they are applying to and what the job entails. I can’t stress enough how important it is to read up on this. Lack of research really shows.’ What employers want to see Certainly, from the employer’s perspective, a real or an apparent lack of effort in your research can make you appear to be uncommitted to the job you are applying for. Whether it is through your written application or in interview, you will have to show why you could be a useful employee, why you are better than the other applicants for the position and why the job would fit your current career objectives. To provide convincing answers, you need to know what the job entails and demonstrate that you understand what you’ll be doing day to day. It’s not just about understanding the job role but also finding out about the employer and why they would be right for you. Research online The TARGETjobs website, targetjobs.co.uk, and Prospects website, www.prospects.ac.uk, have profiles of hundreds of occupations, so there is no excuse not to be well informed. Use the ‘Find out about occupations’ section of our website for links to these and other resources: www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/succeed-in-selection/occupational. Look carefully at all of an organisation’s website, not just the careers section. Everything that a company is proud of and will expect you to know will be on there. You can also look to see whether an organisation belongs to a sector organisation or professional body. These bodies can give you a good overview of a sector, as can specialist publications such
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 21 Resources Need to find out more about employers? Check out www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/find-a-graduate- job/employers. Also try the databases provided by the University Library. These are great for tracking down organisations by type of business, location or size and also useful for buffing up on your chosen company before an interview! www.bath.ac.uk/library/subjects/ management/financial. Not sure you want to work for one of the typical, big graduate employers? Watch the streamed DVD Big Opportunities in Small Businesses: Graduates in SMEs for a taste of the graduate opportunities available in smaller organisations. www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/find-a-graduate-job/ employers/smes. Need to know more about a particular role? Click ‘Find out about occupations’ on www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers. Have you found out enough about your potential employer? Use the graduate employer research checklist at https://targetjobs.co.uk/sites/targetj obs.co.uk/files/public/Graduate- employer-research-checklist.pdf to make sure you’ve got it covered. Get creative! Find out about creative job-hunting and networking your way to a job in our Finding a Graduate Job guide. NAME Sean Howard DEGREE Sport and Exercise Science (2015) EMPLOYER KPMG Consulting I decided I didn’t want a job related to my degree so I had to really learn about the industries I was applying to and I started doing this in the summer before my final year. I needed to be able to answer some of the technical questions that are asked in investment banking interviews, for example. This effort will distinguish you from someone who knows the stuff from their degree. Commercial awareness is essential too. A common question across all my interviews was around my understanding of what was going on in the economy. You need to be able to talk about this critically but also to have followed this over time rather than having a snapshot knowledge. I’d never followed any financial news before I started thinking about applying for these jobs but I ended up allocating time to it every day. I found speaking to senior people at employer presentations eventually calmed my nerves when I met other senior people at interview. I was going to a presentation nearly every day and they are good fun too. FINDING YOUR FIRST JOB NAME Keon Richardson DEGREE Sport and Social Sciences (final year) EMPLOYER QPR in the Community Trust My 30 week placement was in the charitable arm of QPR Football Club whose aim is to create opportunities, inspire change and help the people of West London to fulfil their potential. I wanted to work in professional football and applied speculatively to the top London clubs and to internships advertised through Moodle. I got this job by researching the community trusts of professional football clubs in London and contacting the manager at QPR who was impressed with my CV. My advice is to research the career area you are interested in, the pathway of your career choice and the current issues in your desired field. Volunteering experience helped me to understand the industry I wanted to go into. I researched the organisations I was applying to, trying to get an understanding of their structure, mission statement and values and how it can fit in with what I wanted to experience. If you do this it can help you in an interview to show how keenly you want to work for them and help improve what they do.
FINDING YOUR FIRST JOB bath.ac.uk/careers22 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 WHERE AND HOW TO LOOK FOR A JOB MyFuture MyFuture myfuture.bath.ac.uk is the place to look for jobs with employers who have chosen to target you directly as a Bath student or graduate. Vacancies are added on a daily basis and are completely searchable by a range of factors including career option (e.g. advertising and public relations or civil engineering), by industry or sector, job location or keyword. Once you have used it a few times the system learns what opportunities have interested you and makes suggestions of new ones you could look at. Also you can review expired vacancies as this might help you to find out the usual time of year for some recruitment. Although there are peak times for vacancies, we are adding them all year round so keep on checking. MyFuture is as important to check as other national vacancy websites such as targetjobs.co.uk. Remember our blog: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/careers Careers fairs and presentations There is no better way to find out more about what it is like to work for an employer than to meet them at a careers fair or presentation. We organise a two- day Autumn Careers Fair (20–21 October 2016) where on each day you can meet over 100 employers who regularly recruit graduates. We also run a Summer Internship Fair and a Summer Graduate Recruitment Fair for employers with immediate vacancies for graduating students. When we ask employers what they think of the Bath students they have met at our fairs, they are most impressed by the students who have researched the company beforehand and have good questions they want to ask. Employers may come and give individual presentations about their opportunities in addition to or instead of coming to a fair. Second-year student Anisha Patel (see page 9) went to some while she was looking for her placement. She told us: ‘I found presentations really useful to judge if a company’s work ethos and outlook would suit me. The best advice I got from one was to do proper Facebook • ‘Like’ companies’ brand pages, keep up with their initiatives, make comments on posts, show an interest, ask sensible questions. • Keep your Facebook wall clean if it is visible. • Check your security settings and monitor how your friends tag you. Twitter • ‘Follow’ relevant companies, industry influencers and job tweeters. • Interact by tweeting and retweeting so your Twitter feed shows your interests. • Keep a separate professional account. • Search for opportunities using #hashtags and user lists. LinkedIn • Get your profile sorted. • Start connecting with people you know and then see who they are linked to. • Join groups such as Bath Alumni and others relevant to your chosen sector. • Monitor who is looking at you. • Find out how to make better use of LinkedIn by checking out https://students.linkedin.com/uk. research on the company before you apply so you can use it in your covering letter or answer interview questions. I don’t think I would be doing this if it hadn’t been pointed out to me.’ Using social media to job search Employers are using social media as part of their recruitment and attraction process more and more. If you are smart you can make it work for you both as a way of finding jobs and of marketing yourself to employers. Research shows that 80% of employers will google candidates before an interview. Did you know a well-crafted LinkedIn profile will usually appear near the top of a google search under your name? Here are a few social media basics to help you get started.
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 23 FINDING YOUR FIRST JOB Make sure you don’t just sit behind a computer screen making applications to jobs you have seen advertised. If I hadn’t have met the Chief Exec of Pentathlon GB at a football event I was reporting on for Bath Impact, I would have never ended up volunteering for the European Championships in Bath in 2015. There were loads of other volunteers at that event but I stayed in touch and would never have got my current job but for that chance meeting and networking. Michael Powell, BSc Maths and Physics (2015) Hidden jobs If you put all your job-hunting effort into looking for adverts you may find that you miss valuable opportunities to work for an employer who would be ideal for you. More people are likely to find jobs through networking and personal contacts than they would by responding to adverts. To some extent this does depend on the sector you want to go into, but even if you cannot speculatively approach employers for jobs in some sectors, you can certainly use contacts to improve your job knowledge or even get the heads up when a vacancy is about to be advertised. Once you have established the type of role or sector that interests you then get networking. Social media can help but think a little closer to home and make sure you have given some thought to friends and family who might be able to help you. Do you know what jobs the parents and older siblings of your friends do? Make it your business to find out. Need a warm lead? Then use the alumni experts in the Bath Connection because they are willing to talk to you about their work. If you don’t know people well then just ask them for advice but if you know them better you could ask for a favour such as work shadowing. We also work with the Alumni office to bring you access to alumni experts through the Bath Connection who are willing to talk about their work. Check our website. To find out more about networking, including social media to job- hunt, read our guide Finding a Graduate Job online or hard copy. I used LinkedIn to find Bath alumni at the companies I was applying to. These informal conversations really helped me to understand whether I wanted to work for them. I even found an opportunity to reapply to a company through these contacts when I didn’t get through the assessment centre. Bharat Bajaj, MSc Management with Finance (2016)
POSTGRAD AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS I starting using the Careers Service right at the beginning of my course when I wasn’t even clear about what sort of companies I should apply to. I was simply thinking that it’s time to do something for my career for the first time ever. The Careers Service was where I learned a great deal about job applications and interviews. I talked to the Advisers about the problems I met during applications and they offered their advice to help solve them. There were also many resources, which were very useful. The MyFuture website, this Careers Guide, the Bath Connection alumni network and the workshops they regularly held – I think I benefited from all of them. Tian Cao, masters graduate now working at Capvision, Shanghai City, China
bath.ac.uk/careers POSTGRAD AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: DESTINATION GLOBAL STUDYING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY IN WHAT MAY BE YOUR SECOND (OR EVEN THIRD) LANGUAGE CAN GIVE A REAL BOOST TO YOUR EMPLOYABILITY. HERE’S OUR GUIDE TO CAPITALISING ON YOUR STRENGTHS AND MAXIMISING YOUR CHANCES OF SUCCESS. Get to grips with the UK recruitment system One of the biggest differences from your own country may be the lack of degree subject preference by many UK employers. About half of the jobs we advertise on MyFuture are available to students from any degree. Engineering students can go into management consulting and chemistry students can go into management – an analytical mind and a good head for numbers are what employers want. It’s not enough that you have the skills and academic achievements UK recruiters want. It is as important to show enthusiasm and motivation for the career you are applying for. In fact, some recruiters say that they hire for attitude and train for skills. Make the most of the help on offer The job application process is extra daunting when you are experiencing it in another language, or at a distance. You’ll be pleased to know that there is a lot of help available to you from the Careers Service, including in-depth workshops on UK-style CVs and covering letters, practice interviews and assessment centre experience. And if you find it difficult to make effective contributions in a group exercise, or ‘sell’ yourself in applications and interviews because it is considered boasting in your own country, don’t worry. Come and talk things through with one of our advisers, who will work with you to demonstrate your contributions in a way that is effective and works for you. There’s also plenty of information on our web pages for international students, covering workplace etiquette and cultural differences as well as hints and tips on navigating the UK recruitment process. Motivation, motivation, motivation At some stage in the recruitment process you will need to explain why you want the job and why are you interested in the organisation. If you are not used to sharing your thoughts and motivations with strangers this can be uncomfortable for you. The key is to try to think about why the job you are applying for is interesting to you. Maybe you are attracted to the tasks involved in the job or possibly you were inspired by one of the employees talking about their job when you attended an employer presentation. What matters is that what you write or say reflects a real interest in the job. Make the most of the 'Bath experience' Trung Vu, an international student in his second year, advises getting involved early in extracurricular activities. He says: ‘There are lots of opportunities which the SU advertises. Join societies or get more involved with your society by being a committee member. I am an academic rep for two departments.’ Be careful to show your good time management skills by staying on top of your studies because employers will look for both high academic results and extracurricular involvement. Don't forget about jobs back home We know many of you will want to explore the UK job market, but also that plenty of you are looking for jobs in your home countries. So you might like to know that we have access to a broad range of information on global job markets and vacancies as well as contacts with overseas employers. We even have a special International Careers Week in March each year, full of globally-themed events including remote presentations from international employers. Be aware of the rules Many international students are keen to build up work experience in the UK and one way to do that can be through internships and placements. Be aware of the rules regarding the number of hours you can work. Check this out at the ISAT web page www.bath.ac.uk/students/visa- advice/working-in-the-uk/index.html or book an appointment with an International Student Adviser, Student Services Centre, Level 2, 4 West. Capitalise on your global outlook As an international student, you have already shown you are flexible, adaptable and have increased cultural awareness simply by coming to study in another country. And you can speak more than one language – a definite advantage over many British students. These are skills increasingly sought after by employers in the UK. And if you are returning to your home country, the knowledge you will have gained of another country will be a valuable selling point – so make sure you emphasise it! Resources If you would like to learn about the graduate job market and recruitment in the UK then see our webpages www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ international. Check for advice on working in the UK during and after your studies www.bath.ac.uk/ international/advice/ work. For advice on searching for jobs outside the UK see our webpage www.bath.ac.uk/ students/careers/find-a-graduate-job/ abroad. BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 25
bath.ac.uk/careers26 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 thinking mean that doctoral graduates can progress faster once they are in employment’ (What Do Researchers Do? 3 years on, Vitae, 2010). Additionally, the government’s review of postgraduate education concluded that: ‘The skills of postgraduates, especially researchers, are critical for tackling major business challenges and driving innovation and growth’ (One Step Beyond: Making the most of postgraduate education, BIS, 2010). Showcasing your skills So your PhD gives you more than just research skills. But how can you work out what all these ‘other skills’ are, and then go about selling them to employers? Our case study, John Clark, used the Careers Service to help him understand. Some companies actively target PhD students because of the skills they develop during their research projects, such as analytical skills, project management, problem-solving, creativity and independence. Others, however, can be more sceptical. This can be particularly the case if you want to move away from your subject area, when there can be a perception that PhDs are too specialist. One thing that helps here is the ability to take a ‘client-centred approach’: look at what the employer wants and show that you have it. No researcher worth their salt would believe a journal article that made claims not backed up by evidence. So you need to work on how to articulate that evidence in language that works for the employer. One tip is to use ‘general’ rather than ‘specific’ terms to describe your skills; for example talking about delivering ‘oral presentations’ rather than ‘lectures’. Your interests outside academia If you’re targeting non-academic jobs, it’s important to take examples of your skills from activities outside of academia as well as from the PhD. For instance, if a job is asking for excellent communication skills, many researchers will say that they A t what stage of your PhD should you start to think about your next steps? Four weeks in? Six months before the end? Three weeks after finishing? Doctoral researchers come to visit the Careers Service at all of these stages and more. However, there is value in recognising that right from the start of your research you are developing a range of skills that will help to make you employable. Often researchers don’t recognise these skills or think proactively about their career. There can be benefits to analysing your skills, interests and values, and starting to investigate career opportunities as early as possible in your research. We’ve put together a career planning timeline (www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ researchers/timeline) with suggested career development activities for each stage of your PhD. What PhD graduates offer to employers PhD researchers often see themselves almost exclusively in terms of their research project. But you have much more to offer than in-depth subject knowledge. In a survey of PhD graduate destinations, employers said: ‘the maturity that comes with a doctoral qualification, the understanding of the whole variety of complex issues and principles of critical HOW TO SELL YOUR PHD DON’T LET YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT ALONE DEFINE YOU. LEARN HOW TO MARKET YOUR SKILLS TO POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS IN A LANGUAGE THEY WILL UNDERSTAND. NAME John Clark DEGREE (PhD) Chemistry EMPLOYER PwC I started thinking about my career options about six months before the end of my PhD – earlier would have been better. I started by thinking broadly about career options and then narrowed them down. I talked to a Careers Adviser and went along to the Bath Autumn Careers Fair where I met graduates currently working in roles that interested me. This helped me gain more insight into different areas of work and work out what would suit me best. I knew that I wanted a career where I could use my strengths: communication, data analysis and computer modelling – all skills that I had developed during my PhD in Chemistry. I also wanted a role that involved high-level client work, a skill I had enhanced through explaining my research to senior academics. I decided that actuarial work and risk advisory fitted well with these strengths, and also with the interest in accountancy I had developed through taking on the role of Cricket Club treasurer. Both my extracurricular activities and research experience were important for building teamwork and organisational skills. With the help of the Careers Service I put together a CV that highlighted my relevant skills, and felt well prepared to tackle questions at interviews and assessment centres. Employers want PhDs • 60 per cent of employers say that PhD recruits are integral to commercial success. • 63 per cent of employers actively target PhDs when recruiting. • 74 per cent say PhD recruits achieve high impact results within two years of joining. Source: EPSRC Report ‘Pulling Power of the PhD’ April 2013 – A major independent survey of leading research-intensive employers closely linking PhD-holders with increased company performance and a host of other benefits. have published articles and written a thesis. But that may not always resonate with an employer. If, however, that same researcher says that they have presented their research to experts, schoolchildren and members of the general public, won a poster prize and POSTGRAD AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 27 written an article for a local publication, that sounds less academic, and more the sort of communication an employer is looking for. Consider all aspects of your experience. Emphasise hobbies that would be useful to employers. Equally, leadership, motivation, interpersonal skills and so on can be evidenced clearly from any sports, mentoring, volunteering activities or clubs you regularly participate in. It’s the skill that counts in most cases, not the context it was developed in: hence the emphasis on transferable skills. Top tips So the keys to successfully selling your PhD are simple: • Analyse the job description and person specification. • Build up evidence that you are capable of the job and match the person specification, using examples from different contexts. • Have a clear sense of why you want to do the job. • Use positive language to convince the employer that you’re the person they’re looking for. Resources See our web pages for specialist careers information and advice for researchers, including information on the potential career paths open to you and advice on successful marketing strategies to help you achieve your aims. www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/researchers. Use the careers section of the Vitae website, which is aimed at researchers www.vitae.ac.uk/ researcher-careers. Our Careers Advisers can help you think about your future – so why not book an appointment? www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/one-to-one. Check the PGSkills programme for research students www.bath.ac.uk/ learningandteaching/ rdu/courses/pgskills. POSTGRAD AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
bath.ac.uk/careers28 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 POSTGRAD AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS M any masters students are new to Bath and even new to the UK. Only being here for a year means you will need to tap into the job market very quickly, especially if you are interested in business employers, who tend to start their recruitment as the academic year begins. If your masters is relevant to certain fields of employment it is essential that you demonstrate how your masters can be of use in the particular job you are applying for. If your course or research is less directly related then you need to work out how to sell the transferable skills picked up from the masters course. For example, higher level skills gained from a masters might include time management (your course will be intensive), project management, advanced presentation skills and group working. Make sure all of these are clearly conveyed in your CV and covering letter. Be sure to link skills achieved in your masters to those required in the job. How we can help Visit our website www.bath.ac.uk/ careers where you will find details of our services as well as a wealth of information that will get you up to speed. Check out our extensive programme of events and keep up to date with vacancies in MyFuture: myfuture.bath.ac.uk. NAME Bharat Bajaj DEGREE MSc Management with Finance (2016) When you arrive in September and some of the graduate schemes close before the end of the year, you have to be very quick at knowing which companies you want to apply for and which roles. It is a big shock to realise you need to apply so quickly. You really need to plan it out. I was completely clueless how to answer the questions on a company application form. I didn’t know if it was very formal and whether I needed to brag about myself or not. Talking with a Careers Adviser helped me to really explain myself to employers rather than just speculating what was right. I attended a workshop on job hunting for International Students which would have been useful if I had not already done my homework before coming to Bath. I am unusual to have done this as most of my friends on my course haven’t. There are only a selection of employers that you can apply to but still you should only apply to companies that really interest you, you can’t apply to them all. Also I had a mock interview and I attended a mock assessment centre both run by the Careers Service. These gave me a really good idea what to expect when I came to the real thing. I would recommend postgraduate students to use the Careers Service. I see students reluctant to get help when they get stuck on putting their CV together or answering application or interview questions but getting help is one of the easiest things to do. You may have to get up early to make the appointment when they are busy but why not make the best of it? Fifteen minutes is a good amount of time as you can come in with the thing that is most troubling you and get an answer which is personal to you. HERE FOR A YEAR: MASTERS STUDENTS WITH RECRUITMENT DEADLINES BEGINNING SHORTLY AFTER YOU ARRIVE, YOU’LL NEED TO FOCUS ON YOUR CAREER FROM DAY ONE.
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APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS Six steps you can take to ace competency questions: Think about yourself – your key skills and personal qualities that are relevant to the job. Look at some example forms and get to know the common questions. Assemble a portfolio of example situations, which you can draw on for your answers. Do a draft of a couple of questions using the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result). See also page 32. Get some feedback from a Careers Adviser. Check it, check it, and check it! 1 2 3 4 5 6
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 31 APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS APPLICATIONS GOOD APPLICATIONS ARE ALL IN THE PREPARATION, WHETHER IT IS ANSWERING COMPETENCY QUESTIONS ON AN ONLINE FORM OR PUTTING TOGETHER YOUR CV. Sean’s story I thought: ‘How hard can this be?’ when I encountered my first psychometric test. I failed it so I practised until I understood how to pass. There are so many variables outside your control which can affect you making it through, like a recruiter having a bad day, so I didn’t want to rely on too few applications. It affects your morale to be rejected but if you have another application to move on to it gives you focus. I was glad I started some applications in the summer before my final year because my first semester was absolutely mad. I was attending careers events on campus, prepping for telephone interviews, keeping up with economics news and attending interviews all over the country. Getting through my academic work as well meant I regularly survived on only five hours’ sleep. I wouldn’t have been able to make as many applications if I had waited until I got back to uni. This experience changed my view of how much time I had in a day! Sean Howard, Sport and Exercise (2015) Gabriella’s story A key bit of advice that I would pass on is to try and make every job application count. I know many people who tried to play ‘the numbers game’ – sending off huge numbers of applications in the panic to find a job, receiving lots of rejections, getting demotivated, and sending out another large batch of applications – where the cycle starts again. Try not to get caught in this negative cycle! If you find yourself there already, try to take a step back, put more time into personalising and crafting each application and you will soon see more positive results. Gabriella Sherry, Psychology (2014) Application forms Large graduate recruiters are likely to ask you to complete their own form, usually online. They are looking for someone who matches their requirements, which are usually stated on their website. Putting yourself in the employer’s shoes will ensure you target your application appropriately. Application form questions are designed to draw out relevant evidence from your experience by asking you to describe situations where you have displayed the required skills. A typical competency based question might be: ‘From your personal, work or academic experience, please give an example of a challenge that you have set yourself and describe how you have gone about achieving it.’ Application form questions are not just about relevant skills. You also need to demonstrate your interest in and motivation for the job role and the company. Don’t just quote the company’s website. Focus on why you feel that this organisation is the right one for you. You may have to write about a business issue that is facing the company. All of the questions on the form are designed to show you have a good understanding of the job you are applying for and the company. So it is essential you have done your research. Read the article on employer research on page 20 for advice on resources you can use. CVs and covering letters Unless the employer has its own application form, you can expect to send your CV with a covering letter (although some employers ask for a CV to accompany an application form). CVs are also used for applications for courses and funding. Have a CV that can be modified for each application that you make. Employers receive large numbers of CVs for each job and so make sure yours stands out from the rest. Focus on the key skills and experience you know are relevant to the job you are applying for. Follow the advice in our CV Guide, available online or in hard copy, and then get some feedback from a Careers Adviser. The key points to remember when preparing your CV are: • Research the company website but not just the careers section. Look at the products, services, new ventures and PR sections as well. • Analyse the job and highlight exact candidate requirements. • Use your experience to show where you have developed relevant skills. • Use the right style of language (positive action verbs help). • Tailor each CV and covering letter. • Get feedback on your CV. Covering letters While a CV tells a potential employer the facts about your education, work experience and extracurricular activities, the accompanying covering letter is the argument as to why they should employ you. Put simply, it needs to explain: • why you want the job • what skills and experience you have to offer • why you would be good at it • why you would like to work for that company. Write a new letter for every job you apply for; just substituting one company name for another will not do. It’s not hard to get it right but it does take time. CV and application guide Pick up this Guide, which is packed full of useful advice about writing an effective CV and covering letter. This book will help you: • target your CV for a job • structure a persuasive covering letter • fill out an application form • understand what employers are looking for. Resources • Follow the advice in our CV and application guide at: www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/succeed-in-selection. • Consult our online catalogue if you are looking for more information: www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ information-resources/catalogue. It contains lots of useful books, weblinks and downloadable leaflets. • Check MyFuture for relevant workshops: myfuture.bath.ac.uk.
APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS bath.ac.uk/careers32 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 W ell done! You’ve got the employer’s attention with your well crafted application and even successfully completing psychometric tests, so now they want to meet you. Don’t worry if you are nervous – it’s natural – but there are ways you can help yourself by doing the right preparation. Here are a few hints and tips to get you started. We have much more help and advice on our website and in our blog: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/careers/. Be knowledgeable The first thing to remember is that the employer likes the look of you in words, so now you need to make sure you match up to that person they have read about. It’s time to swot up on the company. If this is your first interview and you’ve not much time, then think about your basic knowledge. Focus on the employer’s clients/customers, services/products, a few facts and figures, main competitors and developments in the sector. Check out ‘Get ahead with employer research’ on page 20. Don’t forget to find out about the job role too. Be sure you know what you will be doing day to day. Be prepared Most employers ask questions that enable you to show the competencies or skills they are looking for by getting you to describe a particular situation you have been in. Check out our resources such as our Interviews and Assessment Centres Guide. Practise answering typical questions using the STAR technique to structure your answer: Situation, Task, Action and Result. If you need some feedback on your technique then talk to a Careers Adviser. Be smart and be punctual A certain proportion of interview success is about the way you look and act. You won’t ace an interview by simply looking the part but you could spoil a good interview performance with poor personal presentation or punctuality. Plan what you are going to wear, and aim to be A QUICK GUIDE TO INTERVIEWS FIND OUT THE BEST WAY TO PREPARE AND BEAT YOUR NERVES. smart even if the work culture is not usually so. Work on your handshake, if meeting face to face, and how you will sit, think about your eye contact, and smile. For telephone, video or Skype think about your surroundings and avoid disturbances. Be confident There is no doubt that practice does make perfect. The more preparation you do, the less likely you are to be taken by surprise and therefore the more confident you will appear. Interviews are not meant to be traps. An employer wants you to do well because they already like you. All you have to do is know what is expected of you. That way you will confirm that the employer made the right choice in inviting you to meet them. Hold your nerve in interviews. When it came down to the final two people going for the job, my employers deliberately pushed me and the other candidate to areas that we knew nothing about to see if we could cope under pressure. I literally got the job because I was comfortable saying that I did not know the correct answer, leaving me feeling relaxed enough to have a reasonable discussion about something I knew absolutely nothing about! Gabriella Sherry, Psychology (2014) Sean’s story I have been for a lot of interviews with finance companies and I was up against a lot of people who from year one have been building their work experience. I wish I had known at that stage that it mattered so much. Although I haven’t done a lot of extracurricular activities I think I have been able to draw on my international background. Businesses are global and they look for people who have the adaptability to fit in to their offices wherever in the world that might be. I used the Bath Connection to find alumni contacts and I had really useful discussions with people in preparation for interviews with companies. I didn’t find this information very useful at the application stage but when I went for interviews, especially at the final round, the inside knowledge I gained from the alumni was invaluable in differentiating me from other candidates who may have only looked at the company website. Networking is very important. I’m using LinkedIn as well. Everyone I’ve networked with so far has encouraged me to keep in touch. Personally I found telephone interviews much harder even than assessment centres. I failed quite a few before I got the hang of them. They ask you competency questions, which you can prepare for but you need to be able to talk without notes to be convincing, so getting lots of practice helps. But you do need the pressure of the real thing to learn how to get it right. Sean Howard, Sport and Exercise (2015)
bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 33 APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS employers were looking for, not just what you needed to do. Also I produced a four- page crib-sheet to read on the train.’ Maths and Physics student Marcin Mazur says: ‘I had to prepare a ten-minute presentation about why I was right for Rolls-Royce. It was very hard to talk about myself. I saw a Careers Adviser and she helped me to think about how to structure it and what examples I might draw on. Once I’d got my ideas together I started practising it with a stopwatch to memorise the main points and then got some feedback from my flatmates. The Careers Adviser also listened to it and she gave me some suggestions. I was successful in getting my summer internship and have since had an offer for their graduate scheme.’ Mathematics Sciences student Anisha Patel, applying for a placement, recalls: ‘I attended the assessment centre workshop because this gave me a feel for what it might be like. I found you don’t have enough time to absorb all the information you are given to read. I think people who get to assessment centres are all very good, so it is hard to come up with better ideas than the rest and have your say. I was surprised by how I had to sell my ideas to others. I thought it would be a more friendly discussion. Remember to wear a watch because you can get ahead if you are on top of time for your individual activity as well as group activities. The feedback I got later was really helpful – make sure you ask for it.’ E mployers use a variety of methods to select the best graduates at assessment centres. An assessment centre might include any of the following: • psychometric testing or retesting • interviews • presentations • group exercises • role play • in-tray exercises • personality questionnaires • social events. Watch the streamed DVDs on our website and attend our assessment centre workshop to learn more about these different assessment activities. With psychometric tests you will need to practise regardless of how good you are at maths. We subscribe to two free test services, which you can use to practise and we have linked other web resources in the catalogue on our website. Bath students’ experiences Here’s what some of our students have reported about their experiences at assessment centres. Chemistry graduate Chloe Evans says: ‘I went to the Careers Centre to get some help with an assessment centre, having failed one: the feedback said I was average for most things. I needed to be much better than just ‘average’ for the next one. I watched the streamed DVD on the Careers website about assessment centres, which was really helpful. It showed what ASSESSMENT CENTRES THE FINAL INTERVIEW HURDLE. WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW TO PREPARE. Resources • Watch the streamed DVDs on our website to help prepare for an interview or assessment centre: www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/information- resources/catalogue/skills. • Experience group exercises by attending an Assessment Centre workshop. • Check out the Events Programme for interview workshops and mock interviews. • Book a session with a Careers Adviser to get feedback on your answers to typical interview questions. • Use Interview Stream to practise for video interviews where the employer asks you to submit a recording of your answers to their questions: check the website. • Consult our online catalogue for more information – useful books, weblinks and downloadable leaflets: www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/information-resources/ catalogue/skills. Be proud to be from Bath – it is natural to feel fazed by the calibre of other candidates you might encounter at the assessment centre, but I can honestly say that they are more likely to be fazed by you! Bath graduates are held in high esteem and Bath really does give you an edge in the job market – people are always impressed when I tell them where I come from! Gabriella Sherry, Psychology (2014)
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bath.ac.uk/careers THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 37 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS AN IT CONSULTANCY FOR PEOPLEWHOTHINK. CHP employs graduates and professionals from many disciplines.You will be curious, have a logical mind, and be confident, ambitious and ready for a challenge.   We are established in the UK, US, Asia-Pacific and throughout Europe.You will be based in our London City office and go on to work in a variety of roles on projects with some of the world’s leading leasing and asset finance companies.   We will train you so you can work on any part of our business change projects, building and implementing our industry-leading software.   You will have an outstanding academic background including a 2:1 degree or better and a minimum of 320 UCAS points. Starting salary is £40k with excellent benefits. Find out more about opportunities with CHP Consulting at www.chp.co.uk/careers. HOW MANYdots should there be on the last domino? Bank of Ireland UK Bow Bells House, London WEB www.boigraduate.com MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS London, Bristol & Belfast AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) We’re serious about giving you the very best graduate programmes we can. After all, we’re looking for potential future leaders, so we want to make sure you’re engaged, challenged and always learning new things. We have two programmes for you to choose from – the first in Bank of Ireland UK, our consumer bank with a unique partnership business model, and the second in Corporate Banking UK. Both programmes offer roles with real responsibilities across our unique businesses. Our specifically designed rotational programmes give you an exceptional opportunity to grow personally and professionally, while developing the business skills needed for you to play an important role in the team. As you learn, your voice will be heard, your contribution will be real and you will make a real difference. GRADUATES SOUGHT Individuals who see things differently and collaborate brilliantly. Ambitious individuals who actively want to change things and make things better for our customers. We are looking for innovative, enthusiastic and proactive graduates with a 2:1 degree to join us and help us grow. STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE See website FORM OF APPLICATION Online VACATION WORK/COURSES AVAILABLE No GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Gillian Bray CHP Consulting Moor Place 1 Fore Street Avenue London EC2Y 9DT TEL 020 7588 1800 EMAIL gillian.bray@chp.co.uk WEB www.chp.co.uk/careers MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Based in London with operations in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) CHP Consulting helps asset finance companies improve their business performance by implementing our software - ALFA Systems - and applying our wide-ranging experience of the industry. Blue-chip clients such as Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and Toyota Financial Services have reaped the benefits of CHP’s finest assets: our people. You will begin your career either on a client site or based in the office and your first role will typically be software development. As you gain more knowledge of the business and technology, you will have increased responsibility in our business change implementation projects. We only recruit people who we think will get on with each other, so the atmosphere is friendly and inclusive. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline STARTING SALARY £40,000 PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Continuous FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 20–25 VACATION WORK/COURSES No GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs
bath.ac.uk/careers38 THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS Ellen Millard Dialog Semiconductor WEB www.dialog-semiconductor.com MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Dialog Semiconductor has offices in Germany, UK, Austria, China, Greece, Japan, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Turkey, and USA. AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) Dialog Semiconductor provides highly integrated standard and custom mixed- signal integrated circuits, optimised for smartphones, computing, IoT, LED solid state lighting and smart home applications. Dialog’s innovative power saving technologies deliver high efficiency and enhance the consumer’s user experience by extending battery lifetime and enabling faster charging of their portable devices. We passionately believe that working at Dialog you will be joining the brightest, most diverse and ambitious talent in the Semiconductor Industry. We are proud to have won numerous awards and designs, including exclusive patents and the opportunity for talent to progress at Dialog could not be greater. GRADUATES SOUGHT Predominately electrical and electronic engineering STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Continuous FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 25+ graduates globally VACATION WORK/COURSES Yes VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Dixon Wilson 22 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1LS TEL 020 7680 8100 EMAIL careers@dixonwilson.co.uk WEB www.dixonwilson.co.uk/careers MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS London and Paris AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) About Us Dixon Wilson is one of the leading accountancy firms in the UK, with offices in London and Paris. We specialise in the provision of tax, accountancy and advisory services to high net worth private clients, including their families, trusts and businesses, as well as companies, entrepreneurs and their businesses. We offer a personal, partner-led service. A high quality service is critical to both us and our clients and a number of our client relationships date back over 80 years and multiple generations. What you can expect We offer you a practical experience in audit, tax and accountancy in a 3 year fixed term contract. We allow you to gain exposure in these areas and to support you in you in achieving the ACA qualification. In addition, you will be given the opportunity to work with senior members of staff as well as getting a good level of responsibility early in your career. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline, but a good level of numeracy and strong interpersonal skills are key STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE End of December – Spring Intake and End of April – Autumn Intake FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE London 14, Paris 1-2 VACATION WORK/COURSES Paid summer vacation placement in the London office, to penultimate year University students FOR VACATION WORK APPLY BY End of March 2017 by sending CV and covering letter to careers@dixonwilson.co.uk VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Fidelity International WEB www.fidelityrecruitment.com SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: www.facebook.com/FidelityGraduateRecruitment Twitter: @Fidelity_UK YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/FidelityUK MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS UK, Mainland Europe, Asia Pacific AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) A commitment to excellence and innovation Fidelity International offers world class investment solutions to clients that range from individuals and financial advisers to large institutions, governments, pension funds, banks and insurance companies. What we do matters. We help people provide for their future, through offering products, services and the information they need to make the right decisions. As a privately owned business, we’re proud to say that we’re driven by client success without distraction. Our reach covers the globe, with offices in 24 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific, India, the Middle East and Latin America. This gives us diversity of culture, background, experience and thought that helps us think differently, act innovatively and better meet our clients’ needs. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Annual FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 40 graduates & 40 interns VACATION WORK/COURSES Yes FOR VACATION WORK APPLY BY 2017 Internship Programmes: Saturday 31st December 2016. VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Frontline 65 Kingsway London WC2B 6TD EMAIL recruitment@thefrontline.org.uk WEB www.thefrontline.org.uk MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Greater Manchester, Greater London, North East and South East. AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) Frontline’s graduate programme is a unique opportunity for high-achieving individuals to join one of Britain’s toughest and most rewarding professions. Our children’s social work programme offers you intensive practical and academic training, coupled with leadership development opportunities designed to shape a new generation of social leaders. Throughout our two-year programme participants will work in a local authority in one of our regions to transform the lives of vulnerable children and families. The programme consists of an intensive five-week Summer Institute, one year ‘on-the-job’ training in a team of four and a second year as a qualified social worker with the opportunity to study for a Masters. If you’re passionate about leading change in society, apply to Frontline. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE August–November FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 300 VACATION WORK/COURSES No GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs
PROGRESSIVE MINDS APPLY hsbc.com/careers To lay foundations for businesses to grow. To develop strong relationships. To help design world-class products and services. At HSBC, we’re looking for perceptive, driven and forward- thinking people to join our Global Student and Graduate Programmes to help our customers realise their hopes, dreams and ambitions. To start with a simple idea then turn it into reality. Along the way, you’ll work collaboratively, developing the essential skills needed to achieve your own career goals. Are you ready to design a better future? ARCHITECTS REQUIRED HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment.
Every day, we design, manufacture, engineer and build iconic buildings and complex infrastructure projects that go on to be used by millions of people. We’re challenging the industry with innovative design and delivery techniques. We’re changing the way we work, using the very latest digital tools and techniques. And we’re always looking to create structures that will help build a better future for everyone. We are the employer for graduates looking to work on iconic projects and industry-leading innovations within a hugely talented team. WWW.LAINGOROURKE.COM/CAREERS INNOVATIVE INSPIRING ICONIC EARLY TALENT PROGRAMMES
bath.ac.uk/careers THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 41 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 7th Floor, Holborn Gate, 326-330 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7PP TEL 020 7632 2137 EMAIL careers@actuaries.org.uk WEB actuaries.org.uk/become-actuary SOCIAL MEDIA @actuarystudent, facebook.com/Actuarial, youtube.com/user/actuarialprofession Actuaries are problem solvers and strategic thinkers with a deep understanding of financial systems. Actuaries analyse data, evaluate financial risks and communicate this to non-specialists. Actuaries come from many different academic backgrounds, not all have a maths degree, though they all share a love of maths. The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) is the UK’s only chartered professional body dedicated to educating, developing and regulating actuaries in the UK and overseas. Actuaries usually have a degree in a numerate subject. On graduating student actuaries work at some of the worlds top financial firms and train on the job. At the same time, the IFoA provide exams students need to pass to qualify as an actuary. Actuaries use their skills to help measure the probability and risk of future events. All business is subject to risks so an actuarial career offers many employment opportunities. Including banking, insurance, healthcare, pensions, investment but also non-financial areas. An actuarial career can be one of the most diverse, exciting and rewarding in the world. Graduate salaries start at £33,000, once qualified you can expect to earn from £55,000 to over £150,000. IFoA members are part of a globally recognised profession and have internationally-recognised qualifications meaning you could work anywhere in the world. Discover more about becoming an actuary and who employ actuaries at www.actuaries.org.uk/become-actuary targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Johnson Matthey Orchard Road, Royston Herts SG8 5HE WEB www.matthey.com/careers SOCIAL MEDIA @Johnson_Matthey MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Across the UK; including Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Teesside. International opportunities also available. AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) Johnson Matthey is a leader in sustainable technologies. Many of the group’s products enhance the quality of life of millions through their beneficial impact on the environment, human health and wellbeing. We focus on clean air, clean energy and low carbon technologies and are experts in the application and recycling of precious metals. Johnson Matthey has operations in over 30 countries and employs around 12,000 people. Our products and services are sold across the world to a wide range of advanced technology industries. We recruit graduates into a wide variety of job functions including Research and Technology, Development and Production, Sales and Marketing, Finance, IT and HR. Our graduates say “From day one... it was both fun and challenging to learn new skills and apply them to real world problems” GRADUATES SOUGHT Science and Engineering STARTING SALARY Competitive package and benefits PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Continuous FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 80 VACATION WORK/COURSES yes VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Graduate Recruitment Coordinator LCP 95 Wigmore Street London W1U 1DQ TEL 020 7432 2266 EMAIL graduatecareers@lcp.uk.com WEB www.lcp.uk.com/careers/graduate-opportunities MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS London and Winchester AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) We offer a full range of actuarial and consulting services to a wide range of clients in the UK and internationally, including FTSE 100 companies. We specialise in providing our clients with practical, bespoke and robust solutions, covering corporate pensions, strategic investment advice, general insurance consulting and specialist financial services including risk appraisal and business modelling. One of the great benefits of working for LCP is the variety of projects you’ll be working on and the range of tasks involved in completing them. For example,you could be helping with pension scheme valuations, monitoring investment manager performance or estimating the financial impact of a hurricane on an insurance company. You could be building a spreadsheet model, using innovative software developed in house, drafting letters to clients or writing reports. There are also plenty of opportunities for client contact, right from the start of your career. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Annual FORM OF APPLICATION Online application form APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE Around 30 VACATION WORK/COURSES Yes VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Gemma Porter Oliver Wyman 55 Baker Street London W1U 8EW TEL 020 7852 7677 EMAIL recruiting.uk@oliverwyman.com WEB www.oliverwyman.com/careers MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS London and other locations across the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 50+ cities across 26 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialised expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organisation transformation. Our 3,000 professionals help clients optimise their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organisational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Our challenging Consultant position offers exceptional career growth and opportunity to motivated and hardworking graduates. We do not require a specific academic major or industry experience. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline STARTING SALARY Highly competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE 26 October 2016 FORM OF APPLICATION CV and covering letter online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE No fixed quota VACATION WORK/COURSES Yes FOR VACATION WORK APPLY BY 5 January 2017 VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs
bath.ac.uk/careers42 THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS Sandrine Strickler, Strategic Resourcing & Talent Specialist Swiss Re Management Ltd Mythenquai 50/60, 8022 Zurich, Switzerland TEL +41 (0)43 285 48 34 EMAIL graduates@swissre.com WEB www.swissre.com/careers SOCIAL MEDIA Linkedin, Twitter, Youtube MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Swiss Re serves clients through a network of over 60 offices worldwide. AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) About Swiss Re Founded in 1863, Swiss Re Group is one of the world’s leading wholesale providers of reinsurance, insurance and other innovative forms of insurance-based risk transfer. Our business at Swiss Re is about understanding and analysing the major risks that concern the world − from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime. We combine experience with expertise and innovative thinking to create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. And we enable the risk-taking essential to enterprise and progress. This is possible with around 11,500 truly exceptional Swiss Re people across our group worldwide. Our goal is to attract talented people from a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds and offer them a place to succeed. As a knowledge-based company, we consider four areas to be particularly important for this: we foster diversity and inclusion; we provide excellent development and training opportunities; we work to maintain favorable employee relations; and we offer competitive compensation and benefits. GRADUATES SOUGHT All backgrounds STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Annual FORM OF APPLICATION Online application, interview, assessment day APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 50 worldwide VACATION WORK/COURSES Yes VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Teach First 6 Mitre Passage, London, SE10 0ER EMAIL faq@teachfirst.org.uk WEB teachfirst.org.uk/recruitment MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS East of England, East Midlands, Greater London, North East, North West, South Coast, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire, Wales AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) We believe that inspirational teaching and leadership are vital to helping every child succeed, regardless of their background. We support exceptional people like you to become influential leaders through our Leadership Development Programme (LDP) in schools across England and Wales. Informed by 14 years of development, our world-class programme combines global best practice in leadership development and teacher training. During the programme you’ll gain a fully-funded Postgraduate Diploma, worth double the credits of a PGCE, to become a qualified teacher. Covering both education and leadership, you’ll then have the option to top the qualification up to a Master’s degree. You’ll also acquire the key skills and personal qualities needed to develop you into an effective leader - someone who can make a real impact. If you can inspire in the classroom, you can bring resilience, efficiency and imagination to any environment, no matter where your career takes you. GRADUATES SOUGHT 2.1 degree or above and 300 UCAS points (or equivalent, excluding General Studies) required, in a degree or A-levels that satisfy our teaching subject requirements. STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Year-round applications, early submission recommended as subjects close as they are filled. FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 1,750 VACATION WORK/COURSES Alongside our LDP we offer a number of undergraduate opportunities including our Insight Programme - two weeks of paid work experience for STEM students that provide the opportunity to find out what the LDP is really like. GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) Ltd TPP House, 129 Low Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5PX TEL 0113 2050082 EMAIL careers@tpp-uk.com WEB www.tpp-uk.com/careers MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Horsforth, Leeds AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) TPP is a leading IT company, dedicated to delivering innovative healthcare software through our four products: SystmOne, SystmOnline, SystmInsight and SystmConnect. We are known for our outstanding achievements across the NHS, with over 5,000 organisations across the country using SystmOne. These include GP practices, hospitals, mental health trusts, and social care services. TPP has been consistently recognised as an outstanding graduate employer. In 2014 and 2015 we placed first in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies To Work For. Most recently, we were named ‘Top Company For Graduates To Work For’ 2016/17 by The JobCrowd. Based in Leeds, TPP is rapidly expanding with graduate opportunities available in the Account Manager, Graduate Analyst, Marketing and Communications, Software Developer and Technical Operations teams. With thousands of people using our products every day, you’ll really feel the value of your work. We value natural ability, enthusiasm and the willingness to learn over direct work experience, so no prior experience is needed. We want you to develop both personally and professionally, so we provide a supportive environment and give you plenty of opportunities to add to your skills and enhance your career. GRADUATES SOUGHT Minimum 2:2 degree, BBB at A Level (Minimum grades are dependent on the role) STARTING SALARY £28,000–£36,000 (dependent on the role) PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Continuous FORM OF APPLICATION Send CV and covering letter to careers@tpp-uk.com or apply directly at www.tpp-uk.com/careers APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 50+ GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs UHY Hacker Young Quadrant House 4 Thomas More Square London E1W 1YW TEL 020 7216 4600 WEB www.uhy-earlycareers.com MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS London, Birmingham, Brighton, Letchworth, Manchester, Newport, Nottingham, Sheffield, Sunderland, Scotland (with Campbell Dallas) AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) We offer all of the services you would expect from a firm of our size and a few you might not expect: • audit, accounting, payroll and bookkeeping; • corporation and personal tax; • corporate finance services such as strategic business advice, advice on selling business, raising finance, public listings – in particular AIM support services, and mergers & acquisitions; • advice on family matters, including Inheritance Tax, trusts and other tax planning; • specialist services such as VAT, corporate restructuring and recovery, international tax planning, tax investigations and litigation support; and • company secretarial services. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline with a 2:1 STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Annual FORM OF APPLICATION Online - www.uhy-earlycareers.com APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 35 VACATION WORK/COURSES No GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs
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bath.ac.uk/careers44 THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS Consultants–propertyConsultants–recruitment Consultants–economics Consultants–computer/IT Consultants–actuarial Computing&IT Builtenvironment–quantitysurveying Builtenvironment–construction/builtenvironment Builtenvironment–civilengineering Companyname Profile Advertisement – 37 Bank of Ireland www.boigraduate.com SECTOR 37 37 CHP Consulting www.chp.co.uk/careers • • – 38 Dialog Semiconductor www.dialog-semiconductor.com – 38 Dixon Wilson www.dixonwilson.co.uk/careers – 38 Fidelity International www.fidelityrecruitment.com – 38 Frontline www.thefrontline.org.uk – 41 Johnson Matthey www.matthey.com/careers – 41 LCP www.lcp.uk.com/careers/graduate-opportunities • – 41 Oliver Wyman www.oliverwyman.com/careers – 42 Swiss Re Management Ltd www.swissre.com/careers • OBC 42 Teach First teachfirst.org.uk/recruitment IFC 42 TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) Ltd www.tpp-uk.com/careers • • – 42 UHY Hacker Young www.uhy-earlycareers.com OTHER ADVERTISERS PROFESSIONAL BODIES: Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, page 41. COURSE PROVIDERS: PGI, page 46 (48); Bath Spa University, page 46; University of Oxford, page 47; Le Cordon Bleu London, page 47. EMPLOYERS: BAE Systems, IBC; Balfour Beatty, page 36; HSBC, page 39; Laing O’Rourke, page 40. IFC = inside front cover; IBC = inside back cover; OBC = outside back cover. JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS
bath.ac.uk/careers THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 45 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS Scotland NorthernIreland Wales North-westEngland North-eastEngland TheMidlands South-westEngland London/South-east Angliaandtheeast Approximateannualintake Teaching Retailmanagement Publicservice–other Publicservice–uniformedservices Publicservice–healthservices Publicservice–localgovernment Publicservice–emergencyservices Publicservice–civilserviceandgovernmentagencies Patentwork Not-for-profit Marketing,sales&media(includingadvertising,marketresearch&PR) Management Law Industry–other Industry–oil&oilservicecompanies Industry–chemical&pharmaceuticalcompanies Humanresources Hospitality&tourism Finance–stockbroking Finance–investment Finance–insurance Finance–financialservices Finance–banking Finance–actuarial Finance–accountancy/financialmanagement/taxation Engineering Consultants–strategic • • LOCATION • • • • 20–25 • • 25+ global • • • London: 14 Paris: 1 or 2 • • • • • 40 • • • • • • • 300 • • • • • • 80 • • • • • • • 30 • • No fixed quota • • • • • 50 worldwide • • 1,750 • • • • • • • • • 50+ • 35 Strengthening applications Delivered by
bath.ac.uk/careers46 THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS creative. a teacher. Achieve more with our postgraduate degrees Not all postgraduate degrees are created equal. Study for yours at Bath Spa University and give yourself a head start in the creative industries. Get more from your future. Visit bathspa.ac.uk/more innovation creativity discovery cutting edge inspired challenge coll opportunity iconic Pride revealing creative passion influential expre nventive inspiring global insight chance pride collaboration creativ passion verve expression spark insight global connections spark ins hallenge collaboration creativity opportunity sensibility passion ico MORE COLLABORATION CREATIVITY OPPORTUNITY pportunity spark iconic influential passion expression creative cutting iconic influential expression cr obal spark verve revealing spark verve revealing passion globinventive chance passion expression global creative nge inspiring spark innovation global opportunity passion opportuni global creative opportunit different thinking PGI Cascades 1, 1190 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Bristol, BS32 4FP TEL 020 7887 2699 EMAIL clientservices@pgitl.com WEB www.pgicyberacademy.com COURSE OUTLINE PGI’s Cyber Academy offers the highest level of cyber security training for business and government professionals, delivering a one-stop training environment to combat the growing cyber threat for all industry sectors. PGI has developed advanced cyber training programmes including our QSTM and ODF courses and leads the UK market in immersive training methodologies. Our tailored range of courses are aimed specifically at those organisations and individuals who work to protect company assets from the growing threat of cybercrime. PGI’s cyber security division is one of a select number of companies to have met the highly stringent criteria for accreditation with the internationally respected Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (CREST). All our core cyber staff are trained and accredited to the highest standard and are drawn from a variety of corporate and UK government backgrounds and experience. CAREER PROSPECTS There are a number of reasons why information security professionals should consider completing a course at the PGI Cyber Academy. It allows them to validate their capability and experience and perhaps more importantly, differentiate themselves from other industry professionals. In addition to this, multiple surveys have also highlighted the financial benefits of achieving extra certifications. QUALIFICATION GAINED All our courses are aligned with and geared to national standards and accreditations such as CREST and TIGERSCHEME. OTHER INFORMATION Our trainers come from highly qualified backgrounds who are experts in their fields and who combine their training and teaching with operational work so their skills are always as up to date as possible. COURSE PROVIDERS
bath.ac.uk/careers THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 47 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS Leading Culinary Arts, Wine and Management School cordonbleu.edu/london Your future in hospitality With over 120 years of teaching experience, Le Cordon Bleu has grown to be the leading authority in culinary and hospitality education, offering world-renowned programmes in cuisine, pâtisserie, wine, nutrition and management. Gain the skills and inspiration you need from working alongside our Master Chefs and expert lecturers in order to fulfil your passions, build your career or turn your hobby into a new business venture.
Demand for cyber security experts is growing at an If you’re interested call us on +44 (0) 1454 649 368 or email us at clientservices@pgitl.com and quote BUCYBER2016, our customer services team will then guide you through the next steps to claim your voucher. Incident Response for IT Support selected courses
Remarkablepeople doingworkthatmatters If you’re ready to work on projects that make a real difference visit: baesystems.com/graduates At BAE Systems, we provide some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions, employing a skilled workforce of some 83,400 people in over 40 countries. Working with customers and local partners, we develop, engineer, manufacture and support products and systems to deliver military capability, protect national security and people and keep critical information and infrastructure secure. That’s work that inspires us. We’re always looking out for people who can add real value to our business. That’s why we offer exciting and challenging career opportunities to enthusiastic, driven graduates and undergraduates. If you’re aspiring to develop professional excellence, you can join our Graduate Development Framework in a business or engineering role, ranging from human resources to naval architecture. For those who want to be part of a team that builds solutions of the future, there’s Applied Intelligence, with roles ranging from cyber security to software engineering. For individuals with the capability and determination to take up a senior finance role in the future, there’s the Finance Leader Development Programme. Or there’s the Sigma Leadership Programme, designed to develop those with the highest leadership potential into a business or engineering leader of the future. We also welcome ambitious undergraduates looking to take up an Industrial Placement or Summer Internship.
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    bath.ac.uk/careers Bath C@R1RS S%RVIC% GUID% Planyour career Perfect your CV and covering letters Discover what employers want Advice for international and postgraduate students Plus much more THE
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 1 Your Careers Service is here to help you make sense of your career options, help you make plans for the future, and support you in achieving your goals... whether you don’t really know where to start or you have firm ideas already. We are professional, impartial and friendly, and you can speak to us confidentially about the career-related things that matter to you. Whatever year of study you are in, and whether you are an undergraduate or postgraduate, you are welcome to use our services at any time. We’ve helped many students to understand their career options, find opportunities for summer work, graduate jobs or further study, and develop their skills so they are in the best possible position to achieve their aspirations. This Guide provides a great overview of how to think about your career, research your options and present yourself to employers. We are grateful to the Bath students and alumni who are sharing their experiences with you here. Why not read the advice they have for you, and what they have to say about our services? We hope you will be inspired by their stories. Don’t forget to take a look at the directory at the back of the Guide. These are just a few of the many employers and course providers who are actively recruiting University of Bath students. Throughout the year many more employers will advertise their opportunities on our website via MyFuture, and you will have the chance to find out about a wide range of jobs and internships at Careers Fairs and other employer events. There is much more on offer on our website, at our events and in the Careers Service. Please get in touch directly if you have any comments or suggestions. Tracey Wells, Head of Careers Service, on behalf of the Careers Service team Editor Sue Briault Produced by GTI Media Ltd The Fountain Building Howbery Park Benson Lane Wallingford Oxon OX10 8BA UK T: +44 (0)1491 826262 www.groupgti.com Editorial Helen Turner Proofreader Fiona Shearer Advertising Adam Gillespie, sales product champion; the TARGETjobs sales team; the campaign management team Design Jane Anderson Commercial director Jon Mallott Sales director Simon Rogers Production director Jane Anderson Group CEO Graham Storey ISSN: 2046-3421 ISBN:1 84318 925 9 Printer Headley Brothers, Ashford GTI Media works in association with AGCAS to provide top quality careers advice to university students. START HERE TO GET WHERE YOU WANT TO BE Careers Service 01225 386009 careers@bath.ac.uk twitter.com/CareersatBath facebook.com/bathunicareers Work in progress From February 2017 we are on the move from our campus location to the new city centre student space at 18 Manvers Street (previously the Police Station). Keep up to date with these changes by checking the About Us section of our website: www.bath.ac.uk/careers Watch out for our Careers Advisers working in your department too. Contact us Opening times Monday to Friday 9.15 am to 16.30 pm during term time. We are open throughout the year with increased hours during teaching and exam periods. The website will keep you up to date: www.bath.ac.uk/careers
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    bath.ac.uk/careers2 BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 BATH AND YOUR CAREER 5 How we can support you 6 What do Bath graduates do? 8 At your service 10 Use your Bath experience to make yourself employable 13 How to choose the right career 14 Postgraduate study questions 16 Taking time out 17 Try smaller businesses 19 Using work experience to get a job 20 Get ahead with employer research 22 Where and how to look for a job 25 International students: destination global 26 How to sell your PhD 28 Here for a year: masters students 31 Applications 32 A quick guide to interviews 33 Assessment centres Bath and your career Your options after university Finding your first job Postgrad and international students Applications and interviews INSIDE THIS GUIDE Try smaller businesses, page 17 Phd students pages 26–27
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 3 35 Leading employers and course providers who want to hear from you Employers & professional bodies BAE Systems ................................................(IBC) Balfour Beatty................................................(36) Bank of Ireland..................................................37 CHP Consulting ........................................37 (37) Dialog Semiconductor ......................................38 Dixon Wilson......................................................38 Fidelity International ........................................38 Frontline ............................................................38 HSBC................................................................(39) Institute and Faculty of Actuaries ..................41 Johnson Matthey ..............................................41 Laing O’Rourke ..............................................(40) LCP......................................................................41 Oliver Wyman ....................................................41 Swiss Re Management Ltd ..............................42 Teach First ..............................................42 (OBC) TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) Ltd ......42 (IFC) UHY Hacker Young ............................................42 Jobs and course providers www.bath.ac.uk/careers This publication is available online at www.bath.ac.uk/careers in Information Resources. If you need this information in another format, please contact us. Course providers Bath Spa University ......................................(46) Le Cordon Bleu London ................................(47) University of Oxford ......................................(47) PGI ............................................................46 (48) IFC = inside front cover OBC = outside back cover IBC = inside back cover ()=displayadvertising BATH AND YOUR CAREER Applications and interviews from page 30 At your Careers Service website Go to www.bath.ac.uk/careers for... • news and updates • advice and helpsheets on choosing a career, going for interviews, getting work experience, postgraduate study and more • links to resources including streamed videos. Go to myfuture.bath.ac.uk for... • searchable vacancies targeted at Bath students – from taster courses for first years to graduate jobs and postgraduate funding • booking your place at campus skills workshops and recruitment events • booking to speak to a Careers Adviser in the Quick Query service – or check if our guidance service is what you need. And don’t forget Go to targetjobs.co.uk to find your ideal graduate job, work placement, internship or part-time job. You can search thousands of vacancies by sector and location, as well as access top-notch careers advice. And go to targetpostgrad.com if you’re considering postgraduate study. Find the right course for you, as well as advice on funding and how your postgraduate study options affect your career prospects.
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 5 BATH AND YOUR CAREER How you can help yourself: • Take advantage of the many opportunities here at Bath to develop your skills, find out about your strengths and gain confidence in your abilities. • Get involved with some extra- curricular activities. • Use work experience opportunities to help you find out about different career areas, and help reflect on your career goals. • Learn how to explain yourself to people when networking and job hunting. Practise how you are going to talk about relevant experiences and interests. • If you are applying for placements, attend all preparation sessions, keep in touch with your placement office and read your placement handbook carefully. • Attend fairs, employer presentations and sector events to find out more about the opportunities available and how you can enter different career areas. • Check our skills development opportunities during the semester. • Keep checking in to MyFuture for vacancies and set time aside each week to do some research. • Start early! Accept that it will take time to work out what you want to do. Many graduates tell us that they wish they had started earlier. Amy Jowsey says: The Careers Service helped me in so many ways each year I was at Bath. The first time it was to discuss potential career paths, which led to me switching to engineering. Later I got help with identifying errors in my writing of CVs and covering letters for summer placements and graduate jobs. I learned better ways to put forward information about myself. A Careers Adviser advised me when to disclose my dyslexia to prospective employers and also helped me prepare ahead for careers events and assessment days. Milda Norkute says: The majority of jobs I have applied for were through the Careers Service MyFuture website. I also found the advice from Careers Advisers on my CV and cover letter very useful. The assessment centre workshop helped me to prepare well too. I was still quite undecided even while I was applying but I knew this was important advice to get regardless of what job I was going to end up going for. HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOU LOTS OF STUDENTS FIND US REALLY HELPFUL RIGHT FROM THE TIME THEY START AT BATH. How we can help you: • Contact with a large number of employers from a range of different sectors, through careers fairs, employer presentations and workshops • Sessions on employability, job-hunting, application and interview skills • Information resources especially written for Bath students, including a well-researched website • MyFuture, our comprehensive vacancy service, offering graduate positions, work experience schemes/internships and other opportunities • Careers Advisers delivering sessions to your department • Information and advice about postgraduate study • Information about the careers that past alumni have gone on to and the chance to network with them • Advice on how to find all kinds of work experience and graduate jobs – not just big business schemes • Opportunities to practise aptitude tests – so that you are prepared when the time comes to apply for jobs • A practice interview service to enable you to practise your interview technique in a supportive environment • An enquiry desk for quick and easy access to information and advice on any careers and skills issue • Help through the job-hunting process on a one-to-one basis from experienced Careers Advisers • CV and application advice. From fresher to finalist First year Get involved with societies and activities so you can build your skills and a good CV for future work experience. Be curious about the jobs you could do by checking out the Careers Service programme, publications, website and MyFuture. Talk to alumni, lecturers, friends and family about these jobs. Get yourself a LinkedIn profile and start connecting with people. Start exploring work experience, open days or similar. Don’t forget your studies, as good grades will lead to better opportunities. Check our web page for first years: www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/first- year/index.html and chat with a Careers Adviser. Second year Time to get serious about your career by exploring placements and summer internships. Find out if jobs that interest you will be advertised, or how you can be more proactive in finding opportunities. Research employers by meeting them on campus or finding other ways to network with them. If you can’t get any focus on an area of work then book an appointment with a Careers Adviser. If you are applying for a placement keep in contact with your placement office. The Careers Service is the place to come for summer work experience advice. Final year/masters year Know the normal recruitment timetable for your chosen area because some employers may open applications in the summer before your final year starts. Check if employers that interest you will be on campus at Careers Fairs or presentations. Perfect your applications, whether for postgraduate study, a job or a gap year by getting feedback from a Careers Adviser. Do some employer/further study research while you are applying. Practise psychometric tests and start preparing for interviews. Hit the shops for an interview outfit in case you get an interview at short notice. Do you need a practice interview with a Careers Adviser?
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    bath.ac.uk/careers6 BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 BATH AND YOUR CAREER U niversity of Bath graduates have outstanding success in finding employment or continuing with their studies. The quality of the jobs our graduates achieve is high too. 85% of Bath’s employed UK full-time first degree graduates are in the top three occupational groups (professional or managerial jobs) compared with 64% of employed graduates nationally. This means we are ranked 7th for best graduate prospects according to The Sunday Times and The Times Good University Guide 2016. To gain an insight into our graduates’ successes you can check out the results of our annual survey to find out what work or study our graduates are doing six months after finishing their course: www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/choose-a-career/what-our- graduates-do. In this section we have a selection of stories from graduates. If you want to talk to other graduates about what their work involves then register to use the Bath Connection: www.bath.ac.uk/ students/careers/choose-a-career/bath- connection/index.html. Not everyone represented here is working in a field directly related to their subject so your subject does not limit your career choice. Many graduate vacancies don’t specify particular degree disciplines, so it is OK to think about jobs that are unrelated to your degree. Use our website sections ‘Find out what you want’ and ‘Find out about occupations’ at www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers. Also use the ‘How to choose the right career’ article (page 13) for more advice. You can discuss your ideas and concerns confidentially with a Careers Adviser too. It’s fine to come and talk with us even if you have no idea what you want to do. NAME Michael Powell DEGREE BSc Maths and Physics (2015) EMPLOYER Pentathlon GB While I was working on Bath Impact I bumped into the Chief Executive of Pentathlon GB when I was taking photos at a football match. From that conversation I ended up doing some things for them including volunteering at the European Championships. Just as I finished my internship at Iconic Cycling Events (see page 17), Pentathlon GB had a paid vacancy so it was right place, right time, right contact. At first it was a challenge as staff changes meant I ended up with a lot of things on my desk that I wasn’t expecting. As Membership Services Co-ordinator, I process membership applications and deal with membership queries but I am also helping to shape the future membership packages of the organisation by making them more attractive. Additionally, I help the National Competitions and Events Manager with processing entries in the build-up to the event and in numerous roles on competition days, like setting up and entering into the results system. I get to see what they do all the way through and I feel like I am getting some great experience. I am not sure where this job will take me but I certainly want to stay in the business of sport. I know that some of my work is ‘adminy’ but because it is in sport, which I am passionate about, it’s not boring. I am always looking forward to the next big event which is really enjoyable – whereas it wouldn’t be if I was doing this work in a sector that didn’t appeal to me. NAME Kylie Barton DEGREE BSc (Hons) Politics with International Relations EMPLOYER One Community Since graduating I have worked as a Social Researcher for a local charity called One Community. Last year I undertook a research project looking into domestic abuse support for young people in the county, which helped the Police and Crime Commissioner direct funding to where it was truly needed. This project led me to working with marginalised groups in the community to ensure they have a voice in local community organisations like Neighbourhood Watch, which are typically white, middle-class, middle-aged groups. These successes mean I am now advancing to manager level and will also be the Digital Marketing Manager at One Community. As a researcher I get a great balance of working with people, including young people, and writing. What I do has an influence, I convey the message of those marginalised by society’s structures to those who create the structures. For me, a thirst for diversity in my life is why I am also wearing other hats. I am also the Hampshire Coordinator for the Green Party in a voluntary capacity, and I am volunteering and fundraising for the One Community Young Carers Project. And finally, after more than five years of pitching, I am a blogger for the Huffington Post – the hard work of being a freelance writer, which started at university, pays off! WHAT DO BATH GRADUATES DO? BATH GRADUATES GO ON TO A WIDE VARIETY OF PRESTIGIOUS JOBS BUT NOT ALL ARE OBVIOUS CHOICES FOR THEIR SUBJECT.
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH AND YOURCAREERBATH AND YOUR CAREER NAME Gabriella Sherry DEGREE BSc Psychology (2014) EMPLOYER Dstl I had no strong career aspirations at first and the standard career path laid out for my subject didn’t quite resonate with me so I needed to think outside the box. Thinking more fluidly about my degree (Psychology) allowed me to go off the beaten track and into the field of defence and security – it was one of the best decisions I ever made! By September after I graduated I was lucky enough to be working as a strategic analyst for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). Dstl conducts a huge range of work to maximise the impact of science and technology on UK defence and security – this really is as broad and varied as it sounds! I applied for the job early in my final year at university and shortly after applying I had to complete a situational judgement test, security checks, two interviews, a group activity and an assessment day. It was a daunting process but I felt well prepared after all the support I had received from my department throughout my degree. I am now on a two-year graduate scheme, working as part of an interdisciplinary team that conducts analysis to support key strategic decisions, as well as contributing to defence and security planning and processes. I have been here for seven months and already I have worked with academia, industry and the military as well as a multitude of security and political organisations. This means I am able to network with others in the field as well as taking part in the training and development opportunities at Dstl, building a solid foundation for my future career. NAME Tian Cao DEGREE MSc Management with Operations (2014) EMPLOYER Capvision, Shanghai City, China I work in the Human Resources Service sector of a knowledge consulting firm as a researcher. My main responsibilities include looking for potential candidates, screening CVs, recommending suitable positions and making cold calls to get in touch, then interview arrangements and application follow-ups. I applied for a few other roles to several different companies before I finally decided to go for this one. I got the job after successfully passing three interviews with the HR manager, line manager and the sector director. I did gain some part-time and voluntary experience during my masters, which helped me a lot, not necessarily in identifying what I wanted to do but rather in giving me some sense of what it’s like beyond university and what kind of professional environment I should expect at work. The Careers Service was where I learned a great deal about job applications and interviews. I talked to the Advisers about the problems I met during every single application and they offered their advice to help solve them. There were also many resources that were very useful. The MyFuture website, the annual Careers Guide, the Bath Connection and the workshops they regularly held – I think I benefited from all of them. It’s really important to know what your passion is and how you are going to combine it with your chosen career path. Once you have decided, start working on it as soon as possible and don’t be afraid to ask for help. NAME Amy Jowsey DEGREE MEng Civil and Architectural Engineering (2014) EMPLOYER WSP Group I am working for an engineering consultancy in central London. My work involves designing and checking structural design for buildings and has involved some high-profile projects. I got my job following attending an event advertised by the Careers Service for women in engineering where the keynote speaker was from WSP. I was really excited to be attending their assessment day, and this just made me want the job even more. I was thrilled to have been offered a place on the graduate scheme. My summer placement and a research placement with the university meant I could compare these experiences and I decided to apply for graduate roles rather than a PhD. When it came to which role I wanted to do I was less clear, so I applied for a few different types of roles, and ended up choosing the role with the company I most wanted to work for. I used the Careers Service numerous times during my time at Bath; at the start of my second year I discussed the career implications of my chosen degree and ended up switching to engineering. After that, each year I went along for help in writing a CV and covering letters for summer placements, and during my final year I visited again, with CV, covering letters, application form, for practice interviews and advice before attending careers events and assessment days. I did my placement at the Ministry of Justice as a Data Researcher. It was a paid placement in London, which was ideal. I enjoyed it 120 per cent – if that’s possible! I loved living in London with other placement students, working with a government organisation and using maths. It helped me discover what I wanted to do long term. I was stuck behind a computer screen eight hours a day, which didn’t suit my skills. Communication, public speaking and interpersonal skills are my strengths and I didn’t get to use those much. However, doing social research opened up a new avenue for me, as I identified market research and social research jobs that used the skills I had gained on placement and included client contact. In my final year I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do and so I made applications to Teach First, a PGCE, the Civil Service and Auditing. My placement really made me realise I wanted to work in quantitative research at a public organisation, so these applications did fit my criteria. After graduation I spent six months at the BBC in a temporary graduate position of Research Assistant, not knowing where it would lead. I then spent 14 months at the next level as a research executive with Radio 1 in a different team. I was then promoted to Senior Research Executive (SRE) at Radio 4. Even in the interview for this I used examples from my placement. In 2015 I moved to television as SRE with BBC 1 and BBC Drama. NAME Kenny Cunniffe DEGREE Economics with Politics (2012) EMPLOYER BBC Television BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 7
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    bath.ac.uk/careers8 BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 BATH AND YOUR CAREER AT YOUR SERVICE WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON BEING YOUR FREE, PROFESSIONAL, IMPARTIAL, ON-CAMPUS CAREERS SERVICE. HERE, STUDENTS TALK ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES OF USING US. Careers Service website and MyFuture The Careers Service website www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers and MyFuture www.myfuture.bath.ac.uk are two important resources you can use in addition to talking to our Team: Choose a career It’s not unusual to have no idea what job you want to do. This section of our website could help you get started especially if you want to talk to a Careers Adviser. The ‘Using your subject’ and ‘What do Bath graduates do?’ sections could be a starting point. Succeed in the selection process This section of our website helps you to find out about occupations, sectors, industries and professions as well as advising you how to cope with applications, interviews, aptitude tests and assessment centres. You can download our bespoke guides which contain detailed advice on applications and interviews. Get work experience Look on our website for a range of resources, including our downloadable guide, to find out more about where to look for work experience. MyFuture lists job opportunities such as vacation work experience, placements, open days, competitions and courses. Find a graduate job In MyFuture you will find jobs with employers who have chosen to target you directly as a Bath student or graduate. Our website provides resources for whichever sector you’d like to be in, and whether you’d like to work in the UK or abroad. You can also download our comprehensive job hunting guide. Find further study If you’re considering going on to do postgraduate study check the website for some great advice and links to resources. Any funded postgraduate opportunities which we hear of are advertised as vacancies in MyFuture. Events At the start of each semester MyFuture lists our full range of employability skills workshops run by our Careers Advisers and employers. We help you to meet employers on campus too. We send out a regular Careers Service update alerting you to the next week’s events and you can book in MyFuture. Get help Check here on the website for advice on booking different types of appointments. Quick Query appointments only can be booked through MyFuture. You can also access our comprehensive range of helpsheets and guides specifically written by our staff for Bath students. Our information Team research a catalogue of external websites to supplement this material. Our Blog The Careers Team use this Blog to share their ‘news and views’ about careers with you. You will find advice about a wide range of career related issues, news from graduate recruiters and links to interesting articles: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/careers. Careers Adviser Saiyada Fazal helped second-year Mathematical Sciences student Anisha Patel achieve her placement by sharing her expertise on CV writing. Careers Adviser Ghislaine Dell was one of the Careers Advisers who helped Michael Powell, who studied Maths and Physics, find his dream job in the sports business. Careers Adviser Sue Briault has helped Politics with Economics graduate Christopher Gynn from his first year through to his final-year job offers. W e pride ourselves on empowering and enabling our students to find their career direction, and to make successful career transitions. Our Service is not just about the people you can talk to but also about the expertise we share with you through our Resources. Most students who use us tell us how helpful we have been.
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 9 BATH AND YOUR CAREERBATH AND YOUR CAREER What the students say The staff and the resources at the Careers Service have been instrumental in my professional development. They have developed my confidence in articulating my experiences in both my CV and my interviews. Employers have told me my CV is professionally written and well-structured which was due to the endless support of the careers staff and their CV Guide. They gave me great support when applying for a Team Leader role at the London Youth Games and for my placement application to QPR. Keon Richardson, BSc Sport and Social Sciences with placement, QPR in the Community Trust A Careers Adviser helped me to work out I could have a career in the sports business without having studied a sports-related degree. Before that discussion I was heading for a Finance career because that seemed the most obvious thing to go for. Michael Powell, BSc Maths and Physics, Pentathlon GB I learnt how to express my experience in a business-like way in both my applications and in interview. Everyone should get help from the Careers Service because they deal with applications and interviews every day so they know what they are talking about. The service is free so it’s silly not to use it. Anisha Patel, BSc Mathematical Science with placement Getting help from the Careers Service is really easy although you may have to get up early to book an appointment. Fifteen minutes with an Adviser is just the right amount of time to get an answer to something that is troubling you. Bharat Bajaj, MSc Management with Finance The feedback I got on my applications for work experience was a big confidence booster. I get lots of emails from the Careers Service and they may not all be relevant at the time you are reading them but they will be later, so I take note so I can act on them when they become relevant. Louise Downton, BSc Social Sciences with placement I started using the Careers Service from my first year, getting advice on what I should be doing so I could get the placement I wanted. I continued getting support for my applications. In my final year I was back getting more support because my employer did not make graduate job offers to placement students. My final discussion was weighing up two good offers. It was valuable to be able to talk through my thoughts and ideas at every stage. Christopher Gynn, BSc Politics with Economics with placement, Bank of England
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    bath.ac.uk/careers10 BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 BATH AND YOUR CAREER Sports and Exercise Science graduate Sean Howard told us he regretted not getting more involved in societies related to business and finance as it would have helped him to develop his knowledge: “I ended up devoting a lot of my spare time in final year trying to get to grips with commercial awareness. However, I did play rugby, which provided useful interview answer material.” Postgraduate Management student Bharat Bajaj told us: “When I came to Bath I made a point of trying everything I am scared of. One thing was dancing so I joined the Latin Ballroom Society! The other thing I was scared of was talking to people I didn’t know and giving speeches. So I joined some societies, became the Postgraduate Association Campaigns Rep and stood for Faculty Rep in the School of Management. I found out a great deal about how decisions are made at the University and School level. I saw how students can feed back into this and make a change. I stood for the Postgraduate Officer post in the Student Union elections (March 2016) because I was involved in creating the post. I didn’t win but it was the best two weeks of my time at Bath. I learnt so much more than I could have done in lectures. It just made me so much more confident having to do lecture shout-outs and selling myself to thousands of people.” Christopher Gynn (final-year Politics with Economics 2015) told us: “My placement year was an important experience and gave me so much, but I gained from other things I have done too. For example, in my final year I worked on the Students Associates Learning Project. I was on the committee for the Debating Society in my second year. I’ve been Academic Rep every year and this has been invaluable in helping me to understand how the university as an organisation works. I have also shadowed a member of the university staff. Both of these were really useful examples to use in interview questions especially to show that I understand how an organisation like the university works. I’ve tried to evaluate what I am going to do every year and then afterwards think about what I enjoyed about it and how I want to move on with it.” B ath students are often targeted by big-name employers, but it’s still a very competitive market for summer internships, placements and graduate jobs. You’ll need to find ways of differentiating yourself from the rest of the students applying. One of the most important ways you can do this is through your extracurricular activities. We spoke to Trung Vu (Computer Science and Maths), who told us that, in his first year, he spoke to a Careers Adviser to get feedback on his CV. He learned from the Adviser that he needed to build up his CV with more experiences, as he would find it difficult to compete with other students if he wanted to get into investment banking. He said: “I joined the Finance Society because it made sense given the career I was interested in and then I put myself forward for election to be on the Committee in my second year. From other students in the Finance Society I found out the Economics Society was attending a Finance Conference in York and I went along to that. I learned more from the people I met there than from a whole month of research on the internet because there were so many people there who were working in investment banks that I want to work in.” USE YOUR BATH EXPERIENCE TO MAKE YOURSELF EMPLOYABLE
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH AND YOURCAREER Psychology graduate Milda Norkute told us she thinks the Bath Award, which is run by the Students’ Union, helped her CV look more impressive. The Award helps you reflect on typical skills sought by employers because you demonstrate skills development by using examples from extracurricular activity including work experience, volunteering or club leadership roles. You also need to attend skills training sessions run by the Careers Service and the Students’ Union and complete a short written task related to careers. Milda told us: “The Bath Award was useful preparation for interviews as the questions you answer are similar for both. For the Award I used the experience from my final year because I was an Academic Representative and I led Peer Supported Learning Sessions for second-year Psychology students as well as working part time as Admissions Ambassador for the university.” BATH AND YOUR CAREER BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 11 NAME Keon Richardson DEGREE Sport and Social Sciences with placement (final year) I was a Team Bath Futsal Performance Athlete for two years, and I have developed key skills that are valued by employers. The Team Bath Futsal Performance Programme was a full-time programme consisting of: three technical sessions, one hydrotherapy session, one strength and conditioning session and a match on the weekend, which I completed alongside my full-time academic studies. I developed my discipline and dedication, time management skills, ability to work calmly under pressure and hard-work ethic. These are all skills employers value, and are often found in the Person Specification section of many job roles in sport and other industries. I’ve also volunteered at numerous events for different organisations, such as the London FA, London Youth Games, Wesport, Tackle Africa and the IBSA Blind Football European Championships. Employers are always very impressed with my playing experience, coupled with academic results, coaching qualifications and volunteering experience. I’ve been able to balance this through managing my time productively, and setting myself a target/priority list to achieve the above. The diverse range of experiences I’ve gained not only made me more employable for my placement, but at other organisations, which have offered me paid work (Fulham FC, Disability Sports Coach UK and Tottenham Hotspur). The most recent job role I have undertaken is Assistant Coach of the FA Partially Sighted and Deaf Futsal London Regional Talent Centre, which is run by the London FA and Tottenham Hotspur.
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    YOUR OPTIONS AFTER UNIVERSITY Resources The bestplace to start is our website. Look at www.bath.ac.uk/careers and select options from ‘Choose a career’ such as: • ‘Find out what you want’ – including leaflets on choosing a career, whether to use your subject or not and some specific subject-related resources. • ‘Find out about occupations’ – a great place to start if you have a few career ideas you want to explore. • ‘Get one-to-one help’ – information on how you can arrange to see a Careers Adviser along with what to expect and how to prepare. • ‘Try online guidance tools’ – direct links to Prospects Planner and other resources, which are great starting points for generating ideas. • ‘What do Bath graduates do?’ – destinations of Bath graduates by subject.
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 13 YOUR OPTIONS AFTER UNIVERSITY N o-one says it is going to be easy trying to work out what you want to do with your life. In our opinion, spending time exploring your options is so much more important than following the crowd and later discovering you don’t like what you have opted for. So here are six steps you can take to get you started. Step 1 Embrace the uncertainty and take some action. Being unsure about your future career can be a big worry so don’t be too hard on yourself to get the answer too quickly. Having more than one option is not a bad thing. Step 2 Get a plan. Easier said than done perhaps, but imagine how you would advise somebody else to tackle the same task. Working out what you want to do is just like any research project. You are a student, so you should be good at this. Don’t let your emotions get in the way of basic research. Start with the ‘Choose a Career’ section of our website www.bath.ac.uk/careers and read Career Choice articles in our blog http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/careers/category/ career-choice/. Step 3 What’s your story? What are the common themes in the things you have done so far? What skills are you most drawn to using? What are you interested in? What do you find boring and why? What are your values in relation to the type of work you do or the employer you will work for? Learn to become confident in talking about these things so you are ready for applications and interviews. Step 4 Be curious and get talking to people doing jobs you could do. You can learn a lot from people who enjoy their work. We organise for employers to come onto campus for Careers Fairs and individual employer events. Talk to family and friends, lecturers and anyone else you might know. Use the Bath Connection (search on the university website) to contact Bath Graduates and use the Alumni menu option on your LinkedIn profile to connect with even more Bath alumni. Step 5 Be flexible and adaptable because the world of work is constantly changing. You will be making decisions about your HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT CAREER HERE IS OUR SIX-STEP PLAN TO CHOOSING A CAREER AND TWO STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES OF HOW IT HAS WORKED FOR THEM. Michael Powell Maths and Physics Halfway through my degree I realised I wasn’t particularly enjoying it that much, but I decided I was going to carry on because I was doing OK. I went to the Careers Service to help me decide what I could go on to. It became clear my big interest was sport. I was elected as Sports Editor for Bath Impact which I did during my third year, having started out as a writer in my second year. I really enjoyed that as I went out to quite a few live sport fixtures. I was thinking about sports journalism and exploring that as an option. I also thought about my subject and realised that I enjoyed Maths more at school so also started looking at finance, possibly working for one of the Big 4. They seemed polar opposites but after talking with a Careers Adviser, she suggested looking at finance roles within a sports setting. At that time I found out about the Santander Student Intern Programme for Finalists and Graduates which is a paid, entrepreneurial internship programme that provides paid-for work experience within local businesses. I got a place in a sports business and that is now my direction. My advice is to follow your heart. I got caught up in thinking about my subjects which led me to Finance but the lightbulb moment was talking to a Careers Adviser and realising that, even though I didn’t have a sports-related degree I could still work in the sports business. career throughout your working life so this choice is your next move, not your lifelong choice. Being open minded and aware of your strengths, skills and interests is more important than pinning a label on your future job title. Step 6 Ask for help because everyone needs help with big decisions. Engage with Careers Service resources and our team because it will take a while to work through this but we can help you every step along the way. Shaun Lee M. Pharmacy Before I came to university I did a placement in a retail pharmacy and I was particularly impressed with the pharmacist. He was one guy who knew all this stuff about the different coloured pills. I was interested in why he chose one strength over another, why he didn’t choose to be a doctor and as I have spent time studying my degree I know my interest still remains. I didn’t want to stay at home to study and so I got a scholarship to study in the UK. We do have several arranged placements on our course but I have also organised my own internships every summer from the first year. I have done community and hospital work experience but I have also gained industrial research experience which is where the Careers Service has helped me a lot. Pharmacy students don’t tend to venture there. I would say don’t narrow down your options too early. It is very easy to follow the crowd and go with the flow. The University and your lecturers may steer you in a particular direction but you need to make sure you look at the alternatives for yourself too. That way you will find out what you really like the most or at the very least decide on the things you dislike and want to avoid. Advice for international students? Go for it! I was quite intimidated in my first year and didn’t expect to get a summer placement in the UK so I made no UK applications but I realise now that it is your skills not your nationality that matters in pharmacy.
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    YOUR OPTIONS AFTERUNIVERSITY bath.ac.uk/careers14 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 institution that focuses on the aspect of a subject that most interests you. It is essential to check which topics will be covered, the teaching methods used and how you will be assessed to ensure that it is appropriate for your needs. Will postgraduate study improve my chances of getting a job? This depends. Chosen carefully with reference to your career goals, a postgraduate course can increase both your chances of getting a job and the salary that you start on. You need to check whether potential employers in the area that you want to work will value the postgraduate course that you have selected. It is always worth asking the course provider about the employment destinations of past students. Would it be better to do a masters or a PhD? This can be a difficult decision to make. If you want to enhance your knowledge and skills in a specific area a masters programme may well be the best choice. Likewise, if you are not sure whether a career involving a significant research component would suit you, it may be worth trying an MRes course in an Some employers seek postgraduates with specific capabilities, sometimes targeting specialist courses or institutions, while others may not differentiate between postgraduates and graduates with a good first degree. You will need to check for your chosen career area. Sue Briault, Careers Adviser POSTGRADUATE STUDY QUESTIONS FURTHER STUDY NEEDS CAREFUL THOUGHT AND PLANNING. Embarking on a PhD is a major commitment lasting several years as opposed to typically one year for a masters course. For some career paths it is obligatory; for others it may enhance your chances of career progression. In all cases it is important for you to think carefully about the focus of the research involved, the main methodologies used and how this will relate to what you want to do subsequently: see www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/find- further-study/why. Do I need a first to do a postgraduate course? In some cases the answer is definitely yes; however, in many other cases it’s no. The entrance requirements vary from institution to institution and from course to course. Checking what entrance requirements are required is usually straightforward: access the relevant postgraduate prospectus. The difficulty comes when these say the minimum entrance requirement is ‘a good honours degree’. In these cases you will have to discuss what this means with the appropriate admissions tutor. When should I apply? Many postgraduate courses are extremely popular. The problem is that they are advertised at different times of the year. This is particularly true for PhD studentships. However, most masters-level programmes (and any scholarships covering costs) will be ready for applications early in each academic year. PhD opportunities are often advertised from October onwards with a peak in the period November to March. If possible, do your research before the start of the year in which you want to apply and identify the sort of postgraduate course that would suit you best. How will I fund my course? There are a number of funding arrangements for masters courses dependent on the subject and your domicile. Some universities offer
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 15 YOUR OPTIONS AFTER UNIVERSITY Resources Our website contains a wealth of information to help you. Go to our home page: www.bath.ac.uk/careers and look at the section headed 'Find further study'. Explore how to apply, write personal statements and get funding. • Wondering how to fund a masters or PhD? The TARGETpostgrad funding database contains vital information to help you bankroll your course. Further information can also be found in the Prospects Postgraduate Funding Guide. • Use targetpostgrad.com to research and compare postgraduate courses. • Watch out for our talk ‘Postgraduate study: is it for you?’, which takes place during Semester One and Semester Two. • Did you know we advertise funded postgraduate opportunities in MyFuture? myfuture.bath.ac.uk. • If you are thinking about studying abroad you will need to start early. Check our online catalogue for relevant books and websites. www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/information-resources/catalogue. • Why not bring your personal statement to a Careers Adviser drop-in session to get some feedback? scholarships and bursaries and many offer reductions to their past students. Some subject-specific courses have special arrangements. From 2016 students from England or the EU taking a masters will be able to borrow up to £10,000. At the time of writing, news is still to come for students from the rest of the UK. There are also Professional and Career Development Loans. It is always worth talking to the admissions team responsible for the course you are interested in to discuss funding options. Ask how students normally fund the course. The seven publicly funded Research Councils are the UK’s biggest source of PhD funding, awarding around 8,000 studentships every year across all academic areas. From 2018/19, doctoral loans of up to £25,000 will be available for English students with a place at a UK university who are not receiving a research council living allowance. How can I make my application stand out when the course is so popular? In essence, a postgraduate course provider will want to know the answer to three basic questions: 1 Is there evidence that you have the relevant abilities and achievements to undertake the course? 2 Is there evidence that you have thought carefully about your reasons for taking the course? 3 Is there evidence that you have looked at the course structure and have a clear idea of what you will get from it? This information can be gained in a number of ways. For help on how to make sure you get full credit for your past achievements and current interests irrespective of what selection process is used, see our website: www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/find- further-study/apply and www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/find- further-study/statements.
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    YOUR OPTIONS AFTERUNIVERSITY bath.ac.uk/careers16 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 Research the job market so that you know the timetable for your chosen area. Don’t rely on employers offering deferred entry. It is good to ask recruiters who come onto campus whether they would consider this, as these are the employers who are most likely to do so. However, recruiters who offer deferred entry are in the minority. There are many things you could consider doing in a gap year and our website offers suggestions and resources you could consider. The most popular options are going overseas to teach English as a foreign language or to volunteer in a developing country. Careers Advisers are happy to discuss the relative merits of gap year options as well as help you work out the best timings. T he best way of achieving a successful gap year is to make sure you plan it well and that you take into account when you might need to apply for jobs and be available for interview. It can be pretty easy for one gap year to slip into two if you aren’t careful. An essential part of your planning is to give as much thought to what you want to do when you return as you do to the time out itself. Focus on your goals Graduate employers are most impressed by applicants who have positive reasons for wanting to take a gap year. You will need to be able to explain readily your rationale and what you expect, or have gained, from the experience. Start thinking about how you will sell what you did to them, the skills you will gain and the personal development you hope to achieve. Employers will switch off if you look as though you just had a long holiday or took part in highly organised volunteering projects where you were cosseted from the rigours of the locals’ way of life. Don’t miss the recruitment cycle Timing your availability for applications and interviews is one of the biggest challenges you will face. The best plan is to engage with recruitment activities in the autumn term of your final year. TAKING TIME OUT TAKING TIME OUT CAN SEEM AN ATTRACTIVE OPTION AFTER HARD YEARS OF STUDYING; HOWEVER, MAKE SURE IT IS PART OF THE ROUTE TO YOUR FUTURE CAREER AND NOT JUST A DIVERSION. Resources If you are going to take a gap year, plan it properly to get the most out of it! Read our helpsheet Taking a Gap Year, www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ get-work-experience/gap-year, see the gap year section on targetjobs .co.uk/internships and ask to see the books Gap-Year Guidebook, Planning Your Year Out? and Your Gap Year.
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 17 A survey published in November 2013, ‘Smaller businesses – a positive career choice for graduates?’ published by GTI Media, found that 87 per cent of undergraduates would be willing to start their career with a smaller employer, while 59 per cent of SMEs found it a challenge to recruit graduates. Read our guide Finding a graduate job for advice on how to go about searching for jobs that are outside the main graduate schemes. Finding an SME to work for is a challenge. Some resources include: • The Step Programme offers internships and longer graduate placements mainly in smaller businesses: www.step.org.uk. • The Santander Student Internship Programme operated on campus by the Students’ Union provides paid for entrepreneurial internships to final-year students and recent graduates: www.bathstudent.com/joblink/ internships. • Many regional websites for graduates are useful for finding SMEs in the local area. See our website for further details: www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ find-a-graduate-job/region. • Get involved in Enterprise Bath: www.bathstudent.com/enterprise. YOUR OPTIONS AFTER UNIVERSITY TRY SMALLER BUSINESSES SMALLER BUSINESSES ARE BONA FIDE EMPLOYERS, OFFERING DIFFERENT CHALLENGES FROM BIGGER GRADUATE RECRUITERS. S mall and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are not easily visible to students as a starting point for their career as they don’t often feature in the events we organise. Small businesses are defined as up to 50 employees while up to 250 employees are medium sized. Such organisations cover job sectors from advanced science and communication technology to artisan bakers. Businesses with high growth potential are more likely to consider recruiting graduates for permanent jobs, internships or work experience. SMEs usually hire only one or two people at a time. This means that each person hired is special and especially valuable to the company. As a result you are likely to have far more exposure to the leaders and decision makers in the organisation. Smaller organisations may have less structured career paths, but they can also offer a steeper learning curve and accelerated progress for high performers. Graduates can experience bigger challenges and responsibilities relatively early in their careers and may also see stock options featuring as part of their remuneration package. NAME Michael Powell DEGREE BSc Maths and Physics (2015) JOB Membership Services Co-ordinator My family run a small business so I was attracted by the idea of getting experience of the whole business rather than only seeing part of it. In my final year I found out about the Santander Student Intern Programme that provides paid internships within small, local businesses. One of the employers, Iconic Cycling Events, saw I had sports communication skills and so they offered me a job. They organise mass participation cycling sportive events and first of all I did PR, press releases and social media for them. They are a very small company, an SME, and so after the first month my role grew into a wider range of activities including dealing with registrations, communicating with riders both pre- and post-event, analysing data from past riders to assist with future marketing techniques and redesigning the company's website. I felt like I was getting a much broader business insight. This led to my current job which is with another small sports organisation, Pentathlon GB, where I am in charge of memberships but I help the Competition and Events Manager too, so I get to see what they do all the way through. I feel like I am getting some great experience for someone who has only recently left university. Enterprise Bath (Student’s Union) competitions are great for gaining experience. Seen above left is James Courtney, BBA student, who turned his prize-winning app Lux into a business opportunity for his placement. www.bath.ac.uk/news/2016/04/12/ student-business-competition-winner- launches-company
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    FINDING YOUR FIRST JOB Sportsand Social Science student Keon Richardson worked for QPR Community Trust during his placement.
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 19 BATH AND YOUR CAREERFINDING YOUR FIRST JOB A ll work experience counts, even casual work. At the Careers Service we see many student CVs and so we know the wide range of jobs you do to earn some cash. From working on farms or in shops and factories to waitressing and cleaning, we know these aren’t exciting jobs but they will show future employers that you can apply yourself to work, turn up on time and get a job done to a good standard. Many casual jobs also show you can work under pressure. As well as providing good things to talk about in job applications you are learning about yourself and what you might like and dislike about work. Don’t forget that although you’ve only worked at a low level in a company you may have gained an insight into the business, so you might be able to talk about how that company differentiates itself or what challenges it faces, which is useful in demonstrating commercial awareness. Employers value placements A unique feature of the University of Bath is the focus on placements as part of your degree. This is one of the reasons why we are targeted by top employers. One of our featured students in this guide, Politics with Economics graduate Christopher Gynn, told us: ‘When I applied to Bath I was set on doing a placement and the ones that were paid were the business ones so that’s what I set myself out to apply for. They did also appeal to me more. I was very set on applying to the Bank of England because I had really enjoyed taking part in their schools competition during A levels. I knew I was more interested in policy than finance. I did also apply to some strategy consultancies but I heard back from the Bank of England quickly and my placement was settled by Christmas. I learned so much from my placement – not just about the job I was doing but things that would help me in any job I might do.’ A bonus is that many placement students get job offers from the employers they work for. Christopher’s employer required him to re-apply and he was successful. However, his experience also impressed another top graduate employer so he had a choice between two offers and his Careers Adviser helped him to make a decision. Recent graduate labour market reports highlight how important evidence of previous work experience is to employers. Internships If you can’t do a placement, plenty of graduate employers offer summer internships. It is essential to build up your work experience over your time at university. Recruitment for some work experience starts as early as the previous summer so you need to be off the starting blocks early in the academic year if you don’t want to miss out. Look in MyFuture for advertised vacancies and check our work experience guide for other places to look. Finding work near to home You may not have much choice but to return home for the summer. Make sure you do your research on local employers. Our website can help with this. Don’t expect to pick something up at the last minute. Local work is often found by pounding the streets with your CV rather than looking for jobs on websites. A good plan is to combine casual work with some thorough investigation of your career options. First years in particular should be aware that some top graduate employers offer taster days or courses, which are worth checking out in MyFuture. Getting experience in popular sectors Some areas of work are difficult to get paid experience in. Think about volunteering and balance that out with paid casual work. Often overlooked options are work shadowing or simply talking to people about their jobs. Think hard about people you know. Do you know what your friends’ parents and siblings do? Who knows, there might be a contact who could help you with some work shadowing. Talking to people about the work they do is equally valuable and USING WORK EXPERIENCE TO GET A JOB THE CAREERS SERVICE CAN HELP YOU MAKE THE MOST OF ALL YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE, WHETHER IT’S CASUAL WORK, A SUMMER INTERNSHIP OR A PLACEMENT. shows any potential employer your motivation and interest. A good starting point is the Bath Connection, our alumni network accessible online at www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ choose-a-career/bath-connection. Read up on networking in our booklet Finding a Graduate Job. How we can help Read Finding Work Experience online or pick up a copy. We advertise a variety of opportunities through MyFuture, our careers gateway for Bath students and graduates. However, they in no way represent the full range of potential vacancies. Careers Service staff can help you get started on researching potential employers and advise you on making speculative applications to employers not obviously recruiting. Get started with your investigations early. I heard about the National Citizen Service (NCS) which offers 15- to 17-year-olds the opportunity to gain useful skills during the summer vacation through engaging in social action activities. I had participated in this when I was at school but I wasn’t very confident about applying to be a leader because it was a lot of responsibility but I want to work with children in the future. Then I did the Sprint Programme (Women’s Development) run by the Careers Service and the main thing I came away with was that you should let the employer decide if you can do a job and not rule yourself out by not applying. Up until I did the Programme I was reliant on people pushing me or encouraging me to do things whereas now I realise I shouldn’t be afraid of putting myself forward. I also applied to YMCA Children and Disability department working on Holiday Play schemes. I got offers from both! Louise Downton, Social Sciences (2019)
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    FINDING YOUR FIRSTJOB bath.ac.uk/careers20 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 as PR Week for the public relations sector. Make sure, too, that you keep up to date with news items about organisations you are interested in by reading business sections of newspapers or the BBC News website. In-depth research on an employer and its competitors can make a real difference when you’re being asked about why you want to work for a particular company, or to comment on a business issue that is affecting your chosen industry. Given all the resources available to you it’s no surprise that employers are disappointed by candidates who fail to prepare properly. GET AHEAD WITH EMPLOYER RESEARCH WHETHER YOU’RE CHECKING YOU MADE THE RIGHT CHOICE OR PREPARING FOR INTERVIEWS, YOU NEED TO BE TOP OF THE CLASS WHEN IT COMES TO RESEARCH ON EMPLOYERS AND JOB ROLES. It never ceases to amaze me how many graduates don’t bother to find out who they are applying to and what the job entails. I can’t stress enough how important it is to read up on this. Lack of preparation really shows. Graduate employer Talk to employers and graduates A previous placement or internship will give you obvious networking opportunities to gain further insight direct from those in the know. If you don’t have these contacts you can still build up your knowledge in other ways. You can attend relevant careers fairs and employer presentations organised by the Careers Service or your department and speak directly with graduates. The Careers Service is working with the Alumni office to bring you Bath Connection. This is a secure online system, which allows you to network with our alumni experts. They are Bath graduates who have volunteered to talk to current Bath students (and fellow graduates) about working for their employer and what’s involved in their job: www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ choose-a-career/bath-connection/ index.html. Use our Finding a Graduate Job guide for advice on how to network to find out more about jobs. C areers Advisers regularly meet employers on or off campus and so we have a pretty good idea of what irritates them when they receive applications or conduct interviews. In the words of one employer: ‘It never ceases to amaze me how many graduates don’t bother to find out who they are applying to and what the job entails. I can’t stress enough how important it is to read up on this. Lack of research really shows.’ What employers want to see Certainly, from the employer’s perspective, a real or an apparent lack of effort in your research can make you appear to be uncommitted to the job you are applying for. Whether it is through your written application or in interview, you will have to show why you could be a useful employee, why you are better than the other applicants for the position and why the job would fit your current career objectives. To provide convincing answers, you need to know what the job entails and demonstrate that you understand what you’ll be doing day to day. It’s not just about understanding the job role but also finding out about the employer and why they would be right for you. Research online The TARGETjobs website, targetjobs.co.uk, and Prospects website, www.prospects.ac.uk, have profiles of hundreds of occupations, so there is no excuse not to be well informed. Use the ‘Find out about occupations’ section of our website for links to these and other resources: www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/succeed-in-selection/occupational. Look carefully at all of an organisation’s website, not just the careers section. Everything that a company is proud of and will expect you to know will be on there. You can also look to see whether an organisation belongs to a sector organisation or professional body. These bodies can give you a good overview of a sector, as can specialist publications such
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 21 Resources Need to find out more about employers? Check out www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/find-a-graduate- job/employers. Also try the databases provided by the University Library. These are great for tracking down organisations by type of business, location or size and also useful for buffing up on your chosen company before an interview! www.bath.ac.uk/library/subjects/ management/financial. Not sure you want to work for one of the typical, big graduate employers? Watch the streamed DVD Big Opportunities in Small Businesses: Graduates in SMEs for a taste of the graduate opportunities available in smaller organisations. www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/find-a-graduate-job/ employers/smes. Need to know more about a particular role? Click ‘Find out about occupations’ on www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers. Have you found out enough about your potential employer? Use the graduate employer research checklist at https://targetjobs.co.uk/sites/targetj obs.co.uk/files/public/Graduate- employer-research-checklist.pdf to make sure you’ve got it covered. Get creative! Find out about creative job-hunting and networking your way to a job in our Finding a Graduate Job guide. NAME Sean Howard DEGREE Sport and Exercise Science (2015) EMPLOYER KPMG Consulting I decided I didn’t want a job related to my degree so I had to really learn about the industries I was applying to and I started doing this in the summer before my final year. I needed to be able to answer some of the technical questions that are asked in investment banking interviews, for example. This effort will distinguish you from someone who knows the stuff from their degree. Commercial awareness is essential too. A common question across all my interviews was around my understanding of what was going on in the economy. You need to be able to talk about this critically but also to have followed this over time rather than having a snapshot knowledge. I’d never followed any financial news before I started thinking about applying for these jobs but I ended up allocating time to it every day. I found speaking to senior people at employer presentations eventually calmed my nerves when I met other senior people at interview. I was going to a presentation nearly every day and they are good fun too. FINDING YOUR FIRST JOB NAME Keon Richardson DEGREE Sport and Social Sciences (final year) EMPLOYER QPR in the Community Trust My 30 week placement was in the charitable arm of QPR Football Club whose aim is to create opportunities, inspire change and help the people of West London to fulfil their potential. I wanted to work in professional football and applied speculatively to the top London clubs and to internships advertised through Moodle. I got this job by researching the community trusts of professional football clubs in London and contacting the manager at QPR who was impressed with my CV. My advice is to research the career area you are interested in, the pathway of your career choice and the current issues in your desired field. Volunteering experience helped me to understand the industry I wanted to go into. I researched the organisations I was applying to, trying to get an understanding of their structure, mission statement and values and how it can fit in with what I wanted to experience. If you do this it can help you in an interview to show how keenly you want to work for them and help improve what they do.
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    FINDING YOUR FIRSTJOB bath.ac.uk/careers22 BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 WHERE AND HOW TO LOOK FOR A JOB MyFuture MyFuture myfuture.bath.ac.uk is the place to look for jobs with employers who have chosen to target you directly as a Bath student or graduate. Vacancies are added on a daily basis and are completely searchable by a range of factors including career option (e.g. advertising and public relations or civil engineering), by industry or sector, job location or keyword. Once you have used it a few times the system learns what opportunities have interested you and makes suggestions of new ones you could look at. Also you can review expired vacancies as this might help you to find out the usual time of year for some recruitment. Although there are peak times for vacancies, we are adding them all year round so keep on checking. MyFuture is as important to check as other national vacancy websites such as targetjobs.co.uk. Remember our blog: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/careers Careers fairs and presentations There is no better way to find out more about what it is like to work for an employer than to meet them at a careers fair or presentation. We organise a two- day Autumn Careers Fair (20–21 October 2016) where on each day you can meet over 100 employers who regularly recruit graduates. We also run a Summer Internship Fair and a Summer Graduate Recruitment Fair for employers with immediate vacancies for graduating students. When we ask employers what they think of the Bath students they have met at our fairs, they are most impressed by the students who have researched the company beforehand and have good questions they want to ask. Employers may come and give individual presentations about their opportunities in addition to or instead of coming to a fair. Second-year student Anisha Patel (see page 9) went to some while she was looking for her placement. She told us: ‘I found presentations really useful to judge if a company’s work ethos and outlook would suit me. The best advice I got from one was to do proper Facebook • ‘Like’ companies’ brand pages, keep up with their initiatives, make comments on posts, show an interest, ask sensible questions. • Keep your Facebook wall clean if it is visible. • Check your security settings and monitor how your friends tag you. Twitter • ‘Follow’ relevant companies, industry influencers and job tweeters. • Interact by tweeting and retweeting so your Twitter feed shows your interests. • Keep a separate professional account. • Search for opportunities using #hashtags and user lists. LinkedIn • Get your profile sorted. • Start connecting with people you know and then see who they are linked to. • Join groups such as Bath Alumni and others relevant to your chosen sector. • Monitor who is looking at you. • Find out how to make better use of LinkedIn by checking out https://students.linkedin.com/uk. research on the company before you apply so you can use it in your covering letter or answer interview questions. I don’t think I would be doing this if it hadn’t been pointed out to me.’ Using social media to job search Employers are using social media as part of their recruitment and attraction process more and more. If you are smart you can make it work for you both as a way of finding jobs and of marketing yourself to employers. Research shows that 80% of employers will google candidates before an interview. Did you know a well-crafted LinkedIn profile will usually appear near the top of a google search under your name? Here are a few social media basics to help you get started.
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 23 FINDING YOUR FIRST JOB Make sure you don’t just sit behind a computer screen making applications to jobs you have seen advertised. If I hadn’t have met the Chief Exec of Pentathlon GB at a football event I was reporting on for Bath Impact, I would have never ended up volunteering for the European Championships in Bath in 2015. There were loads of other volunteers at that event but I stayed in touch and would never have got my current job but for that chance meeting and networking. Michael Powell, BSc Maths and Physics (2015) Hidden jobs If you put all your job-hunting effort into looking for adverts you may find that you miss valuable opportunities to work for an employer who would be ideal for you. More people are likely to find jobs through networking and personal contacts than they would by responding to adverts. To some extent this does depend on the sector you want to go into, but even if you cannot speculatively approach employers for jobs in some sectors, you can certainly use contacts to improve your job knowledge or even get the heads up when a vacancy is about to be advertised. Once you have established the type of role or sector that interests you then get networking. Social media can help but think a little closer to home and make sure you have given some thought to friends and family who might be able to help you. Do you know what jobs the parents and older siblings of your friends do? Make it your business to find out. Need a warm lead? Then use the alumni experts in the Bath Connection because they are willing to talk to you about their work. If you don’t know people well then just ask them for advice but if you know them better you could ask for a favour such as work shadowing. We also work with the Alumni office to bring you access to alumni experts through the Bath Connection who are willing to talk about their work. Check our website. To find out more about networking, including social media to job- hunt, read our guide Finding a Graduate Job online or hard copy. I used LinkedIn to find Bath alumni at the companies I was applying to. These informal conversations really helped me to understand whether I wanted to work for them. I even found an opportunity to reapply to a company through these contacts when I didn’t get through the assessment centre. Bharat Bajaj, MSc Management with Finance (2016)
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    POSTGRAD AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS I startingusing the Careers Service right at the beginning of my course when I wasn’t even clear about what sort of companies I should apply to. I was simply thinking that it’s time to do something for my career for the first time ever. The Careers Service was where I learned a great deal about job applications and interviews. I talked to the Advisers about the problems I met during applications and they offered their advice to help solve them. There were also many resources, which were very useful. The MyFuture website, this Careers Guide, the Bath Connection alumni network and the workshops they regularly held – I think I benefited from all of them. Tian Cao, masters graduate now working at Capvision, Shanghai City, China
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    bath.ac.uk/careers POSTGRAD AND INTERNATIONALSTUDENTS INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: DESTINATION GLOBAL STUDYING IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY IN WHAT MAY BE YOUR SECOND (OR EVEN THIRD) LANGUAGE CAN GIVE A REAL BOOST TO YOUR EMPLOYABILITY. HERE’S OUR GUIDE TO CAPITALISING ON YOUR STRENGTHS AND MAXIMISING YOUR CHANCES OF SUCCESS. Get to grips with the UK recruitment system One of the biggest differences from your own country may be the lack of degree subject preference by many UK employers. About half of the jobs we advertise on MyFuture are available to students from any degree. Engineering students can go into management consulting and chemistry students can go into management – an analytical mind and a good head for numbers are what employers want. It’s not enough that you have the skills and academic achievements UK recruiters want. It is as important to show enthusiasm and motivation for the career you are applying for. In fact, some recruiters say that they hire for attitude and train for skills. Make the most of the help on offer The job application process is extra daunting when you are experiencing it in another language, or at a distance. You’ll be pleased to know that there is a lot of help available to you from the Careers Service, including in-depth workshops on UK-style CVs and covering letters, practice interviews and assessment centre experience. And if you find it difficult to make effective contributions in a group exercise, or ‘sell’ yourself in applications and interviews because it is considered boasting in your own country, don’t worry. Come and talk things through with one of our advisers, who will work with you to demonstrate your contributions in a way that is effective and works for you. There’s also plenty of information on our web pages for international students, covering workplace etiquette and cultural differences as well as hints and tips on navigating the UK recruitment process. Motivation, motivation, motivation At some stage in the recruitment process you will need to explain why you want the job and why are you interested in the organisation. If you are not used to sharing your thoughts and motivations with strangers this can be uncomfortable for you. The key is to try to think about why the job you are applying for is interesting to you. Maybe you are attracted to the tasks involved in the job or possibly you were inspired by one of the employees talking about their job when you attended an employer presentation. What matters is that what you write or say reflects a real interest in the job. Make the most of the 'Bath experience' Trung Vu, an international student in his second year, advises getting involved early in extracurricular activities. He says: ‘There are lots of opportunities which the SU advertises. Join societies or get more involved with your society by being a committee member. I am an academic rep for two departments.’ Be careful to show your good time management skills by staying on top of your studies because employers will look for both high academic results and extracurricular involvement. Don't forget about jobs back home We know many of you will want to explore the UK job market, but also that plenty of you are looking for jobs in your home countries. So you might like to know that we have access to a broad range of information on global job markets and vacancies as well as contacts with overseas employers. We even have a special International Careers Week in March each year, full of globally-themed events including remote presentations from international employers. Be aware of the rules Many international students are keen to build up work experience in the UK and one way to do that can be through internships and placements. Be aware of the rules regarding the number of hours you can work. Check this out at the ISAT web page www.bath.ac.uk/students/visa- advice/working-in-the-uk/index.html or book an appointment with an International Student Adviser, Student Services Centre, Level 2, 4 West. Capitalise on your global outlook As an international student, you have already shown you are flexible, adaptable and have increased cultural awareness simply by coming to study in another country. And you can speak more than one language – a definite advantage over many British students. These are skills increasingly sought after by employers in the UK. And if you are returning to your home country, the knowledge you will have gained of another country will be a valuable selling point – so make sure you emphasise it! Resources If you would like to learn about the graduate job market and recruitment in the UK then see our webpages www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ international. Check for advice on working in the UK during and after your studies www.bath.ac.uk/ international/advice/ work. For advice on searching for jobs outside the UK see our webpage www.bath.ac.uk/ students/careers/find-a-graduate-job/ abroad. BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 25
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    bath.ac.uk/careers26 BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 thinking mean that doctoral graduates can progress faster once they are in employment’ (What Do Researchers Do? 3 years on, Vitae, 2010). Additionally, the government’s review of postgraduate education concluded that: ‘The skills of postgraduates, especially researchers, are critical for tackling major business challenges and driving innovation and growth’ (One Step Beyond: Making the most of postgraduate education, BIS, 2010). Showcasing your skills So your PhD gives you more than just research skills. But how can you work out what all these ‘other skills’ are, and then go about selling them to employers? Our case study, John Clark, used the Careers Service to help him understand. Some companies actively target PhD students because of the skills they develop during their research projects, such as analytical skills, project management, problem-solving, creativity and independence. Others, however, can be more sceptical. This can be particularly the case if you want to move away from your subject area, when there can be a perception that PhDs are too specialist. One thing that helps here is the ability to take a ‘client-centred approach’: look at what the employer wants and show that you have it. No researcher worth their salt would believe a journal article that made claims not backed up by evidence. So you need to work on how to articulate that evidence in language that works for the employer. One tip is to use ‘general’ rather than ‘specific’ terms to describe your skills; for example talking about delivering ‘oral presentations’ rather than ‘lectures’. Your interests outside academia If you’re targeting non-academic jobs, it’s important to take examples of your skills from activities outside of academia as well as from the PhD. For instance, if a job is asking for excellent communication skills, many researchers will say that they A t what stage of your PhD should you start to think about your next steps? Four weeks in? Six months before the end? Three weeks after finishing? Doctoral researchers come to visit the Careers Service at all of these stages and more. However, there is value in recognising that right from the start of your research you are developing a range of skills that will help to make you employable. Often researchers don’t recognise these skills or think proactively about their career. There can be benefits to analysing your skills, interests and values, and starting to investigate career opportunities as early as possible in your research. We’ve put together a career planning timeline (www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ researchers/timeline) with suggested career development activities for each stage of your PhD. What PhD graduates offer to employers PhD researchers often see themselves almost exclusively in terms of their research project. But you have much more to offer than in-depth subject knowledge. In a survey of PhD graduate destinations, employers said: ‘the maturity that comes with a doctoral qualification, the understanding of the whole variety of complex issues and principles of critical HOW TO SELL YOUR PHD DON’T LET YOUR RESEARCH PROJECT ALONE DEFINE YOU. LEARN HOW TO MARKET YOUR SKILLS TO POTENTIAL EMPLOYERS IN A LANGUAGE THEY WILL UNDERSTAND. NAME John Clark DEGREE (PhD) Chemistry EMPLOYER PwC I started thinking about my career options about six months before the end of my PhD – earlier would have been better. I started by thinking broadly about career options and then narrowed them down. I talked to a Careers Adviser and went along to the Bath Autumn Careers Fair where I met graduates currently working in roles that interested me. This helped me gain more insight into different areas of work and work out what would suit me best. I knew that I wanted a career where I could use my strengths: communication, data analysis and computer modelling – all skills that I had developed during my PhD in Chemistry. I also wanted a role that involved high-level client work, a skill I had enhanced through explaining my research to senior academics. I decided that actuarial work and risk advisory fitted well with these strengths, and also with the interest in accountancy I had developed through taking on the role of Cricket Club treasurer. Both my extracurricular activities and research experience were important for building teamwork and organisational skills. With the help of the Careers Service I put together a CV that highlighted my relevant skills, and felt well prepared to tackle questions at interviews and assessment centres. Employers want PhDs • 60 per cent of employers say that PhD recruits are integral to commercial success. • 63 per cent of employers actively target PhDs when recruiting. • 74 per cent say PhD recruits achieve high impact results within two years of joining. Source: EPSRC Report ‘Pulling Power of the PhD’ April 2013 – A major independent survey of leading research-intensive employers closely linking PhD-holders with increased company performance and a host of other benefits. have published articles and written a thesis. But that may not always resonate with an employer. If, however, that same researcher says that they have presented their research to experts, schoolchildren and members of the general public, won a poster prize and POSTGRAD AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERS SERVICEGUIDE 2017 27 written an article for a local publication, that sounds less academic, and more the sort of communication an employer is looking for. Consider all aspects of your experience. Emphasise hobbies that would be useful to employers. Equally, leadership, motivation, interpersonal skills and so on can be evidenced clearly from any sports, mentoring, volunteering activities or clubs you regularly participate in. It’s the skill that counts in most cases, not the context it was developed in: hence the emphasis on transferable skills. Top tips So the keys to successfully selling your PhD are simple: • Analyse the job description and person specification. • Build up evidence that you are capable of the job and match the person specification, using examples from different contexts. • Have a clear sense of why you want to do the job. • Use positive language to convince the employer that you’re the person they’re looking for. Resources See our web pages for specialist careers information and advice for researchers, including information on the potential career paths open to you and advice on successful marketing strategies to help you achieve your aims. www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/researchers. Use the careers section of the Vitae website, which is aimed at researchers www.vitae.ac.uk/ researcher-careers. Our Careers Advisers can help you think about your future – so why not book an appointment? www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/one-to-one. Check the PGSkills programme for research students www.bath.ac.uk/ learningandteaching/ rdu/courses/pgskills. POSTGRAD AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS
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    bath.ac.uk/careers28 BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 POSTGRAD AND INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS M any masters students are new to Bath and even new to the UK. Only being here for a year means you will need to tap into the job market very quickly, especially if you are interested in business employers, who tend to start their recruitment as the academic year begins. If your masters is relevant to certain fields of employment it is essential that you demonstrate how your masters can be of use in the particular job you are applying for. If your course or research is less directly related then you need to work out how to sell the transferable skills picked up from the masters course. For example, higher level skills gained from a masters might include time management (your course will be intensive), project management, advanced presentation skills and group working. Make sure all of these are clearly conveyed in your CV and covering letter. Be sure to link skills achieved in your masters to those required in the job. How we can help Visit our website www.bath.ac.uk/ careers where you will find details of our services as well as a wealth of information that will get you up to speed. Check out our extensive programme of events and keep up to date with vacancies in MyFuture: myfuture.bath.ac.uk. NAME Bharat Bajaj DEGREE MSc Management with Finance (2016) When you arrive in September and some of the graduate schemes close before the end of the year, you have to be very quick at knowing which companies you want to apply for and which roles. It is a big shock to realise you need to apply so quickly. You really need to plan it out. I was completely clueless how to answer the questions on a company application form. I didn’t know if it was very formal and whether I needed to brag about myself or not. Talking with a Careers Adviser helped me to really explain myself to employers rather than just speculating what was right. I attended a workshop on job hunting for International Students which would have been useful if I had not already done my homework before coming to Bath. I am unusual to have done this as most of my friends on my course haven’t. There are only a selection of employers that you can apply to but still you should only apply to companies that really interest you, you can’t apply to them all. Also I had a mock interview and I attended a mock assessment centre both run by the Careers Service. These gave me a really good idea what to expect when I came to the real thing. I would recommend postgraduate students to use the Careers Service. I see students reluctant to get help when they get stuck on putting their CV together or answering application or interview questions but getting help is one of the easiest things to do. You may have to get up early to make the appointment when they are busy but why not make the best of it? Fifteen minutes is a good amount of time as you can come in with the thing that is most troubling you and get an answer which is personal to you. HERE FOR A YEAR: MASTERS STUDENTS WITH RECRUITMENT DEADLINES BEGINNING SHORTLY AFTER YOU ARRIVE, YOU’LL NEED TO FOCUS ON YOUR CAREER FROM DAY ONE.
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    APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS Six steps youcan take to ace competency questions: Think about yourself – your key skills and personal qualities that are relevant to the job. Look at some example forms and get to know the common questions. Assemble a portfolio of example situations, which you can draw on for your answers. Do a draft of a couple of questions using the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result). See also page 32. Get some feedback from a Careers Adviser. Check it, check it, and check it! 1 2 3 4 5 6
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 31 APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS APPLICATIONS GOOD APPLICATIONS ARE ALL IN THE PREPARATION, WHETHER IT IS ANSWERING COMPETENCY QUESTIONS ON AN ONLINE FORM OR PUTTING TOGETHER YOUR CV. Sean’s story I thought: ‘How hard can this be?’ when I encountered my first psychometric test. I failed it so I practised until I understood how to pass. There are so many variables outside your control which can affect you making it through, like a recruiter having a bad day, so I didn’t want to rely on too few applications. It affects your morale to be rejected but if you have another application to move on to it gives you focus. I was glad I started some applications in the summer before my final year because my first semester was absolutely mad. I was attending careers events on campus, prepping for telephone interviews, keeping up with economics news and attending interviews all over the country. Getting through my academic work as well meant I regularly survived on only five hours’ sleep. I wouldn’t have been able to make as many applications if I had waited until I got back to uni. This experience changed my view of how much time I had in a day! Sean Howard, Sport and Exercise (2015) Gabriella’s story A key bit of advice that I would pass on is to try and make every job application count. I know many people who tried to play ‘the numbers game’ – sending off huge numbers of applications in the panic to find a job, receiving lots of rejections, getting demotivated, and sending out another large batch of applications – where the cycle starts again. Try not to get caught in this negative cycle! If you find yourself there already, try to take a step back, put more time into personalising and crafting each application and you will soon see more positive results. Gabriella Sherry, Psychology (2014) Application forms Large graduate recruiters are likely to ask you to complete their own form, usually online. They are looking for someone who matches their requirements, which are usually stated on their website. Putting yourself in the employer’s shoes will ensure you target your application appropriately. Application form questions are designed to draw out relevant evidence from your experience by asking you to describe situations where you have displayed the required skills. A typical competency based question might be: ‘From your personal, work or academic experience, please give an example of a challenge that you have set yourself and describe how you have gone about achieving it.’ Application form questions are not just about relevant skills. You also need to demonstrate your interest in and motivation for the job role and the company. Don’t just quote the company’s website. Focus on why you feel that this organisation is the right one for you. You may have to write about a business issue that is facing the company. All of the questions on the form are designed to show you have a good understanding of the job you are applying for and the company. So it is essential you have done your research. Read the article on employer research on page 20 for advice on resources you can use. CVs and covering letters Unless the employer has its own application form, you can expect to send your CV with a covering letter (although some employers ask for a CV to accompany an application form). CVs are also used for applications for courses and funding. Have a CV that can be modified for each application that you make. Employers receive large numbers of CVs for each job and so make sure yours stands out from the rest. Focus on the key skills and experience you know are relevant to the job you are applying for. Follow the advice in our CV Guide, available online or in hard copy, and then get some feedback from a Careers Adviser. The key points to remember when preparing your CV are: • Research the company website but not just the careers section. Look at the products, services, new ventures and PR sections as well. • Analyse the job and highlight exact candidate requirements. • Use your experience to show where you have developed relevant skills. • Use the right style of language (positive action verbs help). • Tailor each CV and covering letter. • Get feedback on your CV. Covering letters While a CV tells a potential employer the facts about your education, work experience and extracurricular activities, the accompanying covering letter is the argument as to why they should employ you. Put simply, it needs to explain: • why you want the job • what skills and experience you have to offer • why you would be good at it • why you would like to work for that company. Write a new letter for every job you apply for; just substituting one company name for another will not do. It’s not hard to get it right but it does take time. CV and application guide Pick up this Guide, which is packed full of useful advice about writing an effective CV and covering letter. This book will help you: • target your CV for a job • structure a persuasive covering letter • fill out an application form • understand what employers are looking for. Resources • Follow the advice in our CV and application guide at: www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/succeed-in-selection. • Consult our online catalogue if you are looking for more information: www.bath.ac.uk/students/careers/ information-resources/catalogue. It contains lots of useful books, weblinks and downloadable leaflets. • Check MyFuture for relevant workshops: myfuture.bath.ac.uk.
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    APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS bath.ac.uk/careers32BATH CAREERS SERVICE GUIDE 2017 W ell done! You’ve got the employer’s attention with your well crafted application and even successfully completing psychometric tests, so now they want to meet you. Don’t worry if you are nervous – it’s natural – but there are ways you can help yourself by doing the right preparation. Here are a few hints and tips to get you started. We have much more help and advice on our website and in our blog: http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/careers/. Be knowledgeable The first thing to remember is that the employer likes the look of you in words, so now you need to make sure you match up to that person they have read about. It’s time to swot up on the company. If this is your first interview and you’ve not much time, then think about your basic knowledge. Focus on the employer’s clients/customers, services/products, a few facts and figures, main competitors and developments in the sector. Check out ‘Get ahead with employer research’ on page 20. Don’t forget to find out about the job role too. Be sure you know what you will be doing day to day. Be prepared Most employers ask questions that enable you to show the competencies or skills they are looking for by getting you to describe a particular situation you have been in. Check out our resources such as our Interviews and Assessment Centres Guide. Practise answering typical questions using the STAR technique to structure your answer: Situation, Task, Action and Result. If you need some feedback on your technique then talk to a Careers Adviser. Be smart and be punctual A certain proportion of interview success is about the way you look and act. You won’t ace an interview by simply looking the part but you could spoil a good interview performance with poor personal presentation or punctuality. Plan what you are going to wear, and aim to be A QUICK GUIDE TO INTERVIEWS FIND OUT THE BEST WAY TO PREPARE AND BEAT YOUR NERVES. smart even if the work culture is not usually so. Work on your handshake, if meeting face to face, and how you will sit, think about your eye contact, and smile. For telephone, video or Skype think about your surroundings and avoid disturbances. Be confident There is no doubt that practice does make perfect. The more preparation you do, the less likely you are to be taken by surprise and therefore the more confident you will appear. Interviews are not meant to be traps. An employer wants you to do well because they already like you. All you have to do is know what is expected of you. That way you will confirm that the employer made the right choice in inviting you to meet them. Hold your nerve in interviews. When it came down to the final two people going for the job, my employers deliberately pushed me and the other candidate to areas that we knew nothing about to see if we could cope under pressure. I literally got the job because I was comfortable saying that I did not know the correct answer, leaving me feeling relaxed enough to have a reasonable discussion about something I knew absolutely nothing about! Gabriella Sherry, Psychology (2014) Sean’s story I have been for a lot of interviews with finance companies and I was up against a lot of people who from year one have been building their work experience. I wish I had known at that stage that it mattered so much. Although I haven’t done a lot of extracurricular activities I think I have been able to draw on my international background. Businesses are global and they look for people who have the adaptability to fit in to their offices wherever in the world that might be. I used the Bath Connection to find alumni contacts and I had really useful discussions with people in preparation for interviews with companies. I didn’t find this information very useful at the application stage but when I went for interviews, especially at the final round, the inside knowledge I gained from the alumni was invaluable in differentiating me from other candidates who may have only looked at the company website. Networking is very important. I’m using LinkedIn as well. Everyone I’ve networked with so far has encouraged me to keep in touch. Personally I found telephone interviews much harder even than assessment centres. I failed quite a few before I got the hang of them. They ask you competency questions, which you can prepare for but you need to be able to talk without notes to be convincing, so getting lots of practice helps. But you do need the pressure of the real thing to learn how to get it right. Sean Howard, Sport and Exercise (2015)
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    bath.ac.uk/careers BATH CAREERSSERVICE GUIDE 2017 33 APPLICATIONS AND INTERVIEWS employers were looking for, not just what you needed to do. Also I produced a four- page crib-sheet to read on the train.’ Maths and Physics student Marcin Mazur says: ‘I had to prepare a ten-minute presentation about why I was right for Rolls-Royce. It was very hard to talk about myself. I saw a Careers Adviser and she helped me to think about how to structure it and what examples I might draw on. Once I’d got my ideas together I started practising it with a stopwatch to memorise the main points and then got some feedback from my flatmates. The Careers Adviser also listened to it and she gave me some suggestions. I was successful in getting my summer internship and have since had an offer for their graduate scheme.’ Mathematics Sciences student Anisha Patel, applying for a placement, recalls: ‘I attended the assessment centre workshop because this gave me a feel for what it might be like. I found you don’t have enough time to absorb all the information you are given to read. I think people who get to assessment centres are all very good, so it is hard to come up with better ideas than the rest and have your say. I was surprised by how I had to sell my ideas to others. I thought it would be a more friendly discussion. Remember to wear a watch because you can get ahead if you are on top of time for your individual activity as well as group activities. The feedback I got later was really helpful – make sure you ask for it.’ E mployers use a variety of methods to select the best graduates at assessment centres. An assessment centre might include any of the following: • psychometric testing or retesting • interviews • presentations • group exercises • role play • in-tray exercises • personality questionnaires • social events. Watch the streamed DVDs on our website and attend our assessment centre workshop to learn more about these different assessment activities. With psychometric tests you will need to practise regardless of how good you are at maths. We subscribe to two free test services, which you can use to practise and we have linked other web resources in the catalogue on our website. Bath students’ experiences Here’s what some of our students have reported about their experiences at assessment centres. Chemistry graduate Chloe Evans says: ‘I went to the Careers Centre to get some help with an assessment centre, having failed one: the feedback said I was average for most things. I needed to be much better than just ‘average’ for the next one. I watched the streamed DVD on the Careers website about assessment centres, which was really helpful. It showed what ASSESSMENT CENTRES THE FINAL INTERVIEW HURDLE. WHAT TO EXPECT AND HOW TO PREPARE. Resources • Watch the streamed DVDs on our website to help prepare for an interview or assessment centre: www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/information- resources/catalogue/skills. • Experience group exercises by attending an Assessment Centre workshop. • Check out the Events Programme for interview workshops and mock interviews. • Book a session with a Careers Adviser to get feedback on your answers to typical interview questions. • Use Interview Stream to practise for video interviews where the employer asks you to submit a recording of your answers to their questions: check the website. • Consult our online catalogue for more information – useful books, weblinks and downloadable leaflets: www.bath.ac.uk/students/ careers/information-resources/ catalogue/skills. Be proud to be from Bath – it is natural to feel fazed by the calibre of other candidates you might encounter at the assessment centre, but I can honestly say that they are more likely to be fazed by you! Bath graduates are held in high esteem and Bath really does give you an edge in the job market – people are always impressed when I tell them where I come from! Gabriella Sherry, Psychology (2014)
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    We finance, designand build the structures that underpin our daily lives. We need exceptional people to deliver our iconic projects – we think that could be you. Our Technical and Business Graduate Schemes develop your expertise to the highest level. You will receive in-depth training, recognised qualifications and structured support to build your future career. Together we will: • enhance your practical skills. Our Technical Scheme offers experience in Construction Management, Engineering, Quantity Surveying, Health and Safety and many other fields. • keep the company running smoothly. Our Business Scheme includes HR, IT, Finance, Business Management, General Management and more. Meet our current graduates at www.balfourbeatty.com/meetourpeople. Experts wanted Balfour Beatty is looking for the next generation of infrastructure experts To view our current roles and apply, visit: www.balfourbeatty.com/careers If you have any questions, email us: emergingtalent@balfourbeatty.com
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    bath.ac.uk/careers THE UNIVERSITYOF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 37 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS AN IT CONSULTANCY FOR PEOPLEWHOTHINK. CHP employs graduates and professionals from many disciplines.You will be curious, have a logical mind, and be confident, ambitious and ready for a challenge.   We are established in the UK, US, Asia-Pacific and throughout Europe.You will be based in our London City office and go on to work in a variety of roles on projects with some of the world’s leading leasing and asset finance companies.   We will train you so you can work on any part of our business change projects, building and implementing our industry-leading software.   You will have an outstanding academic background including a 2:1 degree or better and a minimum of 320 UCAS points. Starting salary is £40k with excellent benefits. Find out more about opportunities with CHP Consulting at www.chp.co.uk/careers. HOW MANYdots should there be on the last domino? Bank of Ireland UK Bow Bells House, London WEB www.boigraduate.com MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS London, Bristol & Belfast AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) We’re serious about giving you the very best graduate programmes we can. After all, we’re looking for potential future leaders, so we want to make sure you’re engaged, challenged and always learning new things. We have two programmes for you to choose from – the first in Bank of Ireland UK, our consumer bank with a unique partnership business model, and the second in Corporate Banking UK. Both programmes offer roles with real responsibilities across our unique businesses. Our specifically designed rotational programmes give you an exceptional opportunity to grow personally and professionally, while developing the business skills needed for you to play an important role in the team. As you learn, your voice will be heard, your contribution will be real and you will make a real difference. GRADUATES SOUGHT Individuals who see things differently and collaborate brilliantly. Ambitious individuals who actively want to change things and make things better for our customers. We are looking for innovative, enthusiastic and proactive graduates with a 2:1 degree to join us and help us grow. STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE See website FORM OF APPLICATION Online VACATION WORK/COURSES AVAILABLE No GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Gillian Bray CHP Consulting Moor Place 1 Fore Street Avenue London EC2Y 9DT TEL 020 7588 1800 EMAIL gillian.bray@chp.co.uk WEB www.chp.co.uk/careers MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Based in London with operations in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Europe. AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) CHP Consulting helps asset finance companies improve their business performance by implementing our software - ALFA Systems - and applying our wide-ranging experience of the industry. Blue-chip clients such as Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and Toyota Financial Services have reaped the benefits of CHP’s finest assets: our people. You will begin your career either on a client site or based in the office and your first role will typically be software development. As you gain more knowledge of the business and technology, you will have increased responsibility in our business change implementation projects. We only recruit people who we think will get on with each other, so the atmosphere is friendly and inclusive. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline STARTING SALARY £40,000 PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Continuous FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 20–25 VACATION WORK/COURSES No GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs
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    bath.ac.uk/careers38 THE UNIVERSITYOF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS Ellen Millard Dialog Semiconductor WEB www.dialog-semiconductor.com MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Dialog Semiconductor has offices in Germany, UK, Austria, China, Greece, Japan, Hong Kong, Italy, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, the Netherlands, Turkey, and USA. AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) Dialog Semiconductor provides highly integrated standard and custom mixed- signal integrated circuits, optimised for smartphones, computing, IoT, LED solid state lighting and smart home applications. Dialog’s innovative power saving technologies deliver high efficiency and enhance the consumer’s user experience by extending battery lifetime and enabling faster charging of their portable devices. We passionately believe that working at Dialog you will be joining the brightest, most diverse and ambitious talent in the Semiconductor Industry. We are proud to have won numerous awards and designs, including exclusive patents and the opportunity for talent to progress at Dialog could not be greater. GRADUATES SOUGHT Predominately electrical and electronic engineering STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Continuous FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 25+ graduates globally VACATION WORK/COURSES Yes VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Dixon Wilson 22 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1LS TEL 020 7680 8100 EMAIL careers@dixonwilson.co.uk WEB www.dixonwilson.co.uk/careers MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS London and Paris AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) About Us Dixon Wilson is one of the leading accountancy firms in the UK, with offices in London and Paris. We specialise in the provision of tax, accountancy and advisory services to high net worth private clients, including their families, trusts and businesses, as well as companies, entrepreneurs and their businesses. We offer a personal, partner-led service. A high quality service is critical to both us and our clients and a number of our client relationships date back over 80 years and multiple generations. What you can expect We offer you a practical experience in audit, tax and accountancy in a 3 year fixed term contract. We allow you to gain exposure in these areas and to support you in you in achieving the ACA qualification. In addition, you will be given the opportunity to work with senior members of staff as well as getting a good level of responsibility early in your career. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline, but a good level of numeracy and strong interpersonal skills are key STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE End of December – Spring Intake and End of April – Autumn Intake FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE London 14, Paris 1-2 VACATION WORK/COURSES Paid summer vacation placement in the London office, to penultimate year University students FOR VACATION WORK APPLY BY End of March 2017 by sending CV and covering letter to careers@dixonwilson.co.uk VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Fidelity International WEB www.fidelityrecruitment.com SOCIAL MEDIA Facebook: www.facebook.com/FidelityGraduateRecruitment Twitter: @Fidelity_UK YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/FidelityUK MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS UK, Mainland Europe, Asia Pacific AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) A commitment to excellence and innovation Fidelity International offers world class investment solutions to clients that range from individuals and financial advisers to large institutions, governments, pension funds, banks and insurance companies. What we do matters. We help people provide for their future, through offering products, services and the information they need to make the right decisions. As a privately owned business, we’re proud to say that we’re driven by client success without distraction. Our reach covers the globe, with offices in 24 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific, India, the Middle East and Latin America. This gives us diversity of culture, background, experience and thought that helps us think differently, act innovatively and better meet our clients’ needs. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Annual FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 40 graduates & 40 interns VACATION WORK/COURSES Yes FOR VACATION WORK APPLY BY 2017 Internship Programmes: Saturday 31st December 2016. VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Frontline 65 Kingsway London WC2B 6TD EMAIL recruitment@thefrontline.org.uk WEB www.thefrontline.org.uk MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Greater Manchester, Greater London, North East and South East. AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) Frontline’s graduate programme is a unique opportunity for high-achieving individuals to join one of Britain’s toughest and most rewarding professions. Our children’s social work programme offers you intensive practical and academic training, coupled with leadership development opportunities designed to shape a new generation of social leaders. Throughout our two-year programme participants will work in a local authority in one of our regions to transform the lives of vulnerable children and families. The programme consists of an intensive five-week Summer Institute, one year ‘on-the-job’ training in a team of four and a second year as a qualified social worker with the opportunity to study for a Masters. If you’re passionate about leading change in society, apply to Frontline. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE August–November FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 300 VACATION WORK/COURSES No GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs
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    PROGRESSIVE MINDS APPLY hsbc.com/careers Tolay foundations for businesses to grow. To develop strong relationships. To help design world-class products and services. At HSBC, we’re looking for perceptive, driven and forward- thinking people to join our Global Student and Graduate Programmes to help our customers realise their hopes, dreams and ambitions. To start with a simple idea then turn it into reality. Along the way, you’ll work collaboratively, developing the essential skills needed to achieve your own career goals. Are you ready to design a better future? ARCHITECTS REQUIRED HSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment.
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    Every day, wedesign, manufacture, engineer and build iconic buildings and complex infrastructure projects that go on to be used by millions of people. We’re challenging the industry with innovative design and delivery techniques. We’re changing the way we work, using the very latest digital tools and techniques. And we’re always looking to create structures that will help build a better future for everyone. We are the employer for graduates looking to work on iconic projects and industry-leading innovations within a hugely talented team. WWW.LAINGOROURKE.COM/CAREERS INNOVATIVE INSPIRING ICONIC EARLY TALENT PROGRAMMES
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    bath.ac.uk/careers THE UNIVERSITYOF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 41 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 7th Floor, Holborn Gate, 326-330 High Holborn, London, WC1V 7PP TEL 020 7632 2137 EMAIL careers@actuaries.org.uk WEB actuaries.org.uk/become-actuary SOCIAL MEDIA @actuarystudent, facebook.com/Actuarial, youtube.com/user/actuarialprofession Actuaries are problem solvers and strategic thinkers with a deep understanding of financial systems. Actuaries analyse data, evaluate financial risks and communicate this to non-specialists. Actuaries come from many different academic backgrounds, not all have a maths degree, though they all share a love of maths. The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) is the UK’s only chartered professional body dedicated to educating, developing and regulating actuaries in the UK and overseas. Actuaries usually have a degree in a numerate subject. On graduating student actuaries work at some of the worlds top financial firms and train on the job. At the same time, the IFoA provide exams students need to pass to qualify as an actuary. Actuaries use their skills to help measure the probability and risk of future events. All business is subject to risks so an actuarial career offers many employment opportunities. Including banking, insurance, healthcare, pensions, investment but also non-financial areas. An actuarial career can be one of the most diverse, exciting and rewarding in the world. Graduate salaries start at £33,000, once qualified you can expect to earn from £55,000 to over £150,000. IFoA members are part of a globally recognised profession and have internationally-recognised qualifications meaning you could work anywhere in the world. Discover more about becoming an actuary and who employ actuaries at www.actuaries.org.uk/become-actuary targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Johnson Matthey Orchard Road, Royston Herts SG8 5HE WEB www.matthey.com/careers SOCIAL MEDIA @Johnson_Matthey MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Across the UK; including Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Teesside. International opportunities also available. AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) Johnson Matthey is a leader in sustainable technologies. Many of the group’s products enhance the quality of life of millions through their beneficial impact on the environment, human health and wellbeing. We focus on clean air, clean energy and low carbon technologies and are experts in the application and recycling of precious metals. Johnson Matthey has operations in over 30 countries and employs around 12,000 people. Our products and services are sold across the world to a wide range of advanced technology industries. We recruit graduates into a wide variety of job functions including Research and Technology, Development and Production, Sales and Marketing, Finance, IT and HR. Our graduates say “From day one... it was both fun and challenging to learn new skills and apply them to real world problems” GRADUATES SOUGHT Science and Engineering STARTING SALARY Competitive package and benefits PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Continuous FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 80 VACATION WORK/COURSES yes VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Graduate Recruitment Coordinator LCP 95 Wigmore Street London W1U 1DQ TEL 020 7432 2266 EMAIL graduatecareers@lcp.uk.com WEB www.lcp.uk.com/careers/graduate-opportunities MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS London and Winchester AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) We offer a full range of actuarial and consulting services to a wide range of clients in the UK and internationally, including FTSE 100 companies. We specialise in providing our clients with practical, bespoke and robust solutions, covering corporate pensions, strategic investment advice, general insurance consulting and specialist financial services including risk appraisal and business modelling. One of the great benefits of working for LCP is the variety of projects you’ll be working on and the range of tasks involved in completing them. For example,you could be helping with pension scheme valuations, monitoring investment manager performance or estimating the financial impact of a hurricane on an insurance company. You could be building a spreadsheet model, using innovative software developed in house, drafting letters to clients or writing reports. There are also plenty of opportunities for client contact, right from the start of your career. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Annual FORM OF APPLICATION Online application form APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE Around 30 VACATION WORK/COURSES Yes VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Gemma Porter Oliver Wyman 55 Baker Street London W1U 8EW TEL 020 7852 7677 EMAIL recruiting.uk@oliverwyman.com WEB www.oliverwyman.com/careers MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS London and other locations across the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) Oliver Wyman is a global leader in management consulting. With offices in 50+ cities across 26 countries, Oliver Wyman combines deep industry knowledge with specialised expertise in strategy, operations, risk management, and organisation transformation. Our 3,000 professionals help clients optimise their business, improve their operations and risk profile, and accelerate their organisational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Our challenging Consultant position offers exceptional career growth and opportunity to motivated and hardworking graduates. We do not require a specific academic major or industry experience. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline STARTING SALARY Highly competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE 26 October 2016 FORM OF APPLICATION CV and covering letter online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE No fixed quota VACATION WORK/COURSES Yes FOR VACATION WORK APPLY BY 5 January 2017 VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs
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    bath.ac.uk/careers42 THE UNIVERSITYOF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS Sandrine Strickler, Strategic Resourcing & Talent Specialist Swiss Re Management Ltd Mythenquai 50/60, 8022 Zurich, Switzerland TEL +41 (0)43 285 48 34 EMAIL graduates@swissre.com WEB www.swissre.com/careers SOCIAL MEDIA Linkedin, Twitter, Youtube MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, Swiss Re serves clients through a network of over 60 offices worldwide. AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) About Swiss Re Founded in 1863, Swiss Re Group is one of the world’s leading wholesale providers of reinsurance, insurance and other innovative forms of insurance-based risk transfer. Our business at Swiss Re is about understanding and analysing the major risks that concern the world − from natural catastrophes to climate change, from ageing populations to cybercrime. We combine experience with expertise and innovative thinking to create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. And we enable the risk-taking essential to enterprise and progress. This is possible with around 11,500 truly exceptional Swiss Re people across our group worldwide. Our goal is to attract talented people from a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds and offer them a place to succeed. As a knowledge-based company, we consider four areas to be particularly important for this: we foster diversity and inclusion; we provide excellent development and training opportunities; we work to maintain favorable employee relations; and we offer competitive compensation and benefits. GRADUATES SOUGHT All backgrounds STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Annual FORM OF APPLICATION Online application, interview, assessment day APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 50 worldwide VACATION WORK/COURSES Yes VSGS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs Teach First 6 Mitre Passage, London, SE10 0ER EMAIL faq@teachfirst.org.uk WEB teachfirst.org.uk/recruitment MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS East of England, East Midlands, Greater London, North East, North West, South Coast, South East, South West, West Midlands, Yorkshire, Wales AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) We believe that inspirational teaching and leadership are vital to helping every child succeed, regardless of their background. We support exceptional people like you to become influential leaders through our Leadership Development Programme (LDP) in schools across England and Wales. Informed by 14 years of development, our world-class programme combines global best practice in leadership development and teacher training. During the programme you’ll gain a fully-funded Postgraduate Diploma, worth double the credits of a PGCE, to become a qualified teacher. Covering both education and leadership, you’ll then have the option to top the qualification up to a Master’s degree. You’ll also acquire the key skills and personal qualities needed to develop you into an effective leader - someone who can make a real impact. If you can inspire in the classroom, you can bring resilience, efficiency and imagination to any environment, no matter where your career takes you. GRADUATES SOUGHT 2.1 degree or above and 300 UCAS points (or equivalent, excluding General Studies) required, in a degree or A-levels that satisfy our teaching subject requirements. STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Year-round applications, early submission recommended as subjects close as they are filled. FORM OF APPLICATION Online APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 1,750 VACATION WORK/COURSES Alongside our LDP we offer a number of undergraduate opportunities including our Insight Programme - two weeks of paid work experience for STEM students that provide the opportunity to find out what the LDP is really like. GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) Ltd TPP House, 129 Low Lane, Horsforth, Leeds, LS18 5PX TEL 0113 2050082 EMAIL careers@tpp-uk.com WEB www.tpp-uk.com/careers MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS Horsforth, Leeds AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) TPP is a leading IT company, dedicated to delivering innovative healthcare software through our four products: SystmOne, SystmOnline, SystmInsight and SystmConnect. We are known for our outstanding achievements across the NHS, with over 5,000 organisations across the country using SystmOne. These include GP practices, hospitals, mental health trusts, and social care services. TPP has been consistently recognised as an outstanding graduate employer. In 2014 and 2015 we placed first in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies To Work For. Most recently, we were named ‘Top Company For Graduates To Work For’ 2016/17 by The JobCrowd. Based in Leeds, TPP is rapidly expanding with graduate opportunities available in the Account Manager, Graduate Analyst, Marketing and Communications, Software Developer and Technical Operations teams. With thousands of people using our products every day, you’ll really feel the value of your work. We value natural ability, enthusiasm and the willingness to learn over direct work experience, so no prior experience is needed. We want you to develop both personally and professionally, so we provide a supportive environment and give you plenty of opportunities to add to your skills and enhance your career. GRADUATES SOUGHT Minimum 2:2 degree, BBB at A Level (Minimum grades are dependent on the role) STARTING SALARY £28,000–£36,000 (dependent on the role) PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Continuous FORM OF APPLICATION Send CV and covering letter to careers@tpp-uk.com or apply directly at www.tpp-uk.com/careers APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 50+ GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs UHY Hacker Young Quadrant House 4 Thomas More Square London E1W 1YW TEL 020 7216 4600 WEB www.uhy-earlycareers.com MAIN LOCATIONS OR REGIONS London, Birmingham, Brighton, Letchworth, Manchester, Newport, Nottingham, Sheffield, Sunderland, Scotland (with Campbell Dallas) AREAS OF ACTIVITY & JOB FUNCTION(S) We offer all of the services you would expect from a firm of our size and a few you might not expect: • audit, accounting, payroll and bookkeeping; • corporation and personal tax; • corporate finance services such as strategic business advice, advice on selling business, raising finance, public listings – in particular AIM support services, and mergers & acquisitions; • advice on family matters, including Inheritance Tax, trusts and other tax planning; • specialist services such as VAT, corporate restructuring and recovery, international tax planning, tax investigations and litigation support; and • company secretarial services. GRADUATES SOUGHT Any discipline with a 2:1 STARTING SALARY Competitive PATTERN OF RECRUITMENT/CLOSING DATE Annual FORM OF APPLICATION Online - www.uhy-earlycareers.com APPROX ANNUAL INTAKE 35 VACATION WORK/COURSES No GS targetjobs.co.uk/employer-hubs
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    bath.ac.uk/careers44 THE UNIVERSITYOF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS Consultants–propertyConsultants–recruitment Consultants–economics Consultants–computer/IT Consultants–actuarial Computing&IT Builtenvironment–quantitysurveying Builtenvironment–construction/builtenvironment Builtenvironment–civilengineering Companyname Profile Advertisement – 37 Bank of Ireland www.boigraduate.com SECTOR 37 37 CHP Consulting www.chp.co.uk/careers • • – 38 Dialog Semiconductor www.dialog-semiconductor.com – 38 Dixon Wilson www.dixonwilson.co.uk/careers – 38 Fidelity International www.fidelityrecruitment.com – 38 Frontline www.thefrontline.org.uk – 41 Johnson Matthey www.matthey.com/careers – 41 LCP www.lcp.uk.com/careers/graduate-opportunities • – 41 Oliver Wyman www.oliverwyman.com/careers – 42 Swiss Re Management Ltd www.swissre.com/careers • OBC 42 Teach First teachfirst.org.uk/recruitment IFC 42 TPP (The Phoenix Partnership) Ltd www.tpp-uk.com/careers • • – 42 UHY Hacker Young www.uhy-earlycareers.com OTHER ADVERTISERS PROFESSIONAL BODIES: Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, page 41. COURSE PROVIDERS: PGI, page 46 (48); Bath Spa University, page 46; University of Oxford, page 47; Le Cordon Bleu London, page 47. EMPLOYERS: BAE Systems, IBC; Balfour Beatty, page 36; HSBC, page 39; Laing O’Rourke, page 40. IFC = inside front cover; IBC = inside back cover; OBC = outside back cover. JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS
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    bath.ac.uk/careers46 THE UNIVERSITYOF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS creative. a teacher. Achieve more with our postgraduate degrees Not all postgraduate degrees are created equal. Study for yours at Bath Spa University and give yourself a head start in the creative industries. Get more from your future. Visit bathspa.ac.uk/more innovation creativity discovery cutting edge inspired challenge coll opportunity iconic Pride revealing creative passion influential expre nventive inspiring global insight chance pride collaboration creativ passion verve expression spark insight global connections spark ins hallenge collaboration creativity opportunity sensibility passion ico MORE COLLABORATION CREATIVITY OPPORTUNITY pportunity spark iconic influential passion expression creative cutting iconic influential expression cr obal spark verve revealing spark verve revealing passion globinventive chance passion expression global creative nge inspiring spark innovation global opportunity passion opportuni global creative opportunit different thinking PGI Cascades 1, 1190 Park Avenue, Aztec West, Bristol, BS32 4FP TEL 020 7887 2699 EMAIL clientservices@pgitl.com WEB www.pgicyberacademy.com COURSE OUTLINE PGI’s Cyber Academy offers the highest level of cyber security training for business and government professionals, delivering a one-stop training environment to combat the growing cyber threat for all industry sectors. PGI has developed advanced cyber training programmes including our QSTM and ODF courses and leads the UK market in immersive training methodologies. Our tailored range of courses are aimed specifically at those organisations and individuals who work to protect company assets from the growing threat of cybercrime. PGI’s cyber security division is one of a select number of companies to have met the highly stringent criteria for accreditation with the internationally respected Council of Registered Ethical Security Testers (CREST). All our core cyber staff are trained and accredited to the highest standard and are drawn from a variety of corporate and UK government backgrounds and experience. CAREER PROSPECTS There are a number of reasons why information security professionals should consider completing a course at the PGI Cyber Academy. It allows them to validate their capability and experience and perhaps more importantly, differentiate themselves from other industry professionals. In addition to this, multiple surveys have also highlighted the financial benefits of achieving extra certifications. QUALIFICATION GAINED All our courses are aligned with and geared to national standards and accreditations such as CREST and TIGERSCHEME. OTHER INFORMATION Our trainers come from highly qualified backgrounds who are experts in their fields and who combine their training and teaching with operational work so their skills are always as up to date as possible. COURSE PROVIDERS
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    bath.ac.uk/careers THE UNIVERSITYOF BATH CAREERS GUIDE 2017 47 JOBS AND COURSE PROVIDERS Leading Culinary Arts, Wine and Management School cordonbleu.edu/london Your future in hospitality With over 120 years of teaching experience, Le Cordon Bleu has grown to be the leading authority in culinary and hospitality education, offering world-renowned programmes in cuisine, pâtisserie, wine, nutrition and management. Gain the skills and inspiration you need from working alongside our Master Chefs and expert lecturers in order to fulfil your passions, build your career or turn your hobby into a new business venture.
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