{"id":1923,"date":"2020-01-22T12:37:09","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2020-01-22T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T12:38:11","slug":"top-tips-for-career-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2020\/01\/22\/top-tips-for-career-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tips for Career Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Career Planning Guide for Taught Postgraduates<\/h3>\n<p>If any of you are thinking, concerned about or are unsure about what your next steps should be, the Careers and Employability Service on campus has a really useful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/publications\/BT_129348_PG_Career%20Planning%20Guide_A5_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Career Planning Guide<\/a> that you will find helpful.<\/p>\n<h3>Careers and Employability Service Calendar of Events<\/h3>\n<p>You can also find a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/events\/CEScalendar.html?view_by=month&amp;tag=careers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">calendar of all of the Careers Events<\/a> on the Canterbury campus on their site.\u00a0 As well as the guide, there is a dedicated page of resources for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/student\/postgraduate.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Postgraduate Career Planning<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Optimise your LinkedIn Profile<\/h3>\n<p>Preparing a good LinkedIn profile is necessary. On the 27 January 2020, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/events\/CEScalendar.html?eid=43049&amp;view_by=month&amp;date=20200122&amp;category=&amp;tag=careers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">you can have a professional LinkedIn head-shot by Matt Cook Photography done for you<\/a>. It is recommended you attend in smart clothing and as this is being run as a drop-in session, make sure you allow time to wait if necessary.<\/p>\n<h3>Chat to a Careers Adviser<\/h3>\n<p>For postgraduates who feel that they need a detailed discussion with a Careers Adviser, please be aware that you can <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.kent.ac.uk\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book via Target Connect<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"kent-social-links\"><li><a href='http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2020\/01\/22\/top-tips-for-career-success\/&amp;t=Top Tips for Career Success' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-facebook' title='Share via Facebook'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Top Tips for Career Success%20https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2020\/01\/22\/top-tips-for-career-success\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-twitter' title='Share via Twitter'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2020\/01\/22\/top-tips-for-career-success\/' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-google-plus' title='Share via Google Plus'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='http:\/\/linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2020\/01\/22\/top-tips-for-career-success\/&amp;title=Top Tips for Career Success' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-linkedin' title='Share via Linked In'><\/i><\/a><\/li><li><a href='mailto:content=https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2020\/01\/22\/top-tips-for-career-success\/&amp;title=Top Tips for Career Success' target='_blank'><i class='ksocial-email' title='Share via Email'><\/i><\/a><\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Career Planning Guide for Taught Postgraduates If any of you are thinking, concerned about or are unsure about what your next steps should be, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/2020\/01\/22\/top-tips-for-career-success\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55956,"featured_media":1929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9658,37],"tags":[9658,209528,872,884,180792,789,143784,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1931,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/spskent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}