News:
Civil Service Fast Stream – Applications opens in September 2015:
You could work in areas including education, the economy, foreign affairs, defence policy, health, the environment and many more whilst getting a starting salary between £25,000 and £27,000 a year.
For more information go to the Fast Stream website
Annual Postgraduate Research Festival – University of Kent:
We look forward to welcoming all postgraduate students (taught and research) and academic staff to the Festival which is taking place in Grimond on Monday 22nd June from 9am – 5:45pm.
Full information about the programme and how to register is available on our website
MA funding – SSPSSR:
Just graduated? Interested in PG study and in need of funding?
Our School provides additional scholarships and bursaries for certain students and degree options.
For further details, please visit our website
If you are interested or have some questions, please contact Kalli Glezakou at the PG Office at sspssr-pg-admin@kent.ac.uk
We are also delighted to announce the availability of 177 bursaries of £10,000 each for eligible students commencing a taught Master’s degree programme in 2015. For full details and eligibility criteria, please see the University’s funding pages [6].
Vacancies:
Researcher – SSPSSR:
Recently completed PG student wanted, with good skills in SPSS or R, to do some short-term research work on the use of drugs and alcohol by students in England. This work is to inform the development of the University of Kent’s drug and alcohol policy.
The work will involve extracting data from published sources and secondary analysis of survey data.
It will be a few weeks work over this summer, paid at the hourly paid researcher rate (£16.77 per hour).
Please email R.Gwynne@kent.ac.uk with your CV and cover letter by Friday 19 June 2015.
Hospital Carer Support Workers – Carers’ Support:
Salary £19,037 p/a
37.5 hrs per week
6mth Initial Contract (with possibility to extend)
Carers’ Support – Canterbury, Dover & Thanet provide support to Carers who provide unpaid
help and support to a relative, friend or neighbour, who otherwise could not manage due to frailty,
physical or mental illness, addiction or disability.
The successful applicants will be confident, self-motivated and have excellent communication
skills. They will be required to develop strong relationships within health teams and identify
Carers on site. They will provide information to Carers about the support available to them and
work with other professionals on site such as care navigators to deliver holistic support to Carers
and the person they care for.
A full driving license and your own transport are essential.
For an application pack, please email: Admin@carers-doverdistrict.org
CV’s will not be considered
Closing date for returned applications: Wednesday 17th June 2015 5pm
Interviews will be held on Monday 22nd June 2015
If you have not heard from us by Thursday 18th June 2015 please assume you have not been successful.
Where to look and how to prepare for graduate jobs and internships:
TARGETjobs – Careers Report
A career planning tool that will help you get started on your job hunt.
You’ll work through some simple, interactive questionnaires that assess your career strengths, personality and abilities and, based on your responses, you’ll get a list of jobs that may suit you.
Login to their website for more details.
Pospects – Choosing a career
Choosing a career is the most important part of any job search. Prospects have approximately 400 job profiles which you can use to help you make an informed career choice and gain a better understanding of what’s involved in a wide range of jobs.
Careers and Employability Service – What do employers want?
Employers are looking to recruit graduates with a broad range of experience, and the ability to demonstrate the wide range of skills that they have developed through academic study, work experience, and extra-curricular activities.
There is no definitive list of the skills that every employer will want you to possess, but you can view the main employability skills that you should try to develop whilst at university on the CES webpages
EmployAbility – Opportunities for disabled and dyslexic students and graduates
EmployAbility run an ever-expanding range of internships and graduate programmes for large international and UK employers.
See more on their website
Step – Paid student work placements and graduate internships:
The UK’s leading organiser of paid student work placements and graduate internships. Meeting the development needs of both business and graduates, they set the standard for quality in placements and internships.
For more details go to their website