It’s not just what you study, it’s where you go!

It’s this time of the year when a lot of students start to think about some kind of further study. For many of you, deciding what to do is no mean feat but the decision about what to study is not the only one that is important, you also need to decide where you’ll go.

Jobs Seen on The Street 29.11.09

Part time jobs seen this week are:

Seen on Retail Choice website

• Out of hours colleague at PC World (Stockport)
• Sales Associates at GAP (various shifts)
• Part time Supervisor at New Look (Sale)

Seen on Reed employment agency website

• Retail positions – apply via Drum Resourcing (agency)

Seen on other websites

• Temporary Sales Advisor at O2 (city centre and Trafford Centre). Check the O2 website for details
• Part time Santa at the Trafford Centre
• Receptionist/Admin at Flawless photographic studio

My Career in… Traditional Chinese Acupuncture

Ian is a self-employed Traditional Chinese Acupuncturist and has set up his business in both Manchester and Bolton.  This is his story…

The hunt for a part-time job

Adam Coombs, student blogger

It finally hits you. Your student loan is not going to be enough to sustain your wild life of parties anymore. Well, maybe if you cut out food and decide that alcohol is more important than the rent, but most sane people would either cut back on going out or do what I’ve been doing for the past month or so. And that is to try and find a part-time job in recession-struck Britain.

Jobs Seen on The Street 12.11.09

Part time vacancies seen this week:

Seen on Retail Choice website

• Sales Assistants at Kurt Geiger (in Selfridges, city centre)
• Sales Associates at GAP
• Out of hours Merchandiser, PC World (Stockport)

Seen on Job Centre Plus website
(Enter job ref and click ‘GO’ for details)

• Retail Merchandising Assistant REF: FTS/134176
• Retail Merchandising Assistant at the Trafford Centre REF: STY/89659
• Sales Assistant at the Trafford Centre REF: STY/89614
• Waiting Staff at Little Casbah (Stockport) REF: SOO/45575
• Admin Assistant at M & W Freight (Sale) REF: ALU/67786
• Weekend Receptionist at Turner Hire Drive (Altrincham) REF: ALU/67797
• Events Waiting Staff at Ringways (Altrincham) REF: ALU/67805

Graduate scheme closing dates – 2009/10

Final year students I see here often ask how they can find out the closing dates for grad schemes starting next September.  The 500 full-time graduate vacancies (at the last count) on the Careers Service website are helpfully sorted by application deadline, but not all graduate scheme listings are so user friendly.  So my colleague Jenny, who also writes for this blog, has pored painstakingly through two of the main graduate recruitment directories – the GET Directory and the Prospects Directory – to produce a Calendar of Graduate Scheme Closing Dates for 2009/10.

Are you enterprising?

There might be some of you out there who are looking at all the different jobs available and are left thinking “I’d rather do something a bit different” or “I just can’t see myself working for someone else.” Or perhaps you’re just an innately enterprising kind of person and you want to find out how you can put your talents to best use.

If that sounds like you, next week from 16th to 22nd November is Global Enterprise Week and there are various different events and activities

Is teaching your back-up?

Anastasia Miari – student blogger

Teaching, for a lot of us, is a back up. If all else fails, then teach, right? If this is your mindset, maybe you should consider taking part in the Student Associates Scheme, as I did for three weeks this summer.

Along with a great number of students, before this summer I thought that teaching would be a brilliant fall back if my acting/ journalism/TV-producing career doesn’t exactly go to plan. Lets face it, the country’s not getting any richer and jobs aren’t exactly being handed out willy nilly. So, I decided that I’d see if teaching was actually for me.

The Student Associates Scheme is organised by The University of Manchester in

Where can I find a job NOW!

Semester one is the most popular time of the year for students and graduates looking to find a job.  Students are looking for part-time jobs and internships, final year students are looking for graduate jobs as are last years’ graduates.

It’s crazy busy and yet everyone thinks they are the only one in that situation. Take a look around you are competing with students at this university, MMU and Salford plus the graduates who have stayed on in Manchester, not to mention the local population. 

You need to have a plan and put the work in to find a job, its not easy and it takes time.

Because jobs don’t just fall out of trees here are a few pointers.

Jobs Seen on The Street 5.11.09

Apologies for not being able to bring you our usual post last week. Normal service now resumed! Part time jobs seen this week are:

Seen by our roving reporter Sarah M

• Zizzi are opening a new restaurant in Didsbury this month and are looking for staff. Email your CV to recruitment@zizzi.co.uk and more information on the opening at http://www.zizzi.co.uk/news/

Seen on Fish 4 Jobs website

• Retail Advisor at the Trafford Centre (apply via Adecco recruitment)
• Sales/Canvassers for a national newspaper (Altrincham)

Seen on  Reed employment agency website

• Camera Demonstrators at Gekko