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

An Aldi poster can inspire your career plans too, honestly…

Helen McGuire – student blogger

There is a poster I walk past almost everyday in the John Ryland’s Library, and every time I see it I’m filled with a sort of sense of impending doom about the future course of my adult life. It’s a poster advertising careers at the discount supermarket ‘Aldi’. In the corner of the poster of doom it states that a graduate can get a starting salary of £40,000 and a ‘fully expensed Audi A4’. This poster always gets me thinking about what I’d want out of a career. Would I really be happy in a 9 to 5 job, working for Aldi and driving around in my Audi A4? Or am I prepared to sacrifice financial success for a more fulfilling career?

As a second year student, I’m just starting to think about what I want to do with my life. I still have no fixed career

25th Nov Placement Fair and Career Development Day

Manchester Metropolitan University Business School are holding a Placement Fair & Career Development Day on Wednesday 25th November in partnership with Pro Manchester, a corporate membership organisation representing the 240,000 employed in the financial and professional service community in and around Greater Manchester.

The Fair is open to all students from MMU, Salford and The University of Manchester to attend. Open to students studying on any year of any course (undergraduate or postgraduate) but may be of particular interest to those interested in; Business, Marketing, Accounting, Finance, IT, Computing, Law, Media, Advertising and PR.

More details follow…

Prices increase, opportunities decrease – find a solution now!

Student blogger – Priya Thakrar

I remember when I hit the age of 16. I’d be in town every Saturday handing my CV out to every shop I could – especially the clothing retail ones in hope of some store discount! I ended up working in a petrol station. Although I’d moan about this at the time, I now realise that the experience I gained from assisting in simple commerce such as on the till or shop floor has been vital to progressing my employability skills. It’s not that I’ve become an

Jobs Seen on the Street – 29.10.09

Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to bring you Jobs Seen on the Street today.

In the meantime, don’t forget to check out the Careers Service website, the Jobs Mine and the Arndale Centre website.

Jobs Seen on the Street will be back next Thursday!