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

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…

The Layman’s Guide to Careers

Tom Owen - Final Year BA Econ Student

Tom Owen – student blogger

It’s 3.28am. I should be fast asleep at this time but something terrifying is gripping my senses and the worry is stopping me sleeping. In 8 months, regardless of what I wish for, I should be making my way into the world of work, an entirely real and nerve-wracking prospect. It is often said the best way to deal with fear is to confront it. So, throughout this year, I’ll be teaming up with our award winning Careers Service to allow readers to track my journey through the final year of an BA Economics degree.

Want to use Facebook in your job? Consider a career in digital media

If you’re interested in a career in Media, PR or Marketing, you should really consider digital and online media. While the economic recession is having an impact on these already very competitive sectors, Digital Media seems to be bearing up well and even growing, particularly in Manchester and the North West. If you want to find out more, check out our Careers in Digital Media Panel event on 12 October 12.15-1.45pm and hear from our 3 great panellists:

• The BBC
• A digital PR firm
• An online education company

My Career in… Graphic Design

What do you do now?

I’m a Graphic artist and e-learning designer for a government agency.

What are you working on at the moment?

I design 2d and 3d illustration, video, photography, infographics, web and learning content for a variety of internal clients. Plus I train people in new project systems and software. 

So how did you get to this point in your career?

Graduate recruitment guides – now in stock

The new graduate recruitment publications for 2009/10 are starting to arrive.

Grab your copies from the Careers Resource Centre Now!

GET 2010  graduate recruitment directory – useful for finding out about some of the big graduate schemes, working out who recruits for your degree subject and checking on the deadlines.

Target sector publications – including City and Finance, IT, Management Consultancy and a variety of Engineering titles. Useful to help you find out more about diffferent industries.

Times Top 100 -  find out about top recruiters.

Coming soon :

Prospects Directory and Inside Careers Guides.

My career in… Veterinary Nursing

Holly works as a Veterinary Nurse in a small Animal Hospital. Her main responsibilities include assisting vets in theatre; animal aftercare; feeding and cleaning the animals under her care; administering anaesthetics; analysing fluid samples and running weight clinics.    

Finding the right employer – research organisations and their work culture before you apply

If you have an idea of what sort of job or broad career sector might be right for you and you’re job hunting (or will be starting in the next few months), you should also have a think about what organisation might be a good fit. For some reason, a lot of people don’t give this much thought, but where you work is as important as what you actually do. When people complain they’re unhappy in their jobs, the problem is sometimes more to do with the people they work with and the general culture of the organisation than it is about the day-to-day job itself.