Today’s piece features some nice words about us from Samer Hammoud, who’s studying a BSC Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry. He wrote a piece on the NMS blog last month detailing how using the services provided by Careers & Employability, completing the King’s Leadership and Professional Skills Award (KLPSA) and discussions with lecturers and… More Testimony from a Chemistry student
Sam is a King’s graduate who works for the Civil Service Fast Stream. Upon applying to the fast stream, he was living in Japan and knew that he wanted to work in public service, and the fast stream seemed like a decent way to do it! Sam applied, got in and is now in his… More My First Steps: Sam Bardwell, Civil Service Graduate Recruit
It’s the big day: you’ve received an email notifying you that your module results and final degree classification has been posted on Student Records. You’ve anxiously waited for the page to open, and there it is: your final university results. So, what now? Receiving your final university results can be overwhelming. After years of studying… More I’ve received my degree classification result… now what?
After all the hard work, opening your results to find out you’ve got a 2:2 (or “a Desmond”, after King’s most famous son) can be a dispiriting moment. Part of that disappointment can come from the assumption that it will also have dire knock on effects for your career, but in reality there’s no reason… More What to do if You’ve Graduated With a 2:2
Up first in our new series Melissa Larkin, who is King’s Internships Assistant here at Careers & Employability, shares her views on being a recent graduate looking for a “real” job in a new country. Want to find out more about what we’re hoping to achieve with this series? Read Seyran’s introductory blog post here.… More My First Steps: Melissa Larkin, Internships Assistant, King’s Careers & Employability
By Seyran Khalili, Postgraduate Student in Psychosis Studies and Marketing Assistant at King’s Careers & Employability. I’m happy to announce that our new blog series “My first steps” launches next week! You’ll get a sneak peek into my interviews with King’s Careers & Employability staff and recent graduates – they’ll be sharing their careers stories… More Introducing the “My First Steps” Series
This terms competition round-up! Are you looking for some exciting competitions to apply to that would complement your studies and win you some prizes? Want to boast about your skills and let that successful glow shine all over the room and across the way? We’ve picked up details of some great prizes to apply for… More It’s time for a competition round-up!
We’re always recommending students join societies – it’s a great way of developing many skills useful in the working world, from leadership to working as a team, and we’ve heard from a range of employers that taking an active role in a student society is something they always look on very keenly in an application.… More Life as a Student Societies President: The Insider
Our second write up this week from the Global Careers Series comes from the event on working in the Middle East. If you missed the first post in our series, on working in South East Asia, no fear! You can find it right here. But here’s Melissa again with more…. We heard from an all-female panel… More Working in the Middle East
The Global Careers Series was created to give you an insight into working in different regions of the world, whether it’s through our Global Internships Programme, or independently. It’s great that we’ve got our Internships Assistant, Melissa Larkin, on the blog today, with write ups of two of the events from the Series earlier on… More Working in South East Asia