The blogs below are part of our events and blog advice campaign #MyNextSteps. These blogs, coinciding with each week’s event theme, are here to offer information, reassurance and guidance to students looking to manage your employability during the Covid-19 pandemic.
For this week’s #MyNextSteps career workshop, we are talking about resilience in your career (and life)! In this blog, Danny Wilkey, Senior Career Consultant at Kings Business School, shares some thoughts about building resilience.… More Thinking about Resilience: Are you Languishing or Flourishing? #MyNextSteps
For our #MyNextSteps session this week we are talking about new opportunities and career paths that are emerging during the Covid-19 crisis , as well as ways that you can refresh your career thinking. But when we talk about new opportunities, there are always choices. Today, Career Consultant Leslie Parsons asks, is it really better to have more choices, or is Less… More? (spoiler: less IS more in this case!).… More When Less is More – 5 Tips to Targeting your Job Search and Optimising Your Choices #MyNextSteps
If you’re thinking about life after university, then you’ll know there is a lot of complex feelings, like excitement, confusion, even some pressure. What steps can students of any year, as well as specifically finalists, do to get prepared for life after uni? Read on from career consultant Irrum Magre as part of our #MyNextSteps blog and workshop series.… More What do you want from life after University? Our 3 tips for developing clarity & building success #MyNextSteps
What are the essential knowledge, attributes, skills and experiences that can make a real difference in today’s changing working world? Read on advice and professional insights from Rebecca Hallam, our entrepreneurial freelance career consultant and today’s guest blogger. … More Creativity, Self-promotion, Resilience… What are the entrepreneurial skills and how can students develop them today #MyNextSteps
In this week’s #MyNextSteps blog, we talk about meaningful work experience. #MyNextSteps is our events and blog campaign, offering current King’s students and recent graduates relevant, reassuring and friendly advice to navigate the next steps of your career journey during Covid-19. … More 5 Ways to Find Meaningful Work Experience this Summer: Career Consultant Fiona shares top tips #MyNextSteps
In today’s #MyNextSteps blog, our Career Consultant Irrum Magre dives into the dreadful world of… networking! Or is it really that dreadful? Read on to find out how you can transform your thinking about networking, and start using conversations to learn about possible future paths and careers. Introduction I am actually quite resistant to the… More Networking demystified: Easy ideas to start building your network! #MyNextSteps
In our first #MyNextSteps blog we are talking about the ability… no, AGILITY to learn! You might be a fast learner, but are you good at unlearning or re-learning? Read on to discover what Career Consultant Leslie Parsons has to say about this essential workplace skill. #MyNextSteps is our event and blog series all about reassurance, getting students feeling confident about your next steps and addressing Covid-19 changes for industries and ways of working.… More How’s your Learning Agility? Career Consultant Leslie’s tips on developing an adaptive learning mindset #MyNextSteps
In this week’s #MyNextSteps blog post, Career Consultant Donald Lush discusses career identity. What’s the significance of thinking about your career identity when you’re a university student (or graduate) who is still figuring out their long term future?… More What’s your career identity? #MyNextSteps
In today’s blog, King’s student Ria talks about her experience as a virtual intern. Tune in to learn all about her journey to a virtual internship, what challenges and benefits she was faced with, and what tips Ria has in store for others considering to be a virtual intern this summer. … More What’s it like being a virtual intern? #MyNextSteps
For this week’s #MyNextSteps blog, we’re jumping into what’s happening in the wider job market. Are you hoping to develop your understanding of graduate recruitment in your industry? Here are our top 5 resources where you can find out ongoing and current information about the current job market. … More Keeping up with the current job market… with our top 5 resources! #MyNextSteps