Category: Our advice blogs

Application Season: How to keep track of your applications! 

May 25, 2023

Application season tends to throw students into a frenzy of applying for multiple roles and multiple companies, sending off cover letters after cover letters, completing psychometrics after psychometrics, and recording video interviews after video interviews. This year, I’ve seen friends who sent off the wrong cover letter, forgot to complete a psychometric before a deadline,… More Application Season: How to keep track of your applications! 

Global Placement Stories | How to Start a Placement Successfully

May 24, 2023

Katinka Singh is a student in Informatics at King’s College London. In this entry of Global Placement Stories, Katinka Singh gives advice on how to start a placement successfully! Starting a new job at any stage of your career can be a daunting experience – but maybe more so when it’s your first. The first… More Global Placement Stories | How to Start a Placement Successfully

Application advice: Top tips for a career in Sustainability

May 18, 2023

This post is written by Lindsay Parker, an Application Adviser and PhD candidate in the department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries. Here she outlines some tips and advice for students looking for a career in Sustainability. Routes into careers in sustainability are many and varied. A growing area, sustainability is increasingly vital across all sectors. A… More Application advice: Top tips for a career in Sustainability

Application advice: Identifying transferrable skills

May 9, 2023

This post is written by Lindsay Parker, an Application Adviser and PhD candidate in the department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries. Here she outlines some tips and advice for identifying transferrable skills to include in your CV.  A common concern when writing a CV, particularly at the start of your career or when exploring… More Application advice: Identifying transferrable skills

Application advice: Applying to Psychology Internships and Placements in the UK

May 2, 2023

This post is written by Natasha Lindsay, a 2nd year PhD student at the IOPPN Department of Psychology researching neurocognitive and behavioural development of infants with epilepsy. She has been an Application Adviser with Kings’s Careers and Employability since September 2022. Applying to psychology internships and placements in the UK can be a daunting task, but… More Application advice: Applying to Psychology Internships and Placements in the UK

Application season: Psychometric tests with GraduateFirst

March 22, 2023

Psychometric tests tend to be the first step in most job applications- whether it be for a spring week, summer internship, or graduate programme. They are designed to streamline the hiring process and screen a large pool of candidates through a standardized measure of skills, abilities, and personality traits. Depending on the role you’re applying for,… More Application season: Psychometric tests with GraduateFirst

KURF Experiences: Sarah Alshalhoub on Lego catheters

March 16, 2023

Sarah Alshalhoub is a current third year student pursuing a BSc in Biomedical Engineering. She worked as part of the King’s Undergraduate Research Fellowship (KURF) scheme with Dr. Kawal Rhode (Professor in Biomedical Engineering and the Head of Education at the School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences) where one of the projects she worked on… More KURF Experiences: Sarah Alshalhoub on Lego catheters

How to improve commercial awareness with: Financial Times

March 1, 2023

For a lot of students preparing for job interviews in the Finance sector, they’re often asked to demonstrate their passion and interest in that particular role, and their knowledge of the company itself. Interviews will also be asking technical questions, where they’re looking for candidates who are using relevant terminology as they talk about background… More How to improve commercial awareness with: Financial Times

Global Placement Stories | Alexia Ambrus at Bank of America as a Scala Developer

February 27, 2023

Alexia Ambrus is a current Computer Science student at King’s College London. In this entry of Global Placement Stories, Alexia Ambrus talks about what she does on placement, and the lessons she’s gained from it. Why did you want to do a Placement? The main reason I wanted to do a placement year was to… More Global Placement Stories | Alexia Ambrus at Bank of America as a Scala Developer