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Careers and Employability
Careers and Employability Service
Career Choices for Graduates in English
Careers Events in the School of English 2010/11
Opportunities to Develop your CV
Effects of the City Banking Crisis on Graduate Recruitment
Careers and Employability Service
The Careers and Employability Service offers an extensive range of careers oriented services, including CV writing sessions, interview advice, presentations by major employers and general career advice. Located in the Portland Building, University Park campus. they also offer an on-line enquiries service.
The Careers and Employability Service can help students who are applying for jobs, developing their CVs and invited to attend assessment centres as part of a recruitment process.
The Careers Advisor who looks after students in the School of English is Julie Callaghan.
School Careers Advisor
The Careers Advisor for the School of English is Dr Lucie Sutherland, who will be happy to meet students to talk through their plans. Please email to book an appointment.
Career Choices for Graduates in English
As with many Arts graduates, English graduates find themselves faced with a myriad of choices when it comes to selecting a career. Some will have a very clear idea from an early stage as to what employment path they wish to pursue, while others may take some years to find the role that is right for them. No matter what your initial choice may be, you will find that the abilities that you have developed during your time at Nottingham will have equipped you well for the demanding and often highly changeable nature of the twenty-first century workplace.
Prospects - Graduate Careers Website
Milkround - a Graduate Recruitment Website
Latest Careers Statistics
The Careers and Employability Service has collated statistics about what our graduates are doing 6 months after graduation.
Careers Handbook
The School has developed its own Careers Handbook with advice and tips specific to English Studies students and graduates.
The University of Nottingham Careers Guide is now available on-line for all students.
The theme for the guide is employability with sections on
• Employability – with additional new content on enterprise and entrepreneurial skills
• Career choices
• The job market – with additional new content on using social media in the job hunting process
• Applying for jobs
• Jobs and course providers
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Careers events in the School of English - 2011/12
The School has organised two careers talks in Week One for returning students:
Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 1.00 – 2.00 pm - a talk for 2nd year students about careers and the Advantage Award in A48, Sir Clive Granger Building
Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 12.00 – 1.00 pm – a talk for final year students in A48, Sir Clive Granger Building
School Careers Days will take place in November and February with graduates of the School returning to talk to you about their chosen careers. These will take place on the following afternoons:
Wednesday 2 November 2011 – for PGCE, Law Conversion, Teaching English as a Foreign Language and Postgraduate course applications
Friday, 10 February 2012 (A21 Trent, Council Room - ground floor entrance from the courtyard, directly opposite the English entrance) – for general careers (final programme to be confirmed, but may include general graduate training schemes, finance, management, journalism the arts and other career choices.)
Further details will be circulated nearer the time by Dr Lucie Sutherland.
Opportunities to develop your CV
Whilst at Nottingham, there are also many opportunities for you to develop your CV. You may, for example, choose to volunteer as a Literacy support worker to a local school, or as a student ambassador assisting with Open Days, or you may prefer to serve as a student representative on the School's Learning Community Forum.
References
Academic members of staff in the School of English regularly receive reference requests and consider it one of their duties to complete these for students. However, if you wish to ask a member of staff to act on your behalf as a referee, you MUST contact them in writing beforehand and please give them an up to date copy of your CV for information. This is, in part, to comply with data protection policy. as academic members of staff will be unable to write you a reference unless you obtain their written permission beforehand to act as a referee. For each reference, you must also give your referee your written consent to disclose data about you. This is particularly important if you wish your referee to mention any periods of suspension, ill health etc.
Further Study
Some students may decide that another year (or more) of study may give them an edge when it comes to seeking out a career. Here are some useful websites with further information about PG study opportunities:
Prospects - Graduate Courses Website
MA opportunities in the School of English
PG Prospectus at The University of Nottingham
Effects of the City Banking Crisis on Graduate Recruitment
The Director of the Centre for Career Development, Stephen McAuliffe, has issued the following statement about the effect of the credit crunch and financial crises in the City on graduate recruitment and student careers.
"We are aware that the current situation in the Financial Sector across the world may be creating some anxiety amongst students and graduates about their job prospects within this sector for this summer. The Centre for Career Development is committed to providing relevant, accurate and up-to-date information and guidance about the labour market and, consequently, we are monitoring this situation in a number of ways.
Firstly, through our contacts with employers, we are receiving feedback on their recruitment intentions and relaying this information to students through the web site, through workshops and in our individual advice and guidance work. It is clear, at the moment, that the situation is still very fluid and therefore, many employers are reluctant to commit themselves to specific targets. Most of our City employers are maintaining a presence on campus through Fairs, promotional activities and presentations and apart from Lehmann Brothers, there have been no significant cancellations. These events provide an excellent opportunity for students to assess the situation for themselves and ask informed questions.
It would appear that recruitment within investment banks will be cautious this year, with certain functions most severely affected e.g. corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and trading. Some banks are maintaining the level of internships for the summer, and suggesting that any future recruitment may be via this route. Other banks are telling us that the number of interns will be reduced, as will permanent jobs. Because of the lack of consistency of message, students can still be encouraged to apply to the banks, but our advice to them is to apply early and also consider alternative strategies and we are happy to help them with such planning.
Secondly, we are extracting information from the financial press and from professional sources on a daily basis. Recently, this has resulted in a consideration of the broader impact of the City crisis in the economy and some worrying forecasts about unemployment across sectors, including professional services, retail, the media and the not-for-profit sector. We are using sources such as the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS), the Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) and the Sector Skills Council to obtain a national perspective on the challenges for graduate recruitment.
Thirdly, and most importantly, we are offering to students and graduates the opportunity to discuss alternative strategies and career plans with professional careers advisers and information staff at the Centre and we would encourage you to promote our services to your students in this time of uncertainty. The more prepared students are for the evolving job market, the better their chances will be to succeed."
