1. CAREERS NETWORK Clare Dawson – Careers Consultant College of Social Sciences

2. Your Careers Network Team

3. Careers Network Individual advice from experienced and professional staff Advertise job vacancies and internships Organise employer and alumni events and careers fairs Organise alumni mentoring schemes Professional development opportunities

4. Based in Muirhead Tower

5. Collect useful information Muirhead Tower entrance Opposite Starbucks

6. Careers Advice and Guidance Yasmin Ansari Careers Adviser Clare Dawson Careers Consultant Jennifer Edwards Applications Adviser

7. You can make an appointment online to see one of our advisers www.intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/careers

8. A degree isn’t enough to make you stand out from the crowd

9. Stand out from others Take advantage of…. Work experience and summer internships Get involved in… Student-led events Guild of Students

10. Insights 1 day to 1 week First years only Often take place in spring term Taster of company and business life Very common in financial and legal sectors but also offered by companies such as

11. Companies offering 1 st year insights.

12. The value of work experience “Over half the recruiters who took part in the research repeated their warnings from previous years – that graduates who have had no previous work experience at all are unlikely to be successful during the selection process and have little or no chance of receiving a job offer for their organisations’ graduate programmes.” Source: The Graduate Market in 2014, High Fliers survey

13. Finding opportunities Opportunities are still available BUT deadlines are fast approaching! Check on

14. Get involved: bursaries Up to £2000 available to help finance extra-curricular activities, including going abroad, next summer Helps you with unpaid or low paid work experience 4 different bursaries available UK Professional International Research Gateway Apply now! www.birmingham.ac.uk/internships/funding

15. Global Challenge “The Global Challenge internship has been the best experience I could possibly have imagined for my summer. It enabled me to discover an entire country whilst gaining important, challenging and very valuable work experience. I can only recommend it to anyone interested in discovering something new and pushing oneself out of one’s comfort zone: a cultural work experience at its best.” GSK HR Internship, Casablanca www.birmingham.ac.uk/internships

16. All work experience counts ‘We appreciate applicants who have a range of work experience built up from the first year, whether voluntary or paid, student jobs or more traditional internships. You should be confident that the work experience has value, even if it is not directly related to finance, and be prepared to explain how it links to the skills we are looking for.’ Vanessa Doust, Campus Marketing Executive

17. What can you do now? Get involved!! Part-time work Volunteering Work shadowing

18. Personal skills Award Presentation by: Kirsty Smith

19. 2 nd - 6 th February Careers fair on 4 th Feb in Great Hall Employer presentations Bursary information sessions

20. Visit our website www.intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/careers

21. Keep in touch... @coss_careers cosscareers