1. Get a Career as a Management Professional
Vanessa Freeman Deputy Head Careers & Enterprise
Helen Green
PRINT handouts for students as will need in the job search
Buy jaffa cakes x 2 (SEF & SBM)

2. What will you get from today?
A well-crafted personal profile
A start on prepping good application and interview answers
An understanding of job hunting and job hunting sources in the UK and overseas
A plan for the next 3 months
11am-11.45am

3. Why are you fabulous? Develop 3 sentences about your USPs
Relevant experience/knowledge
Languages
Technical skills SAP, Google analytics
Practise your pitch

4. Me
Employability expert with 18 years experience supporting students, graduates, career changers, career professionals and institutions to achieve career goals for themselves and others. One to one coaching; workshop and lecture creation and delivery; advice and guidance to stakeholders on all aspects of employability. Areas of expertise include graduate destinations (DLHE) analysis, entrepreneurship, diversity, postgraduate researcher provision. Key motivation is the belief in the importance of fulfilling work for all.

5. Graduate job Graduate Schemes Apply 1 year ahead
2-3 years trainee
Paid for professional qualification
Full time paid work
other grads
Training to progress you
Rotation round departments sometimes
Graduate level job Apply 2-3 months before you want to start
No fixed period
Full time paid work
Learn ‘on the job’
Progress by applying for an internal/external job the next step up
More autonomy/flexibility?
Question : what percentage of people to do you think get their job on a graduate scheme? 12%
- so whilst many of you will be focusing on graduate schemes, I also want to highlight to you the validity of a graduate level job as your entry to the world of work – given the number of people who do get their job this way.

6. Routes to graduate work
Now – Nov 2017: apply for graduate schemes
Nov – April: selection. Application form, psychometric testing, phone interview, assessment centre
July - Sept 2018: start your graduate scheme
May onwards: apply for graduate level vacancies - permanent job - graduate internship)
Selection: CV & cover letter / application form; interview
Immediate start or start up to 2 months later
DON’T got through the selection process for graduate schemes.

7. STAR
S: During my course I was part of a team of 5 researching the effectiveness of the catering outlets at QMUL.
T: We needed to gather sales data, service hours, supplier costs and analyse this information to find business improvements.
A: We divided up the outlets - I contacted one of the the catering managers clearly explaining the project and allaying any fears. From this I was able to obtain sales figures which I analysed using Excel and so on
R: The outcome was a report which provided a comparative analysis and recommendations. Each team member wrote a section and I edited the final piece for house style. The recommendations were used by the management team

8. Providing Evidence Situation Task Action Result Competency questions
Choose one skill you want to provide evidence for. Brainstorm a STAR answer.
Situation
Task
Action
Result
85-95
Break 15 min to 110

9. Help with Careers

10. Career Choice: Which sectors?

11. Career choice and job hunting
In pairs Come up with 5 job titles you can do with a Master in Management

12. Where did they go? MSc Management
Stunt man
Burger creator
Careers consultant
Busker
Toilet quality control officer

13. Sorry – just checking you are listening…

14. Where did they go: MSc Accounting and Finance
Case Analyst, Associate Auditor,
Project Officer,
Trade Marketing Representative, Mathematical Analyst ,
Business Analyst,
Accounting Assistant,
Credit Analyst,
Secondary Teacher, Consultant,
Company Owner,
Marketing Executive , Assistant Accountant

15. Where did they go: MSc International Business
Institutional Relations Officer,
Associate Accountant,
Planning Officer,
Project Manager ,
Area manager,
International Business Development Manager,
Finance Intern,
Graduate Trainee ,
Executive Director ,
Business Operations Assistant ,
Business Developer

16. Where did they go? MSc Management
PR Officer, Account Co-Ordinator
Human Resources Assistant,
Auditor, Product Coordinator,
Account manager at marketing agency,
Business Development Manager,
Self Employed Consultant , Managing Director , Business Consultant, IT Project Manager , Corporate Governance,
senior audit and consult in sustainability services, Banker,
Product Development Managers,
Procurement Analyst, Operations Assistant,
Project Manager Graduate

17. Research case study: careers in digital media

18. Led to here

19. And via local South London Press jobsite

20. Sourcing SMEs

21. Using recruitment agencies
Find the right ones for your sector via professional associations, sector publications, ask around.
Graduate Recruitment Bureau,
Sanctuary Search,
Bridgewater UK,
Hays Recruitment,
Consulting specific:
Investment Banking specific: Robert Half, Robert Walters, Randstad,

22. Speculative approaches
Works well if you hear someone might be hiring
Find a mentor and get introductions to their networks. (try to make approaches)
Approach companies for a short burst of work-shadowing.
Cold approaches can work and are more common in areas such as PR

23. Think wide
Who has considered applying to DHL?

24. Why not?

26. Going Global - networking groups

27. C&E: job search sites www. careers. qmul. ac
C&E: job search sites Going Global – accessible through QMPlus Other sites HR entry level jobs jobs today) (global and includes SMEs) - for those from EU countries searching in the EU
Come up with as many vacancy websites as you can in your pairs that you would use for your international job search

29. Further support
One to ones – Wednesday PM (with me) – bookable a week in advance through Careers and Enterprise
QMPlus pages
Careers events check the website WG