Your views on the Careers Advisory Servcie matter to us...

female student

Feedback from the Spring 2009 user survey.

During two weeks in February 2009 we surveyed the registered users of the Careers Advisory Service to ask them what they thought about the services that we provide.

  • The careers information room, reception and careers library were all rated very highly by users
  • Careers Advisers were very highly rated - with 86% of respondents rating them 'very' or 'fairly helpful'
  • We introduced a '5 Minute Final CV Check' in the autumn term in 2008, and 80% of users who attended one of these sessions found it helped improve their CV or covering letter. These appointments are on a turn up and sin up basis every day throughout the autumn and spring terms

You said... we did

Some examples of how we have responded to your feedbackon our services.

Note: this is based on a survey carried out in February 2009, please contact us for further details about this survey.

Students feedback – you said... Our response

It would be really useful to have the slides available from Careers workshops/seminars available online

You can access weekly Careers Seminars on a variety of subjects (CVs/ Interviews/ Asessment Centres...) from the website, search the A-Z index, or follow the options from the 'undergraduate' or 'postgraduate' menus at the top.

Note: you can access recordings from careers events from the front page of the website.

It would be useful to be able to search for some of the careers materials online, and also to be able to borrow some books.

All careers materials are seachable via the careers website (check the library pages in the 'resources' section). You can also borrow some frequently used items, such as pyschometric test and interview practice books from the College library. We regularly liaise with the College library to ensure that materials are available to borrow.

As an international student I need extra help looking for work in the UK during a period of economic instability.

 

We provided a regular seminar, 'Job Humting Strategies for the Recession' which will give you information on creative job hunting techniques such as networking, help you evaluate your current career plans and develop ideas on what to do next. We also have a special section of the website for international students - check this out from the front page of the website.

 It would be helpful to have more events in the evening or late afternoon.

 

 

We recently held an 'I.T. and Technology Fair' that ran from 17:00 to 20:00, and a forthcoming 'Banking & Finance' Fair will be on from 16:30 to 19:30. Most of our Careers Fairs last till 16:00 and we run a series of Careers forums in the evening throughout the autumn term on a range of subejects. See a full listing of Careers Events from the front page of the website.

As a PhD student I am worried that I have spent many years at the lab bench and if I want to exit lab based research, I will feel out of place in an office environment.

We have developed a section of the website specially for PhD students, where there is information on how to 'get started' with thinking about your career options, as well as information on options directly and indirectly related to your PhD. Look under the 'postgraduate' menu.

Note: the Careers Advisory Service provides a series of career option workshops for the graduate schools, these are all advertised on JobsLive as well as via the graduate schools.

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