Careers Blog
Finding good quality and relevant careers information can be difficult and time consuming. The Careers Blog features articles researched by careers professionals from Student Employment, Experience & Careers Centre (SEECC) and covers a host of Career Coaching topics on items such as Writing a Successful CV, Preparing for interviews as well as our Career Bites pages, which cover careers which Reading students are most interested in.
In addition to this, we'll regularly update the blog with the latest news, events and opportunities of interest for Reading students and graduates.
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Recruitment Open Day at Clearwater Technology Ltd – various opportunities
Clearwater Technology Ltd are the UK’s leading water treatment, water and air hygiene provider. Come to their Open Day on Thursday 28 June 2012 to meet them and learn more. They are seeking candidates in the following areas: Operations Sales Administration Consultancy Engineering Services A Science background is desirable but not essential, we have lots [...]
Read Article ›Vacancies for Analyst Programmers for graduating students
Abritas is a rapidly growing, Reading based, software company providing innovative web based systems for local government. We have multiple opportunities for students graduating in summer 2012. As an analyst programmer you will develop new business functions within our software suite. You will work alongside a team of skilled developers and [...]
Read Article ›Calling all sports enthusiasts: BBC Sport’s Trainee reporter scheme
BBC Sport – ‘Kick Off‘ Trainee sports reporters Atheletics…..Football…..Cricket…..Swimming…..Olympics An exciting opportunity has arisen to work alongside the sports teams in BBC Local Radio stations and websites this summer. 8 weeks unpaid Work Experience placement, 2 days per week. If you would like to share your thoughts, experiences and sports knowledge with their local audiences, [...]
Read Article ›Write reviews at the Edinburgh Festival…
…with the ThreeWeeks media-skills programme What is the Edinburgh Festival? The Edinburgh Festival is the biggest arts event in the whole wide world. It’s actually made up of a whole load of different festivals merged into one big, fabulous cultural party, and is a hotbed of both established and burgeoning talent. Any comedian worth their [...]
Read Article ›Write an article and win cinema tickets for you and your friends
Milkround has been named the most widely used Graduate Recruitment website for the 5th year in a row. To celebrate 5 years at the top, we have a competition for all the budding writers out there. To win cinema tickets for you and 4 of your friends, we would like you to write an article [...]
Read Article ›Paid summer work in USA and Canada
Give your career a kick start and work abroad for the summer. Parenthèse send over 2200 participants a year for paid placements and summer job programmes abroad and will help you through the process from start to finish. Our goal is to enable students to cover their travel and visa expenses after 6 to 8 [...]
Read Article ›Volunteer opportunity of the week 21/05/2012
Cathedral Camps (One week Summer Camps) Cathedral Camps is an opportunity like no other. You’ll spend a week volunteering to help preserve or restore a famous cathedral, church or historic building and doing your bit to protect our architectural heritage. You’ll get some great experience for your CV, make new friends, have a lot of [...]
Read Article ›The GSK Residential Chemistry Training Experience 2012
This is a fully-funded, week-long training course designed to give you practical experience of the work of a graduate chemist in the pharmaceutical industry. Based in the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) research laboratories they will provide you with personalised laboratory tuition together with coaching in interview technique, presentation skills and working in teams. This programme now in [...]
Read Article ›Teach Abroad Scholarships
In response to the rise in Graduate unemployment and the continuing weakness in the domestic graduate job market, ELC have developed a Graduate TESOL Programme. TESOL (also known as TEFL) is the acronym for Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, and there is a tremendous global demand for trained TESOL teachers. As a Social [...]
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