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The Virtual Recruitment Fair will be your chance to check out current graduate opportunities, internships, gap year opportunities, chat online to real recruitment experts, apply for current opportunities and upload your CV for graduate recruiters to view, all from the comfort of your own PC!
This workshop examines issues to consider when looking for work back home after graduation. How can you sell the additional skills and experiences you have gained to employers in your home country and stand out from the rest?
Planning Your Career
Come down to Jobzone in the Guild of Students to find out more about volunteering and summer job opportunities.
CAL Navigating the Job Market
Internships and Work Experience Drop-in
CAL Plan of Action after Graduation
Do you want to get your graduate career off to a flying start? Visit the National Graduate Recruitment Exhibition, where you can meet a wide range of the UK’s top graduate employers face-to-face to discuss their graduate schemes and find out how to apply.
Sign up for the Summer Skills Programme; a two-day event for EPS undergraduates to work with employers and university staff and develop their employability skills.
Capgemini is passionate about supporting the communities where it operates. One of Capgemini’s largest accounts is based in Shropshire and we want to work with enthusiastic University of Birmingham students to deliver community projects to charities across the Shropshire area.
Dr. Rick Robinson, senior manager at IBM Software Group and Birmingham alumnus will share in this session how to present with impact and the importance of communication to achieve results.
This interactive session will introduce you to the key steps in an effective career action plan and help you to move ahead with a strategy for success.
This workshop examines issues to consider if you are a non-UK student wanting to work in the UK. Joanne Holliday from Sheffield University will provide expert information about visa law including Tier 2 and the Graduate Entrepreneur Scheme in the UK. Her presentation will be followed by a Q + A session. Open to all international students.
Find out more about the benefits of studying a PhD, the application process, "a day in the Life of a current doctoral researcher" and what next after the PhD.
An interactive workshop focusing on entrepreneurship and enterprise.
A careers fair with over 20 employers who are interested in employing postgraduates from engineering and the sciences. Will also include a panel debate for careers in industry and academia with representatives from these sectors
This session will cover interview techniques and will help you to consider how you can articulate and evidence the skills you have developed as a Masters student
This session will help you to consider how to tackle the jobs market.
Interested in becoming an entrepreneur? Current undergraduates at the University of Birmingham have the opportunity to sign up for a free week-long Enterprise summer school. The programme includes guest speakers, team building, creative thinking, networking, exercises to help you discover your inner entrepreneur, and much more.
How to sign up
For more information on events and to sign up for an event, use our interactive careers service. If you have any problems, you can contact us through the interactive careers service or telephone Reception on 0121 414 6120.
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- Deposits to be returned at the end of the event signed up for.
- Reservations to be honoured.
In return we expect you to:
- Check the sign up arrangements and reserve a place if necessary.
- Cancel your reservation if you are unable to attend.
- Arrive on time for the event.
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How to view past events
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