The Experience Continues !!!

I haven’t really talked about what my placement is all about.  I am responsible for organising, developing and promoting the annual programme of careers events with a particular emphasis on the use of social media for marketing purposes.

Primarily responsible for organising a series of high profile careers events throughout the year and publicising these to a wide range of employers, to all our students, recent graduates and University staff.

Also i will be managing and developing relationships with existing and new organisations wishing to recruit or offer opportunities to our students.

Administrative tasks: include room bookings, catering orders, and updating employer records on the Dynamics system.

To be honest I am still learning more and more about past events and this excites me.  The more I research the more I realise how many great opportunities there are in the future. 

There’s a lot going on every day in the office and everyone seems to be quite busy.  With a busy workload I find myself busy too.  At the moment I find myself planning for the annual Grad Jobs Fair (November 7^th) at the University and try to find new marketing strategies and creative ideas.  This event will be a “big thing” for me. It is one of the most important events i could work on.  Last year’s Fair there were almost 40 graduate employers in attendance, including national big names such as Mazars, Santander and Rolls Royce, and local graduate employers such as Cummins and Weir Valves.  Approximately 800 final year students and recent graduates attended.  Being able to organise an event for such highly developed companies, not only will it look good on my CV in the future but it will also give me the type of experience I’m looking for.  Although the event is in 4 months, I need to prep for this now.

  

In a few months (September) we will also be attending the Fresher’s Fair at the University of Huddersfield helping students to get to know us and our services.

Also to help the students we have decided to start a Jobshop Clinic and Jobshop on tour. The Jobshop Clinic includes presentations lasting approximately half an hour in the Careers Library, explaining how to register with JobShop, how to save email preferences, and helping people if they have brought a laptop and are struggling to register on Jobshop.  Jobshop is just one the resources students can use in their search for jobs, they also get to use the service for Careers advise, Quick Query sessions or have their CVs checked etc.

JobShop on Tour:  Happening once a week, starting from the beginning of October.  Each week it will be held in different Schools of the University in Huddersfield and the Barnsley Campus to promote our Jobshop to students offering guidance on how to use it.

This week (week 4) i’ve learned how to use the Dynamics system.  The Dynamics system is very useful for the office and i can start adding organisations to it and my marketing list for my events.

In a few weeks I am also attending an event with our Chancellor Sir Patrick Stewart which I am looking forward to asking him questions about his career path.

 

Next week I will be attending an event for Graduates in the Job Centre in Huddersfield which the University Careers and Employability will having their own stand to promote their services.  

The University of Huddersfield:

·         One of the UK's top 10 providers of sandwich courses and student placements

·         Our chancellor is Professor Sir Patrick Stewart (English film, television and stage actor) most widely known for his television and film roles, such as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its successor films, Professor Charles Xavier in the X-Men film series

·         Huddersfield was ranked joint first out of all West Yorkshire Universities for high quality staff and lectures in the Opinion panel Research survey in 2007.  The University achieved the highest ranking of any mainstream university in the United Kingdom for assessment and feedback in the 2011 survey

·         The University achieved the highest ranking in the 2011 International Student Barometer conducted by the International Graduate Insight Group

The Careers and Employability Service:      

·         It is available to all staff and students of the University and to graduates for up to three years after graduation.

·          A team of Careers Advisers offer advice and guidance on career choice and planning, support with the applications process and the development of lifelong career learning skills.

·         A programme of workshops and presentations devised and delivered with the assistance of local recruiters, help students and graduates to prepare for employment or further study.

·          This team of staff also work closely with the academic schools, offering teaching sessions and the benefit of their expertise in regards to employability on a consultancy basis.

AWARDS

·         AGCAS National Awards for Excellence – Overall Winner 2011

·         AGCAS National Awards for Excellence – Technology Award 2011

·         Times Higher Award for Leadership & Management – ICT Initiative of the Year 2011