Career Matters
1 November 2019
Your weekly news from the Careers Centre
Key sections:
- Events coming up at the Careers Centre
- Internship Experience Certificate
- Graduate vacancies and part-time positions in St Andrews
- Brexit - advice and support
- Resource of the Week: Vault
Events coming up at the Careers Centre:
Police Scotland Special Constabulary
Police Scotland was formally established on 1 April 2013 and is responsible for policing across the length and breadth of Scotland. Police Scotland is the second largest force in the UK after the Metropolitan Police.
There are 13 local policing divisions, each headed by a Local Police Commander who ensures that local policing in each area is responsive, accountable and tailored to meet local needs. Each division encompasses response officers, community officers, local crime investigation, road policing, public protection and local intelligence.
Volunteers have actively supported policing in Scotland for over 100 years through the Special Constabulary.
We will be promoting the Special Constabulary, which is a branch of volunteers who support the regular Police service. Recruitment is done nationally with specific areas covered by a command structure.
All information in relation to the recruitment process can be found on the official Police Scotland website.
Using LinkedIn effectively
Looking for an internship or work experience?
Attend this session to learn about key resources and see how to effectively find and use contacts via social networking sites such as LinkedIn.
LinkedIn currently has over 610 million users
303 million active monthly users, 40% of which visit the site daily
92% of Fortune 500 companies use LinkedIn
nearly 40 million students and graduates are members of LinkedIn
64% of employers would check your LinkedIn profile before hiring you.
This session can help you improve your LinkedIn profile - it's not to be missed so sign-up now! We look forward to seeing you.
Career Planning
Do you need to get started with choosing a career and/or making plans toward your professional future?
Come to this Career Planning module and learn how to:
- be aware of your career interests and values
- explore career options
- make career decisions
- seek and secure opportunities
North American Career Series: Graduate School in North America and Canada
Join us as we talk about everything you need to know about further study in the USA & Canada - applications, timelines, exams, and more!
Sign-up here for a space.
Application forms and covering letters
Are you worried about completing an application form or putting a cover letter together?
Don't know where to start?
Keep putting it off?
We can take the strain out of completing an application form and cover letter writing.
Please sign-up on CareerConnect to attend.
How to write an effective CV
Are you worried about putting a CV together?
Don't know where to start?
Keep putting it off?
We can take the strain out of CV writing.
Sign-up for one of our workshops and in just half an hour you'll be all set to write a brilliant CV!
Introduction to HSBC Securities Services
If you're a collaborative mind eager for a career within HSBC Securities Services, please apply to join our networking evening with representatives from our business to gain an insight into this exciting business area, our intern and graduate programmes and working at HSBC.
Event in Edinburgh.
Presentation on postgraduate opportunities at the College of Europe
We have the pleasure to invite you to a meeting with the College of Europe representative.
The College of Europe is the oldest institute of postgraduate European studies. Our campuses in Bruges (Belgium) and Natolin (Warsaw, Poland) bring together each year more than 400 postgraduate students and young professionals from over 50 countries who live, learn and experience Europe together.
During the meeting, a representative of the College of Europe will answer questions from interested students regarding the educational offer, applications, career opportunities and scholarships offered by, inter alia, the Scottish Government, Bruges-Natolin UK European Scholarships Fund and by the College of Europe itself.
To find out more about the College of Europe, please visit:
- http://www.coleuropenatolin.eu
We look forward to meeting you on Friday, 8 November!
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We offer an Internship Experience Certificate to recognise students who have undertaken professional level work experience for a minimum of four weeks through a structured programme in any industry or organisation, anywhere in the world. To qualify, you’ll have to give evidence of how you’ve developed your career seeking and employability skills.
You need to submit a work experience case study. Your case study will be reviewed by a member of the Careers Centre who will arrange for the Internship Experience Certificate to appear on your academic transcript, provided your case study meets an acceptable standard.
Your case study should be between 700-1,000 words. You should answer the questions as fully as possible. Although optional, providing a picture of yourself will make your case study more engaging to the reader. Have a look at a variety of case studies on our website.
When an employer/organisation requests formal support from the university for a future internship, the Careers Centre can provide students with the necessary support documentation, eg Convention de Stage, supporting letters.
By accepting formal support documentation from the university, you enter into an agreement with the Careers Centre to provide us with a suitable case study for our website once you have completed your internship.
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Search job vacancies, via CareerConnect
Fantastic Job Opportunities coming to CareerConnect daily
There are currently over 750 live jobs at today's date!
Register with CareerConnect – and receive daily/weekly internship and graduate job alerts!
Internships and Graduate jobs are available through the link above. Register with CareerConnect and select the sectors you would be interested in. This way you receive a personally selected email with live vacancies to your inbox.
For part-time vacancies:
Use the filters (part-time / job shop) to narrow down the job vacancies to the part-time positions in St Andrews.
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Brexit - advice and support
The University of St Andrews is global, inclusive and outward looking. We recognise that many of our students have practical and personal concerns and questions as a result of the decision of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.
We are committed to ensuring that our international and diverse community of students and their families feels entirely at home here, and has access to helpful, up-to-date information and the best possible support and advice.
Please follow this link for all the information.
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Careers Centre
Best wishes,
The Careers Centre Team
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