Career Matters
19 February 2020
Your Weekly Update from the Careers Centre
- St Andrews Summer Internship Scheme
- Follow your Dreams: Accountant. Everest. Entrepreneur.
- Final year students: Erasmus+ Recent Graduate Traineeships are open!
- Resource of the Week: Vault
- Career Ready Sessions - Week 5
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St Andrews Summer Internship Scheme - Applications open soon!
The St Andrews Summer Internships Scheme provides interesting project-based work experience, within a variety of professional services units of the University, for registered 2nd and 3rd year University of St Andrews undergraduates - or 3rd and 4th years on 5 year degrees - during the summer vacation.
The intern will be given a real life project to carry out, through which they will gain insight into the knowledge and skills needed to function successfully in that particular area of work.
The University will provide the following financial support for each intern:
- a vacational scholarship per week (paid monthly) to cover the intern’s self-organised board and lodging or
- accommodation, where available, within a University Hall of Residence (and, depending on the cost, any remaining vacational scholarship)
Applications will be opening very soon - keep an eye out on our social media for the latest updates!
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Follow your Dreams: Accountant. Everest. Entrepreneur.
Find out how Ricky Munday, inspirational speaker and entrepreneur extraordinaire, went from Chartered Accountant to conquering Everest.
Join Ricky as he discusses his own journey from a council estate to qualifying as a Chartered Accountant (CA), and working on four continents for the Red Cross and British Antarctic Survey.
In this talk, Ricky will be sharing his own story covering issues of resilience, goal setting and perseverance; as well as his latest venture into social enterprise through 'Inspire Alpine'.
SIGN UP ON CAREERCONNECT TO RESERVE YOUR PLACE!
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Final year students: Erasmus+ Recent Graduate Traineeships are open!
This is an exciting opportunity to receive funding for up to 6 months of training or internship in Europe after graduation. Whether as a step to a future career, as an experience in a role you might not otherwise gain, or as an opportunity to help social or charity foundations, Recent Graduate Traineeships are available to support you in the year after you graduate from St Andrews.
Applications are welcomed from any undergraduate students who will be graduating in 2019-2020. The deadline to apply is 3rd April!
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Resource of the Week: Vault
With company rankings across a wide variety of sectors; from marketing and publishing to accountancy, Vault provides careers intelligence to help you make informed decisions as you move forward. You can also use Vault to find internships and jobs, as well as to read careers advice articles! Sign in here with your university log-in details!
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Career Ready Sessions - Week 5
- Postgraduate Applications - Wondering what further study could mean for you? Not sure where, when and how to apply? Curious what you funding options are? This talk aims to answer those questions, and to help you decide whether PG study is a route you wish to go down.
- 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.
- Internships Bonanza - If you’re looking for work experience this summer, come along to this event to find out about three programmes co-ordinated by the Careers Centre: The Summer Internship Scheme, Santander Sponsered Internships and The Work Shadowing Programme.
- Interview Skills - Nervous about going for interview? Worried you'll say the wrong thing or be tongue tied? Worry no more. Sign-up for one of our Career Ready Sessions and find out all you need to know in order to succeed at interview.
SIGN UP IN ADVANCE ON CAREERCONNECT!
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Careers Centre
Best wishes,
The Careers Centre Team
Email: careers@st-andrews.ac.uk
Website: http://st-andrews.ac.uk/careers
Location: 6 St Marys Pl, St Andrews, United Kingdom
Phone: 01334 462688
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/universityofstandrewscareerscentre
Twitter: @careerscentre