Strengthening your Career Potential

Designed to help you discover your strengths, understand your career options and enhance your graduate prospects through creating a personal career plan.

Through regular individual meetings your Careers Consultant will help you to understand your unique strengths and harness these to explore your career interests, build confidence and help you develop your application and interview skills.

What does the programme give you?

· Receive regular support from your Careers Consultant in the form of meetings and emails exploring your career options, interests and goals

· Opportunity to investigate your strengths by completing a strengths profile and receive feedback from a trained practitioner

· Design a unique career development plan, with your Careers Consultant, setting actions points to help you achieve your goals

· Access support to help you overcome any barriers to your success

To apply complete the application form on the webpage. Spaces on the Strengthening your Career Potential programme are limited so please ensure you apply by 15^th November 2020.

Warwick Advance Internships Programme

A dedicated internships programme to help you apply for a paid spring or summer internship with a graduate employer, in the UK or overseas. Spend your internship developing new skills and gaining valuable experience to help you enhance your CV and develop your future career, whatever country and career path you choose.

What does the programme give you?

· Dedicated support to apply for a pool of paid UK or international spring and summer internships, across a range of industry sectors

· Valuable work experience skills - communication, interpersonal, teamwork, problem-solving and intercultural

· 1:1 mentoring support throughout the programme from employers engaged on the programme

· Access to resources and workshops pre, during and post your internship experience

· Funding support for UK/overseas internship travel

· Opportunity to be fast-tracked onto an employer’s graduate programme

Apply now on our webpage.

Advancing your Strengths Mentoring Programme

Careers focussed mentoring designed to provide you with support on career journey through connecting you to a mentor with an established career.

What does the programme give you?

· Receive 1-1 support from an experienced professional who can share their experiences and advice

· Learn about professional life with the possibility of gaining insights into a particular industry if applicable (please note we cannot guarantee you will be matched to a mentor from a specific industry)

· Develop key professional and personal skills to help you succeed in your career

· Connect with successful professionals growing your own network

This programme is only open to students who register on either the Warwick Advance Internships programme or Strengthening your Career Potential programme. If you wish to apply to the mentoring programme please make sure you also submit an application for one of the other programmes too. Applications for this programme can be found here.

By joining any of these programmes you will also get access to a dedicated Teams group where you will find the latest news on internships, events, graduate roles, webinars and have the chance to post questions.

Eligibility criteria:

All these programmes are open to current Warwick undergraduate Widening Participation UK/Home students. Full details of the eligibility criteria can be found on our webpage. If you are unsure if you meet the criteria please email us to discuss.

For more information:

Come along to a short webinar introducing these programmes and offering you the change to ask questions on Tuesday 3^rd November 2020 at 11am – 12pm via Teams. To register to attend this event please email Samantha.merrix@warwick.ac.uk.

If you have any questions about any of the programmes please contact Samantha Merrix at Samantha.merrix@warwick.ac.uk or Marion Jennette at marion.jennette@warwick.ac.uk.

I’m sure that a large proportion of you have been engaging with the employer events that have been provided as part of the central Festival of Careers 2020 over the last few weeks. I wanted to bring to your attention a number of events that are taking place in the coming weeks, the most relevant of which being the ‘Options in Engineering’ event this Wednesday 28 Oct 6.30-8.30pm.

All STEM-specific events, including the aforementioned event, can be found here: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/studentopportunity/festival/lineup/stemfactory/

Please do take some time to sift through and sign up for any and all that are of interest to you!

Please click here to watch the presentation from ERM on Placements and Careers, which was delivered exclusively for Warwick Engineers on 23 October 2020.

European Metal Recycling has placement opportunities for 2021; find out more here.

The new Virtual STEM Careers Fair is a must-visit for any student seeking a career within the STEM industry. Come along and discover employment opportunities including graduate schemes and jobs, placements and internships within the industry. Meet with employers in one-to-one meetings or in a virtual drop-in room, with recruiters on hand to talk to you about their recruitment processes and available opportunities.

Thursday 22^nd October, 11am – 4pm

More details on myAdvantage here

...Or access via the app as with the Autumn Careers Fair last week! https://app.careerfairplus.com/uw_uk 

Please see below from the central team re. the Autumn Careers Fair as part of the Festival of Careers 2020. Please do sign up using the app and attend as many sessions/engage with as many employers as possible!

Autumn Careers Fair 2020

We’re very much looking forward to welcoming you virtually to our Autumn Careers Fair tomorrow! The event is held online via our App – don’t forget to visit Career Fair Plus, either online via https://app.careerfairplus.com/uw_uk or download the app through the app store (search Career Fair Plus) in advance of the Fair tomorrow.

Once you have downloaded the App you will be able to book meetings with employers who will be delighted to talk about their opportunities. These meetings are offered on a first come first serve basis so book today to ensure you are able to speak to representatives. You will also be able to Drop in to employer rooms to speak to them informally but all activity is held through the App or the desktop link here https://app.careerfairplus.com/uw_uk

Remember its worth taking the time to book meetings or talk to employers you may not have considered as well – in the same way as you would browse employers at a physical fair, employers will be happy to speak to you informally so please do meet them all!

More tips on booking meetings with employers and making a virtual fair a success can be found via the Career Fair Plus blog: https://help.careerfairplus.com/en/articles/4477545-candidates-booking-meetings-on-the-web

We look forward to meeting you all virtually tomorrow!

This years’ event is going to be our biggest yet!

This unique event is designed to empower and inspire Women to pursue a career in Engineering.

Yes thanks to the pandemic we are going all out to support women engineers who are currently studying here in the UK or looking to start their career.

We will be filming this years’ event live from the IET in London and broadcasting to the comfort of your home.
LIVE, VIRTUAL & FREE TO ATTEND – REGISTER NOW!
 

An online webinar to support alumni in navigating a challenging labour market post COVID-19

Thursday 22 October 2020, 12:30 – 13:30 (UK time)

Current students can also sign up for the webinar!

https://warwick.ac.uk/alumni/news-events/events/careerswebinar

There are a number of opportunities available with the Warwick Racing Team, please follow the link below to fill out to find out more and register your interest.

http://warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1HAs7RzqhdyId5H

3 upcoming virtual careers events with a banking/financial focus:

FreshLook – for female-identifying students interested in Investment banking - Wednesday 30th September, 1-4.30pm

Find your Future Forum @ BlackRock - Thursday 1st October, 1-4pm

Access to Banking: A careers event for students with disabilities and long term health conditions interested in banking - Thursday 8th October

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