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What King’s Careers & Employability can do for You

What King’s Careers & Employability can do for You. Finding part-time work. How to... 20 minute workshops Writing CVs Finding part-time work Writing cover letters Getting work experience Application forms Many more! www.kcl.ac.uk/careers. Why Part-Time work?. Money! Make friends!

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What King’s Careers & Employability can do for You

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  1. What King’s Careers & Employability can do for You

  2. Finding part-time work How to... 20 minute workshops • Writing CVs Finding part-time work • Writing cover letters • Getting work experience • Application forms • Many more! www.kcl.ac.uk/careers

  3. Why Part-Time work? Money! Make friends! Enhance your CV Initiative, drive, team work, customer service, admin skills, multi-tasking

  4. Finding part-time work (cont.) • Many leaflets and online resources: • ‘How to write a CV’ • ‘Part-time work’ • ‘Completing job application forms’ • ‘Application letters’ • ‘Interviews’

  5. JobOnline: Hundreds of vacancies for King’s students at your fingertips! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobonline

  6. On-Campus Vacancies www.directtemping.com/register/kcl

  7. Part-Time Work Fair you • Thursday 3rd Oct • Time: 11:30 to 14:30 • Venue: Great Hall, Strand Campus • A great opportunity to meet employers & find part time work • Help fund your studies, and get some crucial work experience

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  9. Generating ideas and inspiration • Prospects Planner: www.prospects.ac.uk • Careers Service library • www.careers.lon.ac.uk/international • Still lost? Talk to us!

  10. Researching careers:Careers Tagged www.careerstagged.co.uk

  11. Researching industries, sectors and organisations • Employer events (on & off campus) • How to... sessions (research your policy career/city job/career in law etc) • Library resources • Facebook pages & Twitter • Fairs: Careers Fair, Tech, Law, Pharmacy, Nursing etc.

  12. Improving your employability skills • Kings Professional Skills Programme • Other skills sessions • Join societies, volunteer, get a part-time job • Get international, get involved! • Facebook & Twitter (commercial awareness) • How to... Sessions (work experience)

  13. Finding full-time work after you graduate • JobOnline (and International JobOnline) • Facebook/Twitter • How to... Sessions (interviews) • Departmental events (with advisers) • CV, application and covering letter help • Psychometric tests • Mock Interviews you

  14. What we can’t do • Job matching service • Tell you what job you should do! • Proof-read CVs and application • Help with grammar and English (English Language Centre) • Recommend specific employers or recruitment agencies • Help or advice with visas (see International Student Advisers)

  15. Where we are • Locations: • Strand (Macadam Building) • Guys (Henriette Raphael) • Times: • Strand 09.30-17.00, Mon-Thur. • Guys Mon-Tue Afternoons

  16. Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t. BazLuhrmann

  17. Thank you! www.kcl.ac.uk/careers

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