Bitesize Careers

• Any year
  • Discover routes to degree plus
  • Find out more about international exchange, study and work abroad
  • Attend Careers fairs and employer events.  These happen all year round and will be advertised on MyFuture.
  • Find voluntary work through Volunteer SU and Volunteer Now.
  • Find opportunities to develop your entrepreneurial skills through Enterprise SU. 
  • Look at the Career Management and Employability Programmes including:
    • Workplace Study Tours
    • Insight into Management - a 3 day business skills programme
    • Global Leadership Programme
  • Consider applying for Project Children – 8 week paid internship in the US. Internships are provided in many fields. Application deadline is in spring.
  • Organisations such as BUNAC, CCUSA, Camp America and Projects Abroad advertise a variety of paid and voluntary vacation-time opportunities throughout the world. 
  • See the British Council’s work and volunteer links.
• Level 1

  Get some kind of experience - very few employers offer 'relevant experience' opportunities to first year students (there are a few exceptions below), but any experience e.g. part-time work, voluntary work, involvement in clubs and societies helps to develop your skills in ways that are valued by employers.

  • Think you might be interested in Banking and Finance?
    • Most of the major graduate employers in this sector run "Spring Insight” schemes for first year students. These are a great way to get to know a business and to get fast-tracked into their placement and internship programmes. Examples include: Barclays, BNP Paribas, Citi, Deloitte, Deutsche Bank, EY, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan, KPMG, Schroders. Find others through websites such as RateMyPlacement.
    • Apply for the Stock Market Challenge (usually takes place in late Frebruary/early March. Booking will be via MyFuture)
    • The Bank of England runs an internship scheme for First Year students.
  • Interested in Teaching? Teach First run a Taster Programme for Level 1 students.

  Start to think about the long-term - there are more 'relevant experience' opportunties for second year students, but if you don't know what you want to do longer term, it'll be difficult to know which experience is 'relevant' to you. First year is a good time to start to explore career options. If nothing seems of interest in that list, try these 10 tips for identifying and exploring your career options. 

   

• Level 2 / Penultimate Year

  Look for relevant work experience:

  • Interested in Banking and Finance?
    • Apply for the Stock Market Challenge (usually takes place in March. Booking will be via MyFuture)
    • A lot of the big companies run summer internship programmes e.g. Bank of England,  Barclays, Citi, Deloitte, EY, HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, PwC, Standard Life, RBS and a few run year-long placements e.g. Deloitte, EY, First Derivatives, KPMG and PwC. Apply early in the autumn term!
  • Find year-long placements and summer internships in other areas of work through: MyFuture, Ratemyplacement, Prospects, Targetjobs. Some of the deadlines are set around December so it’s good to start applying in autumn.

  Thinking of postgraduate study abroad? - If you are considering undertaking postgraduate study abroad, it's best to start planning in your penultimate year

• Final Year
  • Apply early for graduate schemes and / or postgraduate study.
  • Plus above opportunities for any year.