You are in: Home > Business Solutions > Careers Centre > About Us > What the Carees Centre does
What the Carees Centre does
Services to Students and Graduates
Careers advice and guidance: students or graduates requiring careers guidance can sign up for a careers interview. This may be a 15 minute quick query, 30 minute booked appointment or a 1 hour mock interview or full guidance interview. These are normally Monday – Friday at specific times. For those who find it difficult to get into the Careers Centres questions can be submitted using our e-guidance service.
Open access to our careers information rooms, which include information on: hundreds of graduate occupations; planning your career; templates and examples to help users write an effective CV; application and interview guidance; postgraduate study; working/studying abroad; voluntary work; self employment; work experience. This information is updated/reviewed at least every two years. Our information rooms also contain: a number of books and career guides; computers with specialist software to help with career choice and finding funding; jobs boards with part-time/vacation/graduate jobs.
Our online information resource which uses innovative technologies to bring you an online diary; eguidance; online jobs database; online careers talks; online careers fairs; careers videos; Delicious social bookmarking; Facebook social networking; Twitter news feeds; a Pagecast listing RSS jobs feeds.
The option to register with our JobZone online jobs service and receive email alerts about upcoming events and vacancies.
Careers modules: the Careers Centre delivers these modules in certain courses, details of which are advertised through faculties. The aim is to enhance students’ employability and to help with the process of career choice and job search.
Short lunchtime workshops, CV Clinics, Careers on Tour
Employer workshops, conferences and targeted events.
Services to Business
We offer employers free publishing and distribution of their graduate vacancies via our JobZone service. Employers can publish and manage their vacancies by creating online accounts.
We run virtual graduate recruitment fairs, using our gradFairZ.com software. Employers can take part free of charge or can raise their profile on the site for a fee
We are working with the Regional Development Agency (Advantage West Midlands (AWM)), along with other West Midlands universities, Job Centre Plus and others to set up a service that will deliver graduate internships (unpaid placements) in the region; aiming for end July launch.
We are active partners in the AWM-funded Graduate Advantage project that provides paid work experience for students and graduates in the West Midlands and which subsidises employer involvement
The Careers Centre is receiving funding from the Higher Education Funding Council’s Economic Challenge Investment Fund (ECIF) up to September 2010 to deliver services to graduates in Staffordshire from any university. This includes a virtual fair for short-term and placement opportunities that will be free for employers to use
We support the AWM-subsidised recruitment agency Grad Central, that offers employers subsidised recruitment services
We work in partnership with other West Midlands university careers services, supported by AWM, to produce the annual publication ‘First Move West Midlands’ which focuses on graduates’ first jobs in the WM; the publication has a SME directory
We work with the Chamber of Commerce and Finest (networking group for business and professional services) to promote our services. With Finest we run an annual networking event for employers and students/graduates
Services to Academic, Faculties and Schools
Advice and assistance to build elements of career development learning into the curriculum
Direct input into courses on all aspects of career development learning
The provision of individual careers information, advice and guidance to students
Advice on how to develop the employability of students
Information on the destinations of your students
Representation on committees and quality reviews as appropriate
Careers Adviser linked with faculty
Services to University Staff
Careers advice and guidance: University staff requiring careers guidance can book a careers interview. This may be a 15 minute quick query, 30 minute booked appointment or a 1 hour mock interview or full guidance interview. These are normally Monday – Friday at specific times. For those who find it difficult to get into the Careers Centres questions can be submitted using our e-guidance service.
Open access to our careers information rooms, which include information on: hundreds of graduate occupations; planning your career; templates and examples to help users write an effective CV; application and interview guidance; postgraduate study; working/studying abroad; voluntary work; self employment; work experience. This information is updated/reviewed at least every two years. Our information rooms also contain: a number of books and career guides; computers with specialist software to help with career choice and finding funding; jobs boards with part-time/vacation/graduate jobs.
Our online information resource which uses innovative technologies to bring you an online diary; eguidance; online jobs database; online careers talks; online careers fairs; careers videos; Delicious social bookmarking; Facebook social networking; Twitter news feeds; a Pagecast listing RSS jobs feeds.
The option to register with our JobZone online jobs service and receive email alerts about upcoming events and vacancies.
