Career Destinations 2012/2013

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Career Destinations

Psychology Career Panel

N.B. This Career Panel is open to all students but is particularly targeted at students studying

Psychology.

Wednesday 16th

October 2013

17:00 – 19:00

Building 58, room 1067

University of Southampton

Time Subject Attendees

17:00

Arrival

Andy Port and Amy Wallace

17:15

'Voices of Experience'

Psychology Career Panel

Alumni and graduates share career experiences

and strategies for success.

[See over for Panellist profiles.]

1. Welcome from the Moderator and

introduction to the Event.

2. Self-introductions by the Panellists

(2 minutes per panellist)

3. Q & A session with Moderator

4. Questions from the Floor

Panel Moderator

Invited Panellists

Audience

18:15 Onwards

Student Networking

An opportunity to meet and talk 1:1 with the

panellists. Light refreshments will be provided.

Panellists

Career Destinations Staff

Voices of Experience: Panellist Biographies

Charlotte Dawson Product Analyst Cubiks UK

After graduating with a BSc (Hons) Psychology from the University of Southampton in 2011, Charlotte’s first role was with Tate, a boutique recruitment agency. Her job was to assist Tate’s largest client, Philips, by CV sifting, administering ability tests and interviewing candidates for administration roles. This role offered her a flavour of the processes large organisations use to get the best candidates.

After a year at Tate, Charlotte moved on to Cubiks in 2012, a global consultancy made up of occupational/business psychologists and IT specialists. Cubiks designs and delivers products and services for assessing and developing people. This includes psychometric personality and ability tests competency based assessments, and simulation exercises.

As a Cubiks UK Product Analyst, Charlotte supports some major clients; including Shell, EE, BP, Next and Xerox, helping them get the most out of the Cubiks assessments they use. She is a certified user of PAPI™ (Personality and Preference Inventory), Cubiks’ main personality assessment tool.

Charlotte’s ambition is to become a qualified Occupational Psychologist, and Cubiks is supporting this by helping fund her Occupational and Organisational Psychology MSc which she is starting soon at the University of Surrey.

Zoe Hamilton Mental Health Recovery Worker Mental Wellbeing

Zoe graduated with a 2:1 degree in Psychology from the University of Southampton in 2013. She now works in Basingstoke with the charity Together for Mental Wellbeing, as a Mental Health Recovery Worker in supported accommodation for individuals with complex mental health problems.

Zoe spent a year and a half volunteering for the young person’s charity No Limits, and has recently begun volunteering in the clinical psychology department for Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. As well as volunteering as a research assistant within the cognitive psychology department at the university, she had roles within University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust. Zoe has had placements within the Pelican Cancer Foundation at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital and with the Career Destination’s Excel Placement Programme as a Young Women’s Support Worker with the charity Catch-22.

Zoe’s interests are within recovery in mental health and service user involvement, and she is currently working towards a career in clinical and forensic psychology.

Verity Holland HCPC registered Educational Psychologist (EP) Wokingham Borough Council

Verity graduated from Oxford University in 2005 after completing a degree in Experimental Psychology. During her degree she particularly enjoyed courses in her final year entitled ‘Education and Psychology’ and ‘Developmental Disorders of Language and Cognition’, which sparked an interest in using psychology to better understand children who do not follow an expected path in the development of skills such as language, social interaction and play.

Following graduation and a period working to earn money in the UK, she travelled to India and taught English in a school near Calcutta. Upon returning to the UK, she gained experience working with young people in a variety of settings, in preparation for applying for the Doctorate in Educational Psychology. She worked as a Teaching Assistant in an inner-city London primary school, and then as a teacher in a unit for children who have Autistic Spectrum Disorders.

Career Destinations

Psychology Career Panel

She studied for the Doctorate in Educational Psychology at Southampton University from September 2009-July 2012. She currently works as a HCPC registered Educational Psychologist (EP) for Wokingham Borough Council, her first position as a maingrade EP following graduation from the Doctorate. She has a geographical ‘patch’ of schools for whom she is the link EP, working with individual pupils, parents, teachers and a wide-range of other professionals (including Speech and Language Therapists, Paediatricians and Occupational Therapists etc.) in primary and secondary schools, higher education and preschool settings.

Andy Myers Associate Director Marketing Sciences

After graduating from the University of Surrey with a degree in Psychology Andy went on to complete a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience before moving to Sydney to join a Market Research company as a research assistant. Following on from here Andy moved back to the UK after 3 years in Sydney and is now and Associate Director at Marketing Sciences in Winchester. In his current role Andy works across a number of different sectors and business, designing, analysing and presenting research studies using traditional quantitative techniques and cutting edge techniques such as neuroscience.

Dr. Matt Symes Consultant Clinical Psychologist Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dr. Matt Symes is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, currently working for Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust in the West Hampshire Community Learning Disability Service and Southampton Autism Assessment Service. While at the University of Southampton he was awarded a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology in 2000, a Doctorate in Philosophy in 2005 exploring early intervention for children with autism, and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology in 2007. In 2010 he achieved a Postgraduate Certificate in Applied Systemic Theory at the University of East London. Following qualification he took up a post as Clinical Psychologist in the New Forest Community Learning Disability Team, and co-founded the Autism Diagnostic Research Centre in Southampton. His current role involves monitoring quality and governance for the multidisciplinary team, supervising qualified and non-qualified Psychologists and Art Therapists, and providing direct assessment and therapeutic interventions for people with learning disabilities and associated autism spectrum conditions, challenging behaviour, mental or complex health needs, forensic issues and epilepsy.

Cathie Varcoe-Baylis Head of Client Services University of Southampton

A psychology graduate, who prior to moving into a career in HR, worked as a Research Assistant in the Psychology Department at the University of Southampton. She has had a varied HR career working in both the private and public sector. This includes experience in manufacturing, pharmaceutical, financial services and the higher education sector. In her current role she managers a team of HR Managers who provide generalist HR advice to the University covering the entire employee lifecycle. She has a passion for HR, and is happy to share her experiences.