Student Services

Dr Wayne Campbell Director of Student Services

and Senior Master

LOCATION OF SERVICES

CAREERS OPPORTUNITIES FOR PGT STUDENTS

SECTOR TYPE OF ROLE SECTOR TYPE OF ROLEUniversities •Postdoc research Business •Accountancy

•Lecturer •Banking•Project Management •Computing•Administrative ie. Research strategy •Consultancy

Other research •Research Councils and Institutes Intellectual Property •Patent Attorney•Social research •Publishing rights•Think Tanks•NGOs

Teaching •State Schools Self-employment•Further Education Lecturer•Independent schools•Adult Education

Public Sector •NHS Industrial Research •Research and Development•Civil Service Fast Stream •Chartered Engineer•Local Government •NHS•Law•Charities

Communication •Science writing•Journalism

•Academic publishing•Information science

WHAT DOES THE CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY SERVICE DO?

• Student drop in sessions

• One-to-one careers interviews (for careers guidance to

support your decision making)

• Careers library

• A range of free careers literature (printed and on-line) –

bespoke CES PG booklet “Career Planning Guide for

Postgraduate Students and Researchers”

• Database of job vacancies

WHAT DOES THE CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY SERVICE DO?

• Coordinates and delivers a range of generic careers and

employability talks and presentations for all students

(including PG)

• Work with Academic Schools and the Graduate School

to support employability activities (employer

presentations, running events, delivering workshops and

supporting the development of work placements) Global Skills Award sessions on “career management skills” and

“selection centre preparation” (10-20 per annum)

Variety of School specific sessions

CES stand with advisers and CES information at Graduate School

induction

WHAT DOES THE CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY SERVICE DO?

• Work with Academic Schools continued:

Organise central employability events (Student Employability Festival,

including the Annual Careers & Employability Fair and the Employability Fair

at Medway), and the Kent Opportunities Fair. Careers Fair on Tuesday 3

November from 12.00 – 15.00 in the Sports Centre (Canterbury campus).

Over 120 graduate employers will be present

Employability Festival sessions on a range of topics of interest/relevance to

PG students

• Communicating developments, opportunities and events (use

of social media, web site, newsletters etc.)

• Use the CES website- Kent Experience of Work Framework,

on-line Resources, Kent Careers Employability Award on

Moodle and the Kent Student Awards

FURTHER INFORMATION

CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY SERVICE

http://www.kent.ac.uk/ces/

STUDENT GUIDE

http://www.kent.ac.uk/student/employability/