Your Career Week 2020 – Online edition
19–23 October
Your Career Week is designed to present opportunities to students from any course, year group, level of career experience, or walk of life. All sessions/events are designed to help you develop your career thinking.
What's in it for you?
- Connect with employers at several Careers Fairs. They are participating to present their Placement and Graduate opportunities to you.
- Develop skills and attributes employers are looking for, to expand your horizons, ambitions and professional network.
- Get involved in BU's award winning extra-curricular programme, the Global Talent Programme, which helps you to become sought after by employers (global and local).
- Hear from and question some extremely special guests, including:
- Author and Broadcaster Kate Adie (well known for her long service as the BBC's Chief News Correspondent),
- Creative Access (creative jobs for under-represented groups),
- 30+ exhibitors at the BU Annual Careers Fair and the Get Into Teaching Fair.
Some sessions need to be booked in advance.
Visit MyCareerHub to find out more and see a full timetable. More events will be added up until the week before, so keeping checking back to make sure you don’t miss anything.
Highlights of the week
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Get into Teaching Fair Monday 19 October |
Whether you have a vague idea teaching might be for you, or it is your main career aspiration, please join our guests online to discover more directly from them. |
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BU Annual Careers Fair 2020 Tuesday 20 & Wednesday 21 October Students tell us: "The BU Careers Fair is a goldmine of information." Sectors represented include: Research and Analysis, IT, Sales, Marketing & Media, Sciences, Business & Finance, Engineering & Industrial Design, Logistics, Sports Coaching, Teaching and more!
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For BU students and recent graduates to meet employers offering Placements, Graduate opportunities and Volunteering. Exhibitors include Mondelez International (they own Cadbury, Toblerone, Milka and Oreo), Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Teach First, Enterprise Rent A Car, TARGETjobs, Graduate-Jobs.com and many more. A full list of employers and the roles offered can be found on MyCareerHub – BU Annual Careers Fair. No booking required. Organised by the Careers & Employability Service. |
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BU's award-winning extra-curricular programme the Global Talent Programme Various events |
Get career-ready with BU’s Global Talent Programme - gain access to employer-led workshops, business challenges, digital games, global experiences, e-learning, team assignments and over 100 extra-curricular activities. |
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Global Mobility - work or study abroad |
BU's Global Engagement Mobility Team offer support and advice about studying or working abroad and possible funding opportunities with Erasmus+. For Your Career Week, they have lined up a series of amazing webinars for you, headlined by author and broadcaster Kate Adie. |
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Creative Access |
Looking for a creative career? From an under-represented background? |
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SUBU takeover Various events |
SUBU can help you develop personal and employability attributes via Volunteering, being part of Clubs and Societies, and taking part of one of their Sustainability Challenges (with a prize of £500 up for grabs!). |
CareerBU beyond Your Career Week
Work-It Webinars
Held throughout the autumn term, covering topics such as 'Acing cover letters & applications', 'Using LinkedIn to kickstart your career and 'Acing virtual interviews'.
Nursing, Health & Social Sciences Fair 2020 – Online edition
Wednesday 25 November
Organisations will be joining us to encourage and help you to apply for a wide range of employment opportunities. They will be participating in these events as they love BU students and the expertise, knowledge and energy you bring to their roles and workplace.
This event is open to all BU students and recent graduates. No need to book.
Information for Employers
It is FREE to join this year's Annual Careers Fair and Nursing Health & Social Sciences Careers Fair. Cost waived this year to help out business partners in these unprecedented economic times.
Details on how to book are available on MyCareerHub.
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