Category Archives: Jobshop
Our knight in shining armour has arrived…!
I thought my knight in shining armour had arrived onto campus recently. I’m sure there was one on campus this week…..anyone see him or was it a figment of my imagination? Actually, it was one of the costumed interpreters from Chirk Castle … Continue reading
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Glyndwr Volunteers at BioBlitz
BioBlitz Wepre Park, Flintshire Saturday 31st July saw Wepre Park host North Wales’ first BioBlitz event which celebrates the International Year of Biodiversity. Originating in the USA, events like this have been run since 2006, and there are currently 15 … Continue reading
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Successful Recruitment and Volunteering Events in the Jobshop
100 students came to the Jobshop to speak to employers Bank of America about short-term Customer Service roles. Bank of America staff have expressed an interest in returning to speak to students about their Graduate recruitment programme at a later … Continue reading
Jobshop works for International Student Samuel
Having helped a lot of our International Students, we are aware that it’s often good to show case studies of what others are doing. I asked Samuel Sunder Vankayalpati to explain what he is doing in terms of working and … Continue reading
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Babbu talks about his part-time work
I was fortunate this week to spend some time with one of our International Students, Mastan ‘Babbu’ Tanneru, to find out more about the help that International students receive from the Careers Centre and Jobshop. He kindly gave me permission to publish … Continue reading
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Gradstart gets off to a great start
The Careers Centre team has secured funding which enables us to help graduates in the area. The Economic Support Initiative (ESI) funded project entitled ‘GradStart Wales’ is aimed at helping to improve the employment prospects of recent graduates, particularly those … Continue reading
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Jobshop number crunching
Since the start of the new academic year the Jobshop has been as busy as ever. Within the first 4 weeks of term we greeted 959 students who needed to register with the Jobshop for vacancies, applying for National Insurance, CV writing, … Continue reading
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CV Workshops Success
A series of workshops held by Careers and Jobshop staff were well attended with around 70 students coming to the three workshops. The majority of attendees we welcomed were International and European students , all keen to find some part-time work … Continue reading
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