Careers at the Bar Q&A Day

The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple is hosting its annual Question & Answer Day on Sunday 16 June (10am – 5pm) at the Inner Temple, Central London.

The event is open to all university students interested in a career at the Bar, but who haven’t yet started the BPTC or joined an Inn of Court.

There’ll be workshops and seminars and the opportunity to talk to practitioners in an informal setting.

Admission is free but students must book a place in advance in order to attend. Visit www.innertemple.org.uk and click on Careers Guide and Forthcoming Events.

Great summer volunteering opportunities

Staying in York over the summer? Want to get involved in the community next academic year?

York Students in Communities is offering a range of exciting individual volunteering opportunities available over the summer break or when you return in the autumn as well as regular on-going opportunities.

Organisations include Adult and Community Education, Friends of St. Nicholas Fields, Missing People, National Trust, SNAPPY, Wilberforce Trust, York Archaeological Trust, York Libraries and York Museums Trust.

Deadline: Midnight, Friday Week 6 (31st May)
To find out more and to apply visit www.york.ac.uk/careers/communities

CAREERS BLOG: It’s not too late for an internship

  Summer’s getting closer, but don’t panic if you’re still looking for vacation work or an internship. There are still jobs out there, but you will need to get applying.

There are currently 85 opportunities being advertised through the Interactive Careers Service and among them, the Student Internship Bureau has a range of project-based internships with local employers.

Careers Newsletter: win up to £4,000, work experience, event photo gallery

Careers Newsletter Weeks 5 and 6

 In this issue:

1. Spotlight on summer – work, play and get ready for your future
2. Professional Connect – find out how to connect with York graduates 365 days a year!
3. New website for students with a disability or long term health condition – help with disclosure, and job applications
4. Last call for applications for enterprise internships, boot camp and Plan ENVY – you could win up to £4,000
5. Fantastic opportunities to volunteer with great projects in York – develop your skills, help others AND become more employable
6. Get some classroom experience with a YSIS placement – last chance to apply for Autumn 2013
7. Think it’s too late to find a summer internship? Think again!   
8. Guest blog from Inspiring Interns – “How to find an internship and make it count”
9. Events coming up
10. Coming soon: The final countdown for finalists
11. How can Careers help me? Information for international students
12. Caught our eye: How to check out overseas opportunities, and how to avoid job scams
13. City Law for Ethnic minorities – 2 day event, apply now!
14. Check out our Professional Connect photo gallery

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

JSPS is the leading funding agency in Japan and offers a range of fellowships for research visits to Japanese universities for PhD students and postdoc researchers in all disciplines.

Representatives from JSPS will be on campus to talk about the different funding routes and explain the application process on Tuesday 11 June (10am – 11.30am).

To reserve your place please email estelle.idiens@york.ac.uk. For more information see www.jsps.org/funding/index.html

Testing times

Here’s your chance to try out some psychometric tests for free.

Norton Assessment are currently trialling new numerical and verbal reasoning tests and are looking for large numbers of students to try them online.

The links to the test trials are:

• www.numericalreasoningtest.org/
• www.verbalreasoningtest.org/

As well as the prectice tests, there is advice on how to approach the tests – mistakes to avoid, tips on intentional ‘tricks’ in tests and how to overcome anxiety pre-tests.

#MythBustingMonday: “Careers is all about graduate jobs – it’s not for me”

This is a common myth about Careers. Somehow many students think of Careers and just connect it with graduate jobs and something that doesn’t need to be thought until later in university life. But if this is what you think,  you couldn’t be more wrong!

In reality we offer lots of great things for students in ALL years of study – including great volunteering opportunities, paid internships and work experience, enterprise support, skills courses, networking events, bursaries and funding information, postgrad study opportunities and lots more.

In fact the earlier you start the better – so come and talk to us soon!   We already have lots of students who are not finalists using our services, taking advantage of all the great things we do and getting a head start – why don’t you join them?

Myth busted!