For staff

News from the Careers and Employability Centre

Autumn 2013

Stop press! Careers & Employability Centre briefing for staff on 4 or 7 November 2013

Working together We want to keep you up to date and informed about the support for the student experience from the Careers and Employability Centre. Theres a lot going on!
We have information on how staff across the University can support the careers and employability of their students. Destination data about the first roles for graduates is sorted by school and subject: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/whatour graduatesdo Our Study Direct site is available to all undergraduates; it gives an overview of relevant career topics and links to further sources of information. It works alongside our extensive careers web resources and can be added to your students Study Direct page.

Study Skills
Study Skills are now supported from the Careers and Employability Centre. We offer one to one tutorials, group workshops and the well-established, informative S3 website. Contact Clare Hardman if you have any questions. E: c.l.m.hardman@sussex.ac.uk

This regular newsletter gives you the headlines of all the news, information and events which will affect your students and ways in which you can help us to get the messages across. Our news pages are updated daily: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers

Bespoke career activity Come and meet us! Open briefing sessions for all academics and support staff are on Monday 4 November at 3pm or Thursday 7 November at 11am
Join us in the Library for a cup of tea and a chance to find out what were up to and how we can support each other. Information will include an update on DLHE data. Book your place by emailing: careersevents@sussex.ac.uk School-based careers and employability sessions are available for your students, tailored to suit their particular needs. Sussex still has a long way to go to ensure all students receive key careers and employability education embedded in the curriculum. Please arrange via your link Careers Employability Adviser to develop ideas into practice: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/aboutus/ staff

Lots of employers with jobs for our students. please help us to promote
Our online jobs database has fantastic opportunities and employers, including local employers, are keen to attract applications from Sussex. But we need your help in encouraging more students to use it. A recent opportunity for a Graduate Management Trainee at International Logistics Group in Burgess Hill was online but not attracting applications. Thanks to the support of our academic colleagues in BMEc we were able to get the message out to students and one of our graduates is now settling into his new role I only got to know of the vacancy through the email I received a few months back. Needless to say I did get the job and it more fulfilling than I expected. Help us to make sure our students dont miss out: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs/search

StartUp Sussex Entrepreneurship

Awards are available for students and staff with ideas for social or commercial entrepreneurship. Individual sessions and a comprehensive training programme are available. Find out more at: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/startups ussex

Santander funded internships

The University has again been successful in attracting funding from Santander Universities to support small to medium sized employers to take on a student or recent graduate for a 12-week internship. Please encourage your second year and final year students to register their interest in undertaking an internship. They can tell us the sector they are interested in working in, even naming employers they are keen to work for. During the first round in 2012/13 we successfully placed students in a range of local companies including BrightMinded, run by a Sussex graduate, Caboo and Lyons Bennett. Staff and students can find out more at: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs/santan der

Employer engagement
Find out more about our work with employers and how we can support you
The Careers and Employability Centre takes the lead role on liaising with employers for the development of the employability of our students. Over the last academic year we have continued to reach out to a large number of organisations based both locally and elsewhere in the UK and overseas. We thought it would be useful for you to know what weve been up to and invite you to work with us to broaden our relationships even further. On behalf of the Vice-Chancellor we hosted a number of senior level executives on campus. We also held a number of employer briefing sessions on and off campus. We really valued academic colleagues coming along to these events and meeting employers. after the Christmas closure on January 4, Organisations weve engaged with have included Virgin Holidays, Elekta and Hastings Direct and weve already seen employment opportunities come through as a result.

The next Employer Briefing will take place on 14 November 2013.

Please let us know if youd like to come along or if you have any contacts you would like us to invite.
For more information please contact Andrea Wall E: andrea.wall@sussex.ac.uk

First-Generation Scholars welcome

Support for First-Generation Scholars continues this year with the Work Study programmes. First and second year students have been invited to take part in a range of activities as part of the Get Ahead afternoon. This th will take place in Fulton on October 9 and sessions include Presentation Skills: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/aboutus/st udents/firstgeneration

Events on campus
Last year, 9408 students attended the 347 events we organised on campus, this year, we're hoping to attract more! Each term we run a packed events programme, including regular skills workshops, for example: CVs for Parttime Work, Job Search for Finalists, and Career Exploration. We also welcome many employers to campus, for recruitment presentation , drop ins or to deliver skills workshops. This terms employers include the Civil Service, The Bank of England, Teach First, the NHS and JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme).

Careers Fair 2013

We are now fully booked for our flagship event on 6 November 2013at the Amex Community Stadium. Over 100 exhibitors including SC Johnson, The Body Shop International, DMH Stallard LLP and the NHS will be attending. Open to all current students looking for internships, placements and graduate roles. All recent graduates welcome to come too. Please tell your students and put it in your diary and come along. Employers have a lot of interesting things to say to us! www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careersfair 13

Researchers and postgraduates

Careers support for postgraduates and researchers continues to be an important part of our work. For information on the range of support we offer including workshops, one to one consultations and other events please contact Jane Riley. E. j.riley@sussex.ac.uk

Events normally take place in our Seminar Rooms in the Library and drop ins in the Library Cafe, although we sometimes send employers out to academic departments if they want to target specific students! Generally all years and disciplines are invited to attend these events, all we ask is that students sign up first. Full details of all our events and sign up at: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/events