The University’s Career Mentor Scheme is a unique opportunity for students to be matched with an experienced professional to gain one-to-one careers advice, support and guidance into their profession and sector for up to 6-months. This is a particularly valuable opportunity for PGRs who are looking at a career outside of academia, to get specialist careers advice. The current Career Mentor scheme closes for applications on 13th November. MentorsĀ are available in the following sectors:

  • Accounting and Auditing
  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Charity and Development Work
  • Construction, Civil Engineering and Building Services
  • Education, Teaching and Research
  • Engineering and Product Design
  • Healthcare and Wellbeing
  • Hospitality and Event Management
  • HR, Recruitment and Training
  • Information Services, Economics and Statistics
  • Information Technology
  • Insurance, Pensions and Actuarial
  • Language and Translation
  • Management and Consultancy
  • Politics and Government
  • Social Guidance and Community Work
  • Theatre and Performing Arts

A full list of opportunities, including hyperlinks to apply for a mentor, is available to download here.

The Career Mentor scheme offers the following mentors in education, teaching and research, which may be of particular interest to PGRs:

 

 

 

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