Inspirational Guest Lecturer for Upcoming Workshop

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Mamta Bhatia to deliver a guest event in the International Student Programme.  The title of her workshop is Marketing Yourself in Your Home Country on the 1st of February from 4pm – 5.30pm.  This seminar aims to give you strategies and tools to make the most of your UCL experience and while communicating your skills and experience most appropriately in your home country.  Mamta has a wealth of experience helping international students and professionals navigate their global careers that includes her international leadership development at Tesco, as well as her public speaking and volunteering.

You can find out more about her at her blog.

To book a place at the UCL workshop

For more information of this and other talks

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Virtual Fair with British Council China

Even if you will not be in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing on the 7th of March, you could still attend the British Council China’s virtual fair to gain insight into the Chinese economy, job market and employment opportunities.

The British Council China is holding the Alumni UK Career Development Workshop and Job Recruitment Fair on 7th March 2010.
This annually-organised event has achieved remarkable success over the past few years, and has helped hundreds of UK alumni in China to re-position themselves in the highly competitive job market in China.

They will hold four workshops on the same day respectively in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing. In addition, they will also organise a virtual fair so as to benefit wider range of UK alumni.

The British Council China aims to provide services to Chinese students who want to study in the UK at various stages of their journey. With Alumni UK, a network of more than 15,000 members, the Council annually runs Career Development Workshop and Mini Recruitment Fair in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Chongqing. This year the event will particularly focus on the discussion of the job prospects of UK alumni in the promising and rising China economy as well as will provide valuable career development opportunities for UK graduates that returned to China.

Dozens of renowned international or domestic companies with hundreds of job
vacancies will be available for UK alumni.

UK alumni based in any city beyond these four cities will be able to communicate with employers and HR specialists via online chat about the job opportunities and career development issues.

RSVP required and students shall register for the event
via the Alumni UK official website
Interested alumni need to register , the official UK alumni network in China, before they sign up for this event.
Copies of degree certificates or student ID card are required for entry.
All detailed event information, including dates, venues, recruiting companies and job posts can be obtained from the above website once students are approved of Alumni UK Network member.

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Volunteer Opportunities for Shanghai Expo 2010

If you are a UCL student interested in a volunteering experience in China, working at the UK pavilion in the upcoming World Expo could be the opportunity you’ve been looking for.

2010 is the year of the World Expo taking place in Shanghai, China, from 1 May to 31 October. A World Expo is an opportunity for participating countries to showcase their achievements in areas such as culture, technology and industrial development, and the Shanghai Expo will be the biggest ever, with nearly 200 countries participating and over 70 million visitors.

The UK is one of the leading participant countries and has developed a stunning UK Pavilion, designed by British designer Thomas Heatherwick, to create a lasting impression with the hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Pavilion. The UK has also developed a range of activities for the Expo to enhance cultural, educational and business collaboration and exchange between China and the UK.

The UK Pavilion has now opened up opportunities for volunteers to work at the Pavilion, engaging with Chinese and international visitors. This is an excellent opportunity for all students with an interest in China and we would be grateful if you could pass on the relevant information to all of your students and encourage them to apply.

More information about the volunteer opportunities, along with application details, can be found on the UK’s official website for the Shanghai Expo:

where you can also learn more about the UK Pavilion and the UK’s programme of activity.

The initial deadline for applications is 31 January 2010, but applications will continue to be accepted until the end of February 2010 for people applying from overseas.

All applications and any queries about the volunteer opportunities should be addressed directly to the recruitment company, DTZ, at mailto:hr.pma.sh@dtz.sh.cn

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PWC China London Event

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) – Would like to invite you to join an event focussed on business and associated recruitment opportunities in China and the UK. We will hold a talk with senior personnel from our UK based China Business Desk and recent recruits. This will be followed by a networking event where you‘ll have the chance to meet and mingle with the panel and many more recent recruits. All of them ready to give you honest, straightforward answers to your questions.

In the process, you will find out why ambitious organisations the world over choose to work with us and just what kind of career options we offer. You’ll also discover why students in the UK have voted us number one in the Times Top 100 Graduate Employers survey for six years running. We have been rated number 1 out of 100 top audit firms in China for the 5th consecutive years by the Chinese Institute of Certified Public Accountant (CICPA). In addition you’ll pick up crucial insights into all the employability skills we’re looking for and where you might gain them. And, of course, you’ll learn just how we can help you take them much, much further. This is one invitation you shouldn’t miss.

Date: 20th January 2010
Time: 16:00 start time registration from 15:30
Location: Hong Kong Theatre LSE , 99 Aldwych, London WC2B 4JF, 020 74057686‎.

To find out more and sign up please follow these simple steps:

1) Visit pwc.com/uk/careers/
2) Select “Student Careers”
3) Select “Search Upcoming Events”
4) Search by date “20th January 2010”
5) Resister and sign up for the event

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