Marketing yourself in your home country

While you might be interested in working in the UK and have hopefully taken advantage of our talks to help you with this endeavour, you might also be interested in obtaining work back home.  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

Marketing yourself in you home country

Tuesday 1st February 2011, 4.30pm – 5.30pm

Book at the UCL Careers service website.

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Twice for Tuesday

Next Tuesday (25th of Jan) we’ve got not one but two exciting talks lined up for you dealing with all things International.

Over lunch (1-2pm) in the Anatomy JZ Young Lecture Theatre, UCL Rights and Advice will  provide you with the latest details on the Tier I Post Study Work visa.  You can find out about eligibility criteria, the application process and the application time-line.

Then early evening (5-6pm) in Roberts 106, you can gain an understanding of the UK interviewing process.   In this seminar, we look at the types of questions you are likely to be asked, provide suggestions for preparing best possible answers and discuss issues of effective communication, managing anxiety and interview etiquette.

To register for either, or both of these sessions, please sign up at the UCL Careers service.

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Networking Etiquette

Here are some things to do and not to do when you are in a networking situation.

Do…

- introduce yourself with your name, what you are studying
- ask them about themselves and their organisation
- pitch your questions at an appropriate level: only ask for work experience with someone you know fairly well
- finish well: ‘nice to meet you’ or ‘a pleasure to talk to you’ is a good way of leaving a conversation
- ask for a business card if you think it would be useful to keep in touch.  Make sure you follow this up with an email saying how you enjoying meeting the person and what was useful about talking to them.
- smile and maintain eye contact

Don’t
- boast loudly and list all of your academic acheivements
- keep talking to them if they look like they want to leave
- ask for a job on first meeting
- answer your mobile phone whilst you are talking to them
- give them your CV on first or second meeting

For final hints and tips have a look at this: The Shy Connector

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Singapore Public Service Policy Challenge

The Singapore Public Service Policy Challenge is a case competition, set in a Singapore national policy context which gives you a chance to gain practical policy-making experience, interact with like-minded peers as well as network with policy-makers from Singapore. For the first time, the Challenge is extending beyond Singapore to students studying in UK universities.

For further details see: http://app.policychallenge.gov.sg/uk/intro.asp
Prizes: Up to £2,000 cash prizes.
Entry deadline: 16/01/2011

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Networking Questions

You may have heard people tell you that networking with people is really important in your search for a job or a research position.  But what is it that makes you a successful networker?  One important ingredient for networking is asking good questions.  Think before you meet someone what it is that you want to find out and write down some interesting questions you can ask them.  Here are some to get you started.

1. What do you enjoy most and least about your job?
- this gives you insight into the reality of what a job is right

2. Can you tell me what you do on a typical day?
- this helps you to see whether your idea of the job is accurate or not

3. What makes someone successful in this job?
- this will assist you to see if you are the type of person who will suit the job

4. What is the typical career progression in this field?
- if you are ambitious, you might like to find out whether there is a clear career progression route or you have to work out your own steps.

5. What sort of person would fit into your working environment?
- see if this description fits you

6. How much of the time are you working on your own or as part of a team?
- see if this suits your working style

7. What are the most important current issues in this sector that are likely to affect your job?
- this question can give you useful information to talk about at interview, as you may well be asked questions around this.

8.  How often do vacancies in your area of work arise and where are they advertised?
- find out where you can look for jobs

9. What background experience is useful and how to people typically obtain it?
- this will help you to see if you need to be doing something that you are currently not doing, and help you to think what your next steps should be.

10. What advice would you give to someone in my position?
- get their ideas

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