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Presentations and talks
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Selected event recordings are listed below; University of York login required.
Where a live presentation is recorded for future viewing, only the speaker and slides are recorded and not attendees. If you attend the live event, you can ask questions via the chat function during the presentation.
Introduction and career ideas
Introduction to Careers and Placements
Handshake 'how to' guides
You can use Handshake to find jobs, connect with employers and get help from Careers and Placements. Watch these quick guides to find out more:
Career options - what can I do?
- The truth about graduating with a 2:2, Third or Pass (part 1)
- The truth about graduating with a 2:2, Third or Pass (part 2)
- Working in research - panel discussing options in and outside of academia, May 2021
Teacher Training
- Teacher Training: Applications
- Example personal statements with comments to accompany the Applications session
Start-up and freelancing
Careers with social impact
- Transform society - making an impact in the public sector (Teach First, Frontline, Think Ahead, Unlocked, NGDP)
Women in Tech
Hear from these women, from different subject backgrounds, who are making their career in tech:
Further study
Taught postgraduate study
- Part 1 - choosing a course, fees and funding
- Part 2 - applications
- Further study resource pack A
- Further study resource pack B (MS Word
, 60kb) (download needed)
Postgraduate research
- Finding and applying for a PhD
Postgraduate entry into medicine
Finding and applying for jobs
Work experience and placements
- Experience for your CV - how to get valuable experience by volunteering, getting an internship, exploring enterprise or doing a placement year
Finding and applying for jobs
- Quick guide to job hunting and the recruitment process
- Finding and applying for jobs: Graduate schemes
- Part 1 - What are graduate schemes and who offers them?
- Part 2 - Finding and applying for opportunities
- Part 3 - Postgraduate students-specific
- Resource sheet pdf version - Graduate schemes resources sheet (PDF
, 123kb) - Resource sheet Word version - Graduate schemes resource sheet (MS Word , 15kb)
Meeting employers at events and fairs
- Prepare for the fairs (recording of live event 2020)
Applications and CVs
Assessment centres, tests and interviews
- Successful interviews
- Part 1 - Preparation
- Part 2 - Practice
- Resource sheet
- Preparing for assessment centres (virtual and face to face)
, 12,902kb)Applying for grad schemes: accountancy, Nestlé
Other virtual careers sessions
Resources for postgraduates
- Applying for graduate schemes Part 3 - Postgraduate students-specific
- Working in research - panel discussing options in and outside of academia, May 2021
Find more resources in the other sections on this page and on the page for taught postgraduate students.
Department-specific
We'll add more recordings here when they happen. You can find a list of department-specific recordings from last academic year in the Academic year 2020/21 box below.
Arts and Humanities
Recruiter in Residence
Recruiter in Residence
Advice, tips and help from graduate recruiters
- Enterprise-Rent-A-Car
- Complete the request form to submit your question
- Reed - advice about employability, work experience and resilience
- Rotacloud - tips on learning and applying
- Teach First - advice about recruitment
- Transform Society Alliance - advice about work experience and managing in the labour market of a pandemic
Externally-produced
- Association for Project Management events
- Gradcracker for STEM students
- Behind the scenes of cybersecurity
- REED graduate training scheme Q&A (includes differences between grad scheme and entry level jobs)
- Asia Careers Insight Series
Previous terms' presentations
Academic year 2020/21
Careers in different sectors - panel events
- Transform Society panel event autumn 2020: the impact you can have in the public sector
- Careers in a world impacted by Covid: Museums & Heritage
- Careers in a world impacted by Covid: Careers in the NHS
Arts and Humanities
- History of Art: applying for work experience and internships
- Getting work experience in Marketing, Advertising and PR
- Making the most of your study abroad experience
- How art and law impact each other within History of Art (presented by Professor Michael White)
- How law impacts works of art (presented by Dr Emma Waring)
- Getting work experience in media and the creative industries (please note, some of slides in this presentation have been slightly obscured, but the captions are still visible)
Sciences
- Successful applications and CVs (Health Sciences and Social Work)
- NHS Scientist Training Programme
- NHS Digital on the frontline
- Postgraduate entry into medicine
- Insight into FERA
- NHS Digital: the impact of data on healthcare during a pandemic
Social Sciences
- Financial Services Graduate Schemes (Management School)
Watched a virtual session? Got ideas for future events? To help us provide the right events for students, we'd appreciate your feedback - message the Careers Information Team in Handshake with your comments or email careers@york.ac.uk
Check out more videos on our YouTube channel (UoY Careers).
