Internships, internships, internships…
The start of the new year and new semester is not only the time for new beginnings and novel life plans, but it is also internship application season. The careers…
Pandemic passions: making time out count
A brand new 2020 diary, scrumptiously leather-bound with gorgeous thick paper waiting for my scrawling hand. Fast forward to March 2021 and this diary is practically empty. My concept of…
Careers: how to find summer internships
With the semester finally coming to an end, and with an inevitably long summer ahead, some of us might be looking for internships or some work experience. Although it sounds…
Post Grad Gap Year: recommendations if you just need a break after years of education
For fourth years, the combination of endless deadlines, exams, graduation looming and finding a job often seems too much. Chances are that by this point, you’ve been in education for…
How to be boosting your CV throughout the year
Grades are important but are not always the necessary evidence of the various skills that employers value and often seek. With an increasingly competitive job market, finding ways to stand…
Unpaid internships are legally and morally questionable
Not only are unpaid internships exploitative, manipulating a youthful workforce with no alternative to work for free. They also have the dubious honour of being legal in the most minimal…
Was it all worth it? Summer jobs put to the test
Internships. For some (more productive) students, this word brings to mind memories of a high-flying summer in which they dressed up like proper grown-ups, pranced around a brand new city,…
What’s happening in the murky world of student internships?
Arguably one of the biggest, yet perhaps most subtle indicators of how British society has changed in the last few decades is the rise of the student internship. What was…