The University of Kent Careers and Employability Service

1. Actuarial and Maths Careers Presentation You can download a copy of this presentation at www.kent.ac.uk/careers/slides.htm The University of KentCareers and Employability Service

2. “Students in their first or second year at university need to ask themselves what job they want to do. It’s important that they do not wait until their final year to think about finding a job, especially in the current market”. Sarah Shillingford, Graduate Recruitment Partner, Deloitte

3. “The more you enjoy university life, the more you’ll get out of it. Employers like you to have what they call “customer-facing experience”. You’ll get loads of that if you take a part-time job or work as a student volunteer. It’s a terrific help if you can understand how businesses work, show you can get things done and apply simple common sense. It was my work experience that gave me all these things, not my academic course” Kate, marketing officer with a PR agency

4. Skills gained on a Maths/Actuarial Degree Maths/Actuarial graduates are attractive to many employers because of their: • Ability to analyse information in a logical way • Investigative and problem solving skills. • Numeracy • IT skills • Especially finance & computing

7. Your final year is too late to start your career planning! • Check you campus emails as I will send you emails on vacation work on Mondays • Start your career planning well before your final year. Students who start early get the best jobs! • Careers talks www.kent.ac.uk/careers/casevents.htm

8. What can I do with an Actuarial Science degree?www.kent.ac.uk/careers/actuarial.htm • What can I do with a Maths degreewww.kent.ac.uk/careers/maths.htm • Example Maths and Actuarial CVswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv/cvexamples.htm

9. How can you develop your skills? www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/skills-Kent.htm “Join three university societies and become actively involved in at least one” Alan Richardson, Graduate Recruitment, Royal Bank of Scotland Group

10. Careers Employability Award on Moodle • Quizzes and short assignments on CVs, covering letters, application and interview skills, choosing a career, aptitude tests, assessment centres, what makes you happy at work etc. • Takes just a few hours to complete. • Will greatly improve your career planning and jobhunting skills, giving you strategies to make career choices and increase your chances of getting a graduate level job. • On completion you get a University of Kent Careers Employability Award and 60 Kent Employability points • Enroll at DX_CEA: Careers Employability Award (2014/15)https://moodle.kent.ac.uk/2014/course/view.php?id=2756 • More information: www.kent.ac.uk/careers/moodle.htm

11. www.kent.ac.uk/ces Telephone: 01227 823299 Email: careerhelp@kent.ac.uk Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9 to 5 including vacations Drop-in times (no appointment needed): 10.30 to 12.30 & 2 to 4 pm

12. Bruce Woodcock • Email:bw@kent.ac.uk - for enquires that I can answer BRIEFLY!

13. You can download a copy of this presentation at www.kent.ac.uk/careers/slides.htm The University of KentCareers and Employability Service