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Welcome from the Careers Service

Welcome to the Careers Service by June Kay, offering individual advice, career planning guidance, job search support, workshops, events, and innovation programs for postgraduate researchers. Join us in developing your skills, finding opportunities, and creating impact through creativity and innovation.

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Welcome from the Careers Service

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  1. Welcome from the Careers Service June Kay, Careers Adviser

  2. Who we are & what do we do? • 60+ experienced, trained and qualified staff • Individual information, advice and guidance • Guidance with career planning & changing direction • Help you understand, develop and pitch your skills • Finding jobs, opportunities, and work experience • Networking opportunities • Support with applications • Developing business ideas.

  3. How Can We Help ? • Workshops – Research Student Development Programme • Events e.g. Researchers Careers Conference (20th June ‘19) • Individual information, advice and guidance – Drop-in & longer pre-booked • Communication e.g. Termly Researcher Careers Newsletter • Remember you are welcome to attend any Careers Service central workshop or event

  4. Action For Impact • An innovation and enterprise programme for postgraduate researchers aimed at creating impact of all kinds from research. • Encouraging researchers to evolve their innovative and enterprising behaviours, whilst developing commercial awareness • Allows researchers to consider challenges that they are addressing, and become capable of realising the commercial, economic and societal impact of their research • The realisation of their impact is facilitated by a series of competitive Impact Fellowships, which will include engagement with industry, society and the world outside ‘the lab’.

  5. CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION CHALLENGES • Inspired by a social or industrial problem or opportunity • Form a team, generate an idea, test your ideas and present them to a panel • Supported by employers, industry experts and alumni with experience across a variety of sectors • Many challenges link you with students from different Institutes to stimulate cross disciplinary working

  6. HEALTH INNOVATION DAY – look out for next time! • Be Part of a Global Innovation Challenge in Health and Ageing • 24th November 2018 Venue to be confirmed (North East) • Open to ALL disciplines, ALL stages and ALL universities in the North • No previous knowledge of health or ageing required! • As a student team work in a fast paced creative environment to develop, plan and pitch your solutions to a real business scenario! • Partnered with universities in Copenhagen, Hungary, Stockholm, Portugal, Sweden, Oxford and London • For more information contact charlotte.warin@ncl.ac.uk

  7. Connect with us Jenny Brady Enterprise Adviser jenny.brady@ncl.ac.uk June Kay Careers Adviser June.Kay@ncl.ac.uk Careers Service Level 1 of King’s Gate Drop-in available 11:00 - 4:30

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