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Welcome Back!

I've just spent £500 on Pizza to welcome our new Post-Graduate Researchers to the Department.

So come along for Pizza and Drinks (non-alcoholic and alcoholic) and a quiz on Friday 20th at 16:30; in the Senior Common Room. 

I'd encourage everyone to come - current PGRs, PDRAs, RSEs, Academic and PS Staff! As you know this is a regular monthly social and the intention is that everyone is invited!

We are one big Department so please come and relax with free food, free drinks, and free conversation!

 

Postgraduate Careers Programme 2019, 1^st semester

www.manchester.ac.uk/careers/pg

PG Careers - The Essentials: Finding a job this academic year
1^st October, 1:00-1:50
Location – Uni Place 2.220

Whether you’ve just started a one year Masters or are coming into the home strait of your PhD, if you’ve decided you’ll need a job sometime in the next 12 months, this will get you started. This 50 minute talk will cover the fundamentals of:

• Smart targeting – homing in on your ideal job, plus what to apply for when you don’t know what you want to do
• Smart tactics to uncover more jobs
• Smart timing – knowing what happens when, so you don’t miss it

 

PG Careers - The Essentials: CVs and other types of written application
4^th October, 1:00-1:50
Location – Uni Place 2.220

If you haven’t applied for professional jobs recently (or you have, but could do with an update), this 50 minute talk will cover the fundamentals of:

• What should go into a CV
• A quick formula for your covering letters
• How to structure application form answers

 

PG Careers – Beyond the Basics: Written applications which stand out
7^th October, 1:00-1:50
Location – Uni Place 1.218

You know the basics of CVs and online profiles, you can read the handouts - how do you go from competent to outstanding? This 50 minute talk will focus on three tricky areas which can really make a difference:

• Curate your life (Tailoring and presenting the most appropriate version of yourself to an employer)
• From description to insight (Addressing the "so what?" factor, making sense of your life to an employer)
• Make every word count (Using words with impact, professionalism plus personality)

 

 

PG Careers - The Essentials: Interviews and other types of assessment
14^th October, 1:00-1:50
Location – Uni Place 1.218

Employers are always finding fiendish new ways of assessing whether you are the right person for their job, but interviews never go out of fashion. This 50 minute talk will cover the fundamentals of:

• Tackling tricky interview questions
• Preparation and performance to make the best impression
• Other assessment techniques to be prepared for, including online and face-to-face tests

 

 

PG Careers – Beyond the Basics: Interviews – latest trends and tips
22^nd October, 1:00-1:50
Location – Uni Place 1.218

You know the basics of interviews, you can read the handouts - how do you go from competent to outstanding? And what are some of the new ways you might be assessed? This 50 minute talk will focus on three tricky areas which can really make a difference:

• Find the feeling (Tackling strengths based interviews)
• Thinking in bullets (How to tackle tricky questions and brain fade)
• What's in shot? (Professionalise your video interviews)

 

 

PG Careers – The Essentials: Becoming an academic
24^th October, 1:00-1:50
Location – Alan Turing G.107

A postgraduate degree can be the first step on a long journey to becoming an academic. It’s one of the most competitive careers there is, but someone has to make it – could it be you? This 50 minute talk will cover the fundamentals of:

• What do today’s academics really do?
• Pathways to academic careers – variations by discipline, by academic role and by location
• What are my chances – and how do I improve them?

Over the summer three PGRs (one from each faculty) have been working with PGR Well Bee-ing Project to plan events based on Manchester’s Six Ways to Wellbeing as part of a pilot for PGR Wellbeing Champions.

 

Next Friday 27^th September, Jon, PGR in Electrical and Electronic Engineering is hosting FSE PGR Connect and all PGRs in the faculty of Science and Engineering are welcome.

 

Connect with new people, take part in activities and win prizes!

Refreshments will be provided!

 

Limited spaces are available, please book tickets on Eventbrite https://fsepgrconnectuom2019.eventbrite.co.uk

Any questions please email the PGR Well Bee-ing project at pgrwellbeingproject@manchester.ac.uk

 

Best wishes,

Chloe

 

 

On behalf of the PGR Well Bee-ing Project team