Tips to make the most of your winter break!

Posted on December 13, 2024December 13, 2024 by Careers Service

With your winter vacation coming up, have you considered how you might spend the break from University?

The Winter vacation, and the addition of Preparation Week this year between Monday 6 and Friday 10 January, present a valuable opportunity to invest in your future career before your studies restart.

Preparation Week is your chance, reflect on your skills, come to an event, or start making future career plans.

To kick things off, why not sign up for one our intro talks:

Make the most of the careers service during our opening hours which change slightly as we approach the Winter break. Live Chat and opening times for walks-ins are:

9 to 13 December: 1.30 pm to 4.30 pm (Monday to Friday)
21 December to 5 January: Closed
From 6 January: 10 am to 4.30 pm (Monday to Friday) – Back to normal!

Read on for our top tips on how to maximise your time during the break and preparation week.

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City Challenge: Streams Learning Hub

Posted on November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 by Careers Service

City Challenges are a programme of events providing students with the opportunity to engage with charities and social enterprises.  

Students can support worthwhile organisations whilst developing skills to improve employability. By taking part in a City Challenge, students gain experience in problem solving, presentation skills, innovative thinking, and community engagement. 

Streams Learning Hub

The Streams Learning Hub is a co-working space for teenagers in central Bristol. It provides a flexible space for young people to gather, learn and connect with online providers and in-person workshops and events. 

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City Challenge: Changes Bristol

Posted on October 30, 2024October 30, 2024 by Careers Service

City Challenges are a programme of events providing students with the opportunity to engage with charities and social enterprises.  

Changes Bristol

This month we invited Changes Bristol to host our latest City Challenge.

Changes is a user-led organisation and a unique recovery service for those in mental distress.

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City Challenges kick-off the year with The MoSAIC

Posted on October 14, 2024October 9, 2024 by Careers Service

City Challenges are a programme of events providing students with the opportunity to engage with charities and social enterprises.

Students can support worthwhile organisations whilst developing skills to improve employability. By taking part in a City Challenge, students gain experience in group working, problem solving, public speaking and presentation, innovative thinking, and community engagement.

The MoSAIC (The Museum of Science, the Arts & Interdisciplinary Collaboration)
is a Bristol based business taking STEAM learning to the next level and reducing the disadvantage gap using cross-curricular education. They show young people and educators how creative the STEM subjects really are through online and downloadable teaching resources and accessibly priced in-person creative school workshops aimed at secondary school aged students. The MoSAIC came and hosted a session with us at the Careers Service on Tyndall Avenue. Students worked together and came up with ideas to support the marketing of services and diversification of revenue streams.

Gareth, founder of The MoSAIC stands in front of a slide with his company's branding on. He is talking animatedly and gesturing.

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Creative community engagement with Sparks Bristol!

Posted on May 27, 2024May 28, 2024 by Careers Service

City Challenges went off-campus with a trip to Sparks Bristol on Wednesday 8 May.

The event started with a tour of the different departments at Sparks and a talk about what Sparks does, why it was founded, and what they stand for.

Lucy, Volunteer Coordinator, said

“Sparks Bristol is a sustainability and creativity hub. It’s a community space in the centre of Bristol where we want people to explore what a fairer and greener future looks like. And they consider the climate crisis, the cost of living crisis, and what we can do with an empty, massive building right in the middle of the city.”

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Working in partnership: Tutor the Nation and the Careers Service

Posted on April 29, 2024April 26, 2024 by Careers Service

At the Careers Service we work in partnership with external organisations to bring a range of experiences to our students, and we like to think our brilliant students give a lot back too!

This year we have been working closely with Tutor the Nation, who have taken part in City Challenges and run mock interviews for our students as part of becoming an endorsing organisation for the Bristol PLUS Award.

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Student Volunteering Week Panel Event: What can you achieve through volunteering?

Posted on March 25, 2024March 22, 2024 by Careers Service

In conjunction with Student Volunteering Week, the Bristol PLUS Award team held a panel event where a brilliant panel of student volunteers shed light on the holistic benefits of volunteering.

Looking to start volunteering but not sure how to get started? Dive into this blog to learn about the key takeaways from our panellists.

Our panellists included:

Aditya Verma – Socio-Legal Studies (MSc)
Dinara Shaimakhanova – Education (PhD)
Charmaine Sew – International Social and Public Policy (BSc)
Rowan O’Clarey – Mathematics (MSci)
Ione Howells – Environmental Policy and Management (MSc)

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How I discovered my passion for the non-profit sector (and how you can do the same!)

Posted on February 5, 2024January 31, 2024 by Careers Service

I’m Amelia, a second-year International Social and Public Policy with Study Abroad (BSc) student and 2022/23 Bristol PLUS Award achiever.

Committing to the Bristol PLUS Award pushed me out of my comfort zone and exposed me to lots of different experiences.

It helped me to narrow down possible career avenues and even led to a part-time job.

Read on to find out how…

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Supercharge your employability with the Bristol PLUS Award!

Posted on January 19, 2024January 17, 2024 by Careers Service

Open to all students – undergraduate and postgraduate – the Bristol PLUS Award offers a gateway to gaining invaluable employability skills.

Whether through volunteering, gaining practical work experience, or attending tailor-made workshops, the Bristol PLUS Award is your key to standing out in today’s competitive job market.

Hear some first-hand PLUS Award testimonials from our students from diverse backgrounds, who are studying different degrees and carving unique career paths, to discover how the PLUS Award could benefit you.

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City Challenges – Building Communities with Bristol Hub

Posted on November 24, 2023March 20, 2024 by Careers Service

Earlier in November, Bristol Student Hub teamed up with the Careers Service to run our latest City Challenge.

27 student volunteers attended in order to work together and generate ideas which would help Bristol Student Hub reflect on their current methods of community engagement and recommend new ways to build sustainable communities within their network of alumni and volunteers.

Bristol Hub is part of a national network that includes student hubs in Southampton, Bristol, and Cambridge as well as individual projects that run at other institutions.

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