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Your future careerStep London Graduate Internship programmeThis programme is run by The Careers Group and offer paidinternships to graduates at:www.careers.lon.ac.ukEmployabilityUndergraduate careers supportThe Careers Service is conveniently situated within the same buildingas the Economics department and is affiliated with The Careers Group,University of London. At 100 years old is one of the largest and mostestablished higher education careers organisations in Europe.Undergraduate Careers Advisers offer plenty of hands-onsupport,along with one-to-one coaching sessions, designed to assistyou with your career strategy. In addition to which Careers Advisorsfocus on areas such as entrepreneurship and provide a specialistservice for international students. It is strongly advised that youprepare for a job as early as possible by fully utilising the CareersCentre facilities and attending activities and events to network andgain information. Our workshops will help you with:• Using social media for job hunting• Finding internships and work experience• CV’s, Applications, Interviews• Assessment centres• Making the most of the recruitment fair• What to do if you don’t know what to do!Maximising your job opportunitiesEmployers also look for such skills such as teamwork, problemsolvingand decision-making. The best job applicants got involvedwith activities such as student societies, sports teams, volunteeringand part-time work. Some student societies work with the CareersService for assistance with guest speakers and vocational information.These include the Economics Society, Entrepreneurs, the Law Societyand the Management and Investment society. Your involvementwith co-curricular activities can lead to you being awarded theRoyal Holloway Passport, a recent initiative that helps you market yourskills to employers.Egham is part of a business hub that has built up around Heathrowand the M25 which provides opportunities to work in the area forlocal, national and multi-national companies. There are businessessituated close to the college that include accountants, managementconsultants, law firms, IT and utilities companies and numerousrestaurants and shops. Our affiliation with the Careers Group, providesaccess to employers and careers events in London as well as locally.Careers activities and employer events• PWC, psychometric assessment skills session• Proctor & Gamble – R&D presentation• Deloitte, making successful applications, skills session• Ernst & Young, CV clinic• College of Law, is Law the careers for me?• RAF interviews• Centrica, succeeding at interviews skills session• CV workshop, Job applications workshop• Transferable skills from volunteering workshop• Centrica summer internships presentationwww.rhul.ac.uk/careers/eventsServices for students who wish to:• Start a business, social enterprise or charity• Become more enterprising and entrepreneurial• Enhance employability with enterprise skillswww.rhul.ac.uk/rhentrepreneursStart-up Wednesdays – workshops and skillsdevelopment• Student Societies – gain experience through involvement in societies• Enterprise Lab – one-to-one business guidance/ incubation services• Competitions – raise funds for your business/social enterprise• Enterprise Training – boot camps/department workshops/one-off events14
“My degree was in economic and public administration. I wouldn’t claim to have been the mostconscientious or brilliant of students, but the grounding I was given has been the foundation ofmy understanding of much of the current political debate on the state of the economy. I do enjoyoccasionally interviewing some of my former tutors. My time to ask them the difficult questions.”Robbie Gibb Alumnus, Editor BBCAfter graduating you will become part of the Royal Holloway Alumni.We are in contact with 65,000 previous students both in the UK andabroad, enabling graduates to network with each other worldwide.To help you keep in touch we will send you information throughHigher, our twice yearly magazine and our regular Alumni UpdateeNewsletter. Many alumni give their support because their time hereleft a positive impression on them, which they are proud of. They arevery active and often become ambassadors of the university, helpingwith events, graduate recruitment, career talks, mentoring, networkingand offering job opportunities. Some of our recent alumni eventshave included:• Alumni Lecture Series – ‘The Apprentice’ finalist, Debra Barr• Start It! Royal Holloway Entrepreneurs events – Business clinics,Bright Ideas Masterclass & Start-up Planning and events featuringspeakers from ‘Dragons Den’www.royalhollowayentrepreneurs.com/• Alumni in the city – networking and socialising• Hancock Cup Alumni Sports Day – basketball, netball, football,rugby, hockey, mixed lacrosse, golf, American football• International weekend reunionsFor further information about Royal Holloway alumni events pleasevisit: www.rhul.ac.uk/For-Alumni/news_and_events.htmlThrough the alumni programme you can gain many benefits, some ofwhich include:• Royal Holloway Sports Centre membership• Free access to the libraries• Alumni bursaries for postgraduate study• Ongoing careers support through our Careers ServiceGraduate ProfileAlumnus: James LambertSubject: EconomicsGraduated: 2003 (BSc), 2004 (MSc)Place of Work: AshurstPosition: EconomistIt was a very friendly university wherestudents of all backgrounds anddepartments mixed easily. Whilst theCollege had grown significantly, it was stillsufficiently small to create an atmospherein which one felt that one knew a goodproportion of both staff and students.This is a big differentiating factor fromother universities.Graduate ProfileAlumna: Ying ZhouSubject: EconomicsGraduated: 2007Place of Work: NAFMIIPosition: Foreign AffairsSpending the summer of my secondyear as an accountant at Shell in Chinaenabled me to develop key soft skills.Communication, problem solving andindependent thinking, alongside theacademic skills that I gained throughmy degree.• Discounts on products and servicesWe always encourage our alumni to get involved inorganising such events to help bring the alumni community closertogether. For further information please visit the Royal HollowayAlumni website: www.rhul.ac.uk/alumni/15
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