A New Year date for your diaries: Employability event: Careers in Management

Thursday 7th January 2010

10.00 – 12.00 pm

Building 2, Room 3041

10.00 –10.30 Centrica: Rosalie McMillan and Hussein Hajat

Overview of Centrica

HR, Operations and Marketing Roles

Graduate opportunities and Summer Placements

10.30– 11.00 Aldi: Dan Ronald

Overview of Aldi

A day in the life

Graduate opportunities and summer placements

11.00– 12.00 Refreshments and a chance to talk informally to the speakers

Thanks
Lisa

In the interests of networking and getting to know people better, as discussed in your blog posts, you are all most welcome to come to our “tweetup” at the Stile pub from 4.30pm on Wednesday 2nd December.

The expression “tweetup” just means that it has been organised via Twitter, but you don’t need to be a Twitter user to come along and meet other people from the University.

I hope to see you there!

Thanks
Lisa

Our next meeting will be on 1st December:

Group A 1pm
Group B 1.30pm
Group C 2pm
Group D 2.30pm

BEFORE this meeting, your task is to post a progress report on your blog, focusing on the efforts you have made to make new connections here at Southampton, either with people on your programme, other programmes, or in the University or local community more widely, or online via social networks such as Facebook or LinkedIn. These connections may be social, or to do with your study, or for future career planning. We will then discuss your posts and share ideas in our meeting on 1st December.

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Lisa

There is a Guest lecture by Rufus Evison from Dunnhumby on Thursday (19 November) at 10am in 2/1085. The topic is web analytics for marketing.

Hope you can make it!

Thanks
Lisa

A couple of points have come up in the discussions that are worth sharing with you all:

1. the value of study groups - if you have not yet participated, make sure that you do!
2. the resources available from Career Destinations This includes a list of upcoming careers events, as well as current job vacancies.

Thanks
Lisa

Tracy has made a great job of setting up her blog to include a number of useful links to other resources. She says:

“Thanks! it’s my pleasure if you would like to highlight this as an example.
I am willing to assist the students who need my help. please attach my email cip1e09@soton.ac.uk.”

So please get in touch with Tracy if you would like to follow her example.

Thanks
Lisa

http://www.efolio.soton.ac.uk/blog/ph2u07/

Blogging in Plain English

As well as writing your own blog posts, you should make sure that you follow the blogs of people who write material that is useful to you (and, of course, you can comment on their work too). A very useful blog to get you started as an example of great people to follow is Online Marketing Guru Dave Chaffey And of course Seth Godin

Thanks
Lisa

We are investigating incoming students’ skills in the use of various technologies and their attitudes to online study, with the purpose of enhancing the delivery of our programmes for the benefit of future cohorts.

Click Here to take survey

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Lisa