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What King’s Careers & Employability can do for You
Finding part-time work
How to... 20 minute workshops• Writing CVs Finding part-time work• Writing cover letters• Getting work experience• Application forms
Many more! www.kcl.ac.uk/careers
Why Part-Time work?Money!
Make friends!Enhance your CV
Initiative, drive, team work, customer service, admin
skills, multi-tasking
Finding part-time work (cont.)
• Many leaflets and online resources:‘How to write a CV’‘Part-time work’‘Completing job application forms’‘Application letters’‘Interviews’
JobOnline: Hundreds of vacancies for King’s students at
your fingertips!
www.kcl.ac.uk/jobonline
On-Campus Vacancies
www.directtemping.com/register/kcl
Part-Time Work Fair
• Thursday 3rd Oct • Time: 11:30 to 14:30• Venue: Great Hall, Strand Campus• A great opportunity to meet employers & find
part time work• Help fund your studies, and get some crucial
work experience
you
• .
Generating ideas and inspiration
•Prospects Planner: www.prospects.ac.uk•Careers Service library•www.careers.lon.ac.uk/international
•Still lost? Talk to us!
Researching careers:Careers Tagged
www.careerstagged.co.uk
Researching industries, sectors and
organisations•Employer events (on & off campus)•How to... sessions (research your policy career/city job/career in law etc)• Library resources• Facebook pages & Twitter• Fairs: Careers Fair, Tech, Law, Pharmacy, Nursing etc.
Improving your employability skills
• Kings Professional Skills Programme• Other skills sessions• Join societies, volunteer, get a part-
time job• Get international, get involved!• Facebook & Twitter (commercial
awareness)• How to... Sessions (work experience)
Finding full-time work after you graduate
you
What we can’t do
• Job matching service • Tell you what job you should do!• Proof-read CVs and application• Help with grammar and English
(English Language Centre)• Recommend specific employers or
recruitment agencies• Help or advice with visas (see
International Student Advisers)
Where we are
• Locations:–Strand (Macadam Building) –Guys (Henriette Raphael)
•Times: –Strand 09.30-17.00, Mon-Thur.–Guys Mon-Tue Afternoons
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life…the most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don’t.
Baz Luhrmann
Thank you!
www.kcl.ac.uk/careers