The Hard Word

Ok, so this is a commercial for the Careers Advisory Service! With more than 1,000 students directly assisted per year (excluding casual use of the Careers Library and Vacation Work Service), we are not exactly claiming to be underworked. But the potential is there for a much greater use by you - particularly if you are a finalist this year - of the service to which you are contributing every year through the welfare levy.

The Milkround will be on again in a mere month's time. Are you going to be one of the students who will bowl into the Careers Office weeks after finishing studies and wonder where all the jobs have gone? (Typical comments: "Oh, I was very busy round about then... by the way, when was it again?" or "Oh I thought it was only for Commerce students!" or "Well I meant to go, but, you know ...").

Including the interviews, time taken filling in the brief, standard personal information forms for each employer, and checking out their details in the Careers Library, the average student would have to allocate no more than about four hours to attending five interviews with employers during the Milkround. Those five interviews (there is in fact no limit to the number you can attend) might make all the difference to your employment prospects. Those four hours represent a very, very small proportion of three or four years at Varsity.

... others still to confirm.

Finally, for those who are getting "a-into-g" on the job search process, you'll be pleased to know we've had a purge on the Careers Library and there are now new stocks of a range of information including: loads of Government Department leaflets, the new Graduate Employment booklet mentioned above, the new Teaching Training Careers handbooks, and application forms. (NB Closing date for teacher training applications is 20 August). See y'all.