Undergraduates: the importance of getting something tangible on your CV
If you are an undergraduate reading this and you don’t have any work experience, I would advise looking to start something asap. Unless you are coming into study from a mature background, it’s unlikely that you will have work experience before starting your studies, which can lead to a bare looking CV or Step profile,…
Students and Graduates: Be proud of your work experience
Over the years I have spoken with thousands of students and graduates about employment, and found that a surprising number have deliberately left pieces of non-vocational work off their CVs and Step profiles. This ranges from one who worked in a fast-food restaurant while studying and felt it would be looked down on by graduate…
Invested in Investment – Matt
Matthew is a final year Industrial Economics student at the University of Nottingham. Last year he completed a Property Investment Summer Internship with Tesco Pension Investment (TPI). We caught up with Matt to learn of his experience and the lessons he learned. A role in investment had always been in Matt’s sights. Following a background…
Matt
My Internship Experience at Step – Alisha
Alisha is a recent Business management graduate from the University of Derby who completed an internship here at Step. In this blog, she talks about her experience at Step. I learned about the opportunity for an internship at Step through my university Job board and it was what I was looking for, experience in recruitment.…
Alisha
Social Media, Digital Marketing & Events! – Festus
Festus is a 2018 Marketing Management graduate from the University of Northampton. He is currently completing a Digital Marketing & Events Internship with UnLtd, a business which finds social entrepreneurs with bold solutions to today’s challenges. Through funding and support, they help entrepreneurs to realise their potential and create lasting change. After leaving university, I…
Festus
Employers, be kind to graduates…
In a recent poll on our website, we asked visitors when they first received careers advice and were shocked to find that over half of respondents received no careers advice during their secondary education. As a business, we work closely with our local secondary Free School to host year 10 work experience and volunteer to…
Immigration Law in London – Sophie
Sophie is a 2018 European Law graduate from the University of Exeter. She has recently joined an immigration practice in Bromley as a Graduate Immigration Support Assistant. The early stages of Sophie’s search for graduate employment consisted of sifting through any and all available opportunities. Her focus then shifted toward assistant roles, and with the…
Sophie
House of Commons BAME Programme – Axell
Axell is a 2017 International Relations graduate from the University of Portsmouth. He completed the House of Commons BAME internship programme in 2018. In 2017 I was awarded a Master’s degree in International Relations by the University of Portsmouth, after which I secured an internship at the House of Commons, having come through the BAME…
Axell Kaubo
Exceptional Event Management! – Steph
Steph is a recent Chemistry with Biomedicine graduate from King’s College London. She has recently completed an events management internship with PESGB – The Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain. She has since been taken on permanently as an Events Officer. I approached this internship from a completely different background than most people working in events; with…
Steph
Tea with the Speaker – Celebrating the 8th Cohort of the Speaker’s Parliamentary Placement Scheme
Yesterday Tamsin (Step Director) and I were invited to tea with the Speaker to welcome the 2018/19 cohort of interns to the Speaker’s Parliamentary Placement Scheme, the eighth such cohort. It was fascinating to see the inner workings of Government, including the rich history of the Speakers House in the Palace of Westminster, and great…