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,…
Work Experience – A year 10 student’s account
Manaal is a year 10 student that recently completed her work experience here at Step. In this blog, she talks about how she views work experience and how her experience was. Work experience is significant because it helps you gain a lot of exposure in many fields of work which could help you pick future…
Manaal
Answers to the top 5 career fair questions
Our recently completed autumn tour was our biggest for some years. We visited many of our frequent partner universities as well as others that we, like an old friend, have lost touch with over the years. We’re always excited to begin and exhausted at the end, and this was truer this year with the added…
Tips to Find Student Accommodation Abroad – GUEST BlOG
According to an educations.com survey of over 20,000 students, concern over student accommodation is rising. For students studying or working abroad, housing is a major concern. This rise in housing worries varies based on region. It is particularly prevalent among North American Students (50% stating that are concerned about accommodation) but this trend of rising…
Educations.com
Personal Development in your Graduate Career – GUEST BLOG
Darren, from Making Business Matter and Alison, from AHC Learning, explain how implementing a personal development plan in your life can be a huge benefit to your graduate career. Development appears in our lives whether we are at school, university or in the so-called ‘adult’ life with a career, creating a business or exploring the…
Darren & Alison
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…
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…
Money saving tips for new graduates – GUEST BLOG
After spending approximately 18 years in the education system, life after graduation can be quite daunting. Whilst it feels good to be free of exam stress, you’re suddenly faced with a lot of important decisions to make and routes to consider. The first step is to just relax, and not let these big decisions scare…
Louise
Spotlight on careers in Marketing – Catalina, Digital Acquisition Manager at giffgaff gameplan
Looking for a career in marketing but not sure which route to explore and what you’re career will eventually look like? This blog will give you an example of one of the many varied career options that marketing can present to you. Name: Catalina Balan University: Goldsmiths University of London Course: MA, Cultural and…
Catalina Balan
The Law Around Unpaid Internships – GUEST BLOG
If you’re doing an internship this summer you may feel reimbursement of travel expenses and a thank you card aren’t enough. It’s hard work making a good impression and when you’re asked to stay on late to help out with a marketing campaign, how can you say no? In recent years there have been calls…
Matt Gingell