These are optional sessions for final year CS students to help with your career/job searches. They are on Tuesdays at 1:10 in Physics A. They will start on Tuesday 6th October 2015.
Careers Fair: Our CS, Maths and Physics Careers Fair will be here on campus on Weds 18th November.
CV sessions: Bev will be offering bookable CV sessions on the morning of Weds 4th November from 10am - 1pm.
The schedule will be updated here. We will aim to hold sessions on topics such as making graduate applications, talks from employers and alumni, teaching as a career, careers fayres, working for yourself, careers outside of computing, postgrad opportunities and so on.
If you have particular topics you would like us to cover during the semester, let me know and I'll try to make that happen. afc@aber.ac.uk
6th October: Self employment and starting your own business
Ideas generation. Turning a good idea into a viable business. Business types. Business planning. Market Research. Marketing/Selling. IP. Financial aspects. Funding a new business enterprise. Support for startup from Aber Uni. Support from elsewhere.
See Enterprise Events for the programme of events that Tony runs throughout the semester, including on 7th Oct a funding workshop, on 28th Oct a networking workshop and on 11th November a Digital Marketing workshop
13th October: Making a graduate application
How to fill in those tricky questions. Slides.
20th October: Sharing our IY experiences
Some of you have spent a year working in one or more companies. Some of you haven't. There's a huge amount of useful knowledge that you now have, as a year group, about working in these places, and I'd like everyone to share it. This should be useful to those who didn't do an IY just as much as those who did.
27th October: Careers outside Computing (Bev Herring)
This session will focus on teaching as a career (the various routes in, requirements, incentives and the application process). Alongside, exploration of many other career paths where computer science graduates are often in demand. Slides from this talk.
3rd November: A science/research career (Colin Sauze)
What does a career in science or research look like? How does the communication with scientists of other disciplines work? How do scientists see the role of a comp-sci team member? What kinds of things can you get involved in? How much science do you need to know? What are the pressures and goals? What does an average day look like? Slides from this talk.
Birmingham Careers Fair Friday 6th November
There are two buses running from Aber to the huge Careers Fair in Birmingham. Cost to reserve a place on the bus is £10, but you'll get £8 back when you go. Sign up for this by going up to Careers in the Student Union. See the video of what it will be like in advance http://www.careerplayer.com/tips-and-advice/general-advice/career-fairs/
10th November: Work week, no session.
However, there are Speed Interviews on Tues 10th, where you can have several short interviews and get feedback, offered by the Careers Service. These are at 10 and at 11:30. You must book in advance, via https://careers.aber.ac.uk/.
17th and 18th November: No session on Tues 17th at 1:10 but two other sessions this week:
24th November: No formal session this week (but informal questions about studying for a PhD).
However, I'll be in Physics A at the usual time if anyone wants to pop in and ask me anything about applying for postgraduate study (PhDs in particular, but if you want to ask about taught MScs then I can probably answer these two or pass your question on).
1st December: Eddie Nickson, GE
I work for PII Pipeline Solutions, which is in the business of inspecting oil and gas pipelines. The business was originally part of British Gas, and a after a series of changes became part of GE in the early 2000s. It's now a joint venture between GE and the Qatari company Al Shaheen. I am a team leader managing development of software to analyse data collected from our pipeline inspections working with a team of about 15, mostly in the UK but also in Germany and India. I'm a Maths graduate with a Masters in Software Engineering, with about 25 years' experience in software development, mostly in the Oil & Gas sector. I'll give some background and discussion about working in a commercial/engineering environment - culture, technical aspects, challenges etc. I can then talk a little more about the things I look for when recruiting, and what might be helpful when applying.
8th December:
Suggested sessions that we may try to schedule: