Podcasts from The Careers Group
By The Careers Group
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Podcast Description
The Careers Group podcasts contain detailed careers advice and guidance from our Careers Advisers. Topics include: CVs and interviews, making applications, funding postgraduate study and information about career sectors.
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Difficult interview questions: was your last boss a good manager? | This is a question with an obvious trap – you might be used to having a whinge at work, but in an interview situation you want to avoid sounding negative. Careers Advisers Jeff Riley and Deena Panthaky explore perspectives you can bring to this question – can you make your critique constructive? What did you [...] | 9/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Chance and luck in careers – when one thing leads to another | Often people think career planning is all about finding their vocation and pursuing it, but life doesn’t always work like that… Chance meetings, temp jobs, work experience, doing a favour for a friend – all can play a part in determining your career path. And there is nothing wrong with that! Through plenty of real-life examples, [...] | 8/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Difficult interview questions: what can you offer that other candidates cannot? | Deena and Jeff are back, pulling apart classic difficult interview questions and working out the best approach. This episode’s question is a particularly challenging one, both asking candidates to compare themselves to others who they don’t know, and asking for self-promotion – something that doesn’t come naturally to many of us. The podcast includes tips [...] | 8/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Difficult interview questions: which other companies have you applied to? | This question doesn’t always come up, so it is common for interviewees to be unprepared when asked who else they have applied to. It can feel difficult to answer as it breaks into your pitch as perfect candidate for their company, and it can distract you with thoughts of how you actually quite liked the [...] | 12/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Difficult interview questions: where do you expect to be in five years time? | In five years, plenty can change in business, in life, as well as in your career choices, so how can you approach a question like this? And what does the employer want – a commitment to them, ambition, or openness about your career thinking? Jeff Riley and Deena Panthaky again come to the rescue, describing [...] | 10/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Networking: a ten minute guide | This quick guide to networking will give beginners the confidence to get started with face-to-face career networking, as well as provide extra tips, structure and ideas to students and graduates who feel they could be more effective. Careers adviser Eric Evans outlines three steps on how to network, then discusses how to make the most [...] | 10/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Difficult interview questions: why do you want to work for this company? | When you are applying for jobs at a number of companies, you will have written to each stating how keen you are to work for them. Sometimes it can feel like there is an element of dishonesty around this – you have to apply to a number of places to maximize your chances, but you [...] | 8/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An introduction to MBAs | An introduction to MBAs Hilary Moor, MBA career adviser at Royal Holloway, University of London, gives a comprehensive overview of MBAs. In this podcast she discusses why people do MBAs, what benefits it gives you (and what it does not!), how much business experience you should have before you apply, what the course is like, [...] | 8/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A career in PR & communications: Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, part 2 | In part 2 of our podcast, Rob Ettridge and Heather Atchison talk about the culture of Red Lorry Yellow Lorry and what PR and written communications work is like. Part 1 is available here if you missed it. (MP3 – 16 min 32s, 7.5MB) Download | 7/16/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 9 Episodes |
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