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Report: English Majors Employed at Comparable Rates, Educators Can Do More to Prepare Students for Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In fact, this rate for English majors puts it below the unemployment rate for computer and information services majors, 2.8%, though still higher compared to a number of other majors – business, engineering, philosophy, physical science, and history. But for women, that number falls to around $61,000.

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Creating the Study Hub with students as consultant partners

Teaching Matters Academic Support

What we did in summer 2018 was employ a student intern to act as a consultant, give us a name for our new product, and design us a brand. Summer 2018 was successful. Fortunately, at The University of Edinburgh, the Careers Service have made it easy to do. Grandidge, 2018) References Careers Service.

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Student advisers teach postgrad development skills

Confessions of a Community College Dean

For over a decade, students have worked alongside staff at the college’s career center to provide professional development help for the larger campus community, part of a long-standing institutional tradition.

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Why placements and fieldwork matter to future employers

Teaching Matters Student Employment

The University of Edinburgh, McEwan Hall, Careers Fair Day, Photo credit: Neil Hanna Photography. We put our money where our mouth is to offer students work experience in a number of areas, including part-time work in the Careers Service, and through coordinating the Employ.Ed Importantly these are all paid.

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PhD Horizons: What opportunities await at the end of a PhD and how to prepare for them

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The PhD Horizons Careers Conference is a great place for PhD students to find out more about their future career options. In early 2018, now officially in the last year of my degree, I applied for the position of PhD Horizons Careers Conference Intern. Jul 31, 2018

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Welcome to the May issue of Teaching Matters: Employability and Graduate Attributes

Teaching Matters Student Employment

In this month’s issue, Teaching Matters is delighted to be working in close partnership with the Careers Service to showcase innovative and interesting teaching practices that focus on Employability and Graduate Attributes. May 1, 2018 Happy reading!

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‘So your degree; what are you going to do with that? Do you want to become a teacher?’: Employability in HCA

Teaching Matters Student Employment

CC0 [Pixabay] For a number of years now, the School of History, Classics and Archaeology (HCA) has been working closely with the Careers Service to help address the question every arts and humanities students faces at some point in their career: ‘So your degree; what are you going to do with that?