Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Teaching Fair
Friday 6 January 12-2, Portland Atrium

This event will enable you to meet over 20 teaching related employers including schools, recruitment agencies and local authorities. It is primarily aimed at PGCE students, but you are welcome to attend to find out more about getting into teaching, and some employers may take on GTP trainees straight from their degree programmes. You can also find out more about Portsmouth PGCE Programmes at the event. Find out more information at http://www.port.ac.uk/careersandrecruitment/newsevents/events/.

Monday 30
5-6pm / 6-7pm
Portland 1.53

Work related options

Getting Academic Credits for Volunteering, Work Experience, Internships & anything else…

Monday 6
5-6pm / 6-7pm
Portland 1.53

Work related options

Getting Academic Credits for Volunteering, Work Experience, Internships & anything else…

Monday 13
5-6pm
Portland 1.53

Business Careers: Careers in Marketing, HR and Finance

With your degree you would be able to enter any of these fields through a graduate scheme. Come along to find out more about these roles and whether they will suit you.

• Hilary Wiseman:  Wiseman Consulting, careers in HR.
• Kate Rowsell: University of Portsmouth – careers in marketing
• Richard Kelman: BDO – careers in accounting and finance

Monday 20
5-6pm
Portland 1.53

Volunteering – (including getting placements in schools / teaching): 

What are the benefits of volunteering and how can you find it?  Opportunities available through Purple Door Careers and Recruitment and school based opportunities.

• Alice Hickman/Janet Woolnough:  Purple Door Careers and Recruitment
• Ann Patey: SECS
• Student volunteers

Monday 27
5-6pm
Portland 1.53

Do you want to earn £30k in your first year as a graduate?

So have you considered a career in recruitment and sales
These roles which need excellent communication and negotiation skills are entered by many students from FHSS courses each year.  Come along to find out more.

• Helen Fuge: Recruitment Manager, Purple Door Careers and Recruitment (History and German graduate)
• Sales graduate

[Sales: Slides & Handout]

Wednesday 29
13.30 – 17:00
Portland 1.53

Working in China

(registration required – contact Emmanuel.godin@port.ac.uk )

Are you a Chinese students looking to return to work after your course?
Or maybe  a UK/EU student interested in getting experience in China?
This session will provide an introduction to the labour market, what employers look for and what it is really like to work in China.

• Zhi Dong: UK Trade and Industry
• John Naysmith, Sasha Baron and Emmanuel Godin
• Student contributors
• Janet Woolnough

Monday 5
5-7pm
Portland 1.53

Working / work experience and internships in the European Union institutions

• Gergely Polner, European Parliament

Monday 12
5-6pm
Portland 1.53

Academic Careers

Careers in academia include teaching and research roles in HE. 

Monday 19
5-6pm
Portland 1.53

Networking & Social Networking

The ability to use contacts and make contacts is increasingly important in successful jobsearch.  Find out how to use social media techniques and networking skills to help you find the job of your dreams.

• Charlie Duff – Brave New Talent

Monday 26
5-6pm
Portland 1.53

Heritage / Leisure

speakers tbc

Monday April 23
5-6pm
Portland 1.53

TBC

Monday April 30
5-7pm
Portland 1.53

Learning from Experience

Briefing Session for students who have chosen Life / Learning from Experience for 2012-13

Monday Sep 24th
6-7pm
Richmond LT2 

Getting Experience

Janet Woolnough
Alice Hickman
Enzo Rossi - UPSU

slides 

1-3pm
Portland Atrium +
seminar rooms

Getting ready for 2012

Fair Stands:

• Purple Door Careers and Recruitment
• Enterprise
• Library
• ASK
• Student Finance
• PG marketing
• Hums PG admissions

Alumni sessions:

• Teaching
• Postgraduate Study
• Graduate jobsearch – tips from graduates
• Volunteering – how, what and why

Monday Oct 1st
6-7pm
Richmond LT 2

Graduate Schemes

• Janet Woolnough
• Richard Patourel, CSC

Working in International NGO’s

• Claudia Villa (IR and Languages graduate) Red Cross
• George Byrne (Development Studies graduate) NGO experience in Ecuador
• Rebecca Daniel-Smith (IRH graduate) Amnesty International
• Paul McVeigh – Chair

No ideas

• Janet Woolnough

Careers in Teaching

• Andrew Porter – PGCE, UoP
• Malcolm Honour (Primary SCITT)
• Sally Allen PGCE Post-compulsory UoP (tbc)
• Catherine Stoneham – Explore Learning
• David Mather – graduate teacher
• Janet Woolnough - Chair

Social Enterprise / Not for Profit & The Big Society

• Simon Frost Parity Trust formerly South Coast Moneyline
• Francis Davis JVSE Ltd and Policy Advisor on the ‘Big Society
• Mike Tiller, coop also
• Janet Woolnough - Chair

slides:

• Parity Trust
• Purple Door

Careers in Government and Politics

• Panel of speakers covering a range of areas
• Paul McVeigh - chair

Working outside the UK

• Janet Woolnough

Police, crime analysis, forensics, security and intelligence

• Supt Richard John, Hampshire Constabulary
• Terry Lowe, Hampshire Scientific Services
• Catherine Beguilman, Lecturer and background in Crime Analysis
• Mike Bluestone, Chairman Security Institute
• Intelligence contact tbc
• Janet Woolnough – Chair

slides:

• Forensics
• The Police
• Research Analysis
• Careers in Security

Humanitarian Intervention , NGO’s and Peacekeeping

• Tony Welch NATO, Mission to Kosovo
• Janet Woolnough - Chair

Careers in government and politics

• Panel of speakers covering a range of areas (different speakers to those on Wednesday 17th Oct)
• Paul McVeigh – Chair

Monday Nov 5th
5-6pm
Burnaby 3.30

Speech Therapy

• Sarah Easton, Speech Therapist NHS
• Janet Woolnough – Chair

Monday Nov 5th
6-7pm
Richmond LT 2

CV’s and Applications

• Janet Woolnough

Careers in the armed forces - POSTPONED

Graduate Recruitment and Placement Fair

Over 60 employers with a wide range of opportunities for graduates

PR, Marketing and Advertising

• Kate Rowsell, UoP Marketing Department
• PR and Advertising contacts TBC
• Janet Woolnough - chair

Wednesday Nov 14th
1-3pm
Richmond LT 2

Legal Careers

• Jo Atkinson,(PBS Law School)
• Frank Worsley (Partner, Bolitho Way Solictors) tbc
• Jeremy Penny (Hampshire CC Lawyer) tbc
• Paul McVeigh - Chair

‘Working for Boris and Ken’: Local and regional government and the charitable sector

• Jason Lever, Advisor to Mayor Of London on Children’s Policy
• Paul McVeigh – Chair

Working with Offenders

• Ben Keysell, Trish Evans - Hampshire Probation Service
• Maria Greensmith – CARAT worker, substance services, Kingston Prison
• Duncan Robertson – Two Saints, supported housing
• Kerry Longhorn, Invisible Walls Project, Spurgeons, Kingston Prison
• Janet Woolnough – Chair

Translation and Interpreting

• Carol O’Sullivan
• Stephen Crabbe
• Other speakers tbc
• Carol O’Sullivan - chair

[slides]

Should I do a Master’s?

• University Event, Kate Rowsell

Early Years Careers

• Panel of speakers covering a range of areas.
• Joy Chalke - chair

Social Work and Youth Work: Should I do a Master's? 

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Publishing Careers

• Panel of speakers
• Janet Woolnough – Chair

Journalism Careers

• Panel of speakers covering a range of areas
• Mary Williams – Chair