Careers Connect coronavirus updates

As you all know, Careers Connect has now gone totally online due to the University's decision around coronavirus. We have made sure you can still access our offer while at home so are now offering all our employability appointments via phone or Zoom. We are still here to support you during this time and want to help you best prepare for the online world. We're constantly reviewing our offer, e.g. webinars and events for you, and are also wanting to hear your suggestions to make sure our content is relevant to each and every one of you!

On this page, we have picked out specific online careers tools to help you prepare for this online working world. Read below to find out how you can book appointments with our Employability Advisers and access all our helpful resources. You can access the full range of our online career support resources, or below there are links to some of our most popular online resources:

Making your CV the best it can be

If you’ve never written a CV before, or feel a little unconfident about the process, start with our CV Builder Tool

CV builder can help you to create and format your CV. There are step-by-step instructions to:

-       fill in CV content

-       offer descriptive words and content to guide you

-       video and audio clips with employers' advice.

You can work through the sections and save it in stages, or complete it in one-go. Once your CV is complete, you can download it in various layouts such as technical, chronological, LinkedIn etc. 

If you’re more experienced and more confident about your current CV, try our CV360 Tool

It automatically checks your CV, provides instant feedback and an overall score, based on the same methods employed by large recruiters.

Interviews

As a response to the present situation, some employers are maintaining continuity of their recruitment and selection by replacing face to face interviews with Skype or video interviews (although note, many graduate recruiters use video interviews as part of their normal recruit process these days). 

If you've never experience a video interview before, start with our short online course. The same page also contains resources to help you prepare for other types of interviews.

If you're a little more experienced, and want to start practicing video interviews straightaway, use our online video interview simulation. This is also useful for practicing for Skype and telephone interviews.