3rd years – careers sessions in November

Drop-in Careers Advice

Carolyn Parry will be in the department on Wednesday 6th November to run 1-to-1 drop in careers sessions for 3rd years.

There is a sign-up sheet at the hatch in reception – these slots are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. There are sessions between 10am and 12noon and then at 3pm until 5pm. Each session lasts for 20 minutes.

The sessions will take place on the sofas in reception.

Graduate Scheme Workshop

Carolyn will also be running a 2-hour workshop for those of you who are interested in applying to graduate schemes with the large employers. These schemes have closing dates over the next couple of months. This workshop will give you guidance on what these schemes how and how they operate, together with information about the application process. This will be an interactive workshop and it is a great chance for you to ask your questions about graduate schemes.

To help us plan for a suitable room, we need you to sign-up for the event. There is a sign-up form at the hatch in reception. We will announce the room closer to the time.

If you have questions about these events, please contact nst@aber.ac.uk.

Opportunity for those interested in applying for graduate schemes

Next week, the University is being visited by a recruitment consultant from management consultants Pricewaterhouse Cooper (PwC). The session will provide an introduction to Psychometric Testing and include a practice test.

If you are interested in applying for Graduate Schemes, this is something that you should attend.

An Introduction to Psychometric Testing with PwC
Tuesday 29 October 6.15pm
Sign up at http://aber.prospects.ac.uk

Cyflwyniad i Brofi Seicometrig (sesiwn gyda PwC)
Nos Fawrth 29 Hydref 6.15pm
Cofrestrwch yn http://aber.prospects.ac.uk

Google TechAbility for 2013

Google TechAbility Business is a unique opportunity for your disabled and dyslexic undergraduate, master and PhD students to broaden their horizons by gaining an insight into life at Google and its products and to be given dedicated, expert careers advice from their very own Google mentor.

See: http://us5.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e955983112f43cfbce48caead&id=3b8a9d745b&e=50e090179c

The application deadline is Sunday October 20th 2013.

ARM Graduate Opportunities

One of our recent graduates, Nikolay Borisov, has just alerted us to jobs at ARM: http://www.arm.com/about/careers/graduates/vacancies.php

He comments:

“I don’t think there is much to say about ARM – the name speaks of itself J The company is doing very good, this September they hired 105 people and they still need more great talent. It turns out there are 3-4 Aber graduates so people from Uni have great chances. The main requirements is C/PYTHON as well as some general awareness in operating systems/CPU architectures
Hint: read up on CPU pipelines/out of order execution/race conditions in order to prepare for the interview 😀

In case anyone have questions they can email at Nikolay.Borisov@arm.com and I’ll be happy to help”

Job opportunities in Japan for English speakers

We have been given details from a specialist recruitment agency about IT opportunities in Japan. Details of the jobs and the application process can be found on their website at the following links (one for each company):

http://business-paradigm.co.jp/recruit/rakuten.html

http://business-paradigm.co.jp/recruit/wap.html

http://business-paradigm.co.jp/recruit/dena.html

These are open to recent graduates and those graduating next summer.