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Careers in Energy 2015
By ucqbldv, on 23 February 2015
UCL’s career events are really something you should not miss: A large number of UCL students from the related studies visited the last event “Careers in Energy 2015” in the white pavilion in the main quad.
Here, young representatives from larger-sized companies as well as from fresh startups spoke about their personal experiences of entering the job market in the energy sector after they had completed their own education.
In that way, it made it very easy for students to relate to and exchange ideas in a more casual way. Even though the companies did not offer vacancies to the students directly, there was plenty of room to discuss possible internships or dissertation topics, which may be beneficial at a later stage.
The most important message though, came from one of the speakers: “Sustainability is like wrestling with a gorilla, you don’t give up when you are tired, you give up when the gorilla is tired!” This short message made it clear that there are plenty of opportunities out there. If one feels neglected, it is important to stand up again. As the issues about energy and climate change are likely to worsen with every minute, we now really need people to work together to tackle those issues.
For the next event, it would be great to hear a bit more about the career opportunities for students from overseas, as not all companies are willing to hire students who require a visa. It is important that also these students benefit from UCL Careers’ Events.
And finally, a brief hint from some students: Always bring your business cards, that can sometimes do wonders!
Thanks to the great presentations and ideas we got from Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), Green Tomato Energy, Rambøll, E4Tech, Element Energy, Zero Carbon Hub, Sustainable Engineering Collective and National Grid.
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Lucas van Laack
MSc Environmental Design and Engineering
Student Representative Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment
UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE)
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WilliamBurns12 wrote on 23 February 2015:
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