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UCL Careers Employer Engagement Team- What’s New?

By Phil Howe, on 14 February 2014

Welcome to the first update from UCL Careers’ Employer Engagement Team! We’ll be using this blog to share stories from UCL with graduate recruiters, as well as anything else that catches our eye. We hope you enjoy it!

UCL Careers Service becomes UCL Careers
You may already have noticed but last term we changed our name to UCL Careers, as part of a brand overhaul. The new name, look and feel were developed through student, employer and staff focus groups, and the new visual identify was created by ThirtyThree. Our team name has also changed to Employer Engagement to reflect the wider range of services we now offer employers.

Placements & Vacancies Team
2013 also saw us create our Placements & Vacancies team. They will be sourcing the mandatory placements for our BASc undergraduates and BBSRC funded PhD students, as well as developing UCL Talent Bank– our new shortlisting service. The new team comprises Rochelle Symons (Manager), Charlotte Turnbull and Lizzy McKinney and they would love to hear from any employers keen to offer 3 month (or similar) placements or internships via careers.internships@ucl.ac.uk.

Comings and Goings
Vivienne Watson joined us in the Autumn to look after our employer- led skills programme for research students, but sadly Natalia Mazzini-Cea (Events Administrator) and Natalie Sibley (Employer Engagement in Engineering) moved on to new roles- in Natalie’s case in Canada! We are well underway recruiting their replacements and will update you soon. Weronika Benning, who was interning with the team last term, has happily been able to stay on to cover our Skills4Work programme and Engineering events.

50 years young!
UCL Careers celebrates its 50th birthday this year! We have exciting plans for a website, anniversary publication and a time capsule! We’d also love to hear from employers who can tell us how our alumni have developed their careers at your organisation over the last 50 years. Email us at careers.events@ucl.ac.uk.

Summer School
UCL are holding a Global Citizenship programme from 2nd-13th June 2014, and UCL Careers are running the Employability stream. We will be working with up to 200 students over the 2 weeks and will be looking for employers to get involved in a variety of ways- CV and interview coaching, sending alumni to take part in panel discussions and showcasing immediate start vacancies at the Jobs Market event. Let us know if you’d like to contribute by emailing careers.events@ucl.ac.uk.

Sprint
January 2014 saw us collaborate with RBS to bring their Sprint programme for female undergraduates and graduates to UCL. 50 women attended and their feedback showed improved confidence job hunting, expanded professional and personal networks and the identification of appropriate industry mentors. We will be reviewing the programme with RBS but are keen to run more events of this kind.

Fair and presentation bookings now open!
Autumn 2014 seems a long way off- we’re all hoping for a summer first- but we are already taking provisional bookings for our 5 Careers Fairs and our on and off campus presentations programme. To make a booking, or check date clashes do get in touch with us at careers.events@ucl.ac.uk.