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Design Competition: Design the new front cover for the Finalist Directory May 25, 2010

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Last year's winning cover, by Moira Gil and Sonsoles Alvarez from the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London

The Careers Group, University of London is holding a competition to design the new front cover for our annual publication, The Finalist Directory. We are looking for something new and exciting that will stand out and attract the right audience.

The Finalist Directory is distributed to University of London College Careers Services in September each year and has a shelf life of approximately 6 months. The content includes several careers related articles, an A-Z listing of employment opportunities, an A-Z listing of postgraduate study opportunities and careers event listings.

Producing a winning design for the front cover would be an ideal addition to your portfolio and also ensure exposure of your design to a range of employers, as well as approximately 12,000 finalists from the following colleges: Goldsmiths, King’s College, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, School of Oriental & African Studies, Specialist University of London Institutes & Colleges, St. Mary’s College and University College London. The winning designer will be acknowledged at the beginning of the publication.

Requirements:
•    Size – A4, portrait
•    Title – The Finalist Directory 2009 / 2010
•    Tag line – The essential guide for graduate opportunities and postgraduate study options.
•    Logo – The Careers Group logo should be in the bottom right hand corner
•    Colour – full colour
How to enter: Email cs@careers.lon.ac.uk to initially express your interest and we will send you a copy of The Careers Group logos and our brand requirements. Then send your design in high resolution pdf format by Friday 16 July at 5pm. Please remember to include your name and contact details, as well as a short paragraph explaining the ideas behind your design.

If you need any further information please email us at the address above.

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The finalist directory – see the winning design! October 22, 2009

Posted by helencurry in competitions, The Careers Group.
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A design for life

The Finalist Directory 2009/2010 is out now in our careers services and personally I have found the new cover design completely distracting – in a good way! The winners of our design competition, Moira Gil and Sonsoles Alvarez, have made a list of 170 things to do post-graduation, including:

34. Go to Walden Pond and read Thoreau while drifting in a canoe
65. Overcome your fear of failure
136. Paint the Big Apple red
147. Milk a cow
163. Spend three months getting your body in optimum shape

It is wonderfully creative and I bet if anyone did do half these things it would enrich their life no end. Pick up a copy in your college careers service to see the full list, as well as receive valuable advice on graduate job-hunting and postgraduate study!

Graduating this year? Please help with this survey (and you might win £1000!) July 9, 2009

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If you are third-year student graduating now, please consider taking part in this survey. Your experiences can be fed back to decision-makers to build a true picture of students’ experiences.

Details, in their own words, as below:

IMPORTANT NOTICE for third year students graduating this year (and ALL undergraduates who submitted UCAS applications to study on full time undergraduate courses in the 2005-6 application round)

What is REALLY happening in the graduate labour market? Whether you are in your final year or not, or know what you’ll be doing next year or not, if you fit into the category above and have not yet completed the Stage 3 Futuretrack Survey, please do so NOW, by clicking on the link below. The survey remains open for one more week until July 18th.

https://www.snapsurveys.com/futuretrack2009/

Futuretrack is THE ONLY wholly independent survey of higher education applicants in the UK, conducted by a research team at the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick. Completing it won’t take long and you can save your answers and return to it later if you wish. Your response is confidential and your personal details will not be used for any other purpose or seen by anyone outside the Warwick research team. The research, and the sponsor HECSU, the educational charity behind Futuretrack, aim to provide accurate and unbiased information for all the people to whom it matters, including course applicants, students, graduates, employers and higher education policy-makers and providers. The prize draw for applicants, with a top prize of £1000 and 50 0f £500, is still open – but this isn’t about prizes, it’s about contributing to really valuable research and helping to ensure that it is representative of all the 2006 applicant cohort, whatever paths they have followed. This is your last chance to be part of it.

See here to find out more about the survey.

Design Competition: Design the new front cover for the Finalist Directory June 30, 2009

Posted by tcginfo in creative arts, The Careers Group.
Tags: competitions, design, directory, finalists, The Careers Group
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Producing a winning design for the front cover would be an ideal addition to your portfolio and also ensure exposure of your design to a range of employers, as well as approximately 12,000 finalists from the following colleges: Goldsmiths, King’s College, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, School of Oriental & African Studies, Specialist University of London Institutes & Colleges, St. Mary’s College and University College London. The winning designer will be acknowledged at the beginning of the publication.

Requirements:

• Size – A4, portrait

• Title – The Finalist Directory 2009 / 2010

• Tag line – The essential guide for graduate opportunities and postgraduate study options.

• Logo – The Careers Group logo should be in the bottom right hand corner

• Colour – full colour

How to enter

Email cs@careers.lon.ac.uk to initially express your interest and we will send you a copy of The Careers Group logos and our brand requirements. Then send your design in high resolution pdf format by Friday 17 July at 5pm. Please remember to include your name and contact details, as well as a short paragraph explaining the ideas behind your design.

If you need any further information please email us at the address above.

Find out more about The Careers Group: http://www.careers.lon.ac.uk

Find The Careers Group on Facebook: http://www.careers.lon.ac.uk/facebook/

Follow The Careers Group on Twitter: http://twitter.com/careersgroup

Desperately seeking graduate jobs: top student-led blogs May 5, 2009

Posted by helencurry in just for fun.
Tags: careers, finalists, graduates, job hunting, job seeking, student, students
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Juggling revision with cover letters? Worried about the recession? Or just generally clueless about careers? You are not alone!

If the prospect of finding a job is stressing you out, if all your friends seem sorted but you’re still looking, take a look at one of these blogs and see how other students like you are getting on (and it will give you a productive few minutes break from revising right?!)