Posted by Jaipreet in History on October 3, 2016
You might remember that I started an internship a couple of weeks ago. I’d just like to comment on a couple of things. Bad things that could happen on an internship: Having to get there in rush hour An awful boss who makes you do all their dirty work Ending up having nothing to […]
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Posted by Jaipreet in History on September 25, 2016
Okay admittedly this post is not going to give you everything you need to know on this subject. The University has a brilliant Careers Development Service which will give you so much help with your great and courageous job hunt (finding part time work and internships while you’re at uni, and graduate jobs when you […]
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Posted by Jaipreet in History on September 9, 2016
Hi! Welcome to my first blog post of the year. The excitement is tangible. You join me on a train to London, where I’m about to start an internship at IHR Digital (a company which creates databases online for historians to use) just before term starts. I’ll be talking about my experiences here, but also […]
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Posted by Lauren in History on January 13, 2016
If you’ve read some of my recent blog posts, you’ll know that I’m in my final year of a history degree and looking for a graduate job in PR (or similar). To my surprise, however, some people have reacted slightly confused or shocked after hearing this. It seems that there is an expectation that history […]
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Posted by Lauren in History on October 25, 2015
Recently, I realised that I’ve reached that crucial point during my degree where I need to start thinking about the future. As scary as this was, I knew that I couldn’t avoid the reality that I won’t be an undergraduate student forever. For this reason, I started looking through the various opportunities that are advertised […]
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