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Find a full transcript and useful links on our blog. In this episode Kadi and Kate talk about what she does each day, the parts of the job she likes the most, and what York students interested in environmental consulting can do right now to prepare for their future careers. She's also a York Environmental Science graduate. Kadi is an environmental consultant who coordinates and project manages the environmental inputs for big infrastructure projects. We released Part 1 of this podcast back in summer 2020.
Full transcript and useful links on our blog. They also listen back to highlights from past podcast episodes. In this episode we hear Kate and Enrico Reuter, lecturer in public and social policy, reflect on this and answer questions from York students. What does all this mean for your graduate job search? For our students, you may have had fewer chances to build up work experience. Remote working is here to stay for many people and some sectors hit hard by the pandemic are still to properly recover. The worst of the pandemic might (hopefully) be behind us but the world of work has permanently changed because of Covid-19. What do you actually do if you're graduating in a global pandemic?!: 2022 edition She enjoys getting involved in the creative scene, be it through internships, York Creatives' events or being part of the HARD Magazine Committee. Interested in doing your own internship this summer? Vacancies are live right now! Find out more and browse the internships on our SIB webpage.Īshley's bio: Ashley is an international student from Singapore with a deep passion for digital art and design, currently taking York's Interactive Media degree. If you're an international student you'll be especially interested to hear Ashley's advice. She talks about what it's like being an intern and the skills she learned. In this episode Kate talks to Ashley, an Interactive Media student who recently completed an internship as a graphic designer at Experience Heritage. There's a full transcript and useful links on our blog.ĭid you know that each summer loads of York students do an internship through the Student Internship Bureau (SIB)? SIB advertises paid, project-based internships in and around York that are exclusively for York students. He also shares his advice on how students can approach people working in the sector. Rob tells us what you need to get into this kind of work, the best bits and the worst bits. Rob Simmons works in Somalia for Committed to Good and was speaking to Kate from a shipping container at the airport in Mogadishu. This episode is for anyone interested in international development or the humanitarian sector. In my role, I help people making international moves (and their employers) understand the tax implications of doing so.įind useful links and a full transcript on our blog. It's an industry I didn't expect to enjoy working in - I couldn't be happier to have been wrong about that.
His job title is Associate Director - Global Mobility (Tax).īen's bio: I'm a Philosophy graduate who has quite accidentally ended up working in Financial Services. In the episode Ben explains how his first impressions of the sector were wrong, how you don't need a 'big summer internship' to get into finance and how he's found a job that's a perfect fit for his strengths and skills. Subscribe nowīen graduated from York with a degree in Philosophy and after a few years found himself working in the financial services sector for Deloitte. John Steel is the CEO of Cafédirect and has worked his way up through a number of FMCG businesses after beginning his career in a marketing grad scheme.Įven if you're not interested in this area of work, it's worth listening for John's insights into finding value in your working life.įind a transcript and useful links on our blog. Think you want to be a CEO? Interested in marketing, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) or the world of ethical business? This episode is for you. Get the answers to these questions along with career inspiration, top tips and insider knowledge every other week when Kate Morris asks our guest, ‘What do you actually do?’Įach podcast is accompanied by useful links to help you do more research and a blog post with a full transcript of the episode. What do you do all day? What skills do you need? How did you get the job? What advice do you have for students?
Have you ever wondered what a particular job actually involves? Our podcast series What do you actually do? aims to answer that question. What do you actually do? - a podcast from Careers and Placements