Welcome to our shiny new blog University of Manchester Careers Blog

Welcome to our shiny new blog If youre new to our postgraduate careers blog at the University of Manchester, lovely to see you! Ill do the tour in a second, but just got to say hi to our regular readers yup, its the same old postgrad careers blog, but now with a new, shorter address, a new outfit and were hanging out with our friends: the Graduate, Undergraduate, International and Media blogs. So, what will you get here? I write about anything related to careers news, comment, events and vacancies but from a postgraduate angle. Its the same with the other blogs, so for example, if youve already graduated, Id click on the graduate posts as well (even if you havent graduated, Id have a look at that one theres some good stuff in there which Ive pinched for the postgrad blog in the past). And just to reassure you, it wont be one of those blogs set up in surge of enthusiasm, which peters out before Christmas. Ive been blogging on postgrad careers for 5 years now, and although I was keen to pull all our blogs together, my only regret is that my old blog will now never reach a quarter of a million page views (only had 16,500 to go). Blink and you may miss it As its a blog, some posts will have a very short lifespan the events they talk about will be over within a week or two of posting, so youll need to check it regularly if you dont want to miss anything. If you havent used feeds yet, this might be a good time to investigate them. Theyre a way of getting the news or blogs to come to you, in some sort of feedreader, without you having to visit lots of different websites. This could save you a lot of time, not just for careers, but for your postgrad subject. If you really want up-to-the-minute news, have a look at our postgrad Twitter feed. Ill often spot a news item or vacancy, and realise its not worth a full blog post (or I may not have time) so Ill just tweet it. If the Olympics prodded you into having another look at Twitter, why not think about using it for picking up news for your career, or your research or your specialist subject? This doesnt sound like the university website Shhh, dont tell them. As its not an official University of Manchester site, I can say what I want, and keep it informal. In reality, dont expect anything too controversial I love my job and Im quite keen to keep it but I will occasionally post off-topic (dancing squirrels may have appeared on the old blog at one point). Just ignore these posts and wait for the next one to come along if you prefer your blog to be purely career-focused. Youve moved the furniture about where is everything? If you want to see all the postgrad posts in one page, just click on the word Postgraduate immediately below the header. That will bring up all the posts in the postgrad category. Youll spot that if you hover your cursor over that same word, it also brings up a menu of other pages, all relating to postgraduates: About the Postgraduate Careers Blog find out more about this blog, including whos writing this Online postgraduate careers talks I do a set of standard postgrad careers talks each year, but for those who cant get there, I post slides and record podcasts to go with them, so theyre available 24/7 Pathways Career Options for Researchers a page for our annual PhD careers event (in June) Academic Careers information about our award-winning website devoted to all of you who aspire to becoming an academic, whichever university youre from Links to our other postgrad-related websites including the postgrad pages of the official Careers Service website, An Academic Career and our former postgrad careers blog If youre looking at the site on a mobile device, some of this may be different. I do try to check the site on different formats and different browsers but apologies if something doesnt work for you as it should. How can I contact you/have my say? Easy just comment on any post. All comments are moderated, so if you want to send a comment but keep it private, just make that clear and I wont publish it. We all love getting comments on our blogs, and Ive written several new posts which have been prompted by comments. So, if you think a topic will be of interest to postgrads, and you want me to address it, just say so! All Postgraduate 53.468610 -2.233701