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Employability, CV’s, interviews..

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November 12, 2011
by Matt in ,

Every year the uni runs a ‘weekend’ away at Gregynog for those students who are looking to do an industrial year. The idea is to help open student’s eyes as to what employers are looking for. It was a really useful weekend, and it really made you think hard. Many interview questions are quite challenging and it can be very hard to feel like you’ve nailed an impressive answer when there is so many things you could say. I found myself enjoying the interview stage quite a lot! It might seem unusual but I liked the pressure of trying to answer these hard questions, plus trying to account for things where the interviewer thinks they can catch you out. At times it feels like you are just trying to outwit each other! I should add, I do of course realise it is about a matching process, for both sides to find out if they are interested in and could work with each other.

My CV is very honest, so I didn’t have any problems with that. Certainly a few other students will have learnt not to claim themselves as an ‘expert’ or ‘have very good knowledge of’ when in fact they know little. The format in which the interviews took place was also good, we were able to hear everyone else’s questions and their answers. I took the whole thing as a long interview and decided to answer everyone else’s questions in my head too. I think at times it will have looked like I was itching to answer the questions when it wasn’t even my go, I got the opportunity at one point too (and I was right, always a More >

Some time to relax, what?

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March 23, 2011
by Matt in ,

It seems that the chaos that was going on in my previous posts is dieing down. It was mostly Uni stuff, so it’s great that it’s out of the way now – for a while at least. The Java assignment got handed in on time and without any major issues, so our group just has to wait and see how well we scored. We had to perform a group presentation in our tutorial to show what our program could/could not do, and discuss how the project went. Although we had one group member missing, it went well and people seemed reasonably impressed!

I also had an assignment to write a CV and covering letter as a part of my “Personal and Professional Development” module. I spent a fair amount of time working on this trying to perfect it and make it look like the professional kind of document it should be. I’m around 90% happy with it but I still think it could be improved. It is harder than you think to try and include everything you want to say in an appropriate manner and in few words.

In my last post I was about to head down to Llandow for rounds 5+6 of the BUKC. The track was wet to begin with, but with none of us being in the first race it had dried up a fair bit by the time I went out for race 2. I had been randomly assigned pole position which was great, although I knew I was never going to be able to keep it – especially in the tricky conditions. After spending what seemed like forever rolling up, the race got under way. I slipped to 2nd by the first corner, but was able to hold it for a good More >

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