Posts in "Careers and Employability"

Konrad has secured himself a graduate job working as a Corporate Operations Engineer in Google London, and will be start in Spring 2020. Here he tells us about his path to employment and what you need to do to land your dream job. 

A bit about my role

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Everyone constantly talks about the importance of extra-curricular activities, even before we arrive at university. But why are extra-curricular activities so important for everyday life? 

This blog will look at practical examples from current students and alumni of the University of Aberdeen which should show you how extra-curricular activities can…

I’m Natalie, a now third year (ahh!) English with Creative writing student.

My internship has been with the lovely people in Student Support Services, working on three major projects. I have been working my butt off for the last eight weeks to meet deadlines for various different aspects of these…

Hello everybody,

My name is Karolina Hybska and in September I will be starting my fourth year at the University of Aberdeen where I study Politics and International Relations. This summer I have been interning as a data analyst at the University’s Online Education team and in this blog, I…

My name is Malin, I’m going into my third year of Neuroscience with Psychology, and I’m the Student Intern for the Centre for Academic Development.

My view on my way to work

Starting out

I was hired to create materials and strategies to raise awareness of MyAberdeen’s…

Hey, I’m Marton Kottmayer, intern at the admissions department. What do I do? Well. A lot. The official idea behind my project is designing and implementing a widening access mentorship scheme. This however, is not an isolated task. I do a variety of jobs, all of which is one way…

I’m David. In September, I’ll be going in to my 4th year of studying Community Music. I’m currently finishing the 5th week of my 10-week internship with the Development Trust. The title of my internship is “Strategic Digital Review”, which entails putting forward ideas and consulting on many different areas…

One of the reasons I was so excited about this particular Internship was because of how creative the project is. For ten weeks,…

My name is Sophie, and I’m going into my fourth year of English and Linguistics at the University of Aberdeen. Here is a blog about the first three weeks of my Summer Internship in the department of Research & Innovation.
The ‘Talking research’ project

I decided that I was going to try and be healthy throughout my internship, so I started this right by hitting the gym before my intern induction at 9am Monday morning. This meant dragging myself out of bed at half 6. After completing my gym workout…