In this episode Shiv and Konstantina chat with Dill Sanghera about CVs and her experience of working with students to craft a good CV. Topics include tailoring a CV, researching for your CV, Personal profiles, using tools like STAR and TAR to write your CV.

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In this bonus clip from episode 1 of season 3 Siobhan and Konstantina discuss being new to university and what events you might need to watch out for.

Check out the full episode Making the most of your Careers Service

Transcript: "you're excited, you're enthusiastic, and you want to have a look around the campus. You want to know where everything is that you're going to use. But what you might not do is you might not realize the events that are coming up for the autumn term. You might not realize all of the services that the career service offers to you. And so you might miss out on things. And that's a quite a common thing. People will have a chat with you in November, December time and say, "Oh, when's the autumn fair happening? It's happened." Oh, okay. Okay. So, I come and where can I find information about the autumn fair at Warwick? That would definitely be on myAdvantage. So, getting kind of conditioned into using whichever platform I'm thinking beyond Warwick here. We use myAdvantage. Get to understand how myAdvantage works. Understand what it does. It doesn't just have vacancies. It doesn't just allow you to book for events and workshops and employer presentations. It will also allow you to track your development. It will allow you to sort of book appointments with skills advisors, the placement, the work experience people."

In this episode Siobhan and Konstantina talk about what why and how to make most of a careers service.

In this second episode featuring a student we talk with Gayan Wickramaratne about his experience as an international student. He talks about why he came to Warwick, his feelings of loneliness and homesickness and what he did to overcome that through developing resilience and confidence with the help of other students and his WBS course. What he enjoyed about life in the UK, from the food to the people he met. And his tips for other international students coming to or already at Warwick.

Please note this episode does discuss loneliness and homesickness throughout, if you are having similar feelings the following links could be of help.

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In this episode we discuss student life with MSc student Raj, his experiences as an International Student at Warwick's WMG, making friends and much more.

In this episode we discuss the UK labour market, AI and where to get the best pie in Wigan with our guest Charlie Ball who is a Public-facing expert on graduate employment.

00:00 Welcome to the podcast and introductions01:09 Charlie can you give us one sentence overview of the graduate labour market in summer 202501:35 How long do you think that's going to continue? 03:10 While we are waiting for the economy to become unstuck what can an international graduate do to get a step ahead? 04:25 Other big cities that have good strong labour markets05:00 Belfast IT labour market06:30 AI has not yet had a big impact on the jobs people do in the UK07:15 AI has seriously affected recruitment because everyone is using it to write applications. 08:42 My advice for international student is to go to your careers service and learn to write a CV without AI, and then learn to write one with AI that is still authentically you09:45 The third thing is you still have to be able to do interviews10:05 Employers are being more strict at the interview stage 10:25 Our candidate used AI to write the application but we couldn't tell because she'd done it well, she was great at interview11:05 Questions we have had raised recently is around the use of paid for AI vs free AI11:40 If you are going to use AI at all your skill needs to be in prompt writing and then curating of the content12:31 The interview stage is the point at which you show face to face that you have done the work13:50 The other thing is don't over estimate how much businesses are using AI right now15:00 What do you think International Students can do for themselves in talking about their expertise, previous work experience, qualifications, skills etc17:00 Some rejections International students receive are due to lack of UK experience, how do they tackle this specific issue?18:20 Do you think that's an excuse some employers use because they don't want to sponsor...?18:50 What do you think about student society activity, volunteering, virtual internships...? 19:28 Our weird British cultural ways20:01 Their pies are all wrong...20:15 A brief introduction to Wigan 20:45 Student Societies serve duel purpose for international students22:00 What are the main frustrations for employers in finding and keeping international students? 24:28 Just be really clear that you are really keen on the job and you will give 100% while doing it. 26:00 The mobility of international students is a bonus and show a wide breadth of experience27:15 The question we need to tackle with this change from 2 years to 18 months what do you think the impacts are going to be for the students and employers? 29:00 Goodbyes and go to Wigan and get a pie from Galloways piesWarwick student societies https://www.warwicksu.com/societies-sports/societies/Warwick Careers https://warwick.ac.uk/services/careers Podcast ep white paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhT_8qVYz4wWigan https://www.visitwigan.com/ Galloways: https://www.gallowaysbakers.co.uk/

In this episode Konstantina and Siobhan discuss the art of saying no. When was the last time you said no? How to say no in a professional way. Why it is important to be able to say no? And how does Siobhan answer Konstantina's question?

The art of saying no coming on the 23rd July 2025

The art of saying no episode now available: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YvJb1MAtoOnmJ4s3F5rW5?si=x5-XzDpJSXqQaui0i17YDQ