Careers Week 2022: 7-11 March, Fulfiling Futures
The Careers team at St George’s are once again participating in National Careers Week 2022 . Our theme this year is Fulfilling Futures. We are running a number of virtual activities to support your career planning in 2022 and beyond!
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Monday 7 March 11.00am-2.00pm
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Careers and cake drop-in Library Breakout Space - meet the Careers team and guests, eat a cake and pick up some leaflets.
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Tuesday 8 March 12.30pm-2.00pm
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Emerging New Technology Careers in Healthcare including speakers from VR & AI start-ups
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Wednesday 9 March 5.00pm-6.30pm
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Surviving and Thriving – from uni to work alumni panel advise on managing your first days and weeks as a graduate.
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Thursday 10 March 1.00pm-2.30pm
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Values for Career Choice and Wellbeing – the key to making the right decisions for you

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Friday 11 March 12.00-1.00pm
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Networking to explore and test your career ideas – networking is a life-changing skill – learn why it can help and how to go about it
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Careers and cake drop-in – meet the careers team and career lead tutors from your programme. This is a chance to ask any careers questions. For example, you may wish to talk to us about:
- Career options and working out what you want to do
- Successful job hunting tips
- Finding and applying for further study
- Making effective job applications
- Interview skills
- Keeping in touch with St George’s after you graduate
- Careers support available to you now and after graduation
Or anything else related to your career and employability!
Emerging New Technology Careers in Healthcare – technology is transforming healthcare from treatments to the patient experience , but who and what is behind these innovations and what opportunities are there for graduates from science and healthcare backgrounds to be part of this evolution.
Surviving and Thriving – from uni to work. In response to student feedback you told us that the move from uni to work could be very challenging, especially in view of recent times, and you wanted to be better prepared for bridging the gap. In this session we hear from recent graduates who give their tips on making a successful transition from student to professional, offering personal stories, strategies and insights to bring you confidence and calm in your new job.
Values for Career Choice and Wellbeing - Understanding our values helps us to make the right choices for a fulfilling future. Our values are the things that we believe are important in the way we live and work but many of us are unaware what our own values are and can sleepwalk into making regrettable choices for ourselves, be that in our reactions to challenging situations or in making major life choices like career direction. In this session the SGUL Careers Service and Counselling will cover:
- An Introduction to values - why are they fundamental to understanding ourselves and making the right choices.
- What methods and tools help identify your values for career choice
- Values and your well-being
- Keeping our values in mind - techniques to overcome everyday mental challenges that we all face in our work, study and home lives.
Networking to explore and test your career ideas – Online research is a useful way to learn more about roles and organisations or Trusts of potential interest to you, but it can sometimes only take you so far… Having the opportunity to talk to people can help you develop a deeper understanding of what a job involves (and whether it matches your values, skills and interests) and top tips on helping you stand out as a candidate. It also provides an insight into an employer’s culture and working environment, to see if you would enjoy working there. Learning more about what others have done after graduation is also a great way to explore potential career paths.
This session will cover ways to:
- Explore some career options by learning what other SGUL graduates have done
- Find and approach people working in jobs of interest to you
- Create a list of questions to help you gain insights
- Grow your confidence in networking
- Enhance your online profile and use LinkedIn and social media to support your career
Careers Week 2021: 1-5 March, Career Inspiration in Challenging Times
It has never been so important to manage your career to achieve your ambitions. St George's Careers Week (our second ever!) took place 1-5 March, coinciding with the same national themed week.
Watch our Alumni Q&As
Open to students of all year groups and pathways, as well as recent graduates, our programme of events addressed themes like Resilience, Workplace Wellbeing and Planning your Career in a Pandemic.
The programme includes Q&A sessions in which alumni from a range of disciplines and courses shared their own careers and wellbeing insight, as well as advice on how to manage your own future and job hunt successfully in these unpredictable times.
Watch our Q&As here
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3.00-4.00pm: Random Chat
Random Chat aims to replicate online the chance encounters that happen on campus, providing a space for conversations between students across all programmes (and with staff) and for friendships to develop. Chat sessions on Teams are structured to allow conversations to flow and for participants to get to know one another.
11.00-11.30am: Changing direction in your career, and working towards your goals – Shirley Forson, Physiotherapy Alumna
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12.-12.30pm: Non-traditional career paths - Shriya Prabhakar
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1.00-1.30pm: Adapting to new ways of working and balancing work and family – Saira Alam, Therapeutic Radiography
3.00-4.00pm: Job hunting in a pandemic
Job Hunting in a Pandemic – how can you help yourself most to secure your future ambitions whether in or outside of a pandemic? What is the recruitment situation at present? What action can you take now to invest in your future? Join us for the live presentation giving you Top Tips on creating the future for you despite the limitations of recent times.
Alumni bios
Read the bios of the alumni taking part in these Q&As.