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Summer Fair Success!
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Over 1000 people attended the ‘Find a
job’ summer fair in May organised by the
UWE Careers Recruiter Partnership team in
conjunction with the Students Union. The
event was aimed at helping new graduates
kick start their job hunting, and present a
positive message about the buoyancy of the
graduate job market to counteract many of
the messages in the press.
The event also provided an opportunity for
other students to look for summer work or
placement opportunities.
The Recruiter Partnership team decided to
invite recruitment consultancies instead of
individual employers in order to focus the
event on finding students and graduates
vacancies in their area of interest. The
recruitment agencies that attended had
vacancies in a wide range of employment
sectors including law, admin, sales, IT
and finance, to engineering, technical
professionals and teaching. The feedback
from both the recruiters and students was
positive.
Caring for METIman
Christ College students experienced hands on nursing with a
difference when they attended the Nursing Skills Simulation
Suite at UWE’s Glenside campus.
The students, who are all taking their BTec in Health and
Social care, had the chance to try out a number of skills
at the high tech facility including handwashing, METIman
patient simulator pulse and blood pressure readings.
The suite also features realistic baby manikins, which the
students became quickly attached to as they practised caring
for them.
The facility is an invaluable one for people training in a
variety of health care roles from nursing to paramedics,
because it replicates the real hospital environment and
creates a sense of familiarity when they encounter the real
thing.
Aim Higher Co-ordinator at Christ College Mrs Julie Parr
said, “This visit has been arranged through a national Aim
Higher initiative, and we hope that our students will feel
encouraged by the experience to consider higher education
opportunities.”
The visit was co-ordinated and delivered by the Aimhigher
Healthcare Strand (Janet Lonsdale) HLS Child Nursing
lecturers (Zoe Veal, Bev Embling) and Student Ambassadors
(Hannah Downing, Mark OConnell)
Richard Smith, Business Development
Manager from Eyears said, “As a local,
specialist education and early years
recruitment agency, many UWE students
are already registered and doing supply
work with us, so we have experience of
the general high calibre UWE student.
However, as this was a generic graduate
‘Find A Job Fair’ we didn’t really know
what to expect from the day. To say we
were pleasantly surprised would be an
understatement. Both our Managing
Director, Martin Bove and myself were
thoroughly impressed by the graduates we
met. We felt the students were a credit to
themselves and to UWE. We have already
received applications from students who
attended the fair. We left feeling energised
by the experience and confident that our
graduate scheme will be a roaring success.
Without a doubt we will be attending UWE
job fairs in future. Well done all.”
The careers team will be offering a similar
event next year with plans to make it much
larger after this year’s success. If anyone
has any recommendations of recruitment
agencies we could invite please e-mail
careers@uwe.ac.uk.
Trying not to throw the baby out with the bathwater: Ruby Severn, Alex
McIntyre and Health and Social Care Teacher Mrs Sheila Hope
Student Ruby Severn looks after a
‘young’ METIman with Lecturer in
Child Nursing Zoe Veal and Student
Ambassador Hannah Downing
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‘Find a Job’ Summer Fair
Students Kelsie Davidson, Georgia Mills
and Sharnie Cook getting attached to
their little patients