Assessment Centres playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OkTPBH-4Xw&list=PLC5ZVOnetS_ws0uPT8im1CBrSwrT7SjfeInterviews and Assessment Centres course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CRudrzspk&list=PLC5ZVOnetS_xhYntOMgkbAU6RM3V7pdVM
In this episode Siobhan and Konstantina talk Assessment Centres providing an introduction to what to expect should you take part in one and tips for a successful day.
"Welcome to The Careers Chat and today we're talking all about Assessment Centres and yeah the topic that currently a lot of people are facing and something that this is basically I think we'll use this episode as an introduction to what assessment centres are. Okay. So, we'll mainly talk about what these are, why employers run assessment centres and what to expect and how to prepare..."
In this episode Siobhan and Konstantina chat with guest Dhruv Khrisnaraj the Director & Co-Founder at Student Circus a job search platform for international students. Find out more on the Warwick University Careers pages for International Students: https://warwick.ac.uk/services/careers/findingwork/international/student_circus/
Topics covered in this podcast include, the state of the job market, why students need to have a plan B, the whitepaper and much more.
The video version of this podcast is available on our YouTube channel The Careers Chat: https://youtu.be/_vhmWxWrWw4
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.
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.
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
In this special we hear from Manisha Arora director at LTIMindtree, she talks us through her early career journey after graduation, the choices she made and the challenges she faced.
"today we're discussing the CARR framework. So we'll go step by step what it means. How you can use it. And our tips for make it yours. Definitely. I mean, I think just to explain, the CARR is not something with an engine in the goes brum brum It's something actually. It's a framework. It's an application question framework."
00:00 Hellos and intro
00:25 CARR not Car
00:48 CARR Context Action Result and Reflection
01:27 C Context
06:41 A Action
09:14 R Result
09:48 R Reflection
10:00 Things that didn't go right for example a bridge for squirrels
13:26 When applying for a job, flip CARR round
15:00 Final thoughts
"Hello and welcome to this extra edition of the Careers Chat podcast. We're here today to talk about the UK government's immigration White Paper, which is setting out new ways of tackling immigration into the UK. We're going to give you an update and explanation and also some ideas of how to tackle issues that arise should this pass into law."
In this episode we discuss how to research employers. Check out the video version of this episode on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/fsgasXSm_Gw
00:00 Hellos
00:12 Today we are talking about Researching Employers for interview preparation
00:28 Top tip for researching employers
02:18 What are the resources candidates can use to research the company?
08:25 PESTLE, what it is...
09:12 Value chain analysis
09:35 DOTS theory, and other analysis tools
10:35 Use AI to help you with the tools, for research11:00 LinkedIn groups
12:00 Final thoughts and goodbyes
In this episode we discuss CVs and how to approach them. Why are CVs important? A section by section discussion. Should you include a personal profile, why you need to tailor, plus a little cover letter debate. 00:00 Coming up on this Chat00:19 Hellos and we are talking about CVs00:40 Why are CVs important?01:13 Tailor your CV02:11 1 or 2 page CVs?02:35 What do you put on the top?04:37 Personal profile, yes or no?05:05 The Cover letter... debate?06:58 Always think of Taylor Swift07:05 Next section Education or Work experience first?09:00 What to do with past or old achievements09:50 Cover letter debate part 2 :-)10:15 Undergraduates, Education do they list school level qualifications?11:00 Work experience section14:00 How many bullet points? 14:45 Benefits of creating a Master CV15:25 Formatting is key, be kind to the reader16:35 Top tip: ask someone else to read your CV17:19 Spell check, but remember to change to the appropriate language17:57 References18:49 Save a copy under the company name19:50 The Skills section21:35 Last thoughts 22:00 Goodbyes
How AI tools can help in careers (The Careers Chat S2E3): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh9P4PBbgyg CVs playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbxE7WTQvYI&list=PLC5ZVOnetS_y3GuAIFHpMjk2noQfoyKJP&pp=gAQB
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/careers/
In this episode we discuss LinkedIn and ways to get involved with groups, the benefits and the importance of being active.00:00 Coming up on this episode 00:30 Hellos and what we are talking about today 01:05 How to search or research groups using AI 02:06 Is the information on groups from AI up to date? 02:55 How do you join a group? 04:46 Groups tend to be easy to get into 04:58 Why contributing is important and ways to do it 05:45 Don't try to be perfect, you don't have to have all the answers 06:08 You will be able to converse with all the members of the group 06:37 Posting for the first time, how to be confident 08:17 How to know your comment is valid? 09:00 Evidence why it is valid for you, it is okay to disagree 10:35 Connecting with people in the group 11:50 People don't just exist online 13:00 We're all time poor 13:36 Get involved 13:47 Shiv's favourite group
LinkedIn https://uk.linkedin.com/
Perplexity https://www.perplexity.ai/
Claude https://claude.ai/login?returnTo=%2F%3F
ChatCPT https://chatgpt.com/
Gemini https://gemini.google.com/
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/careers/
AI tools recommendations, how to use them or not, examples of how we use and more. 00:05 Hellos and introductions 00:21 Can you tell me more about Perplexity and how you use it along with other AI tools in Careers 01:59 Using multiple free AIs to help write your CV 02:35 Comparison of available free AIs 03:35 Inputting your data into AIs? 04:51 What are your top 3 prompts you use for tailoring a CV? 05:21 You want to be authentic 06:01 AI hallucinating? 07:00 Using AI as a research tool 07:31 AI and the perfect CV 08:00 Think about your story 08:16 Employers and candidates using AI 09:19 They turned up for the interview and they weren't as good as their CV 10:20 1 key message about the use of AI in careers 10:32 Goodbyes
The Careers Chat YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheCareersChat_Warwick
Perplexity https://www.perplexity.ai/
Claude https://claude.ai/login?returnTo=%2F%3F
ChatCPT https://chatgpt.com/
Gemini https://gemini.google.com/
In this episode we look at AI, using tools, recruiters and AI, applications and interviews. 00:00 Hello and welcome introductions 01:00 Using AI tools 01:35 What are employers saying about AI use 02:44 Issues around free vs paid versions of AI 03:21 Companies are concerned with how it enhances applications 04:15 AI isn't an automatic force for good... 04:49 How do we use AI to help us? 05:52 Article in Financial times big recruiters want against using AI in applications 06:55 Use AI but grow with it 07:16 My message would be don't be scared of it but be in control of it 08:17 Its still got to be your voice, you've still got to be authentic 08:35 AI uses lots of American spelling, so UK recruiters know its AI 09:12 Future AI podcasts and resources 10:00 Get in touch and goodbye
The Careers Chat YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheCareersChat_Warwick https://www.ft.com/content/30a032dd-bdaa-4aee-bc51-754867abbde0
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/careers/international/students/
This episode cover tips and advice for students starting a master and for after you graduate.00:00 Hello, welcome and introductions 00:53 What I say is don't forget the fun 02:00 Networking is a key part 02:34 There is a lot more around your university experience 03:25 Getting to meet new people, getting involved in new activities 04:22 Recruiters talk about wanting that intercultural experience 05:42 Write experiences down you will use them for your interviews 06:02 Journal for your authentic story 06:32 Get your LinkedIn sorted and keep it updated 07:49 Graduates, after you leave university 08:35 Your plan for your next career stage tips 09:34 Final thoughts, get in touch, goodbyes
Societies: https://www.warwicksu.com/societies-sports/societies/
Email to get in touch: thecareerschat@outlook.com(Apologies for the audio quality in this episode it was not up to our usual standard but felt it was still worth posting this episode)
How to manage rejection after an interview and why you shouldn't worry about being perfect.