Career Zone Podcast
Welcome to the Career Zone Podcast! Brought to you by the University of Exeter, this series discusses important thoughts on students’ minds right now. Visit: www.exeter.ac.uk/careers or email [email protected] Follow us on Instagram @uoecareers or @uoecornwallcareers and include the #careerzonepodcast so that we can follow up in a future episode
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 14 minutes
- Episodes
- 232
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Efficiency vs Perfectionism when starting out in a job or internship
In this week’s episode, Laura Ibarra Hempel, College Coordinator for Humanities, explores perfectionism, what it means and how it can affect your behaviour at work. Laura also shares her advice on wh…
Introducing Grand Challenges
In this episode, Branwen Cleaver, Programme Assistant, is joined by students Blakeney, Francesca and Maisie to share their experience of what it was like to take part in Grand Challenges. They discus…
How to Choose Your Referees
Mair George, Freelance Theatre Producer and External Facilitator on the Create Your Future programme, explores how to choose your referees for professional job applications. As part of the recruitmen…
What are employers in the Law sector looking for? December 2021
In this week’s podcast Rae is joined by colleagues from the Career Zone who recently attended the Institute of Student Employers Virtual Conference. The Career Zone staff share what they found out ab…
What are employers looking for? December 2021
In this week’s podcast Rae is joined by colleagues from the Career Zone who recently attended the Institute of Student Employers Virtual Conference. The Career Zone staff share what they found out ab…
Introducing the Exeter Leaders Award
In this week's episode Katya shares her experience of completing the Exeter Leaders Award with fellow student Amelia. Katya shares why she chose to complete the Exeter Leaders Award, her favourite as…
Resilience in the Workplace
In this week’s episode, Rachel Gaunt and John Greaves, Employability and Placements Advisers at the University of Exeter, discuss the importance of resilience skills in the workplace. John discusses …
In conversation with Izzy and Alina, students from the Enactus society.
In this week’s episode, Rae is joined by Izzy and Alina, students from the Enactus society, to discuss why they joined Enactus and how they became involved in their projects. They also discuss the ra…
Accessing the hidden jobs market
Some job roles are never actually advertised publicly on jobs boards. There are a range of reasons for employers choosing not to publicly advertise roles, but here Rae is joined by Employability and…
In conversation with Romy and Connor, students from the Enactus society.
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2021, Rae is joined by students Romy and Connor, students from the Enactus society, to discuss how entrepreneurship fits into Enactus’ aims in regards to addre…
Resilience in finding a placement
In this episode we are joined by Geography student Harriet who completed her placement year with Johnson & Johnson, and Bioscience student Anais who completed her placement year with ZSL. They share …
In Conversation with Emily Davies, SETsquared Exeter Student Startup Manager and Max Harrington, Founder of Just Surf
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2021, Rae is joined by Emily Davies, SETsquared Exeter Student Startup Manager and Max Harrington, Masters student and founder of Just Surf. Emily discusses th…
In Conversation with Natalia Lemanska and Zoja Vizinger, Oyana Soaps.
As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2021, Rae is joined by recent graduates, Natalia Lemanska, Project Leader and Zoja Vizinger, Deputy Leader, of social enterprise Oyana Soaps. Natalia and Zoja …
Student top tips on finding a placement
Joan Wright, Employability and Placements Adviser in the Business School is joined by Lara, a recent graduate who completed a year in industry in her 3rd year, as part of the With Industrial Placemen…
Intercultural communication
In this podcast we are discussing the importance of cultural awareness and intercultural competence. This is something highly valued by employers globally, especially in the current situation where w…
Introducing Green Consultants
In this week's episode students, Max, Alice and Danielle, share their experience of completing the Green Consultants programme with fellow student Lizzie. They share why they chose to take part in Gr…
Tips for Being More Confident
In this week’s episode Claire Guy, an Employability and Careers Consultant, shares her tips on how you can feel more confident when you are making a career decision. Claire shares how you can discove…
How will graduate jobs be impacted by Covid-19? – Part 5, September 2021
We last looked at the graduate labour market in May 2021 (How will graduate jobs be affected by Covid-19? Part 4), but what has changed since then? Here, Rae takes a look at the current state of the…
Introducing Create Your Future
Create Your Future is an employability programme developed for all first year students to help them plan and prepare for their future. In this episode, Amelia, Programme Assistant at the Careers Zone…
What are employers looking for? - July 2021
In this week's podcast, Rae is joined by colleagues from the Career Zone who recently attended the Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services Conference. The Career Zone staff share what they …