Have you ever been told you that you are not good at something because of your sex? Or that it is ‘unusual’ that someone of your sex is doing your degree or has your hobbies? […]
The Key to Securing a Placement or Graduate Role: An Interview with Marc Steward
As most Students begin the hunt for Summer Internships, Industrial Placements and Graduate Jobs, Georgina Peacock interviews Marc Steward, one of our career’s advisors, to get advice on securing a job during the economic crisis.
A Stressful Ordeal: Young People, COVID-19 and Career Development
Finding employment is stressful enough at the best of times. Yet for recent graduates, their future plans are in flux, as they face a job market indelibly warped by Covid-19. Aino Lappalainen spoke to young […]
How to Get Ahead in Fashion
Rise and grind: it’s a new year, possibly a new you, and definitely the right time to consider the next steps you can take in expanding your LinkedIn skills set. The fashion industry is renowned […]
Part-time job ideas
Being a student can be very expensive, so what do you do when you’re strapped for cash but also for time? Looking for a part-time job alongside your studies can seem overwhelming. Academic and social […]
Why I hate the word ‘networking’
I am a Literature student at University of Leeds. My life revolves around novels, plays and stacks of colour-coded notebooks. Last year, studying and getting used to living somewhere new was enough. But this time […]
Standing at the crossroads
As a final year university student, I find myself at a crossroads – hundreds of paths forking off in different directions each one offering me a different future and a different life. Spinning around with […]
A Postcard from Beyond: Callum Dolan
One month before I graduated from university, I started my first proper real-world adult job. Seventeen years of education almost completed and I was already moving on to the next stage of my life with hardly any time […]
Features | Top Five Jobs Abroad in Summer
No one wants to spend their summer holidays at home, begging their parents each night for a tenner to go down the pub and being told to ‘go and get a job!’ It’s never too […]
Features | The truth about interning
The summer may be long gone, but those with an eye on the future are already thinking about the next opportunity to make their CVs look pretty. LS takes a look at the urban myths […]
Behind the lab coats
As graduation day looms ever closer for final year students, Chemistry postdoc Jessica Breen tells LS Science what a career in research actually entails. What actually is a postdoc? Usually, a scientist will spend three […]