Daiwa Scholarships

Daiwa Scholarships offer young and talented UK citizens with strong leadership potential the opportunity to acquire Japanese language skills and to access expertise and knowledge relevant to their career goals over 19 months in Japan.

Daiwa Scholarships are awarded by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, a UK charity that supports links between Britain and Japan, to encourage better understanding between both countries.

No previous experience of Japan or Japanese is necessary

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Deadline: Thursday 5 December 2013
Applications online at www.dajf.org.uk

eFinancialCareers Investment Challenge

eFinancialCareers

This is your chance to get noticed by the recruitment team of Barclays!

The eFinancialCareers Investment Challenge is a great way for students exploring career opportunities in the financial markets to gain valuable knowledge and experience in a virtual environment. Try out your trading skills with a generous £1,000,000 fantasy fund and, if successful, you’ll get the opportunity to spend time work shadowing on the Barclays trading floor, followed by a networking dinner with some of the bank’s traders.

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STUDENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (SLDP)

SLDP

The innovative Student Leadership Development Programme (SLDP) is a year-long programme that supports students from non-traditional backgrounds that are displaying leadership potential, but lack the necessary networks and support systems to turn their time at university into an employment outcome upon graduation.

It is a free, charity run programme available to first and second year university students. Over the course of the year, you will design and complete a community action project and develop key skills for future employment. We will support you throughout the programme including a residential training weekend, internship opportunities and a mentor.

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Deadline 31st August

Destinations of 2012 Loughborough University First Degree Graduates

Exploring the Destinations of 2012 graduate leavers can prove invaluable when researching one’s own future career options. It can identify employers who like to recruit Loughborough graduates and different job roles one might which to research further.

The Destination of Leavers of Higher Education (DLHE) survey,  is conducted six months after graduation and looks at everyone from the UK who left university after their first degree. National details will be published in a useful publication called What Do Graduates Do?, however, details on Loughborough University’s 2012 first degree graduates can be accessed now, through the Destinations page on Loughborough University Careers and Employability Centre’s website and through  eGEMS which provides access to destinations information for Loughborough graduates at school and course level.

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Register for PA Consulting Group Technology Practice recruitment event

Would you like to be part of the team who helped to develop:

  • the revolutionary new Ora kitchen towel, taking it from concept to supermarket shelf in less than 12 months
  • an ‘ecoMeter’ in-home display, which is part of the first smart metering system roll-out in the UK
  • test equipment for fourth generation (4G) mobile networks
  • an IED detection system which is saving the lives of UK troops in Afghanistan?

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Participate in a usability study and receive a £20 Amazon voucher for your time

Graduate Prospects are working on improving the ‘prospects.ac.uk web site’ and need real users to test the site and provide feedback.

What do I need to do?          

No expert knowledge is required. You will be asked some questions about whether you have any career plans. If you have, to tell us a bit about them and to tell us about where you have/will find information to help you with your career planning.

Why?

This research is to improve the products and services Graduate Prospects offers.

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Funded Programme Leading to Trinity College London Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (Cert TESOL)

  • Unemployed or under-employed after graduation?
  • Taking a gap year?
  • Looking for an opportunity to help people?
  • Looking for a way to fund travel?

Languages Training & Development (LT&D) is one of the major providers of the Cert TESOL. This qualification, along with the CELTA, is recognised internationally for teachers of English.

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