Find out how to get a job, balance your studies and work life and learn more about whats on offer from your Students' Union, University and NASES.
More Than Work Month is a national campaign run by the National Association of Student Employment Services (NASES). The campaign aims to increase awareness of employability issues and encourages both students and employers to make full use of the career and employment services run by University’s and Students' Unions. For more information on More Than Work Month visit http://www.nases.org.uk/.
Every day this week, we are featuring a different Cardiff Met student who balances their studies with a job. We’ll be getting top tips from these students as well as demonstrating how to make use of the employability and careers services on offer at Cardiff Met. Remember to check back daily to see who else we feature this week!
Our first featured student is Rowan O’Brien, a first year MSc Performance Analysis student from the Cardiff School of Sport. Rowan is 21 and has been working in the Students’ Union bar for 3 years, working his way up to the position of Bar Supervisor. Rowan is responsible for ensuring the smooth running of the SU bar and Starbucks, ordering stock, cashing up and opening and closing the venue. In addition to his bar work, Rowan works as a performance analyst for World Rugby and Cardiff Met RFC. Rowan got his job in Centro by handing his CV in at an open day, stating that he wanted to be proactive in getting work whilst at university. Rowan went on to say that “working has obvious benefits financially, but it also offers you the chance to meet people you wouldn’t on your course and because it’s a bar job there’s a good social aspect too”.
Cardiff Met offer a huge range of employability and careers service through the universities career office and UMAX provided by the Students’ Union. UMAX offer several services all free to students including a JobShop advertising full and part-time work, volunteering and internship opportunities. As well as the JobShop, there are some brilliant employability workshops delivered by industry experts on anything from ‘promoting a positive image at interview’ to ‘using social media for employability’ as well as offering CV and application help.Whilst the financial and social aspects of the job are a huge positive for Rowan, he was quick to offer advice to other students thinking about getting bar work. “Don’t spread yourself too thin, make sure you are not working so many late nights that you are always tired or it will impact your personal life. Make sure you have enough time to unwind and socialise and be disciplined with your university work, set deadlines and stick to them”.
Want to know more about employability? For more information on the services provided by UMAX and to book workshops and search the JobShop visit
www.cardiffmetsu.co.uk/umax, or to visit the university careers page click
here.
