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Welcome to the Careers pages for students and alumni of the Department of Computer Science. In addition to these webpages, careers information can be found on the Careers Noticeboard and in the Careers Corner, both located in the Computer Science Labs (Charles Wilson Building, CW301). Besides, the Careers Tutor sends information about careers events and job adverts by e-mail to the respective student groups. If you don't receive careers e-mails that are relevant to you and that other students in the same year get, please contact the Careers Tutor to be added to the respective maling list. For general information concerning careers services and events at the university, please visit the Careers Service. You can find lots of useful information on their webpages or go to meet them in person in the Student Development Zone in the Library.

Careers Tutor

Since July 2008, the new Careers Tutor is Prof Reiko Heckel
Office: G11 MCS Building
Office hours: Monday 12-2pm
e-mail: reiko@mcs.le.ac.uk
Phone: 0116 252 3406
http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/~rh122/

Degrees with Industry

The B.Sc. (Industry) degrees are four-year degrees that give you the option of spending one year working at a company. A year in industry is also an excellent opportunity to learn more about the type of profession that you can choose after you graduate, and point you to postgraduate studies that may help you strengthen the profile that you will have identified for your career.

The scheme is open to current 2nd year students. Please talk to your personal tutor or careers tutor if you are interested.

Careers Events

In each year of study a lecture by a representative of the Careers or Student Development services of the university is integrated into the academic programme to make you aware of their offers, give general advice, etc. Apart from those listed below, companies use their involvement in teaching to promote their technologies and recruit the best students. Look out for Bloomberg in CO2012: Software project management and professionalism and for ATX Technologies in CO7206: System Reengineering.

Check also the event programme of the careers service for a variety of employer presentation and fairs.

JOBSOnline Database

  • JOBSonline (an excellent job and placement vacancy database maintained by the Careers Service)
    No matter whether you are a finalist looking for a graduate job or a first or second year student looking for an industrial placement, you will find lots of relevant adverts here!
    Note that there are lots of vacancies in the category Information Technology and Management Services at the moment!

Other Careers Websites

Ten Ways to Improve your Employability

We often hear from employers that ''Applicants lack the right combination of academic and general skills''. Ensure that this does not apply to you by developing your employability skills:

  1. Research and talk through your ideas with an adviser from Student Development and with your departmental Careers Tutor.
  2. Link what you learn within your modules to how you could use it in the wider world (e.g. specific subject knowledge and skills you use such as problem-solving and team-work).
  3. Undertake a work placement or internship after the second year or during vacations and think through what you have gained from the experience.
  4. Do some voluntary work. Student Development collaborates with the Students' Union to organise volunteering opportunities, ranging from marketing to counselling www.le.ac.uk/volunteering.
  5. Speak to employers about what they expect from you (many employers hold workshops and presentations on campus or attend careers fairs, all arranged by Student Development).
  6. Get some work experience or work shadow somebody in the type of job or organisation you find interesting. This will help you decide if it's really for you.
  7. Take an active role in Students' Union activities and within your own department to develop your communication, organisation, interpersonal and related skills. .
  8. Develop study skills, such as presentation and numeracy skills with help from Student Development: www.le.ac.uk/studentdevelopment.
  9. Participate in developmental activities such as Tomorrow's Managers or the Leicester Award for Employability Skills, organised by Student Development.
  10. Attend any talks, workshops and careers events organised within your department and the wider University.

Disabled students can attend Access to Employability sessions which take place across the year with a session for finalists in the Autumn Term; Year 2 and Year 1 students in Spring Term. Information is distributed to all students known to the AccessAbility Center and disabled students should be encouraged to make themsleves known to the Centre and look out for publicity materials in the Autumn and Spring.

Further details are available at: www.le.ac.uk/careers.

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Author: Reiko Heckel (reiko@mcs.le.ac.uk).
© University of Leicester 15 October 2008. Last modified: 15th March 2012, 11:44:24.
CS Web Maintainer. This document has been approved by the Head of Department.