UN Junior Professional Officer

The United Nations (UN) is seeking highly qualified individuals from the United Kingdom (and selected other Member States) for employment as junior professional officers.  A competitive examination will be held in February 2009 in Oxford.  

Full details of the opportunities, and application procedure are available on the UN website. Click here, then select ‘National Competitive Recruitment Examinations.’

Applications should be received by 31 October 2008. 

McKinsey Careers Workshop

You may have read our posting of 18 August, ‘From Academia to Consulting’ promoting McKinsey’s career workshop on 25/09/08. If so, kindly note that the online application form for the workshop is now live and can be accessed by clicking here.

EuroBio

EuroBio is a three day event taking place in Paris from 7-9 October 2008. It’s aimed at recruiters, job seekers and H.E. etablishments and seeks to further the mobility of researchers throughout the European Research Area.

A Careers Fair Open Day will be held on Wednesday 8 October, in a dedicated careers area inside the EuroBiO Exhibition.

Candidates with the minimum of a Masters Degree in Sciences (or final year PhD) will be able to introduce themselves to recruiters, without prior appointment, and recruiters will be able to offer one-to-one interviews. The Career Fair Open Day will put the accent on alternative careers (to the laboratory), and the multiple talents that biotechnology companies require to grow their business.

For more information, click here.

Information R/evolution

Another good video from the ‘Mediated Cultures’ people at Kansas State University.

This video explores the changes in the way we find, store, create, critique, and share information.

Careers in Investment Banking

Vitae are staging an event, ‘Careers in Focus: Investment banking for PhDs,’ on 23 September 2008, at Glaziers Hall, London.

‘Careers in Focus: Investment banking for PhDs’ is an interactive one day event hosted by employers.

The deadline for applications is 1 September 2008 and places are limited.

For more details click here.

Opportunity for King’s Postgraduate Students

ISS is offering you the opportunity to play a role in the development of the new Applicants’ Portal and earn money at the same time. 

The new Applicants’ Portal is replacing the exising Studylink and will improve the internal processing of student applications to King’s. 

ISS are seeking postgraduate students who would be willing to test the new online application form in return for a payment of £9 per hour.  Attendance will be required for four consecutive mornings a week (Tuesday – Friday) and ISS would like people who are available to attend for four consecutive weeks, week commencing 25/08/08.

The work will involve entering information into a computer program through a web browser, following scripts and recording any problems that occur.  Testers must be able to record problems clearly, succinctly and unambiguously and should enjoy attention to detail.

Work will be based at the Strand Campus but may be shifted to a site in the Docklands (5 mins from Canary Wharf) for the final week.  If this is the case, fares to Canary Wharf will be reimbursed if required.

If you are interested in taking part, please contact Ruth Cawthorne on 020 7848 2269, email: ruth.cawthorne@kcl.ac.uk.

The Source Event 2008

The Source Event, now in its 2nd successful year, is a dedicated science career fair that combines a dynamic exhibition with conference and workshop sessions.

Jobseekers will be able to meet with potential employers who are offering hundreds of genuine vacancies.

The Source Event will be held on 26th September 2008 at the Business Design Centre, London.

You can find out more details about the event by clicking here.

In addition, there is an online Q&A session with some of the event’s speakers, which you can access by clicking here.

British Library Postgraduate Training Days

The British Library now offers research postgraduates the opportunity to attend training days in English, History, Social Sciences, Entrepreneurship and Modern Foreign Languages in partnership with academic centres of excellence. 

These specially tailored days of talks, workshops and networking opportunities combine a general introduction to the Library with specialised sessions on subject specific material.

Students will be given training on how to access online and electronic catalogues, carry out bibliographic research on their topic and meet expert curators in their field.

To help ensure the scheme is accessible to research postgraduates from across the UK, there are a limited number of travel bursaries available. 

13^th October 2008                   Social Sciences

20^th October 2008                   English (19^th – 21^st Century)

28^th October 2008                   English (Medieval – 18^th Century)

4^th November 2008                 History (Medieval to 18^th Century)

25^th November 2008               History (19^th – 21^st Century)

9^th December 2008                 Modern Foreign Languages

For more information about any of these training days, please email Highereducation@bl.uk

 

 

From Academia to Consulting

We have received the following from McKinsey and Company.

‘At McKinsey, we help world-leading clients in the public, private and third sectors to meet their biggest strategic, operational and organisational challenges.  Our goal is to provide distinctive and long-lasting performance improvements – in short, it’s about having an impact.  Making a difference.

Many PhDs have made a successful switch from academia to business.  McKinsey and Company makes this transition even easier.

Why not come along and discover how they made the switch at our workshop in London on 25 September 08. Sign up for this event will be going live on our website from Monday 18 August 2008.

McKinsey have a special entry programme for PhDs of any discipline.’

To visit their website, click here.

Application forms for the workshop can be found by clicking here.

A short break

The Online Bulletin Board is taking a short summer break. In our absence, kindly note that George Orwell’s diaries are shortly to go online. For more information, click here.

In addition, here is a video on the impact of YouTube on academia: