Current Students

Careers

Are you…
…writing a CV?
…looking for a job or voluntary work while at university?
…looking for inspiration about what career to pursue?
…thinking of making an appointment with a careers advisor?
…interested in attending careers events this term?
…interested in teaching?
…interested in jobs in finance and related areas?
…interested in graduate courses with big companies?
…interested in local employers?

See www.essex.ac.uk/careers for the University of Essex Careers Advisory Service website for wide-ranging advice on all aspects of choosing and pursuing a career.

Careers Centre Events:

Spring term programme of events

Events include the usual skills workshops plus How to be Effective at Telephone Interviews (delivered by Hays), Interview skills workshops (delivered by BT, Baker Tilly, ICAEW and Endsleigh), How to Get a Job in Public Services, Assessment Centre workshops (delivered by IBM and TeachFirst), Top Tips for Getting an Internship and many more.

§  Have you been invited to attend an Assessment Centre by a prospective employer?

The Employability and Careers Centre can provide you with help and support in a number of ways. Email careers@essex.ac.uk with 'Assessment Centre' in the subject bar.

The Careers and Employability Centre are also pleased to offer FREE on-line aptitude tests (developed by Kenexa) for all University of Essex students! Click here to practice verbal and numerical reasoning tests and to receive automatically generated feedback on your results.

• Book onto a careers event here

Job opportunities:

GTA work for the Department of Mathematical Sciences

We are seeking PhD students with relevant experience to work as GTAs, mainly assisting in classes and with marking particularly for first year modules.

• Job description
• Application form

If interested, please complete the above application form and send it to Camilla Thomsen (cthomsj@essex.ac.uk) via email along with a current CV.

Internships Essex

Visit the University's Facebook page on internships.

Graduate Jobs in Essex, Student Jobs and Internships

Are you looking for Maths graduate opportunities in your final year, student jobs or information on work during your studies like placements, work experience and internships?

Freddie Chat is an official student representative for the Graduate Recruitment Bureau (GRB) at the University of Essex. The Graduate Recruitment Bureau work with a huge amount of graduate recruiters of all sizes in all industry sectors across the UK, and have placed many graduates from Essex. They provide a unique student 'matchmaking' service: write in your degree course/location and they will set you up with companies for jobs, internships, work experience and student jobs. This is a great chance to be contacted by a large recruitment company and have them tell you about popular employers and the vacancies that are available.

So... sign up here or visit the website

It only takes 30 seconds to fill in, what have you got to lose? Good luck with your career!

Live Online Tutors Wanted

Maths Doctor is seeking university students to become Live Online Maths Tutors. We are the U.K.’s largest and most experienced provider of Live-Online tuition and we have an extensive tutor training programme.

Live Online Tuition involves teaching students one-to-one over the internet using skype and interactive whiteboards. You will have access to the Maths Doctor software platform which includes all the software and worksheet resources you will need.

We carefully match each tutor and student specifically on the basis of being at the right level of ability and age range to fit your teaching abilities. You will also have access to experienced and qualified teachers who can guide and assist you along every step of the way to ensure that you develop into an experienced and competent professional tutor whose students enjoy the success of passing exams.

Terms: Rates of pay are between £10-£20ph depending on qualifications and level of teaching.

You can work from anywhere that has a reliable broadband connection. Set your own hours and decide how much and when you want to work.  

To be suitable for this role you will require:

• Clear communications skills and be fluent in English.
• Suitable maths qualifications compared to the level you wish to teach. (EG: If you have a good A Level in maths you will be suitable to teach GCSE)
• Your own equipment: a PC or a MAC, a USB headset plus a web cam.  

For further information please visit our website