Funding Your Future
This post provides advice on how the Careers Centre can help you access funds to support you with work-related activity, how to find a part-time job and how to protect yourself against job scams.
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Saints Skills Spotlight Award
Shine a spotlight on your skills and achievements with the new Saints Skills Spotlight Award, a mock recruitment process that helps make you more employable.
How to make the most of your summer break
Read our top tips on how to get involved, improve your employability skills and enhance your career prospects over the summer months.
Graduating with a General degree
A General degree from university is not a failed Honours degree, as you have three years of full-time study that you can use to demonstrate transferable skills when applying for jobs or to postgraduate courses.
An insight into a day in the life of an M&S graduate
In this guest blog post, graduate Jessica Richards shares her experience of working at M&S and recounts on her time at university and how her experience guided her career path and choices.
Perfecting your cover letter
In this post, one of our CV advisers, Caroline McWilliams, shares her top tips and advice for creating an effective cover letter when applying for jobs and internships.
Strengthen your skillset – sign-up for the PSC!
Advance your growth and development by signing-up to the PSC, a programme of workshops designed to build your employability skills.
Transition St Andrews internship: Kirsten Clarke
Kirsten Clarke shares her experiences of her internship at Transition St Andrews.
Constructing a quality CV
This post features our advice on how to create an excellent CV and will also include information on CareerSet, an online platform dedicated to offering CV support and feedback.
Professional Skills Curriculum (PSC)
In this guest blog post, Cat Wilson, Director of CEED, explains what the PSC is and how you can benefit from getting involved.