I know about lots of opportunities and want to share them with you!

Don't miss out on vacancies, events, training courses, work experience opps, profiles of graduates, competitions, information guides and anything else I come across that I think you might want to know about.
I list it all at www.twitter.com/derbycreatives

Look to the right of this blog and you can see my live twitter feed! or look here:
www.derby.ac.uk/careers/creative-arts

Want to teach?

If you have a desire to teach, either at primary, secondary, further and higher education or even in the wider community, come along to our 'Focus on Teaching' fortnight of events. The fortnight of events starts this Monday, 11th October, right through until Thursday 21st October. Sessions include: Routes in to Teaching for Artists and Designers, Personal statements for the PGCE, PGCE Interview prep, Alternatives to Teaching, and many more related options.
To book a place, click on Teaching Fortnight and just follow instructions: http://www.derby.ac.uk/careers/events

University of Derby Volunteering Fair in November 2010

The only Volunteering Fair in the East Midlands

Find great opportunities to get great experience at our Volunteering Fair!

Our sixth Volunteering Fair will be on Wednesday 3rd November 2010 between 10am - 2pm.
Remember, that even if some of the volunteering organisations are not creative industries, they welcome the creative skills that artists and designers can bring and often rely on your skills to promote them.
 www.derby.ac.uk/careers/volunteering-fair

Don't forget to regularly check my Twitter feeds and the Derby Creatives web page for vacancies, events, competitions and other opps. You can see the twitter feeds down the side of my blog or look on Twitter.
Here are the addresses you need:
www.twitter.com/derbycreatives
www.derby.ac.uk/careers/creative-arts

Thank you for following my blog!
Debbie.

See you soon!

Here at the University of Derby Careers, we don't just wait for you to come to us for advice, information and guidance, we come to you too. We contact your programme leader/other tutors and offer to deliver sessions as part of your course. The sessions are often housed in Professional Practice/PDP/Context modules and we will usually offer to deliver 2 to 3 sessions each academic year.
The range of sessions we deliver vary according to your needs and the requests of your tutor and we are usually trying to plug any gaps that we find on your course that nobody else is delivering. Typical topics covered are: Choosing a career to fit in with your ethics and work values, Work, life balance, The options beyond your course, How to recognise and sell your skills, Networking, Postgraduate and other further study, Knowing your industry to maximise your chances of success, Job search and the hidden job market, Issues surrounding business start up and related self employment topics - such as Business games, networking games, Sources of support for Business Start up, CVs, Making applications, Interview prep and techniques and much more...

If you have not heard if we are coming in to your course and you feel you would benefit from us doing so, check with your tutors, talk to your course Rep and contact your link Careers Adviser. Find out more about me and take a look at the careers team.






Look out also for our regular drop in advice sessions at Britannia Mill, coming soon. Check our website and noticeboards at Markeaton Street and Britannia Mill for details.

Applying for a PGCE through the GTTR website? The site is now open for 2011 applications. Closing date for Primary applications is 1st December.
No set closing date for Secondary but apply earlier rather than later as some courses for some subjects get full quickly.
There are some reports of problems with the website but GTTR are working to sort out the glitches.
http://www.gttr.ac.uk/

Why not come along to my session 'Routes in to teaching for artists & designers' on Friday 15th October 2010, Markeaton Street Room 014, 1 - 2 pm. Call 01332 591316 to book your place.