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Well, while I was here at Birmingham as well as studying my degree
I was deputy editor for the redbrick
for a year which is the student newspaper here
I also was on the Student Staff Committee
committee for the Philosophy programme actually but was involved with the Open days here
for sociology, so through those activities
I learnt things about public speaking, I delivered presentations to the open days
I also managed staff members as part of the Redbrick
being deputy editor for that learning to work to time scales
tight deadlines for Redbrick in terms of the print deadline and things like that so
a lot transferable skills that i learnt through obviously the degree programme itself
but also through the activities i did as well
that i was able to talk about at interview for jobs,
the job i've now got now. I had a lot of help from the careers service
I recall probably in the September of my final year
going to the careers library and picking up loads of the free
guide that you get like the time's top 100 and things like that and taking those away
and reading them at my house and turning over the corners of the ones
I might be interested in and then I had an appointment with one of the careers advisers
who talked me through what might like to do with my career
kinda rained in some of the things I thought i might like to do
and we talked through them and she sent me links to web site and stuff where i could
read a bit more about things and then when it came to actually applying
for the graduate schemes we did mock interviews and as
where she asked me questions that come up and we planned responses and
things like that so it was really really helpful.
The Sociology programme itself is excellent and the things you'll learn are really interesting and
will set you up for things in the future but i also think it's really important to get
that value added while you're at university particularly getting involved with societies
clubs, sports because it is those things when it comes to getting a job, it's the transferrable skills
that will really set you apart from the people that there maybe
just done a degree and nothing else.