London Met services

London Metropolitan University offers a lot of support to students on various subjects. They are not just there for support on careers but also offer advice and support on personal matters and concerns you may have.

We have provided links here for career support and strongly advise you to look into making the most of these services while you can. You have already payed for them when you enrolled so why waste your money?

The bottom link will take you to all other services that are available at the university.

https://intranet.londonmet.ac.uk/studentservices/  London Met Student services

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/about/employability/   Employability, placements and careers

https://intranet.londonmet.ac.uk/studentservices/careers/   Career help team

http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/search.cfm    Search page with list of available services through London Met

Motivational videos

Here are some videos spoken by two well known influential people who are offering their wisdom about how they reached their goals and how you can reach yours. Have a look and become inspired today!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAeha727ZWI  Motivational video by Steve Jobs about success

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5SMyfbWYyE  Steve Jobs Inspirational speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH35Iz9veM0   Richard Branson: Advice for Entrepreneurs

TED TALKS

Ted was founded in 1984 as a one-off event and has now become an annual conference since its beginnings in 1990's. It is staged on the basis that people from all walks of life can speak at the conference on a 'idea worth spreading' basis. 

The links here are of Richard St. John, I think you will find some sense in what he says and ideas and motivational thoughts for your forthcoming career or career development journey. Enjoy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6bbMQXQ180  Secrets of success: Richard St. John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgNx9Bgac1I  Success is a continuous journey: Richard St. John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT7FFVdl-kk 8 Secrets of success: Richard St.John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MM-psvqiG8  The difference between winning and succeeding: John Wooden

Career development seminars

SEMINARS

Take a look at these links on seminars providing help for those interested in starting a business. Some are free so take advantage of that and get ahead of those who are not readers of this blog. Although we want to promote this advise to as many as we can  it wont hurt for you to get your names down on their lists before sharing the information! :) 

Turn your business ideas into a flourishing business. 

http://www.barclays.co.uk/Seminars/FreeSeminars/P1242585910003?WT.mc_id=301RDseminars: Barclays business seminars and clinics

http://www.barclays.co.uk/Businessevents/Inspirationalbusinessevents/  :Inspirational business events

http://www.bstartup.com/ : Business Startup Excel London 6-7 June 2013

http://opportunitylondon.eventbrite.co.uk/: Free Business startup Seminar and opportunities

CV TIPS

Here are some links for those who need advice on the layout and content of their CV's. We have also supplied links for tips that you can try out for you to stand out from the crowd. Bare in mind that you are competing in a very competitive market and we all need to take a different approach to our CV's in order to get ourselves noticed.

Enjoy and the very best of luck!!

www.alec.co.uk/how-to-write-a-resume  Free advice

www.alec.co.uk/how-to-write-a-resume/event-planner-resume.htm Free CV advice for events management

www.monster.co.uk

www.direct.gov.uk

www.reed.co.uk/career_advice

 www.guardian.co.uk › Professional › Culture professionals network

Top ten tips: www.cvtips.com/

Cover letter and CV advice: www.jobs.guardian.co.uk/cv-advice

How to write a successful CV - University of Kent - www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv.htm

CV Writing Tips | CV Examples | Cover letters: www.cv-library.co.uk/cvtips.html

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Lots of us fail to get noticed due to us having a lack of motivation, for various reasons, and therefore we feel that these motivational speeches and lectures, advice bureaus, coaching seminars and personal tests will be interesting and beneficial to those who can identify with that feeling.

We all need to know why we wake up in the morning and what takes us to work in order for us to carry on doing it everyday! Hopefully these various links will inform or reiterate those reasons and give you the oomph to do what is needed for your personal career development.

www.learnoutloud.com  100 free motivational speeches, lectures and podcasts

www.direct.gov.uk  National career service

www.londonlifecoach.co.uk  Free info

www.bteq.co.uk/index.php  Free professional career development coaching seminar

www.careers.gaurdian.co.uk/seminars  Career seminars, free stuff and discounts

www.futureproofyour career.com    Free career development test

www.reed.co.uk

Tips

Motivational and reflective tools such as seminars, speeches, quotes and books can be very inspirational and definitely an added key to success. Having goals and aims give you a better sense of direction and keep you on track. Check out FREE seminars, videos, speeches and literature we have found. Give yourselves that added kick and motivate yourselves to be better, go on you can do it!! 

Career Development module at LondonMet

A new module was added to London Met in 2013, Career Development LT6053X. Strongly suggest doing it as one of your final year modules. Very inspiring and thought provoking stuff! 

Stressed about writing your CV? Have a look at our links page and try out some of the links we have on there, there may something to help. Good Luck! :)