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What Do You Actually Do?
UoY Careers and Placements
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Find out what people actually do in their jobs, the skills they use and how they got there. A podcast from the Careers and Placements team at the University of York.
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Art appraisal with Leah Tharpe
Apr 30 • 22m
Flora Palmer - Production & Operations at The Walt Disney Company
Mar 28 • 18m
Working in International Development with Juany Murphy
Mar 25 • 32m
Facilititating the recovery of lost and stolen art with the Art Loss Register
Feb 25 • 47m
What do you actually do if you're graduating with a disability
Nov 20, 2024 • 38m
A career in International Development with Laura Gravini-Rodriguez
Nov 6, 2024 • 27m
Working at the UK Space Agency with Faz Kazmi
Oct 23, 2024 • 33m
Engineering in the Nuclear Industry with Cezara Jalba
Oct 9, 2024 • 38m
Media and Communications with Molly Watson
May 1, 2024 • 31m
The Civil Service Science and Engineering Fast Stream with James Halpin
Apr 17, 2024 • 46m
Client Account Management in Advertising with Izi Hutchinson
Mar 20, 2024 • 31m
English grad to junior doctor: Graduate medicine and beyond, with Ian Henderson
Mar 6, 2024 • 18m
Flirting with Algorithms with Harpal Sahota
Feb 21, 2024 • 12m
Human-centred design in the cultural sector
Dec 6, 2023 • 28m
Service Designer
Nov 22, 2023 • 27m
Engineer at National Grid
Nov 8, 2023 • 26m
Consultant in the heritage industry: helping galleries, theatres and museums
Oct 18, 2023 • 21m
Placement year in recruitment 🧑💼
Oct 4, 2023 • 26m
Climate Communications Consultant
Jun 7, 2023 • 33m
Working in rail industry: life as an engineer at Network Rail
May 24, 2023 • 25m
Senior Estate Manager - English Heritage
May 10, 2023 • 21m
Investigative journalist
Apr 26, 2023 • 33m
Speech and Language Therapist (SLT)
Mar 1, 2023 • 26m
Executive producer in TV
Feb 15, 2023 • 25m
Barrister
Feb 1, 2023 • 19m
Imposter syndrome: how to deal with it in university, work and everyday life
Jan 18, 2023 • 49m
Digital archaeologist and entrepreneur
Nov 16, 2022 • 23m
Running a startup
Nov 2, 2022 • 24m
Placement Year in the NHS
Oct 19, 2022 • 23m
Journalism researcher at the BBC
Oct 5, 2022 • 27m
Life as a CEO: running Cafédirect
Jun 8, 2022 • 21m
Financial services
May 25, 2022 • 33m
Working in international development
May 11, 2022 • 22m
Student Internship Bureau special
Apr 27, 2022 • 17m
What do you actually do if you're graduating in a global pandemic?!: 2022 edition
Mar 16, 2022 • 42m
Environmental Consultant
Mar 2, 2022 • 22m
University widening participation officer
Feb 16, 2022 • 20m
Engineer - European Space Agency
Feb 2, 2022 • 24m
Prison Officer (Unlocked Graduate scheme)
Jan 19, 2022 • 32m
Thanks for listening this autumn - here's what's coming up in Spring term
Dec 1, 2021 • 1m
Management Consultant
Nov 17, 2021 • 28m
Film composer
Nov 3, 2021 • 33m
Aldi Graduate Area Manager Programme
Oct 20, 2021 • 17m
Civil Service Fast Stream
Oct 6, 2021 • 23m
Six key questions you need to know the answers to if you’re graduating in 2021
Aug 23, 2021 • 42m
That's it for another season - but stay tuned for a graduation special in August!
Jun 23, 2021 • 41s
Training to be a lawyer, with Alex Stewart-Moreno
Jun 9, 2021 • 38m
How to make a portfolio career work
May 26, 2021 • 42m
Changing careers: switching heritage for accounting, with Alice Yevko
May 12, 2021 • 28m
Working in heritage: In the archive in lockdown
Apr 28, 2021 • 30m
Changing fast: working in agile project management, with Alison Critchley
Mar 17, 2021 • 31m
English grad to junior doctor: Graduate medicine and beyond, with Ian Henderson
Mar 3, 2021 • 19m
Running an advertising firm, with Luke D'Arcy
Feb 17, 2021 • 37m
Exploring clinical science, with John Filby
Feb 3, 2021 • 23m
Talking census: a career in genealogy, with Christina Copland
Jan 20, 2021 • 30m
Leading innovation in the legal sector, with Alexander Malt
Dec 2, 2020 • 20m
Making a splash, with Tom Pagett
Dec 2, 2020 • 18m
From TV to tech, with Vivien Chung
Nov 4, 2020 • 28m
Life as a social worker, with Bethany Pease
Oct 21, 2020 • 20m
A career in corporate social responsibility, with Daniel Arda
Oct 7, 2020 • 30m
What do you actually do if you're graduating in a global pandemic?!, with Tom Banham
Jun 17, 2020 • 31m
Making Medicine, with Tom Ronson
Jun 3, 2020 • 19m
Flirting with Algorithms, with Harpal Sahota
May 20, 2020 • 12m
Starting a Startup, with Phil Daneshyar
May 6, 2020 • 26m
Managing a University, with Charlie Jeffery
Apr 22, 2020 • 19m
Writing for a living, with Lewis Lansford
Mar 11, 2020 • 27m
Pollution is in the air, with Aiden Heeley-Hill
Feb 26, 2020 • 17m
A day in the life of a BBC journalist, with Lucy Vladev
Feb 12, 2020 • 20m
On the beat, with Ross Gehnich
Jan 29, 2020 • 24m
Placement year in a political think tank, with Andrew Gloag
Jan 15, 2020 • 15m
Calling the Midwife, with Jessica Allason
Dec 4, 2019 • 17m
Making people's lives healthier, with Sam Thomas
Nov 20, 2019 • 34m
Marketing in the museum, with Tasha McNaught
Nov 6, 2019 • 20m
Managing the economic growth of York, with Alex Dochery
Oct 23, 2019 • 15m
Get into book publishing, with Helen Barton
Oct 9, 2019 • 22m
How to train your teacher, with Sarah Dagnell
Jun 12, 2019 • 14m
Getting on a top grad scheme, with Lewis McDowell
May 29, 2019 • 21m
Summer Internship: Make it yours! with Julia Hebron
May 15, 2019 • 19m
Historical consulting for video games, with Nicholas Gliserman
May 1, 2019 • 14m
Summer Internship: It's not easy being green, with Oscar Bentley
Apr 17, 2019 • 12m
Being a project manager, with Laura Hallett
Mar 13, 2019 • 20m
All roads lead to film-making, with Richard Knight
Mar 6, 2019 • 23m
Pursuing your passions in the charity sector, with Cat Schroeter
Feb 26, 2019 • 16m
Lecturing is the tip of the iceberg, with J.T. Welsch
Feb 20, 2019 • 20m
I ❤ Compliance, with Kate Pyle
Feb 12, 2019 • 10m
Getting involved with theatre, with John Tomlinson
Feb 5, 2019 • 16m
Within and without the laboratory, with Stefan Sipika
Jan 29, 2019 • 15m
Bringing social media into The Economist, with Adam Smith
Jan 22, 2019 • 21m
From lecture theatres to film sets, with Hannah Greig
Jan 15, 2019 • 16m
TRAILER | Launching on 16/01/19
Jan 7, 2019 • 31s
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