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The Careers and Employability Service at the University of Kent at Medway

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Location:

The Careers and Employability Service is located within Student Services on the ground floor of the Gillingham Building

Opening hours:

The Resources Room is open from 9.00 am - 9.00 pm, Monday – Friday, enabling all students, including evening part time students, to benefit from the resources.

Drop-in advice sessions

A careers adviser is available to help with quick queries from 12.30 – 2.30 on Tuesdays (in the Careers Resources Room) and Thursdays (in the Drill Hall Library) during term time.

A full range of services is on offer including help with deciding on a career, assistance with CV's and applications, job seeking strategies and finding part-time work.

Appointments can be made with Jenny Walters and Amy Scamell, the Careers Advisers based at the Medway campus by phoning 01634 888876 or e-mailing medwaycareers@kent.ac.uk

• Jenny Walters: Careers Adviser - Medway J.Walters@kent.ac.uk Tel. 01634 (88)8876
• Amy Scamell: Careers Adviser - Medway a.scamell@kent.ac.uk Tel. 01634 202983

The following services are available:

• Drop-in advice sessions.

• Individual guidance interviews.

• Confidential and impartial guidance.

• Resources room with computer access, careers information and prospectuses.

The Careers Office is well stocked with careers magazines.

There is a well stocked careers resources room with free literature to take away, including:

• TARGETjobs guides : IT, Retail. Public Services, Teaching, City and Finance, Equal Opportunites, Diversity
• The Times, TOP 100 Graduate Employers
• The Best 600 Companies to work for
• GET guide which includes plenty of useful tips and information on employers and course providers.
• Real World guides
• Prospects PostGrad guides and ‘Directory’ which provides employer profiles, cases studies and industry insights.

You can also access the careers website at www.kent.ac.uk/careers which has over 500 pages of useful advice and information.

• Making Applications (Blue),
• Interview Skills (Green)
• The Creative Careers Search (Yellow),
• International Students (Orange),
• Choosing a career (Beige)

The entrance to the Careers Office

Look out for grey careers information boxes located in some departments.  

We will endeavour to keep these up to date and provide relevant information for you and your career/subject interests. Feel free to take a leaflet away!

Feel free to browse our resources or use the computers available for careers research/study.

The blue information folders have extensive print information with employer brochures or useful articles. Don’t forget to make use of these!

A view of the Gillingham Building.

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