My Future Festival 2021

MY FUTURE FESTIVAL

Monday 1 to Wednesday 10 November 2021

Start planning your future, now.

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MY FUTURE FESTIVAL From Monday 1 November through to Wednesday 10 November.

This year, the Careers, Employability and Enterprise team are hosting 8 days of events to support students in accessing full/part-time roles, volunteering, starting your own business and graduate schemes.

What is the My Future Festival?

These events are the perfect opportunity to connect with a variety of organisations who want to help YOU prepare for your future. You’ll have the chance to ask them questions about what it’s like to work there, find out what you need to submit a successful application, and expand your network of contacts. Networking is essential to your future, and this event is the best way to help you develop those networking skills.

Some organisations will be on campus in Ipswich, and many others will host sessions on Brightspace, so keep reading to find out what’s on and where. We’ve designed this event to be as accessible to you as possible.

All online activities can be accessed in the Careers Events section on Brightspace.

Careers, Employability and Enterprise Team The Careers, Employability and Enterprise team are here to help you, University of Suffolk students, explore, develop and shape your future. We’re available to every current student, as well as for three years after your graduation.

It doesn’t matter which year you’re in (or if you've already graduated), if you’ve got a job now, if you know what you want to do as a graduate or have no idea what your future might look like, there’s something for you at the My Future Festival.

We’ve got local and national organisations, and University of Suffolk Careers and Enterprise experts running lots of different events and activities to help you reach your future goals.

Careers, Employability and Enterprise Advisers will also be located in the Waterfront Building Foyer everyday, ready to answer any questions about your future!

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WHAT'S ON Monday 1 November Online

On campus

Attwells Solicitors

Disability Advice Service East Suffolk

Routes in to the legal profession.

Disability Advice Service East Suffolk provides impartial, free advice and support to people with disabilities, their families and carers, and changing the lives of people in crisis across East Suffolk.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 11.00am

Civil Nuclear Constabulary The Civil Nuclear Constabulary (CNC) is a specialist armed police service dedicated to protecting the civil nuclear industry. They are responsible for the protection of nuclear facilities and civil nuclear material – whether it’s on a civil nuclear site or in transit. They work with local police services, nuclear regulators and central government. Counter terrorism is also a major part of our role.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 11.00am

Lovewell Blake Work experience and graduate opportunities for 2022.

Lovewell Blake is a firm of chartered accountants and financial planners with 8 offices across Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom

Waterfront Building Foyer 11.00am–4.00pm

OneLife Suffolk OneLife Suffolk deliver programmes to change lives and are commissioned by Suffolk County Council to deliver the Integrated Healthy Lifestyle Service across the county.

Waterfront Building Foyer 10.00am–2.00pm

Papworth Trust Papworth Trust is a charity which supports adults with learning disabilities including autism, and behaviours which can challenge. They support younger adults who live in their own homes. They will offer interested students opportunities to join their team either as support workers or as administrative and clerical staff. There are also volunteering and fundraising opportunities available, as well as placements and apprenticeships.

Waterfront Building Foyer

2.00pm

12.00-2.00pm

Opus People Solutions

Suffolk Constabulary

As a recruitment agency, their consultants fill a variety of jobs and look at hundreds of CVs daily. They will cover application and interview processes: how to write a great CV and tips for succeeding in interviews.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 12.00pm

Find out how you can join Suffolk Constabulary as a police officer, staff member, special or volunteer.

Open to any students who have an interest in law enforcement. PC recruitment open to any students currently in their final year of study. There will be support with applications as well as talking about opportunities to join and volunteer.

Waterfront Building Foyer 10.00am–2.00pm

Suffolk Special Constabulary Information on the value of volunteering as Special Constable or Police Support Volunteer - details of recruitment process including application, assessment centre, fitness, medical and training programme.

Waterfront Building Foyer 10.00am–2.00pm

Tuesday 2 November Online

On campus

Camp Counselors USA (CCUSA)

6 Regiment, 677 Squadron, Army Air Corps Reserve

Providing exciting summer camp jobs, work or volunteer experiences and adventures in the USA and around the world!

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 2.00pm

Fourier Fourier are a team of experienced recruiters specialising in information technology, trading technology and quant analytics.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 12.00pm

North Essex Teacher Training Find out more about this Initial Teacher Training provider, the Postgraduate Certificate in Education and the BA undergraduate course which is awarded by the University of Suffolk.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 11.00am

Travelteer

“What have you got in Reserve?!"

The Army Reserve offers part time careers in your spare time boasting excitement, challenge and personal development both physically and mentally.

Waterfront Building Foyer 10.00am–3.00pm

Adecco Recruitment agency with temporary and permanent contracts.

Waterfront Building Foyer 10.00am–3.00pm

School's Out Activities School’s Out Activities are focused on delivering school holiday activities to children aged 4–16 years throughout the academic year. They are looking for staff to join their team during schools holidays.

Waterfront Building Foyer 12.30–5.00pm

University of Suffolk Students' Union (SU)

Travelteer specialise in providing university students with quality placements via volunteering programmes in Sri Lanka and Nepal. Programmes are designed to be course related.

Information on the Suffolk + employability scheme that all course and accommodation reps, officers, sport and society committee members and any other SU volunteer can engage with.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom

11.00am–2.00pm

10.00am

Volunteering Matters Alumni Lauren’s University of Suffolk journey and information on how students can volunteer and get involved with Volunteering Matters!

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 11.00am–2.00pm

Waterfront Building Foyer

Wednesday 3 November Online

On campus

Break Through in Education

Community Action Suffolk

Specialist SEN recruitment company placing teachers, teaching assistants and senior staff in all school settings.

Volunteer opportunities across Suffolk (linked to a variety of career choices).

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom

9.00am–2.00pm

1.00pm

Waterfront Building Foyer

IG Recruit

A Disability and Wellbeing Adviser will talk about disability rights in the workplace.

Headhunting arm of the IG Group, a transformative customer experience management and data analytics company who work with large enterprises all over the world.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom

10.00am–2.00pm

Disability Rights in the Workplace

Waterfront Building Foyer

11.00am

Inspire Suffolk Supporting young people onto a positive future, information on seasonal roles available.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 1.00pm

Suffolk Archives Introduction to the concept of an archive, overview of the career paths in archives, opportunities for students.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 11.00am

Working in mental health with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust University of Suffolk alumni will talk about the types of roles in mental health available with Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 12.00pm

OneLife Suffolk OneLife Suffolk is the healthy lifestyle service funded

by Suffolk County council and commissioned by Public Health England. They provide a range of free services to improve health and well being for Suffolk residents.

Waterfront Building Foyer 10.00am–2.00pm

Papworth Trust Papworth Trust is a charity which supports adults with learning disabilities including autism, and behaviours which can challenge. They support younger adults who live in their own homes. They will offer interested students opportunities to join their team either as support workers or as administrative and clerical staff. There are also volunteering and fundraising opportunities available, as well as placements and apprenticeships.

Waterfront Building Foyer 12.00–2.00pm

Suffolk Scouts Seeking people to help support Scouting throughout Suffolk.

Waterfront Building Foyer 11.00am–3.00pm

Thursday 4 November Online Career Invest A session on career confidence and building a standout personal brand.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 3.00pm

Clinical Psychologist from Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) A Clinical Psychologist with NSFT who will talk about her role with the NHS and the routes in to being a Clinical Psychologist.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 11.00am

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Graduate Programme: They will advise how they can empower you to start contributing right from the word go, gaining the experience you need to run your own business in as little as two years.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 2.00pm

Pace Digital Sales PACE is a modern outsourced sales company that partners with world leading businesses to build sales pipeline and accelerate revenue. The global sales landscape has changed dramatically, and PACE have developed their services to adapt to the different challenges within their clients selling process. These professional services incorporate the exclusive allocation of either their specialised outsourced sales development teams or their direct inside sales teams.

Its never been a more exciting time to join PACE, and their aim is to transform students into business professionals through their inhouse sales training.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 3.00pm

Suffolk County Council — Careers within Health and Social Care; Social Work, Occupational Therapy, School Nursing Working in health and social care within the Local Authority, mainly around social work, occupational therapy, school nursing and other roles within the areas of social care.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 11.00am

Suffolk County Council — Internships and Graduate Programmes Working for Suffolk County Council with information on the Graduate Programme and the Internships with Suffolk Councils.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 1.00pm

Suffolk Mind Suffolk Mind’s session introduces you to their Emotional Needs approach which is for everyone, ways to help your own wellbeing and information about the services they provide including Suffolk Work Well.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 2.00pm

Thursday 4 November

Friday 5 November

On campus

Online

Disability Advice Service East Suffolk

ESNEFT — Ipswich and Colchester Hospitals

Disability Advice Service East Suffolk providing impartial, free advice and support to people with disabilities, their families and carers and changing the lives of people in crisis across East Suffolk.

Waterfront Building Foyer 11.00am–4.00pm

OneLife Suffolk OneLife Suffolk is the healthy lifestyle service funded

by Suffolk County council and commissioned by Public Health England. They provide a range of free services to improve health and well being for Suffolk residents.

Waterfront Building Foyer 10.00am-2.00pm

Paddy & Scott's

Presentations for Nursing, Biomedical Science, Community Nursing and Diagnostic Radiography.

We are hoping to have Training Educators available for one to one chat's from Biomedical Science and Radiography areas.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 1.00pm

On campus NHS Professionals NHS Professionals is the leading provider of flexible workforce solutions to the NHS. Waterfront Building Foyer

Over lunch, hear from founder, Scott Russell, about Doing Business with Purpose.

9.00–5.00pm

From the boot to the big league.

Suffolk County Council

They now produce over 30,000 cups of coffee per day: From their own fuelling stations to over 150 branded concessions. Hong Kong and Shanghai have already been invaded and the march continues on to the Middle East. Their Trade Accounts Team supplies Their award winning, slow-roasted coffee to some of the finest restaurants in the UK, favoured by celebrity chefs and enjoyed in some of London's finest hotels.

Constantly evolving and always reinventing ourselves; they have proudly supplied their coffee to the likes of Virgin Atlantic, Sony, HP, O2 and Barclays. they are on a crusade to fuel the world and are just getting started.

IWIC Seminar Room — Atrium Building 12.00pm

Information on the Suffolk County Council’s Internships and Graduate Programme, and working in social care with the Local Authority.

Waterfront Building Foyer 10.00am-2.00pm

Papworth Trust Papworth Trust is a charity which supports adults with learning disabilities including autism, and behaviours which can challenge. They support younger adults who live in their own homes. They will offer interested students opportunities to join their team either as support workers or as administrative and clerical staff. There are also volunteering and fundraising opportunities available, as well as placements and apprenticeships.

Waterfront Building Foyer 12.00–2.00pm

Monday 8 November Online

On campus

Institute Of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)

OneLife Suffolk

As an undergraduate, your journey to becoming an ICAEW Chartered Accountant begins by finding an opportunity to train with one of our 6,000 authorised employers. We partner with your employer to develop your knowledge, skills and experience as you progress through the prestigious ACA qualification.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom

OneLife Suffolk is the healthy lifestyle service funded

by Suffolk County council and commissioned by Public Health England. They provide a range of free services to improve health and well being for Suffolk residents.

Waterfront Building Foyer 10.00am–2.00pm

12.00pm

Tuesday 9 November Online

On campus

BT and Openreach

OneLife Suffolk

They can advise on a large amount of graduate and placements across many different disciplines in Ipswich (and other locations).

OneLife Suffolk is the healthy lifestyle service funded

by Suffolk County council and commissioned by Public Health England. They provide a range of free services to improve health and well being for Suffolk residents.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 10.00am

Starting a Business session Have you ever thought about starting a business, have a good idea and wonder if it might be possible, or want to go freelance? Or do you already have a business, and want to explore how you could expand?

Then this session is for you!

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 2.00pm

Ultimate Activity Camps A leading provider of holiday camps in the UK looking to recruit staff for this.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom 1.00pm

Waterfront Building Foyer 10.00am-2.00pm

Papworth Trust Papworth Trust is a charity which supports adults with learning disabilities including autism, and behaviours which can challenge. They support younger adults who live in their own homes. They will offer interested students opportunities to join their team either as support workers or as administrative and clerical staff. There are also volunteering and fundraising opportunities available, as well as placements and apprenticeships.

Waterfront Building Foyer 12.00-2.00pm

School's Out Activities School’s Out Activities are focused on delivering premium school holiday activities to children aged 4–16 years throughout the academic year. They create fun and exciting day camps with over 100 unique activities to dive into, meaning there is something for everyone. They are looking for fun, engaging and confident staff to join our amazing team during schools holidays.

Waterfront Building Foyer 12.30–5.00pm

Wednesday 10 November Online

On campus

Starting a Business session

Disability Advice Service East Suffolk

Have you ever thought about starting a business, have a good idea and wonder if it might be possible, or want to go freelance? Or do you already have a business, and want to explore how you could expand?

Then this session is for you!

Disability Advice Service East Suffolk providing impartial, free advice and support to people with disabilities, their families and carers and changing the lives of people in crisis across East Suffolk.

Go to Careers Events on Brightspace Virtual Classroom

11.00am–4.00pm

10.00am

Waterfront Building Foyer

Papworth Trust Papworth Trust is a charity which supports adults with learning disabilities including autism, and behaviours which can challenge. They support younger adults who live in their own homes. They will offer interested students opportunities to join their team either as support workers or as administrative and clerical staff. There are also volunteering and fundraising opportunities available, as well as placements and apprenticeships.

Waterfront Building Foyer 12.00-2.00pm

Suffolk Scouts We are seeking people to help support Scouting throughout Suffolk.

Waterfront Building Foyer 11.00am–3.00pm

PwC UK’s Scavenger Hunt We’re really excited to welcome PwC UK to the University of Suffolk with their all new web‑based Augmented Reality challenge. This can be accessed on your phone and the even better news is, there’s a chance you could win some exciting tech prizes, and even a brand new electric car!

Tech is changing the way we live and work and PwC want their people and their clients to be at the forefront of that change. Through this Scavenger Hunt and their Virtual Park, PwC want to show you how they do business. Purpose sits at the heart of their strategy, and helping organisations improve their impact on the environment, and on society, to become more resilient, agile and sustainable is what they do best.

Join a tech-connected community collaborating on some of the world’s most challenging issues. Explore more through our portals on campus and build your skills in new and unexpected ways.

To take part, visit PwC's Scavenger Hunt web page

by Friday 12 November.

TOP TIPS AND QUESTIONS Top tips Research organisations that are attending in advance and prepare questions to ask.

If you are unsure, consider pairing up with a fellow student or contact one of the Careers Team.

Be prepared to discuss your experience and current studies.

Questions you could ask What types of roles are there within your organisation?

What do you look for in a successful applicant?

What makes a good application or CV stand out?

What do you enjoy most about your role?

Please can I have your contact details? It would be great to find out more about...

Get in touch If you have any questions or require further information please email us: careers@uos.ac.uk /UniofSuffolkCareers @UOS_CareersEmp