Chris & Louis (Bank strategy director & insurance loss adjuster, 2008/9 grads)

Ash Watts, Careers Adviser, speaks to Gareth Kerr, Head of Sales Proposition at Intelliflo about the role sport can play when applying for jobs. Hear Gareth's perspective as an employer about how your experiences in sport can transfer to the workplace and how you can demonstrate these skills during the application process, from CV to interview.

In this episode Ash talks to Jessica, a Nottingham alum who started university at 21 and now works for herself as a business coach. Jessica answers your questions and talks about her experiences with post-university careers, how she battled burnout and came to a realisation she wasn't expecting early on in her career and how this led to her working for herself to pursue a more flexible and healthy work/life balance.

Ash speaks to Alice, a Nottingham alum and freelance journalist about her route into journalism post university and how she managed to gain experience and make career moves while many media organisations were cutting jobs due to the global recession. Listen to Alice's advise for anyone trying to find experience and job opportunities in difficult sectors.

Ash talks with Chris and Louis about their time as students at Nottingham and how they approached finding graduate jobs amidst the global recession when recruitment was at an all-time low. They answer your questions about how they kept themselves motivated, found graduate roles and placements, and the role networking played in finding opportunities.