Practical

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Practical Transferable Skills Module 2008

• University of Manchester
• School of Computer Science and
• MLP Careers Employability Division

2
Module CS20910/CS20920

• Aims
• To introduce you to key career management skills
  which will contribute to your future career
  success
• To help you to search for and secure
  industrial/summer placement opportunities
• To raise awareness of the skills and knowledge
  necessary to succeed in the recruitment process
• To give you direct contact with real employers
  and recruiters

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Enhancing your skills and having fun!

• Overall, we aim to enhance what you already have
  this is not a from scratch exercise and
  should be interactive
• We want you to have fun and help motivate you in
  finding a good career

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The team

• Adele Cunningham, Delia Goodwin, Graham Keating
• Lots of other speakers during 2 days as well
• A selection of documents for the course will be
  online at http//www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/Study_s
  ubweb/Ugrad/year2/registrationWeek.php
• Programme/assessment documents in your folders

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Assessment

• CV and covering letter
• 5 credits
• Deadline, Friday 10th October 2008
• Pass/ Fail attendance at these two days also
  contributes to final marks
• Problems contact me
  adele.cunningham_at_manchester.ac.uk