Videos

Videos on Destinations

The Destinations website has an extensive video library of over 100 high quality clips featuring careers advisers, employers and students covering on a variety of subjects including taking placement years, CV and interview tips and much more! This can be accessed at https://www.reading.ac.uk/destinations/html/resources.shtml

**NEW** AGCAS - Journey to Work

Journey to Work shows a number of students as they prepare for life after university. The students talk about their career ambitions and what they have already done to maximise their chances of getting a job they want. They receive tips from careers advisers and industry mentors and are helped to see the value of networking.

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AGCAS At the Assessment Centre

This shows students and graduates being assessed by recruiters from Enterprise Rent-A-Car, HSBC and RWE npower in activities which commonly feature at assessment centres. It includes extracts from each exercise, selectors' verdicts and candidates reflections on their own performance. The students featured are from a wide range of disciplines and includes international students

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AGCAS Making an Impact: The Graduate Job Interview

These show real students and graduates being interviewed by actual recruiters. It includes extracts from each interview, selectors' verdicts and candidates reflecting on their own performance. The interviews featured are with KPMG, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and for the post of graphic designer with Winning Moves, a small creative agency in the West Midlands. The video features international students, postgraduates and art and design students.

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Your Job's Online

This programme shows how applicants can maximise their chances of success when completing electronic applications. It shows two major employers selecting graduates using only their electronic applications. We hear the selectors assessing the candidates' performance, and see the candidates' reactions to those comments.

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Interviews for PGCE and GTP

This clip, produced by The Careers Centre and the Technical Support Unit, Bulmershe, gives hints and tips on good interview practice and discusses possible interview questions, for entry onto these ITT programmes.

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