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18.1 Opportunities available, where and how to get advice, career planning tips

SSEES has a Careers Liaison Tutor (Dr. Pawel Bukowski) who may be consulted. There is also a Careers Adviser provided by ÂÒÂ×Ðã Careers Service who has special responsibility for SSEES students. They can help you with your career planning and assist you in the development of valuable skills for job-hunting (e.g. CV presentation and interview technique). The Careers Adviser will also make a short presentation during Induction Week to tell you more about the services that they provide.

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Specialist careers talks for students of all years are held all year round. Collect or download your copy of the ÂÒÂ×Ðã Annual Careers Programme at the beginning of every academic year and do make time to attend. Details of these talks and other careers information will be found on theÌý.

18.2 Information on ÂÒÂ×Ðã Careers

ÂÒÂ×Ðã Careers

ÂÒÂ×Ðã Careers provides a wide variety of careers information, one-to-one guidance and events for ÂÒÂ×Ðã students and recent graduates. ÂÒÂ×Ðã Careers assists them through the entire job hunting process, including exploring options, searching for vacancies, preparing CVs and applications, practicing for interviews, aptitude tests or assessment centres, and providing access to recruitment fairs and other employment-related events. They can also advise on exploring options for further study and funding. Services and events are available to all taught students, researchers (PhD students and postdocs) and graduates (for up to three years after course completion).

ÂÒÂ×Ðã Careers also supports employability activities within departments such as work-related learning and internships.

ÂÒÂ×Ðã students are helped with applications and sourcing opportunities with web resources and advice.Ìý They can book appointments and search for internship and graduate job vacancies via myÂÒÂ×ÐãCareers, this includes our summer internships and global internships schemes.

Further information:

18.3 Entrepreneurship at ÂÒÂ×Ðã

ÂÒÂ×Ðã has a long and successful track record of supporting spin-outs and start-ups developed by its academic and student communities. Many of the student and staff entrepreneurs have won external awards and achieved substantial investment allowing their enterprises to grow and reach their full potential. ÂÒÂ×Ðã offers a wide range of support to students ranging from training programmes, advice on whether an idea has commercial potential, one-to-one sessions with business advisers, funding, competitions and incubator space to help them start or grow their business.

Further information:

• ÂÒÂ×Ðã Innovation and Enterprise

18.4 Student involvement in Publications (PG)

The Slavonic and East European Review (SEER)

Founded in 1922, SEER is the oldest English-language peer-reviewed journal of its kind and the leading British periodical in its field. It is published quarterly for the school by the Modern Humanities Research Association, and its editorial board comprises academic staff from the school and from other British university departments. Articles on languages, literature, art, cinema, history and social sciences are complemented by a large book review section. SEER receives from publishers 400-500 books a year for review, and the editors are always keen to hear from postgraduate students interested in reviewing. As well as being a useful exercise in academic writing it is a good way to acquire expensive texts necessary to research. A questionnaire for would-be reviewers is available from the Assistant Editor, Barbara Wyllie (Room 314, or by email atÌýseer@ssees.ucl.ac.uk).

Central EuropeÌýpublishes original research articles on the history, languages, literature, political culture, music, arts and society of those lands once part of the Habsburg Monarchy and Poland-Lithuania from the Middle Ages to the present. It also publishes discussion papers, marginalia, book, archive, exhibition, music and film reviews.ÌýCentral EuropeÌýhas been established as a refereed journal to foster the worldwide study of the area and to provide a forum for the academic discussion of Central European life and institutions. From time-to-time an issue will be devoted to a particular theme, based on a selection of papers presented at an international conference or seminar series. Central Europe grew out of The Masaryk Journal, established by Katya A. M. Kocourek, a former postgraduate student of SSEES, in 1997. Graduate students interested in reviewing books should contact the Assistant Editor atÌýcentraleurope@ssees.ucl.ac.uk.

SlovoÌýis a journal originally created by postgraduates for postgraduates, which has now become an established academic publication. Edited and managed by postgraduate students at the school, it discusses and interprets contemporary affairs in an historical, political, social and cultural context. The journal provides a forum in which new ideas and interpretations of significant issues can be presented in an analytical form.ÌýSlovoÌýis a refereed journal and frequently presents the opportunity for young scholars to publish for the first time. Its contents regularly include abridged MA dissertations, and PhD students often produce articles from their research in progress. Contributions from members of staff are also welcome, and as well as articles, the journal carries book reviews and a growing film review section. Special issues include the proceedings of the bi-annual SSEES postgraduate conferences. The editors can be contacted via email:Ìýslovo@ssees.ucl.ac.uk, or in Room 321.