Naturejobs Career Expo keynote speaker wins top engineering prize.
Professor Langer, who runs the 100-strong Langer Lab at MIT, told the Financial Times that “it is a great honour to win what is by far the biggest engineering award in the world.” … Read more
Train ’em up and kick ’em out
Plans for non-EU graduate students to leave the UK, once their courses and visas have expired, have been halted. Read more
Why Naturejobs is going native
Sponsored content, advertorial and in-stream ads are different types of native advertising. Buzzfeed are doing it, the New York Times are doing it. Native advertising has become a buzzword of late, but it is not new – marketers have made use of content marketing for some time and publishers have offered the platform for just as long. Naturejobs has already been doing it in print and online with products like the Inside Views. Now, we’re bringing native advertising to the Naturejobs blog. And we’re determined to get the balance right and explain the what, how and why. Read more
Best UK internships: Shortlist announced
According to Vicky Miles, the Event Manager for NCWE, nominated employers are judged on three main criteria – what skills the intern will take away from the placement and how much impact they can make on the organisation, the level of support and assessment the person on the placement will get, and what makes that particular placement exceptional compared to the competition. They also take note of the level of payment the employee will receive. Read more
Ten words to avoid on your online job profile
Are you a motivated employee? Boring! Creative? Yawn! Responsible? We’ve heard it all before! This week, LinkedIn have released a list of the words that are the most abused by their users. Recognise any of them? Read more
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