{"id":2880,"date":"2020-02-17T12:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2022-07-15T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:50:20","slug":"careerhack-the-traditional-careers-fair-reinvented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2880","title":{"rendered":"CareerHack – the traditional careers fair reinvented"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week we ran our second CareerHack event in partnership with Hacksmiths<\/a>.
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What is CareerHack?<\/strong>
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CareerHack is a career & developer event where attendees spend 4 hours competing challenges in teams, showing off their skills to potential employers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenges tested technical skills, with things like building an interactive game, as well as employability skills, like writing a personal profile and skills section for your CV to get students to think about the resources they need when heading into the working world. Employers are there to let the students know more about working at their organisations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\nIt’s a collaboration between the Department of Computing, Hacksmiths<\/a> (our student-led tech society), our Careers Department and employers. \n\n<\/p>\n\n\n

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Our employer partners, Goodboy Digital<\/a>; Lewisham Homes<\/a>; Richmond & Wandsworth Council<\/a>; and Scored<\/a> provided challenges to the hack and were judges, working their way around the 8 teams of students and awarding points.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We wanted to look at new\nways of employers and students interacting and piloted the event last year to\ngreat success, including one student getting a placement and another applying\nsuccessfully for a full time position on graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Employer feedback from last year’s event:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cmuch more useful than a \u201ctraditional\u201d careers fair.” <\/p>

\u201cbeing able to watch your students do actual engineering as opposed to just talking about it was really helpful (I was able to flag a number of final year students to our recruitment team as people whose applications should be expedited, if they choose to apply).\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

We’re now pulling together feedback from the CareerHack this week and will start planning for next year! Well done to the winning team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you’re interested in working with our students on other innovative events, talks, placements and lots more, please contact Eilidh Macdonald.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week we ran our second CareerHack event in partnership with Hacksmiths. What is CareerHack? CareerHack is a career & developer event where attendees spend 4 hours competing challenges in teams, showing off their skills to potential employers. Challenges tested technical skills, with things like building an interactive game, as well as employability skills, like … Continue reading CareerHack – the traditional careers fair reinvented<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[105,106,108],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Career-Hack-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}