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What Do You Actually Do?

Find out what people actually do in their jobs, the skills they use and how they got there. A podcas

Episodes

Total: 90

Lots of people want to work in the rail industry and York graduate Laura has made it happen. She is

For grads interested in heritage, Rebecca Thompson might just have the dream job (she describes it a

What does an investigative journalist actually do?? Sam Bright studied History at York while running

We get a lot of questions about Speech and Language Therapy careers. It's a hugely rewarding area of

Executive producer in TV

2023/2/15

Want to work in the television industry? Tim Dean knows how to make it happen! He graduated from Yor

Barrister

2023/2/1

Kate talks to York graduate Jack about training to be a barrister. Jack studied History and decided

Something a bit different in this episode - Kate speaks to two Uni of York colleagues about imposter

Bethany is a York graduate and director of Experience Heritage, where she uses her expertise in arch

Running a startup

2022/11/2

Interested in startups or working for yourself? That's what this episode is all about. Toby Cannon g

Placement Year in the NHS

2022/10/19

Vinusha is a York History student who completed a placement year in the NHS Cheshire Clinical Commis

Want a job in research? Or interested in working in the media? This episode is for you. Today Kate t

Think you want to be a CEO? Interested in marketing, fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) or the world

Financial services

2022/5/25

Ben graduated from York with a degree in Philosophy and after a few years found himself working in t

This episode is for anyone interested in international development or the humanitarian sector. Rob S

Did you know that each summer loads of York students do an internship through the Student Internship

The worst of the pandemic might (hopefully) be behind us but the world of work has permanently chang

Environmental Consultant

2022/3/2

Kadi is an environmental consultant who coordinates and project manages the environmental inputs for

Interested in a non-academic job in higher education? In this episode Kate talks to Victoria Brooks

Neil studied Physics with Philosophy at York and has been working at the European Space Agency since

In this episode Kate talks to Dan, a York graduate working as a prison officer on the Unlocked grad