Employability Events This Month

Friday 13^th January:

Successful Interviews: Get That Job! 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Room 326, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1319582/successful-interviews-get-that

 

Saturday 14^th January: 11:00 am – 2:00 pm

NYQUEST Camp Canada Job Fair

The Mechanics Institute, 103 Princess Street, Manchester, M1 6DD

NYQUEST Camp Canada is hosting three job fairs in the UK and Ireland with 15 summer camp directors to recruit camp counsellors, activity instructors and support staff! This is a great chance to meet camp directors from all over Canada and potentially be hired on the spot!

These job fairs are an amazing opportunity for anyone who is interested in working at summer camps in Canada to find out more about our programme, chat with camp directors (maybe even interviewed!) and then potentially land a summer camp job in Canada! Even if you’re just coming to find out more about our programme and the process involved then it’s a great chance for you to meet the NYQUEST team who will be working with your application and supporting you while you are in Canada.

Please register online (www.go-nyquest.com/jobfairs) and they will send additional information to help prepare you for the fair.

 

Monday 16^th January:

Meet the Employers: School of Computing, Maths and Digital Technology

4:00 pm – 7:00 pm, North Atrium, Business School Building, Manchester

Are you studying Computing, Maths or Digital Technology? Attend this unique ‘speed networking’ style event to:

·         Meet employers offering a range of graduate job and placement opportunities, all looking for students studying on courses like yours

·         Get tips for standing out from the crowd during the application process

 

Registration will take place at 4pm in Room C0.14, John Dalton Building prior to the Networking Skills session.

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1314908/computing-maths-and-digital-te

 

Tuesday 17^th January:

Find That Graduate Job 12:15 pm – 12:45 pm

Room 4.04A, Business School Building, Manchester Campus

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1319596/find-that-graduate-job

 

Wednesday 18^th January:

How to Present Like a Professional 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Room 3.15, Business School Building, Manchester Campus

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1319592/how-to-present-like-profession

 

Wednesday 18^th January:

LinkedIn Workshop (**For Business Students only**) 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Room G34, Business School Building, Manchester Campus

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1324280

 

Monday 23^rd January:

Successful Interviews: Get That Job! 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Room 3.06, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1319583/successful-interviews-get-that

 

Wednesday 25^th January:

Use LinkedIn to Kick-Start Your Career 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Room 335, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Campus

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1319612/use-linkedin-to-kick-start-you

 

Wednesday 25^th January:

Successful Interviews Get that Job (**For Business Students only**) 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Room G34, Business School Building, Manchester Campus

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1324285

 

Thursday 26^th January:

Assessment Centres 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Room 335, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1319604/assessment-centres

 

Friday 27^th January:

Considering Postgraduate Study? 10:00 am – 11:00 am

Room 1.25, Business School Building, Manchester

Explore the range of study opportunities available, think about the pros and cons of these routes and find out about the different funding options available.

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1319616/considering-postgraduate-study

 

Monday 30^th January:

How to Write Winning CVs? 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Room 3.07, Business School Building, Manchester

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1319572/how-to-write-winning-cvs

 

Tuesday 31^st January:

Successful Interviews: Get That Job! 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Room 3.06, Sandra Burslem Building, Manchester

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1319587/successful-interviews-get-that

Careers in Sport: Meet the Employers

Careers in Sport:  Meet the Employers

 

Tuesday 24^th January

1:00 – 3:00 pm

North Atrium, Business School Building, Manchester Campus

 

Are you looking for employment opportunities in Sports and Sport Marketing Management?

If you are, this unique ‘speed networking’ style event will be great for you to:

·         Meet employers offering a range of graduate job opportunities, all looking for students from your subject area

·         Find out how to apply for the roles on offer

·         Get tips for standing out from the crowd during the application process

·         Make connections and network with industry professionals

 

For more details & to book: https://mycareerhub.mmu.ac.uk/students/events/detail/1314552/careers-in-sport-meet-employer

Eomics - Was Ebenezer Scrooge right in purely economic terms?

 

In the run up to Christmas, according to Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol the hoarder Ebenezer Scrooge, began to discover some festive spirit. However, the festive season doesn’t last forever. In a recent blog Prof Kevin Albertson ponders on what Scrooge might be up to the rest of the year – if, that is, he is concerned for the insecurity and social injustice inherent in the (what we would now call) the gigging economy.

Read Kevin’s thoughts on the subject below and here – http://eomics.mmu.ac.uk/

Was Ebenezer Scrooge right in purely economic terms?

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Kevin Albertson

Kevin Albertson

Bah! Humbug!

In A Christmas Carol, published in 1843, Charles Dickens tells the story of the reformation of one Ebenezer Scrooge, miser of London.
On Christmas Eve, Scrooge, who greets the Christmas season with “Bah! Humbug!”, is visited by a four spirits, starting with that of Jacob Marley, his deceased business partner. The three other spirits are the ghosts of: Christmas Past; Christmas Present; and Christmas Yet to Come. Between them they convince Scrooge he is better off living a life of personal charity. Scrooge is a happier man afterwards, but strange as it may seem, there is a case that both pre-spirit and post-spirit Scrooge had much of value to say about social policy (albeit in different ways).
Pre-spirit Scrooge

 In Chapter 1 of A Christmas Carol, two “gentlemen” come to Scrooge asking for (in essence) a hand-out for the economically vulnerable. Scrooge responds that he pays his taxes – which is, of course, more than many business folk might be able to say – and therefore it is the establishment’s job to use the tax money to alleviate poverty. In this he is, of course, perfectly correct. It is also worth noting in passing, Scrooge employs his clerk, Cratchit, on at the least a living wage (though not much more) and on regular hours. Cratchit, unlike nearly a million UK employees in this more enlightened age, at least does not bear the insecurity of employment on a zero-hours contract. Neither does Cratchit suffer the insecurity of the so-called “gigging” economy.

Pre-spirit Scrooge argues it is the responsibility of the state, not business, to address the problem summarised by Winston Churchill: “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings”. Such sentiments are echoed by the economist Milton Friedman who assured us it is the responsibility of business to make profit – end of story! Therefore, so Freidman notes in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, it is the responsibility of government to ensure that people operating in the market (including profit making businesses) behave in such a way as to improve overall wellbeing.

However, the story does not end there; pre-ghost Scrooge is right in economic terms – it is not his responsibility to make up for the failings of the state – however, he is wrong in thinking, if the state fails to address economic exclusion, he bears no responsibility to try to put things right. The post-ghost Scrooge is rather more generous, at least to the family of his employee, Cratchit, and those who were lucky enough to have made his acquaintance.

A brief aside
It might be worth considering, before we go on, why it is that Scrooge was wealthy and Cratchit poor. They both, no doubt, work equally hard – Scrooge was, to be sure, an exacting master. They were both, no doubt, good at their job – Scrooge would not keep Cratchit otherwise. The difference between them comes down to the inequality of power; as Nietzsche has observed, “Justice is … reprisal and exchange upon the basis of an approximate equality of power”. Scrooge has capital, Cratchit has not!
They say, “If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day, if you teach him to fish, he will never be hungry again”; Cratchit knows how to “fish” (how to earn his living) but Scrooge controls access to the river, that is why Cratchit is still hungry. This imbalance of power means Scrooge can negotiate a sharp deal; he (Scrooge) appropriates the fruits of Cratchit’s labour paying the minimum out of the value that Cratchit creates, while hoarding the surplus.

Post-ghost Scrooge
The post-ghost Scrooge continues to enjoy the privileges which accrue to him arising from this power imbalance, but now he is a bit more generous with giving back some of the surplus Cratchit creates (during the Christmas season, at any rate). This is a step in the right direction, but it does not address the underlying problem of economic exclusion. We can but hope post-ghost Scrooge uses his influence to induce politicians to address the imbalances of power which give rise to poverty in the first place.
Back to the future
The ultimate resolution to this problem is that we ought to ensure the state does its job in tackling economic exclusion so the Cratchits of this world are not forced to rely on the charity of the powerful: The powerful, in the meantime, ought to work on their charity, in case the state cannot solve the problem on its own.

And so, as Cratchit’s son Tiny Tim observed, “God Bless Us, Every One!” because it is going to take every one of us to address these problems of poverty and social exclusion.
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Kevin Albertson is a Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University and co-author of the Haynes Manual, How to Run the Country.
Please note that blog posts do not necessarily represent the views of other authors on the blog or of the Manchester Metropolitan University.
A version of this blog was first published on The Question.

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