Name: Episode 2 - How I’ve challenged myself during lockdown by uniofnottingham
Duration: 25 min 47 s
Description: Katharine, Liz and Linda from the University of Nottingham Womens Network talk about their experiences of challenging themselves with new ventures that helped them to stay physically and emotionally positive and put a smile on their faces.

Ash talks with Chris and Louis about their time as students at Nottingham and how they approached finding graduate jobs amidst the global recession when recruitment was at an all-time low. They answer your questions about how they kept themselves motivated, found graduate roles and placements, and the role networking played in finding opportunities.

Graduating in 2021: Chris & Louis (Bank strategy director & insurance loss adjuster, 2008/9 grads)

Ash speaks to Alice, a Nottingham alum and freelance journalist about her route into journalism post university and how she managed to gain experience and make career moves while many media organisations were cutting jobs due to the global recession. Listen to Alice's advise for anyone trying to find experience and job opportunities in difficult sectors.

Graduating in 2021: Alice (Freelance journalist, 2008 grad)

Episode 3: In this episode Ash talks to Jessica, a Nottingham alum who started university at 21 and now works for herself as a business coach. Jessica answers your questions and talks about her experiences with post-university careers, how she battled burnout and came to a realisation she wasn't expecting early on in her career and how this led to her working for herself to pursue a more flexible and healthy work/life balance.

Graduating in 2021: Jessica (Self-employed business coach, 2008 grad)

Katharine, Liz and Linda from the University of Nottingham Womens Network talk about their experiences of challenging themselves with new ventures that helped them to stay physically and emotionally positive and put a smile on their faces.

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Episode 2 - How I’ve challenged myself during lockdown

The University of Nottingham has 42,000 students at award-winning campuses in the United Kingdom, China and Malaysia. It was ‘one of the first to embrace a truly international approach to higher education’, according to the Sunday Times University Guide 2013. It is also one of the most popular universities among graduate employers, one of the world’s greenest universities, and winner of the Times Higher Education Award for ‘Outstanding Contribution to Sustainable Development’. It is ranked in the UK's Top 10 and the World's Top 75 universities by the Shanghai Jiao Tong and the QS World Rankings.

More than 90 per cent of research at The University of Nottingham is of international quality, according to the most recent Research Assessment Exercise. The University aims to be recognised around the world for its signature contributions, especially in global food security, energy & sustainability, and health. The University won a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education for its research into global food security. 

Episode 2 - How I’ve challenged myself during lockdown

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