This Blog is Moving!

We’ve decided to incorporate this blog into the LSE Careers Blog, which you can find at http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/careers/

With the new blog readers can still see the PhD posts, but can now also see posts from other parts of LSE Careers on topics like Entrepreneurship and Volunteering.

This blog will no longer be updated, so to see the latest PhD careers postings come over to our new home!

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG): PhD and Post Doc. Presentation & Skills Session on Wednesday, 23 May – Central London

The consultancy firm BCG are keen to recruit PhD students and postdocs and have asked me to get the word out about an event they are running on May 23 specifically for this group.  Here are the details they’ve sent me: 

Have you ever wondered what life outside academia looks like? How you could apply your intellectual curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving skills to make valuable contributions to the business world? How to keep expanding your knowledge, enhancing your skills, and advancing your career in a way and at a pace unmatched by most other companies?

Join us on Wednesday, 23 May to discover the answer to these questions, learn more about The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and meet several BCG Advanced Degree holders. 

This presentation and skills session is specifically aimed at PhD students and post-doctoral researchers who are interested in pursuing a career with BCG. 

During this event, we will talk about the firm and discuss opportunities in our global offices.  In addition, there will also be a skills session where we will offer some tips and advice on writing a successful CV and discuss what to expect during a typical consulting “case study” interview and how to prepare.  This will then be followed by an open Q&A session.

– Date: Wednesday, 23 May

– Location: The BCG London office (20 Manchester Square, London W1U 3PZ)

– Time: 6.30 – 8.30pm 

To attend the presentation, please register your interest via the link https://www.113.vovici.net/se.ashx?s=13B2588B4ECE5495  by end of day on Tuesday 22 May.

Please note that space is limited. Once you register, we will send you a confirmation email.

If you are unable to attend but are still interested in a career in one of our global offices, or if you have any questions about this event, please contact us via email at UKInternationalRecruiting@bcg.com.

For general information about BCG and the work we do, we would encourage you to visit www.BCG.com. 

We look forward to meeting you soon.

Justain Bracken

Advanced Degree Recruiting Director

The Boston Consulting Group

BCG is a global management consulting firm and the world’s leading advisor on business strategy. We partner with clients in all sectors and regions to identify their highest-value opportunities, address their most critical challenges, and transform their businesses. Our customised approach combines deep insight into the dynamics of companies and markets, with close collaboration at all levels of the client organisation. This ensures that our clients achieve sustainable competitive advantage, build more capable organisations, and secure lasting results.

Our success and reputation is built on smart ideas and intelligent people, which is why many advanced degree holders successfully pursued a career at BCG. Currently, we are experiencing unprecedented growth and so are seeking highly talented advanced degree holders to join our world-class team.

 

Partnership PhD Mobility Bursaries 2012-13 – deadline 22 May

These bursaries are worth looking into, especially for anyone planning an academic career. From a careers point of view they offer a great way of widening your academic network and learning about the way academia works in different countries. And an intellectually stimulating experience too!

Applications are invited from LSE PhD students for mobility bursaries to visit one of the School’s institutional partners (Columbia University, New York; The National University of Singapore (NUS); Peking University, Beijing; Sciences Po, Paris; or the University of Cape Town, South Africa) in order to work informally with an advisor on their PhD thesis, research and/or on related publications and presentations, and to introduce them to the academic culture, professional contacts and employment opportunities of another country/region.

For 2012-13, up to ten bursaries are on offer to visit one of the above five partner institutions. For any one partner institution, up to two flat rate bursaries of £2,500 are available.

Students registered for PhD studies at any LSE department and who have already been upgraded to full doctoral student status are eligible to apply. Each visit should be a minimum of two months and a maximum of three months in duration.

The deadline for submitting complete applications including references is midday on Tuesday 22 May. Full details about the Partnership Mobility Bursaries, including application procedures, can be found here. Any further enquiries should be emailed to academic_partnerships@lse.ac.uk.

Calling all ESRC-funded PhD students!

The ESRC have announced their deadline and application process for this year’s Student Internship Scheme.

The scheme provides current ESRC funded PhD students with the opportunity to spend up to 6 months in a non-academic organisation within the public, civil society (voluntary) or private sector where they can work as part of a team involved with policy/practice development.

To apply you need to complete and return an application form for each of the Host Organisation(s) you wish to apply to by the closing date of 30 March 2012.

Participating Host Organisations for the 2012 internships include:

• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
• British Heart Foundation
• Department for Communities and Local Government
• Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
• Home Office
• Law Commission
• Ministry of Justice
• The Scottish Government
• Thomas Pocklington
• Unchosen
• Welsh Government
• Westminster Drug Project

Internship award holders receive a 3 months extension to their ESRC award (conditions apply), and will be able to claim for reasonable travel and accommodation costs (conditions apply).

Application forms and project details for participating Hosts are available using the Host Organisations links above.

Students can benefit from:

• Networking within the policy arena
• Transferrable skills and knowledge
• Time management skills
• Report writing skills

More details can be found on the ESRC website at http://www.esrc.ac.uk/funding-and-guidance/funding-opportunities/2364/student-internship-scheme.aspx

 

Talk from a LSE PhD alumnus

Current LSE PhD students may be particularly interested in the talk tomorrow evening by the BBC journalist Kurt Barling. He graduated with a PhD in International Relations from LSE and during his talk will be reflecting on his time at LSE and how it has influenced his career at the BBC. It is taking place at the NAB Wolfson Theatre from 6.30pm until 7.45. Register your interest via:

http://www2.lse.ac.uk/intranet/diaryAndEvents/worldstage/15Feb2012.aspx

 

There are plenty of events coming up. Keep an eye on MyCareers (http://tinyurl.com/72fuonn) to make sure you don’t miss out.

Your New PhD Careers Adviser

Hello everyone. As the new PhD careers adviser for PhD students at LSE I thought I would resurrect this blog. I’ve now been in post for a few weeks, working two and a half days a week, and am enjoying settling in and finding my way around.

You may like to know that I am running 30 minute careers advice appointments on Monday and Tuesday afternoons from 2 to 5pm. These are available to all PhD students at LSE to discuss any aspect of your career. To book one of these just email careers@lse.ac.uk.

For those of you who are interested in knowing a bit about me, I completed a degree and PhD in Chemistry at Edinburgh University. Following that I worked in science publishing as an editor for 5 years. Currently I work part-time here at LSE and part-time at Cambridge University, where I am a careers adviser for postdocs.

I’m looking forward to meeting some of you over the coming weeks.

Madelaine Chapman

New Careers Adviser for PhDs at the LSE

From 9th January 2012 Madelaine Chapman will be the new Careers Adviser for PhD students at the LSE. Sadly, I will no longer be posting to the LSE PhD Careers blog but Madelaine may decide to continue with the blog when she is post.

Good luck to all the PhD students that I have seen in my year at the LSE!

Dr. Tracy Bussoli

 

International Organisations Day at the LSE

London Doctorate Meet-Up!

A Clinical Research Fellow at UCL is organising a meet-up for PhD students within London. The idea is to get PhD students together to discuss all things related to progressing in your PhD.  Here is what the information says:

Would you like to meetup with other doctoral candidates and discuss progress, match milestones and motivate each other? Alternatively, we could moan about fickle experiments, supervisors, writers block, journal bias and all sorts!

For more information and to see the London Doctorate blog, click here.

 

 

 

J. P. Morgan Quantitative Research Event

LSE Quantitative Research Presentation

For most people, the hardest thing about choosing a career is discovering what’s out there. So let us make it easier for you. Meet our people at our LSE Quantitative Research Presentation event and we’ll explain what investment banks do in simple terms, without the jargon. We encourage you to ask us anything. This is a great opportunity to get a true insight into the roles we offer and the skills we’re looking for. Be part of it.

Date:	31st October
Time:	12:30 – 14:30
Location:	LSE, Houghton Street, Old Building, Vera Anstey Room, WC2A 2AE

This event is open to all students studying towards any degree discipline. Register here.