China Career Gateway
Opportunity for Chinese graduates to share their career experiences with current students
What is the China Career Gateway?
With over 150,000 Chinese students studying at UK universities, Newcastle wants to help its Chinese students stand out in the job market. Chinese students can join our exclusive career development programme, delivered as a six-week programme.
This programme focuses on helping students to:
- understand the graduate job market in the UK and China
- learn how to make effective applications for graduate roles in the UK and China
- connect with Newcastle University graduates. Hear about their experiences in finding employment in the UK and China after university.
What volunteering activity can I undertake?
As part of the programme, alumni can volunteer in two key areas:
1. Participating in WeChat takeovers
These happen every year in October, with one being for Chinese alumni based in China and one for Chinese alumni based in the UK. These takeovers are informal networking events which provide an opportunity for our current students to learn from our alumni about career planning, the application process and their company and role.
2. Career content
To go alongside the programme, and throughout the year, we're looking for volunteers to talk about their career experiences to students, either via a written article or in video format. We're especially looking for alumni to help us with content about 'a day in the life of', demonstrating what a typical day looks like in their career, as well as alumni who are happy to be on camera talking about experiences of searching and finding their roles after Newcastle University. Alumni content is also always needed to support our 6 key topics during the 6-week programme, which are:
Week 1: What you need to know about graduate jobs in the UK and China
Week 2: UK and Chinese CVs: How to get noticed
Week 3: How to search and apply for jobs in the UK and China
Week 4: Challenges finding graduate employment and how to overcome them
Week 5: Break week for students to catch up on content shared so far
Week 6: Succeeding in the Chinese recruitment process
How do I get involved?
To register your interest in supporting our China Career Gateway programme, please click the button below to complete our volunteering form.