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Biography
Ruth is the Head of the Careers Service and leads on Employability across the University. She is passionate about equality of opportunity for all our students to gain career management skills and leads on embedding employability into all curriculum areas. Ensuring students have access to high quality one-to-one support complements the wider offering, and she describes herself as fortunate to lead a professional, highly motivated, committed team.
Following an early career in recruitment she has been working with the Careers Service at the University of Dundee since 2004.
Stories
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Press release
More than 1,000 students and graduates will take the next steps on their career paths when the University of Dundee hosts one of the country’s largest recruitment events this month.
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Press release
Companies that can prove their environmental credentials have the potential to appear more attractive to the workforce of tomorrow, a careers expert has said.
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Press release
A nationwide shortage of nurses is fuelling an increase in the number of Nursing students at the University of Dundee.