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Jenny Clark, Careers Consultant
Employability and Graduate Development
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
Tel:01326 253735 Email: cc-careers@exeter.ac.uk
History
Stand out from the Crowd
The importance of planning early
Opportunities & activities available to you
Career destinations of graduates with your
subject
Ways to research, plan & participate
Last year we looked at:
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
Start Making Choices
Get Experience
Improve Your Skills
Key Messages for Year 2
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
How to make Career Choices
Research – making informed decisions
Careers Consultant Appointments
Start Making Choices
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
How To Make Career Choices
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
What are you seeking? • What do you enjoy?
• What motivates you?
• Are your preferences ‘Must Have’s or ‘Would Like’?
What makes you stand out? • Skills and abilities
• Characteristics and qualities
• Knowledge specialism
Matching Activities • Prospects Planner on www.prospects.ac.uk
• “I don’t know what I want to do” Workshop
• Find out which job roles, which companies & what further
study graduates from your degree have pursued via the
Career Research webpage
• Improve your understanding of particular occupations using
www.prospects.ac.uk
• Listen to other people’s experiences using
www.careerplayer.com
• Get specialist information from relevant Professional
Institutions
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
Research –
making informed decisions
Resources Online • www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
• Your College Employability Webpage
• Social Media
People to Talk To • Your College Employability Officer
• Information Officers & Careers Consultants
• Your network of family, friends & colleagues
Reading Material • Sector-Specific Directories & more available in the
Career Zone
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
http://www.careerplayer.com/tips-and-advice/general-advice/internships/
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
What can I do with my
degree?
History
Degree
Teaching
Archivist
Civil Service
Journalism Museum/gallery
curator
Academic Librarian
Academic Research
What Exeter Graduates do
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/research/degree/
Ultimately only you can make your own career decisions, but
along the journey it can be really helpful to discuss things
through with someone.
Careers Consultants are trained to:
• Listen to your individual circumstances &
and career plans
• Help you to focus your aims
• Question, test & support your career ideas
• Advise on career subject information
• Help you to plan your next steps for action
Careers Consultant Appointments
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
Get Experience
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
OPPORTUNITIES:
Casual Work
Student Campus Partnerships
Volunteering
Roles within Clubs & Societies
Work Shadowing
Part-Time employment
Summer Internship
Course Projects
Year In Industry
Mentoring & eXepert Schemes
General commercial experience
Insight into an occupation
To put theory into practice
Contacts
To develop skills
To develop an area of knowledge
PURPOSE:
Sourcing an internship
http://www.ratemyplacement.co.uk/
http://fledglings.net/
http://www.topinternships.ac.uk
http://targetjobs.co.uk/
Look on individual organisation / company websites
‘The Times Top 100 Graduate Employers’
http://www.top100graduateemployers.com/
http://www.prospects.ac.uk
•For work experience with the BBC allow plenty of time
for the application process http://www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/research/sector/mediaandjournalism/
Two Four production company - Plymouth http://www.twofour.co.uk/
Mandy’s http://www.mandy.com/
Plymouth Media Partnership http://www.pm-p.com/
Cornwall Film Festival http://cornwallfilmfestival.com/
Film and Television
To find other smaller production companies http://www.thephonebook.bt.com/publisha.content/en/search/business_by_type/search.p
ublisha
West Briton
Falmouth Packet
Cornwall Today
Expose
Look in Benns for publications near home!
Source FM
Redruth Radio
Local Hospital radio
Heart Radio
Capital Radio
BBC radio Cornwall
Journalism and Media
Publishing London Book fair (8 – 10th April 2014)
Random house – work experience http://www.careersatrandom.co.uk/rhc_workexperience.asp
Harper Collins – work experience http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/careers/work_experience/Pages/work-
experience.aspx
Dennis publishing http://www.dennis.co.uk/working-at-dennis/jobs/work-
experience
Penguin Books http://gs12.globalsuccessor.com/fe/tpl_penguin01.asp?newms=info04
Look in Career Zone – sector - publishing http://www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/research/sector/publishing
Writers and Artist Yearbook
Benns Media
Art Galleries
Arts Centres (Poly)
Theatres
Museums
Heritage Centre’s
….again look in local telephone directories for addresses nearer
to home
Arts and Media Jobs http://www.artsandmediajobs.com/uk/?gclid=CMT83vPUqLMCFUfJtAodm0YAog
Arts Jobs and News http://www.artsjobs.org.uk/
University of Leicester jobs desk http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/JobsDesk
Arts Administration
Public Relations and Event Management Wild card
Eight Wire
Deborah Clark Associates
Cornish Event Management
Event Cornwall
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/research/sector/advertisingprandmarketing/
Theatre and Performing Arts
For theatre internships follow link
http://www.ayoungertheatre.com/resources/internship-list/
Hall for Cornwall
http://www.hallforcornwall.co.uk/Online/
See also
Actors’ Yearbook – Career Zone / libraries
Charity and Third Sector
Charity Jobs
http://www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/Internships
Career Zone
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/research/sector/charitiesandthevoluntarysector/
again look in the phone book for your local area
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
Law
Vacation Schemes (final year)
Law Careers Net – useful overview of profession and
timetable for action
Lawyer2b useful information and advice on a career
in law
http://www.law.ac.uk/futurelawyers/ College of Law
website
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
Finding Employment Opportunities
mycareerzone.ac.uk – target your profile
Job shop in the Career Zone
Student Campus Partnerships
Student Business Partnerships
Access to Internship Scheme
Enterprise and Self-Employment support
http://www.outsetcornwall.co.uk/
Exepert - the ad-hoc alumni advice scheme
Network with those who have left the University and go on
to have successful careers. This advice can enable you to
make informed career decisions about your future.
• Open to all students and graduates
• Many sectors / professions available
• Alumni working around the world
• Primarily e-mail contact
Exepert
For full details and to take part, visit the website:
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/research/exepert
Student Campus Partnership (SCP) P/T term-time and F/T vacation work for the University. Pay range £7.89-£8.94 an hr. e.g. Law Research Assistant - Law Department ERASMUS Work Abroad Administrator - Careers Student Business Partnership (SBP) P/T term-time and F/T vacation work for companies across the South West. Paying competitive rates of pay for location and sector. e.g. Environmental Monitoring Technician, Air Quality Monitors, Exeter Research Assistant (Social/Climate Change) IMM, Exeter
SCP + SBP
Want to develop and expand your range of skills? Get enterprising!
Getting involved in enterprise activities whilst at University
isn’t simply about starting a business. It’s also about making yourself more employable.
Enterprise skills workshops SIFE enactus – student social enterprise projects Business planning - develop a strategy for your own venture Presentations from successful entrepreneurs Get in touch via email: enterprise@exeter.ac.uk
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/enterprise
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
It is essential that you develop your career
management skills in good time to apply!
NB Many employer vacation schemes and
internships require EARLY applications – & you are
likely to be applying for graduate applications within
the next 12 months!
Improve Your Skills
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
Types of career management skills workshops
available:
• Application Forms
• Psychometric Testing
• Assessment Centres
• Interview Skills
• The Interview Experience
• Mock interviews with employers
• CV preparation
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
Employability & Graduate Development Career Zone
Phone: (01392) 724493
Email: cc-careers@exeter.ac.uk
Web: www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
Opening hours:
Term time: 9.00am-5.00pm (Monday - Friday)
Vacations: 9.00am-5.00pm (Monday-Friday)
MyCareerZone
Mycareerzone.ac.uk
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