Careers for Social Scientists – explore your options

Claire WardCareers & Employability Adviser

Session will cover:

• Where are you now in your career thinking?

• How to move forward

• Researching options

• Where to look for jobs

• A timetable for action!

Where are you now?

Understanding who you are

Researching options

Making choices and taking

action

Gaining experience

Understanding who you are

• Interests• Values• Personality• Skills gained through degree

www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careerchoices/

Where else have you developed transferable skills and experience?

• Volunteering• Vacation schemes• Work experience• Part time work Project V• Clubs and societies• Student rep/ambassador roles• Placements• Year abroad

Researching job roles

• Prospects

• CEC Sector guides

Researching the labour market

www.prospects.ac.uk/sectors.htmwww.targetjobs.co.uk/career-sectors

What Do Graduates Do? 2012

Where do graduates work?Public sector

Commercial/private sector

Voluntary sector

Self Employment

Small & Medium sized companies (SMEs)

Large graduate recruiters

Freelance/‘entrepreneurs’

www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careerchoices/researchingcareers

Taking action: looking for vacancies

www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs: sign up for email alerts

Graduate career websites and directories – Prospects, Milkround, Targetjobs

Specialist career websites www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careerchoices/researchingcareers

Employer’s own website – look carefully for ‘careers’

Online networks

Creative job hunting

Finalist Timetable

Semester 1 Semester 2

• Talk through your plans (or lack of!) with an Adviser

• Deadlines for many graduate schemes fall early. See:

www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs/graduateschemes

• Research employers through events and Careers Fair 2013

• Start researching and applying for postgraduate courses

• ‘Make it Happen’

• Interviews and assessment centres for graduate schemes.

• Other graduate vacancies and internships advertised now.

• Deadlines for some research council funding for postgraduate study.

Careers and Employability Centre support

• Briefing sessions daily

• Employer events

• Short interview with a careers adviser:

Mon – Fri from 10 am ‘til 5pm and Wed ‘til 7pm

• Vacancies – part time, work experience, internships,

graduate jobs www.sussex.ac.uk/careers

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