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After Graduation -What Next?

After Graduation -What Next?. Fiona Smith Head of College Careers Service. CAREERS CENTRE. HORTON BUILDING - Ground Floor Opening Times Monday to Thursday 10am-5pm Friday 11am-5pm Quick Queries 11am-12noon, 2-4pm M-Th www.careers.lon.ac.uk. After Graduation-What Next?.

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After Graduation -What Next?

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  1. After Graduation -What Next? Fiona Smith Head of College Careers Service

  2. CAREERS CENTRE HORTON BUILDING -Ground Floor Opening Times Monday to Thursday 10am-5pm Friday 11am-5pm Quick Queries 11am-12noon, 2-4pm M-Th www.careers.lon.ac.uk

  3. After Graduation-What Next? Your Agenda for the Future The Options • Employment • Postgraduate Study • Time Out • Something Else

  4. How Do You Feel about Your Future? • Excited • Scared • Glad to Leave University • Apprehensive • Positive

  5. Your Priorities for Your Future • Money • Fame • Success • Happiness • Job Satisfaction

  6. Your Priorities for a Job • I Want to Use my Subject • I Want to do Something Interesting • I Don’t Want an Office Job • I Want/Don’t Want to Work in London • I Want to Travel • My Lifestyle is Important • I Want Security

  7. Making Your Choice • Decide Your Priorities • Assess Yourself - Strengths/Weaknesses • Computerised Guidance • Jobs Using Your Degree • What Previous Graduates Have Done • Research Occupations/Employers • Individual Discussion with Adviser

  8. What Do You Think? • What percentage of 1st degree students who graduated in 2000 were unemployed? • 5.5% • What percentage of RHUL’s were unemployed? • 4% • What percentage of Accountancy graduates were unemployed? • 5.8% • What percentage of History graduates were unemployed? • 5.3%

  9. What Do you Think? • What skills do employers want? • Is a general CV OK? • What is an Assessment Centre? • What is Psychometric Testing? • Do most graduates work for large firms? • Do employers look for graduates with specific disciplines?

  10. What the Careers Centre Offers • Guidance • Information • Employer Contacts • Skills Workshops • Practice Psychometric Tests/Mock Interviews • Courses • Free until July of year of Graduation • GradClub

  11. Information in the Careers Centre • Occupations • Employers • Postgraduate Study • International Information • Voluntary Information

  12. Internet Information • Careers Centre Website www.rhul.ac.uk/careers • ULCS -Virtual Careers Library www.careers.lon.ac.uk • ULCS Alert • PROSPECTS Website www.prospects.csu.ac.uk • Employer Websites

  13. Job Hunting Vacancies in Careers Centre JOB/ULCS Alert Employer Presentations - • RHUL Programme • ULCS Programme Courses • City/Marketing/Management Horton Herald

  14. Preparation for Job Hunting Job Hunting Seminar Skills Sessions • CVs/Applications • Interview Techniques • Assessment Centres • Psychometric/Personality Testing

  15. Watch Out for Key Dates Careers Centre Autumn Programme Careers Centre Information Fair 24/10 Closing Dates for - • Employer Applications • Postgraduate Courses • ULCS Presentations • ULCS Courses Horton Herald Updates/Emails

  16. Key Dates • Civil Service ‘fast stream’( Sept/Jan) • Foreign & Commonwealth Office (Sept) • Graduate Training Schemes (Oct-Dec) • GTTR 15th Dec (Primary) • JET Programme (Dec) • Law - CEP (Feb) • P/G Study Abroad

  17. Postgraduate Study • Will it help me find a better job? • How do I choose a course? • Deadlines • Funding • Why Postgraduate Study? - 27th November at 5pm

  18. Time Out • Will I Lose Out in the Job Market? • What do Employers Think? • What Should I Do? • Travel Broadens the Mind?

  19. After Graduation What Next? Your Agenda for the Future The Options • Employment • Postgraduate Study • Time Out • Something Else

  20. ANYQUESTIONS?

  21. CAREERS CENTRE HORTON BUILDING -Ground Floor Opening Times Monday to Thursday 10am-5pm Friday 11am-5pm Quick Queries 11am-12noon, 2-4pm M-Th www.careers.lon.ac.uk

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