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CHOOSING A CAREER

CHOOSING A CAREER. Tim Reed T.M.Reed@kent.ac.uk Careers Advisory Service www.kent.ac.uk/careers/. Introduction. What is a career? What are the options? How can the CAS help? Where to look for jobs. What is a career?. not necessarily a linear, planned sequence of events

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CHOOSING A CAREER

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  1. CHOOSING A CAREER Tim Reed T.M.Reed@kent.ac.uk Careers Advisory Servicewww.kent.ac.uk/careers/

  2. Introduction • What is a career? • What are the options? • How can the CAS help? • Where to look for jobs

  3. What is a career? • not necessarily a linear, planned sequence of events • Career choice is not an event or occasion • Career choice is a process • It is a combination of stages in your life • It could contain great variety

  4. Why is choosing a career so difficult? ALL JOBS which match your goals, needs & values & require your skills, qualities & qualifications in the desired location where there are prospects for the future

  5. What is the ideal job?

  6. What are the options? • Employment/training • Employment & study • Academic study • Vocational study • Time out/Travel

  7. Employment option examples Management Consultancy NHS Management Personnel Police Production Management Public Relations Publishing Purchasing Retail Self-employment Social Work TEFL Teaching Tourism Transport Advertising Armed Forces Arts admin Broadcasting Central & Local Gov’t Computing/IT Finance Fire Service Guidance/Counselling Info Management/Museums Journalism Law Marketing/Sales

  8. Jobs directly related to degreewww.kent.ac.uk/careers/degreein.htm • Teacher/Lecturer in Further and/or Higher Education in the UK

  9. What subject did they study at university?

  10. Jobs where degree usefulwww.prospects.ac.uk/links/PhilosophyDeg • Advertising Account Planner • Chartered Accountant • Civil Service Administrator • IT Consultant • Marketing Executive, consumer products • Personnel Officer • Publishing copy/sub-editor • Solicitor • Systems Analyst/Systems Developer

  11. Skills - from Film Studies • Ability to work under pressure • Analytical & Problem Solving • Communication • Visual & Critical Awareness • Literacy • Research • Technical Skills (?)

  12. Many basic factors affect choice • Hours • Perks • Location • Image • Pay

  13. Graduate Salaries 2008/09 • Arcadia £17,500 - £23,000 + 25% store discount • AWE (Atomic Weapons Establishment) from £21,000 + final salary pension • Police (HPD) £21,500 rising to £24,000 after initial training • EDF Energy £22,500 - £32,000 dependant on discipline • Asda £23,000 minimum • Sainsbury’s £23,000 - £25,000 • MI5 £23,500 + benefits - varies by function! • Marks & Spencer £24,000 - £25,500 • Unilever £26,000 • Fujitsu £26,000 + £2,000 joining bonus • Lloyd’s £26,000 - £30,000 • Civil Service up to £27,000 • Royal Navy £28,216 + £12,000 joining bonus • Mars £29,000 + • ExxonMobil £31,500 minimum + acceptance bursary + extras • Aldi £40,000 - £57,750 (after 3yrs) + Audi A4

  14. 2 alternative starting points • start from yourself and work out • start from your opportunities and work back • Or, combine the two!

  15. How can the CAS help? • Options Series Leaflets • Free careers literature • Reference files & books • IT facilities • Talks & presentations • Quick Query • Careers Guidance Interview

  16. Where to look • Vacancy publications www.kent.ac.uk/careers/jobs/index.htm • Directories www.prospects.ac.uk • Employer brochures/sites www.mi5careers.gov.uk/ • Specialist publications www.psychapp.co.uk/ • Careers Fairs

  17. CAREERS FAIRS - 2009 www.prospects.ac.uk/links/careerfairs Management Finance & Business Fair Leicester 25/2/2009 Careers for Causes Leeds 26/2/2009 Careers.....Making a Difference University of Leeds 3/3/2009 Spring Fair Loughborough 4/3/2009 Graduate Fair Abbey Conference Centre 10/3/2009 Jobs Fair Falkirk 17/3/2009 Jobs Fair Clackmannan 24/3/2009 20 Mile Fair Bradford 25/3/2009 Jobs Fair Stirling 31/3/2009 Careers Fair Hatfield 1/4/2009 Spring into Jobs Fair Sheffield 29/4/2009 Law Alternative Careers 2009 Main Building, Cardiff University 29/4/2009 The Summer Graduate Fair in Scotland Glasgow 27/5/2009 Edinburgh Graduate Recruitment Fair 2009 Edinburgh 29/5/2009 PEOPLESKILLS Virtual Careers Fair Cyberspace 1/6/2009 Liverpool Fairs: Graduate Recruitment Festival 2009 St George's Hall, Liverpool 2/6/2009 Summer Recruitment Fair 3Sixty RUSU, Whiteknights Campus, Reading 2/6/2009 Graduate Recruitment Fair Bath 2/6/2009 gradFairZ.com National Graduate Recruitment Fair 2009 - no physical location 8/6/2009 Newcastle Graduate Recruitment Fair Newcastle upon Tyne 8/6/2009 Yorkshire Graduate Recruitment Fair Leeds 10/6/2009

  18. Where to look for jobs • Vacancy publications • Directories • Employer brochures/sites • Specialist publications • Careers Fairs • Job Centres & LSCs • Online sources

  19. Online sources • Institute of Practitioners in Advertising www.ipa.co.uk/ • Chartered Institute of Marketing www.cim.co.uk • Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development www.cipd.co.uk/ • Guardian vacancies www.jobs.guardian.co.uk/

  20. Excellent Websiteswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitesmen.htm • www.prospects.ac.uk • www.get.hobsons.co.uk/ • www.kent.ac.uk/careers/ • www.kentgrads.org.uk/

  21. Where to look for jobs • Vacancy publications • Directories • Employer brochures/sites • Specialist publications • Careers Fairs • Job Centres & LSCs • Online • Newspapers

  22. Job ads in the press • Actuaries - Money Management, Observer, Times • Acupuncture - Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine (m) • Arts Administration - The Stage, Arts Management Weekly, Guardian (Mon & Sat)

  23. Where to look for jobs • Vacancy publications • Directories • Employer brochures/sites • Specialist publications • Careers Fairs • Job Centres & LSCs • Online • Newspapers • Recruitment Agencies

  24. Recruitment Agencieswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/recruit.htm • FASHION - George Ellis Recruitment • MUSIC - Handle Recruitment • ACCOUNTANCY - Hays Accountancy Personnel • SECRETARIAL - Nice People Employment Bureau • STOCKBROKING - Citifocus Ltd • SPYING – Bartlett Scott Edgar

  25. Some tips on choosing a career • take time over your choice • be realistic • do the research • make your own decision • use the Careers Advisory Service • start NOW!

  26. Once career choice made • Research employers/courses • Apply • Discuss your ideas if you are uncertain • Change your job-hunting/application methods if they are not working

  27. Careers Presentationswww.kent.ac.uk/careers/casevents.htm • Postgraduate study in Australia – 24 Feb 1-2 KLT5 • Army visit campus – 25 Feb @CAS • Careers in Politics – 25 Feb 2pm GLT2 • Interview Skills – 26 Feb 1-2pm KLT5 • Using Languages & Working in Europe – 3 March 1-2pm KLT5 • Presentation by INTERAC (Japan TEFL) – 4 March 1-2pm KLT5 • CV Workshop – 4 March 2-4pm KSR16

  28. CHOOSING A CAREER Tim Reed T.M.Reed@kent.ac.uk Careers Advisory Servicewww.kent.ac.uk/careers/

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