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www.ucl.ac.uk/careers
UCL Careers Service
49 - 51 Gordon Square
www.ucl.ac.uk/careers
Mon - Thurs 9:30 - 17:00
Friday
11:00 - 17:00
during both term and vacation
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UCL Careers Service
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Vacation Work
Work Experience
Help with CVs and Application forms
Careers Advisers
Help - I’m clueless!
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Talking to People
• Information staff will help you find
the most appropriate facilities
• Drop-in session with a careers
adviser
• individual booked appointments with
a careers adviser - up to 1 hour
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Information in the Library
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Occupations
Employers
Courses
Vacancies
Take away literature - from fact sheets to booklets
Newspapers, specialist journals, wide range of
reference books
Computer career packages
Facilities for internet searches/writing CVs
Video library
Linx - alumni database
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Group Sessions
• Careers talks
• Seminar and workshop e.g.
interview skills
• Aptitude test
• Personality questionnaires
• Short courses e.g. The City |Course
• Fairs e.g. London Graduate
Recruitment Fair
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What are employers
looking for?
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Degree
Transferable skills
Work experience
A motivated individual who is a ‘team
player’
• ?Knowledge of a particular job
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Examples of transferable
skills gained on your degree
course
• team working, especially via group projects
• communicating - presentations and report
writing
• analytical, numerical, problem solving skills
• computer skills
• the ability to handle information
• the ability to work methodically and accurately
• time management and organisational skills
• business awareness (liaison with industry)
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Where to get evidence of
transferable skills
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Degree
Work experience/work shadowing
Voluntary work
Student societies
Interest
Travel
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Types of work experience
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Formal work placements/internships
Subject-related research schemes
Advertised positions
Non-advertised positions
Voluntary positions
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Where to find work
experience?
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Vacation opportunities booklet
JOB magazine
Work window/employment file
National/Local Press
Agencies
Speculative applications
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UK vacation work
• National Centre for work experience
www.ncwe.com
• Civil Service Jobs www.civil-service.gov.uk/jobs/
• Ragtime www.ragtime.co.uk
• STEP www.step.org.uk
• Work Experience Bank
www.prospects.ac.uk/workbank/
• Work Window
www.careers.lon.ac.uk/job/wwvac.htm
• www.work-experience.org.uk
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Non-UK Work Experience
• BUNAC www.bunac.org.uk
• Camp America
www.campamerica.co.uk
• Eurocamp www.eurocamp.co.uk
• International Summer jobs
www.summerjobs.com
• Work Experience USA
www.workexperienceusa.com
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Suggested CV Structure
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Contact details
Education
Employment
Achievements
Skills
Interests
References
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Covering letters
• Ist paragraph
– State who you are and what you want
• 2nd paragraph
– Why they should be interested in you
and why you want to work for them
• 3rd paragraph
– Closing comments