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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?
Your Agenda for the Future
The Options
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Employment
Postgraduate Study
Time Out
Something Else
How Do You Feel about Your
Future?
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Excited
Scared
Glad to Leave University
Apprehensive
Positive
Your Priorities for Your Future
• Money
• Fame
• Success
• Happiness
• Job Satisfaction
Your Priorities for a Job
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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
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
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%
What Do you Think?
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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?
What the Careers Centre
Offers
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Guidance
Information
Employer Contacts
Skills Workshops
Practice Psychometric Tests/Mock
Interviews
• Courses
• Free until July of year of Graduation
• GradClub
Information in the Careers
Centre
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Occupations
Employers
Postgraduate Study
International Information
Voluntary Information
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
Job Hunting
Vacancies in Careers Centre
JOB/ULCS Alert
Employer Presentations • RHUL Programme
• ULCS Programme
Courses
• City/Marketing/Management
Horton Herald
Preparation for Job Hunting
Job Hunting Seminar
Skills Sessions
• CVs/Applications
• Interview Techniques
• Assessment Centres
• Psychometric/Personality Testing
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
Key Dates
• Civil Service ‘fast stream’( Sept/Jan)
• Foreign & Commonwealth Office
(Sept)
• Graduate Training Schemes (OctDec)
• GTTR 15th Dec (Primary)
• JET Programme (Dec)
• Law - CEP (Feb)
• P/G Study Abroad
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
Time Out
• Will I Lose Out in the Job
Market?
• What do Employers Think?
• What Should I Do?
• Travel Broadens the Mind?
After Graduation What
Next?
Your Agenda for the Future
The Options
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Employment
Postgraduate Study
Time Out
Something Else
ANY
QUESTIONS?
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