Getting started
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The document provides information about career planning and resources available from a university's Careers & Employability Centre. It covers self-assessment of skills and interests, researching career options and job sectors, gaining relevant experience through internships or voluntary work, tips for applications and CVs, and services offered by the centre like individual career advising and events.
Getting started
- 1. Careers & Employability Centre Getting Started in your Career Planning
- 2. Session will cover: What next after University? Where are you now and where are you going? Research your options Where to look for jobs Making applications How the Careers & Employability Centre can help
- 3. Where are you now and where are you going?
- 4. Thinking about what you want to do What are you interested in? What are you good at? What do you want to learn/improve? What is important to you in what you do next? What have you done already that you did or didn’t like? Think about your skills, interests, values and personality www.prospects.ac.uk What jobs would suit me? www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careerchoices/selfanalysis www.profilingforsuccess.com/main/flash.php
- 5. How do you find out what jobs are out there? www.prospects.ac.uk - Industry insights - Types of jobs & job descriptions - Job sectors Options with your subject www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careerchoices/researchingcareers
- 6. Research your options Careers with your degree (booklets and web resources) Information centre resources - career guides www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/whatourgraduatesdo Job sectors, job profiles and job descriptions
- 7. Events Programme Build your confidence and meet employers See: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/newsandevents/
- 8. Making a Decision You have: 1 Assessed your skills, interests , abilities and values 2 Done your research Consider: Where am I now? Where do I want to be? How do I get there? Do I need to develop experience? Do I need to develop my skills? How can I do this? Are there stepping stones to help me to get to where I want to be? 11 May 2011
- 9. Gaining Experience - What could you do? Your part time job Internships with large organisations International work experience Local vacation work and work experience Voluntary work www.sussexstudent.com/volunteering Set up your own work experience Sussex Plus Schools and Colleges Programme Work shadowing www.sussex.ac.uk/sussexplus Learning to Lead Networking www.sussex.ac.uk/careers
- 10. Making Applications For local jobs and graduate jobs use our jobs database: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs/search/ We also have links to a large number of Graduate Job Websites: www.diigo.com/list/sussexcdec/jobs-other-job-sites Come into the Careers and Employability Centre - free guides to Graduate Employers www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs/workinginsussex For CV, Covering Letter, Application Form & Interview advice: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs/applyingforjobs or come in & pick up our booklets For Postgraduate Study Options: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careerchoices/furtherstudy
- 11. What next?
- 12. Careers & Employability Centre Short interview with a Careers Adviser- discuss your career plans 10-4 Mon- Fri & 5-7 on a Weds Briefing sessions: Applications forms, CVs, Skills, Finding Work Events: we have a comprehensive events programme Mock Interviews, CV and Application Feedback Sussex Plus www.sussex.ac.uk/careers
Editor's Notes
- #3: Session approx 1 hour- input & also activities
- #4: If you are unsure about where to start your career planning, using a framework can help. This is one approach based on the DOTS model (Bill Law/ Tony Watts) but there are other approaches that you can take. Comprises 4 elements that you can use throughout your life. 1/ Self awareness/ reflection- helps you to understand yourself in career terms – 3 broad areas Interests- ideas and activities which interest you can influence your choice of job Skills- an ability to identify skills you develop and describe them is essential in demonstrating employability Values- what is important to you- think about your views of the world operates and how you wish to function in it All help you to define a criteria 2/ Opportunity awareness- research what is out there/ opportunities/ the labour market/ how to enter roles and what they involve/ location/ salary Make decisions based on your criteria 3/ Action Planning- Draw on the information about yourself/ research/ opportunity and make a plan! Ask yourself Where am I now, where do I want to be/ how do I get there/ do I need to develop experience/ do I need to develop my skills/ How? Make a plan! 4/ Developing experience- making applications/ writing a CV & covering letter/ approaching employers/ networking to gain experience
- #5: Give group booklet and ask them to fill in initial exercise 10- 15 minutes
- #7: When you have defined a criteria to begin with, what next? Use our subject guides to give you detailed information about the skills you will develop during your degree studies & also to generate ideas – Jobs that are directly related/ jobs for all graduates etc Use web resources- profiles on prospects, sector specific information DHLE stats- what did previous graduates in your area go on to do? Look at LMI information- do you want to stay in Brighton? Does your area of interest exist in the local area- find out what the labour market looks like- salaries etc
- #8: Come to events that we run – talk to employers- find out how they got into what they are doing now- routes into professions etc networking, insider view of careers, mentoring etc etc
- #9: Make a plan- think about what you need to do next- do you need further research into the labour market? What could you do to develop your experience?
- #10: Gaining experience- to group initially- what could you do next? 5 mins- some ideas about the kinds of experience that could be useful to you. Go through possible sources of experience
- #11: How we can help- resources – where to look for vacancies, contacts etc
- #12: Taking action- what is helpful action that you can take now/ this week/ this month? What help will you need to do this? 5 mins