Careers for Social Scientists – explore your options
Claire WardCareers & Employability Adviser
Session will cover:
• Where are you now in your career thinking?
• How to move forward
• Researching options
• Where to look for jobs
• A timetable for action!
Where are you now?
Understanding who you are
Researching options
Making choices and taking
action
Gaining experience
Understanding who you are
• Interests• Values• Personality• Skills gained through degree
www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careerchoices/
Where else have you developed transferable skills and experience?
• Volunteering• Vacation schemes• Work experience• Part time work Project V• Clubs and societies• Student rep/ambassador roles• Placements• Year abroad
Researching job roles
• Prospects
• CEC Sector guides
Researching the labour market
www.prospects.ac.uk/sectors.htmwww.targetjobs.co.uk/career-sectors
What Do Graduates Do? 2012
Where do graduates work?Public sector
Commercial/private sector
Voluntary sector
Self Employment
Small & Medium sized companies (SMEs)
Large graduate recruiters
Freelance/‘entrepreneurs’
www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careerchoices/researchingcareers
Taking action: looking for vacancies
www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs: sign up for email alerts
Graduate career websites and directories – Prospects, Milkround, Targetjobs
Specialist career websites www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/careerchoices/researchingcareers
Employer’s own website – look carefully for ‘careers’
Online networks
Creative job hunting
Finalist Timetable
Semester 1 Semester 2
• Talk through your plans (or lack of!) with an Adviser
• Deadlines for many graduate schemes fall early. See:
www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/jobs/graduateschemes
• Research employers through events and Careers Fair 2013
• Start researching and applying for postgraduate courses
• ‘Make it Happen’
• Interviews and assessment centres for graduate schemes.
• Other graduate vacancies and internships advertised now.
• Deadlines for some research council funding for postgraduate study.
Careers and Employability Centre support
• Briefing sessions daily
• Employer events
• Short interview with a careers adviser:
Mon – Fri from 10 am ‘til 5pm and Wed ‘til 7pm
• Vacancies – part time, work experience, internships,
graduate jobs www.sussex.ac.uk/careers
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