1. The University of Kent Careers and Employability Service Choosing a Career
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2. The planned route and serendipity routes to career choice
Analysing your skills, interests and strengths
Matching these to those required in jobs which interest you.
Serendipity
Doing a job just for money and finding you enjoy it
Friends tell you abut a place they are working at and suggest you apply

3. What can I do with my degree in?

5. One third of graduate jobs accept a degree in any subject
Marketing and Sales
Retailing
Social Work
Personnel
Civil Service
Finance
Computing
BECAUSE:
Learn new skills quickly
Analyse & solve problems
Communicate well
Open to new ideas, adaptable and flexible
“Managers of change”

7. Many jobs in Finance and IT
Accountancy, banking, insurance
Any degree subject. Usually require 300 UCAS points and grade A GCSE maths
Computing
Not just programming: sales, marketing, analytics, project management, consultancy

8. What make you happy at work?
Big Company: graduate training schemes, higher salary, better training, more prestige Smaller company: more fun to work for, less bureaucracy, more flexible, easier to enter, shorter application process.

9. Application Process
The smaller company process is much simpler and you can apply much later (often after final exams) but salaries are usually lower and they offer less training and less chance to specialise.

10. CHOOSING A CAREER
CHOOSING A CAREER and booklet available from Careers Service.
Prospects Planner - powerful career choice program.
I Want to work in …..
Careers Award Choosing Assignment

11. Careers Award on Moodle
Half the unemployment rate for students completing the award Enter Moodle, search for DP2650 or Careers Award and click enrol
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12. Telephone: Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9 to 5 including vacations Drop-in times (no appointment needed: 15 minutes): to and 2 to 4 pm Help given for up to 3 years after graduation Weekly careers s every Monday afternoon

13. The University of Kent Careers and Employability Service Choosing a Career
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