1. After Your Degree – What Next? Jenny Keaveney Careers and Employability Service www.kent.ac.uk/ces

2. Introduction n Where Next? n Where to look for jobs n Making Applications n How the Careers & Employability Service can help

3. Where Next?

4. Opportunities with your degree n What do graduates in your subject do? n What careers will use your subject knowledge? www.kent.ac.uk/careers/degreein.htm BUT …. n There is more to you than your degree!

5. Think about yourself …. n Your interests n Your skills n Your values n Your personal circumstances n Any other factors

6. What are your opportunities? n One-third of advertised graduate jobs are open to graduates in any subject n For example: advertising, accountancy, banking, marketing, personnel, public sector management, n Plus all the unadvertised graduate jobs! n And there are even more opportunities after experience and training

7. Making career decisions.. Relate your skills, interests and values to careers and jobs by u sing computer guidance systems e.g. Prospects Planner n Look at job adverts and job descriptions n Talk to people about their work and how they got their jobs n Use careers websites and careers advisers n Get first-hand insight into careers of potential interest to you

8. Where to look for jobs n What are you looking for? –Graduate training schemes? –Other graduate jobs? –Internships? –Other temporary jobs? –Something different? –I’m not looking for a job!

9. Vacancy Sites – graduate jobs and training schemes n www.kent.prospects.ac.uk n www.prospects.ac.uk n www.targetjobs.co.uk n www.top100graduateemployers.com www.kent.ac.uk/careers/graddirectories.htm

10. Vacancy Sites – graduate internships As above, plus: n The Graduate Talent Pool http://graduatetalentpool.direct.gov.uk n Graduate STEP www.step.org.uk/step_graduate.aspx n Inspiring Interns www.inspiringinterns.com www.kent.ac.uk/careers/vacwork.htm

11. Are you looking for something different? The best way to find jobs may to use specialist resources e.g.: n Professional bodies n Magazines n Specialist directories n Specialist recruitment agencies http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin.htm

12. The Creative Career Search Network! n ask your friends n ask your relatives n ask your “network” n ask a past Kent graduate n ask a careers adviser Make applications on spec www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sk/CJ.htm

13. CAREERS FAIRS Graduate Events The Summer Graduate Fair ExCel, London, 29 – 30 May www.summergradfair.co.uk TARGETjobs/The Careers Group The London Graduate Fair Business Design Centre, Islington 20 & 21 June www.londongradfair.co.uk/summer For fairs elsewhere in the UK, see www.prospects.ac.uk/links/careerfairs

14. Recruitment Agencies www.kent.ac.uk/careers/recruit.htm n The Graduate Recruitment Bureau www.grb.uk.com n Reed Graduates www.reed.co.uk/graduate n Brampton Stafford Recruitment www.brampton- recruitment-4-graduate-jobs.co.uk n The Graduate Recruitment Company www.graduate-recruitment.co.uk n Job Centres n www.direct.gov.uk/en/Employment/Jobseekers/index.htm

15. How do I apply for jobs? n Different employers have different ways to apply –CV + covering letter –Online application form –Hard copy application form n See the Careers Advisory Service booklet or www.kent.ac.uk/careers/applicn.htm for guidelines on making good applications n Careers and employability advisers can check your applications and give individual help and advice

16. Employer’s Application Forms n Contents – up to employer n Often competency-based – see: www.kent.ac.uk/careers/compet/skillquest.htm n Common concerns (Degree class, A-level grades, alternative qualifications, nationality) n References n Submit online or download to complete

17. Further Information n Careers and Employability Service website www.kent.ac.uk/careers/applicn.htm n CES booklet “Making Applications” n Reference Books in Careers Service n DVDs “Your Job’s online” & “Looking Good on Paper” (available online at www.kent.ac.uk/careers/IntVid.htm n http://targetjobs.co.uk/careers-advice/applications- and-cvs n http://www.prospects.ac.uk/cvs.htm

18. I’m not looking for a job! n Postgraduate study? –www.kent.ac.uk/ces/postgrad-study.html n Time out? –www.kent.ac.uk/careers/alternatives.htm n Travel? –www.kent.ac.uk/careers/sitesint.htm

19. The Careers & Employability Service n Where is the CES? n Who works there? n What does it do? n How can it help me?

20. Who works there? Careers and employability advisers Jenny Keaveney Kathryn Segal Bruce WoodcockNatalie Smith Amy Scamell Nicola Urquhart

21. Who works there? Support staff: Lara Cavill Sarah Farley Sue Perry

22. How can the CES help me? Careers advice: help with –choosing a career –Making applications –Preparing for interviews We offer this advice through ‘quick queries’ and longer careers guidance interviews n Careers information: including –online job vacancy database –Information on sources of specialised vacancies n Careers website www.kent.ac.uk/ces

23. When can I use the Careers & Employability Service? n Open to all students at all stages of their studies – and after you graduate too! n Open 9-5, Monday to Friday n Open term-time and vacation n Our website is freely accessible on and off campus – you don’t need a Kent login

24. @kentunices for job vacancies, events, news and updates

25. Careers and Employability Service www.kent.ac.uk/ces