Download - Getting started
Careers & Employability Centre
Getting Started in
your Career
Planning
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
Where are you now and where are you going?
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
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
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
Events ProgrammeBuild your confidence and meet employersSee: www.sussex.ac.uk/careers/newsandevents/
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?12 April 2023
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
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
What next?
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