Brilliant Graduate Career Handbook

Dr Judith Done is qualified both in career guidance and occupational psychology. She has worked as a practitioner and manager in careers services, then ran professional career guidance training at Manchester Metropolitan University. For the last decade, she has been a senior manager in student services, and led the highly effective careers centre, at the University of Chester. Professor Rachel Mulvey has done the same (practice, management, professional training) but in the South East. She has done research at international level, and has written on careers issues for the academic and professional press. She has broadcast on careers, most recently on BBC4's Woman's Hour. Rachel is currently Associate Dean of Psychology at the University of East London. Both Judith and Rachel are Fellows of the Institute of Career Guidance, and passionate in their shared belief that effective career guidance transforms lives.

About the authors

Acknowledgements

Introduction



Part 1 What's out there

1 Accessing job opportunities

2 The graduate job market

3 Labour market information: analysis of what graduates do

4 The global graduate

5 Graduate training schemes

6 Entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and self-employment

7 Postgraduate study: choosing a course and making a good application



Part 2 How to make the most of what's out there

8 Knowing who you are: skills, interests and values

9 Work experience: making it purposeful

10 Dates and deadlines: your timeline for action

11 Making applications: getting past the first post

12 Succeeding at selection

13 My decision, my context, my life: why all this matters



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Further reading