Careers talks online

The following presentations have been put together to provide you with information and advice about some important aspects of career planning.  Simply click on the link and the presentations will open.

Please note:  these presentations come with an audio commentary, so you will need to ensure that whichever computer you are using has speakers or headphones attached.

If you need further help once you have watched a presentation, please get in touch with us at the Careers Centre on your campus - see below for contact details.

Click on a presentation below and off you go!

• How to Career Plan
  A simple 3 step recipe to follow to create and implement a winning career plan.

• Your final year project and your future career plans
  Getting you to think tactically about choosing your FYP so that you can use it to improve your chances of landing a job you want when you complete your degree.

• Choosing a career
  Showing you how to sort out some careers ideas and choose what to focus on.

• Creative job hunting:  How to network
  Showing you how to track down unadvertised vacancies.

• How to fill in application forms
  Tips and advice on how to fill in graduate level job application forms.

• How to write CVs
  Tips and advice on how to write targeted graduate CVs as part of the graduate job hunting process.

• How to write covering letters
  Tips and advice on how to write targeted covering letters.

• Interview techniques
  Showing you how to prepare for a graduate level job interview.

• Presenting your portfolio
  An employer’s views on the best way to present a portfolio of art/creative work in a job interview.

• Assessment Centres
  A look at what happens in graduate recruitment assessment centres and tips on how to stand out!

• Entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs
  A quick look at how to be enterprising both within your own business or whilst working for someone else.

• Getting onto a postgraduate teacher training course (PGCE)
  Taking your through the GTTR applicatioon form and showing you how to tackle the difficult sections.

• Career options for art and design students
  Looking at the range of options open to Art and Design graduates including jobs, self employment and further study or training.
  

• Finding part time work:  a guide for international students
  Tips and advice for international students on how to find part time work whilst studying at the University and where to get further help with issues such as Visas and N I numbers. 

• Options with law
  Looking at the range of options open to law graduates including solicitor, barrister and alternative career options.

• Postgraduate Study in the UK
  Advice and information on how to find and apply for postgraduate study in the UK.

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