Post on 12-Oct-2020
Jenny Clark, Careers Consultant
Employability and Graduate Development
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
Tel: 01326 253735
Email: cc-careers@exeter.ac.uk
Career Planning Talk:
Geography (Penultimate Year)
The importance of planning early
Opportunities & activities available to you
Career destinations of graduates with your
subject
Ways to research, plan & participate
Looked at the:
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
Start Making Choices
Get Experience
Improve Your Skills
Key Messages for Year 2
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
How to make Career Choices
Research – making informed decisions
Careers Consultant Appointments
Start Making Choices
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
How To Make Career Choices
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
What are you seeking? • What do you enjoy?
• What motivates you?
• Are your preferences ‘Must Have’s or ‘Would Like’?
What makes you stand out? • Skills and abilities
• Characteristics and qualities
• Knowledge specialism
Matching Activities • Prospects Planner on www.prospects.ac.uk
• “I don’t know what I want to do” Workshop
• Find out which job roles, which companies & what further
study graduates from your degree have pursued via the
Career Research webpage
• Improve your understanding of particular occupations using
www.prospects.ac.uk
• Listen to other people’s experiences using
www.careerplayer.com
• Get specialist information from relevant Professional
Institutions
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
Research –
making informed decisions
Resources Online • www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
• Your College Employability Webpage
• Social Media
People to Talk To • Your College Employability Officer
• Information Officers & Careers Consultants
• Your network of family, friends & colleagues
Reading Material • Sector-Specific Directories & more available in the
Career Zone
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7_c2t-bJg8&list=PLe8vyktlR0b2D0cgRn84EKdx1uL-t2imt&index=13
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
What can I do with my
degree?
Geography
Degree
Teaching
Meteorology
Town Planner
Environmental Consultant
Surveyor
International aid/development
worker
Academic Research
What Exeter Graduates do
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/research/degree/
Royal Geographical Society Videos
• http://www.rgs.org/OurWork/Schools/Careers+and+Further+Study/Promoting+and+supporting+geography+in+your+school+or+college/Careers+and+progression+materials+to+download.htm
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
Ultimately only you can make your own career decisions, but
along the journey it can be really helpful to discuss things
through with someone.
Careers Consultants are trained to:
• Listen to your individual circumstances &
and career plans
• Help you to focus your aims
• Question, test & support your career ideas
• Advise on career subject information
• Help you to plan your next steps for action
Careers Consultant Appointments
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
Get Experience
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
OPPORTUNITIES:
Casual Work
Student Campus Partnerships
Volunteering
Roles within Clubs & Societies
Work Shadowing
Part-Time employment
Summer Internship
Course Projects
Year In Industry
Mentoring & eXepert Schemes
General commercial experience
Insight into an occupation
To put theory into practice
Contacts
To develop skills
To develop an area of knowledge
PURPOSE:
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
Finding Employment Opportunities
mycareerzone.ac.uk – target your profile
Job shop in the Career Zone
Student Campus Partnerships
Student Business Partnerships
Access to Internship Scheme
http://targetjobs.co.uk/
Enterprise and Self-Employment support
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
Where have previous students had placements?
• Falmouth Harbour Commissioners • GIS Placement – Cornwall Council, Truro • Natural England, The Lizard • National Trust, Penrose • Heart of Borneo Project • CN4C – Cornwall Neighbourhoods for Change • Shelterbox • Cornwall Wildlife Trust • St Mary’s School Falmouth • Chyan Community Field
Exepert - the ad-hoc alumni advice scheme
Network with those who have left the University and go on
to have successful careers. This advice can enable you to
make informed career decisions about your future.
• Open to all students and graduates
• Many sectors / professions available
• Alumni working around the world
• Primarily e-mail contact
Exepert
For full details and to take part, visit the website:
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/research/exepert
Student Campus Partnership (SCP) P/T term-time and F/T vacation work for the University. Pay range £7.89-£8.94 an hr. e.g. Law Research Assistant - Law Department ERASMUS Work Abroad Administrator - Careers Student Business Partnership (SBP) P/T term-time and F/T vacation work for companies across the South West. Paying competitive rates of pay for location and sector. e.g. Environmental Monitoring Technician, Air Quality Monitors, Exeter Research Assistant (Social/Climate Change) IMM, Exeter
SCP + SBP
Want to develop and expand your range of skills? Get enterprising!
Getting involved in enterprise activities whilst at University
isn’t simply about starting a business. It’s also about making yourself more employable.
Enterprise skills workshops SIFE enactus – student social enterprise projects Business planning - develop a strategy for your own venture Presentations from successful entrepreneurs Get in touch via email: enterprise@exeter.ac.uk
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers/enterprise
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
It is essential that you develop your career
management skills in good time to apply!
NB Many employer vacation schemes and
internships require EARLY applications – & you are
likely to be applying for graduate applications within
the next 12 months!
Improve Your Skills
Aims of Last Year’s Talk
Types of career management skills workshops
available:
• Application Forms
• Psychometric Testing
• Assessment Centres
• Interview Skills
• The Interview Experience
• Mock interviews with employers
• CV preparation
www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
Employability & Graduate Development Career Zone
Phone: (01392) 724493
Email: cc-careers@exeter.ac.uk
Web: www.exeter.ac.uk/careers
Opening hours:
Term time: 9.00am-5.00pm (Monday - Friday)
Vacations: 9.00am-5.00pm (Monday-Friday)
MyCareerZone
Mycareerzone.ac.uk
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