Full Description
Enhance your employability with this essential guide. Acting as your guide throughout your university journey, this book helps with self-understanding, progressing to improving your employability, and finally navigating graduate job searches and applications.
Empowering you to reflect on and manage your own employability, this book includes:
A strong theoretical underpinning with a wide range of case studies and practical examples to deepen your understanding.
A practical approach to assessing your self-understanding, in turn giving you the insight and confidence needed to embark on your dream career.
Insights from graduates and employers, demonstrating how to convert academic achievements into employability advantages.
Ideal for students across various disciplines, this book is a must-have for those looking to improve their employability and succeed in the job market.
Contents
Part 1: Starting with knowing yourself
Chapter 1: Introduction to Careers exploration and thinking about your future
Chapter 2: The importance of knowing what help and advice is available
Chapter 3: Getting started and beginning your journey in Career Planning
Chapter 4: Researching and generating ideas of jobs, occupations and career suggestions
Chapter 5: Your degree, its skills and its transferability to the job market
Part 2: Developing skills and experience beyond your degree
Chapter 6: Importance of tangible experiences beyond your degree
Chapter 7: Placements, internships, volunteering, employer briefs and projects
Chapter 8: Extracurricular activities (Sports, Societes, Student Union and Committees)
Chapter 9: Part-time employment
Part 3: Your future choices
Chapter 10: Your choices after your degree in a nutshell
Chapter 11: Navigating the job market, explaining graduate programmes and searching for work
Chapter 12: Postgraduate study, why do it and making applications
Chapter 13: Going independent and starting your own business
Chapter 14: Taking time out to do something different and to add to your experience and skills
Part 4: Translating your skills and experiences into applications for jobs or study
Chapter 15: Applications - Personal Statements & Cover Letters
Chapter 16: CVs
Chapter 17: The interview journey
Chapter 18: Your digital footprint, networking online, social media and power of AI in your career planning
Part 5: Transitioning to graduate life
Chapter 19: Career planning once employed.
Chapter 20: Final messages and 10 points of advice
