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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