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This is part of our Essential Guide to Careers for Postgraduates from the University of Manchester Careers Service, and looks at how to find a job for postgraduates
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Job Search Strategies for Postgraduates
Elizabeth WilkinsonUniversity of Manchester Careers Service
What I’ll cover
• Strategies for finding jobs– Finding ads– Using agencies– Finding jobs which aren’t advertised
• Finding employers• Finding contacts
• Further support
Finding job ads
“Graduate” job ads• www.careers.manchester.ac.uk/students/findingwork/
findingworkaftergraduation
Finding academic jobs• www.academiccareer.manchester.ac.uk/jobs/adverts
Finding ads for PhD jobs outside academia• www.careers.manchester.ac.uk/students/postgraduates/
howtoguides/findadvertsforphdjobsoutsideacademia
Finding job ads
Specialist roles/direct entry
In the UK:
• “Career sector” pageswww.manchester.ac.uk/careers/sectors
• www.prospects.ac.uk (“types of jobs”)
• Professional or trade associations– www.totalprofessions.com/profession-finder– http://www.taforum.org/Members
International job ads
Going Globalwww.manchester.ac.uk/careerslink
• Work & Study Overseaswww.careers.manchester.ac.uk/students/findingwork/overseas
Finding job ads
• Online job sites– Check security if uploading CV– Don’t rely solely on this approach
• “Meta sites” – search lots of online ad sites– eg. Careerjet, Indeed, SimplyHired
Don’t wait until deadlinesApply as soon as reasonably possible
Recruitment Agencies
Agencies work for EMPLOYERS• You don’t pay them, the employers do• Often need experience• Worth a try - but don’t be surprised if you don’t
get much response from general agencies• Specialist agencies - good if you have experience
• Careers Service website www.careers.manchester.ac.uk/students/findingwork/agencies
Employment Agencies
• Emerging market for graduate & specialist jobs?
• Permanent contract with the agency
• Based within a big name employer
• “Graduate training programme” at a company may be employed through an agency…
• Starting to hear of this in banking, engineering, law, pharmaceutical sciences
Find jobs which aren’t advertised
Find employers– To make speculative approaches– To see if you have any contacts
How?– Career sector pages– Ads, even if you can’t apply for them yet– LinkedIn – search job titles or group members– Professional and Trade Associations & Directories
www.manchester.ac.uk/careers/pg
Find contacts
• Ask for help and get creative
• Get a group together• Come up with as many
possible contacts as you can
– friends– relatives– old university– colleagues– lecturers– football team– professional
association– who else …?
On-line social networks - LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter
– but I don’t have any contacts …
Keep up to date
Monthly Postgraduate
careers e-mails
www.manchester.ac.uk/careers/facebook
Careers Facebook
Groups
http://manunicareersblog.com
Man Uni Careers Blog
@ManPGCareers
Visit Us
New Address & New Tel No?
www.manchester.ac.uk/careers/students
Phone: 0161 275 2829
