Brilliant Graduate Career Handbook

Dr Judith Done is a visiting research fellow at the University of Chester, where she was formerly Director of Careers and Employability. She is a fellow of the Institute of Career Guidance (ICG) and an associate fellow of  the British Psychological  Society. Her  working  life has  been  spent  in  career  guidance as  a  practitioner, trainer   and   manager. Her   research   interests   are   in   career   guidance,   personal   development   and interpersonal  communication. Judith  as  a  volunteer  advice  worker,  school  governor  and  occasional freelance trainer.  Professor Rachel Mulvey is Dean of Psychology at the University of East  London, and Associate  Fellow  at the University of Warwick Institute of Employment Research. For many years, Rachel worked as a careers adviser in schools and colleges, before moving into the management and training of career professionals. She  was  awarded  a  National  Teaching  Fellowship for her work on enhancing undergraduates’ career readiness,  and  researches  the  way  workers  across  EU  learn  skills  and  transfer  them  from  job  to  job. Her second Pearson title, Brilliant Passing Psychometric Tests, was published in 2015.

• Part 1: What’s Out There 1 Accessing job opportunities  2 The graduate labour market  3 Labour market information: analysis of what graduates do  4 The global graduate  5 Graduate training schemes  6 Entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship and self-employment  7 Postgraduate study: choosing a course and making a good application  Part 2: How to Make the Most of What’s Out There 8 Knowing who you are: skills, interests and values  9 Work experience: making it purposeful  10  Dates and deadlines: your timeline for action  11  Making applications: getting past the first post  12  Succeeding in selection  13  My decision, my context, my life: why all this matters